REVIEW: Season 2 of 'Sweet Tooth' has a big heart, but it only occasionally veers into mawkish terrain.
was still very much top of mind. In telling the story of a little boy with deer antlers and his massive, taciturn protector, the show achieved an off-kilter, dystopian sweetness that made for a winning combination. Then it went away.
But now it’s back for a second season, with much of its charm intact. The uninitiated might want to hit a recap before jumping in, but otherwiseremains quite welcoming, the kind of thing you might watch with your adolescent . The series has a big heart, but it only occasionally veers into mawkish terrain. It’s a worthy contribution to to the Hero’s Journey myth, with artfully crisscrossing storylines and moral ambivalence that deepen the longer you watch.
A brief primer. Gus is the aforementioned deer boy, one of a small number of animal-hybrid children who showed up around the same time as “the sick,” a widespread illness that manifests as a lethal sort of flu; the telltale symptom is a twitching pinky finger. The hybrids and the pandemic seem to be connected, and most of what’s left of the population believes that the kids, whose numbers also include a pig girl, a turtle boy, and others, are responsible for the apocalypse in progress.
Meanwhile, Gus’ reluctant cross-country protector and escort from Season One, a former Last Man and ex-football star who goes by Big Man , has teamed up with Aimee , a longtime hybrid ally, to plan a jailbreak at the zoo. And Bear , a teen militant hybrid defender, has infiltrated the Last Men and plans her own attack.
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