Sweet Tooth (TV series): Difference between revisions

Development on the show began in 2018 at [[Hulu]]. By 2020, the series had moved to Netflix. Filming took place in New Zealand. [[Nonso Anozie]], [[Christian Convery]], [[Adeel Akhtar]], [[Stefania LaVie Owen]], [[Dania Ramirez]], [[Aliza Vellani]], [[Will Forte]], [[Neil Sandilands]], and [[Marlon Williams (musician)|Marlon Williams]], [[Amy Seimetz]], [[Rosalind Chao]], [[Kelly Marie Tran]], and [[Cara Gee]] star while [[James Brolin]] provides the narration.

* [[Christian Convery]] as Gus,<ref name="Maincastnames"/> a sheltered and naive 10-year-old half-human, half-[[deer]] boy who wants to find his mother. Tommy refers to Gus as "Sweet Tooth" due to his obsession with candies and any other products that have sugar in it. Nixon Bingley portrays 7-year-old Gus and River Jarvis portrays 4-year-old Gus.

* [[James Brolin]] as the narrator who is later revealed as the older Gus by the end of the final season<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.cbr.com/sweet-tooth-james-brolin-interview/|title=Sweet Tooth: James Brolin Ponders Bringing the Narrator On-Screen|website=[[Comic Book Resources|CBR]]|first=Katie|last=Doll|date=May 4, 2023|access-date=June 6, 2024|archive-date=July 11, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230711004209/https://www.cbr.com/sweet-tooth-james-brolin-interview/|url-status=live}}</ref>

* [[Will Forte]] as Pubba (seasons 1 and 3),<ref name="AddMainNames"/> Gus's father<ref name="Maincastnames"/> who raised him in a secluded cabin in [[Yellowstone National Park]] to protect him from the outside world of hatred towards hybrids. It is later revealed that his name is Richard Fox and was a janitor at Fort Smith Labs in Goss Grove, Colorado.

* Naledi Murray as Wendy (seasons 2–3);<ref name="S2Maincast"/><ref name="S3Premiere"/> recurring season 1), Aimee's adopted hybrid daughter who is half-[[pig]] and half-human. Aimee often refers to her as "Pigtail". She is the biological daughter of Bear's foster parents. Banke Moss portrays an older Wendy.

* [[Neil Sandilands]] as General Abbot (season 2;<ref name="S2Maincast"/> recurring season 1), the leader of the Last Men who hunts hybrids. It is later revealed that his first name is Douglas.

* [[Kelly Marie Tran]] as Rosie Zhang (season 3),<ref name="S3Premiere"/> the daughter of Helen and mother of four half-[[wolf]] hybrids who is pursuing Gus

|ShortSummary = The girl, named Bear, takes Gus to their home in an abandoned theme park while taking Jepperd prisoner. She tells him about how she is the leader of the Animal Army that has vowed to protect hybrids at all costs. Singh continues to try to make medicine for his wife who has the illness, but is unsuccessful as he needs a live hybrid. Aimee raises the hybrid baby Wendy as her own in the city zoo, scavenging and avoiding Last Men. One night, Aimee discovers that Wendy has been fostering another hybrid named Bobby. She asks Aimee if they can keep him. Bear reveals to Gus that Jepperd was once a Last Man and has hurt hybrids, but Gus doesn't care as he says Jepperd is his friend. At the execution of Jepperd, Bear reveals she will not carry out the execution for Gus's sake. Furious, her second-in-command Tiger initiates a coup. During the chaos, Jepperd and Gus escape, with Bear following as she abandons the Animal Army. The Singh's nosey neighbor Nancie discovers Rani has the Sick and plans to expose her, but is kicked to death by their horse. The Singhs hide her body.

|ShortSummary = Gus, Bear, and Jepperd arrive at Birdie's address only to discover that only Birdie's former coworker Judy lives there and that Birdie left 10 years ago. Gus later goes through Birdie's files and learns that he was the result of an experiment that Birdie was working on. It is revealed that Pubba and Birdie's real namesname werewas Richard and Gertrude, who worked as a janitor and geneticist respectively at the same lab where Birdie worked as a geneticist. After formally meeting one night, Birdie received a call saying the military was taking over the lab. With help from Richard, Birdie was able to rescue an infant Gus but gave him to Richard for safekeeping while she went back to destroy her research. Horrified by the truth that he had no parents, Gus angrily runs off into the woods.

|ShortSummary = Gus finds an abandoned plane and uses its radio to contact the Preserve, not knowing the Last Men have taken over. Though Aimee is able to escape, her hybrids are captured at the rendezvous point. Commandeering the Preserve, General Abbot forces Singh to begin working on a cure for the Sick while having Rani placed in a special room. Jepperd finds Gus and sits with him, recounting about how he lost his hybrid son. However, the Last Men arrive, shoot Jepperd unconscious, and capture Gus. Aimee rescues Jepperd, vowing that they will get their children back. At the Preserve, Gus meets Wendy and the other hybrids. Back at the cabinhouse, it is revealed that Bear's real name is Becky Walker and Wendy was her adoptive sister, who was taken from the Last Menher following their parents deaths from the Sick. She later receives a communication from a phone and answers it as the person on the other line is revealed to be Birdie, hiding somewhere in the Arctic with her research.

|ShortSummary = In the Arctic, Birdie explores a shipwreck, recovering a journal. At the Preserve, General Abbot tells AdiDr. Singh that a new wave of the Sick is spreading, demanding results from the doctor before leaving to meet with other leaders across America. Gus and Wendy temporarily escape their cell and attempt to use the radio to contact Aimee, discovering the corpse of Wendy's friend Roy. After lying to the others that Roy escaped, Gus is taken to Dr. Singh's lab where the doctor learns that Gus is older than the virus. Upon learning of Gus's vision of Richard from the purple flowers, AdiDr. Singh asks for Gus's help, promising not to harm the hybrids. Returning to their cell, Gus discovers Dog amongst their food with Wendy picking up Aimee's scent from it. Knowing that Jepperd had him when they got separated, Gus believes that the two are alive and working together. Meanwhile, Becky continues her call with Birdie, finding a cassette tape meant for Gus. The home is then raided by Last Men, forcing Judy to hold them off, enabling Becky to escape.

|ShortSummary = The Air Lords pick up Aimee and Jepperd in Factory Town. During negotiations for the rescue mission, Jepperd admits to Aimee that he was a hybrid catcher for the Last Men. Betrayed, Aimee abandons him, forcing Jepperd to chase after them. At the Preserve, Gus is shunned by the other hybrids for lying about Roy. Dr. Singh manages to create a cure, which Abbot takes as leverage. Rani and Johnny bond with each other. Over dinner, Abbot informs the Singhs about an upcoming meeting with three other leaders, Dutch, Voss, and Helen Zhang, collectively known as the Three. RaniDr. feelsSingh's thatpreoccupation shewith isfinding losinga hercure husbandworries Rani. Becky and Jordan excel through training and are assigned a mission to become official Last Men. Learning of Peter's death from the guards, Gus tries to escape but runs into Abbot.

|ShortSummary = After having one of his antlers cut off by Abbot as a show of power, Gus is comforted by Wendy and the others as they make an escape plan. After learning that the cure doesn't work, Rani tries to convince her husband to tell the truth, enabling their escape. Becky and Jordan learn that the hybrid location was a trap set by Tiger, who they capture. At the meeting with The Three, Abbot presents them with his proposal: a community called Evergreen. In exchange for their resources, he offers them their best men a place and the cure. To Rani's dismay, AdiSingh refuses to admit that the cure doesn't work. The hybrids manage to escape. While distracting the guards, Gus reunites with Jepperd, who was captured while negotiating his release. After Zhang has Dutch and Voss killed to claim all the spots for herself, Abbot receives a warning from the Air Lords.

|ShortSummary = The Air Lords drop canisters of purple flowers onto the Preserve, causing panic. During the attack, Becky abandons Jordan after admitting that she was a part of the Animal Army who killed his father, a Last Man. Sorting out her differences with Tiger, the latter agrees to offer the army's full support in rescuing Gus and Wendy. Gus sets Jepperd free and the two reunite with the other hybrids, leading them to a bus. Abbot orders Johnny to take the Singhs to Evergreen but instead lets them go. Aimee sneaks into the Preserve and destroys Dr. Singh's lab in retaliation for killing Roy. Reuniting with Wendy, the two meet up with the others at the bus. Aimee thanks Jepperd as the gang drives away. Despite Rani's efforts to convince AdiSingh to let go of finding the cure, he believes Gus may hold the key and returns to his lab. Upon seeing it ablaze, he heads back only to find that Rani had abandoned him. Abbot realizes too late that the purple flowers were fake. As the gang is driving to Yellowstone, Aimee begins showing signs that she has the Sick.

|ShortSummary = Though distrustful of Singh, Gus agrees to let him join them after learning about his visions of a cave in Alaska. Needing a ride, the group head to a house with a plane where the patriarch agrees to help them if they help his wife give birth. During this, Gus and Wendy meet the man's son Theo who they discover is a hybrid though his father is trying to suppress this. When Theo's brother is born a hybrid, his father tries to cut off his appendages but is stopped by the group. Having discovered wanted posters of Gus in a secret room, the group is forced to flee when the father rats them out to Zhang but not before Theo provides them with their van. Meanwhile in Alaska, Birdie wakes up in a church where she meets her rescuer: aan elderly [[caribou]] hybridman who asks her about Gus from his baby picture.

|ShortSummary = FlashbacksIn reveala howflashback, Zhang agreed to let her estranged daughter Rosie come home if she let her raise her wolf hybrid sons. In the present, Gus and co. arrive at the reef where the ship is only to learn that it had left. Discovering a boat, the gang proceeds to fix it up in hopes of sailing out to the ship. Though Jepp attempts to get rid of Singh since the boat isn't big enough for all of them, the latter asserts himself by revealing that only he and Gus were in his vision. Eventually, Rosie tracks down the group, forcing Becky and Wendy to enablestay behind to allow Gus, Jepperd, and Singh's escape. Bear is soon captured afterby fatally wounding one of the wolf boysRosie while Wendy escapes. Meanwhile, Gus, Jepperd, and Singh find the ship in the middle of the ocean.

|ShortSummary = Gus, Jepperd, and Singh board the ship but are surprised to find it deserted. Searching around, Jepperd discovers that the passengers had died from the Sick before locking the three of them in the boiler room. Being immune to the sickSick, Gus volunteers to restart the engines. Gus eventually communicates with the sheltered first mate Darwin where he learns from the captains log that the ship was shut off to prevent the Sick from reaching Alaska. Gus decides to get rid of the sickSick by tossing the corpses and flowers into the water, giving eulogies to the passengers who died. After finishing up, Gus goes to get Jepperd and Singh while Darwin sets the ship on course to Alaska before jumping into the sea after discovering he has the Sick. Back on the mainland, Zhang explains to Becky her plans to use Gus to restart human birth. Eventually, Jordan, who had allied himself with Zhang, tricks Becky into confessing Gus's location. As Zhang's forces ship out to Alaska, Wendy sneaks aboard the plane.

|ShortSummary = Arriving in Alaska, Gus's group is met by Birdie's friend Siana and her hybrid daughter Nuka who take them to their outpost unaware that Zhang's group have arrived before them. At the outpost, Gus hears a heartbeat, the direction of which follows along a caribou migration trail. Zhang's group storm into the outpost demanding Gus's location. Though Jepperd tries to distract them to enable Gus's escape, but Singh, having become convinced from Thacker's journal that he has to sacrifice Gus to cure the Sick, betrays his location to Zhang. Siana causes a distraction, enabling her and Jepperd's to escape. Wendy rescues Becky and the two escape Zhang's base. After following a pipeline along the trail to a dead end, Gus is confronted by the remaining wolf boys only to be saved by the caribou man.

|ShortSummary = Guiding the injured caribou man back to his home, Gus finally reunites with Birdie who is shocked and overjoyed at the return of her adopted son. The caribou man Munaqsriri (Munaq for short) reveals to Gus that when Thacker came to Alaska, he did something in a remote cave that led to the Sick and his birth. Having seen the worst of humanity throughout his life, Munaqsriri tells Gus that the Sick is the cure to the true disease: humanity itself before dying from his injuries. At Birdie's research station, Jepperd rallies the outpost into stopping Zhang's forces from powering up "the Beast": a drilling machine which Zhang would use to take what was in the cave, reuniting with Becky and Wendy in the process. Gus figures out the location of the cave and he and Birdie prepare to leave before someone starts knockingpounding on the door.

|ShortSummary = Jepperd arrives to Gus and Birdie before the three head out to find the cave. Becky, Wendy, and the outpost sneak back into their base to prevent Zhang's forces from trying to charge "the drilling machineBeast". Despite their efforts, the machine is charged and ships out to the cave. Arriving at the cave, Gus, Jepperd, and Birdie, brave its obstacles and reach the central chamber where they discovering an antler-like tree with frozen red sap gushing out. Birdie and Jepperd, afraid of the consequences of what would happen if they collected the sap, reason with Gus that it was best to let nature run its course just as. Zhang and her forces arrive. Justand pin the group down. asAs Singh prepares to kill Gus, Birdie takes the blow and dies in Gus's arms.

|ShortSummary = Furious at Birdie's death, Gus declares that Zhang and humanity don't deserve to live. When Zhang orders Singh to kill Gus again, he becomes furious after she invokes Rani's name and decides not to kill Gushim. Meanwhile, Becky purposefully drives "the drilling machineBeast" to crash, killing the driver Jordan in the process. Refusing to admit defeat, Zhang attempts to kill Gus with an axe embedded in the tree only for the sap to cause all humans to catch the Sick. After having a final conversation with Richard due to the tree, Gus sets the treeit on fire, healing everyone. The cave however, begins to collapse and Singh sacrifices himself to save Gus who escapes along with Jepperd, Zhang, and some of her men. Ginger, Rosie's younger sister, gives birth to a [[Pinniped|seal]] hybrid; a sign that nature has granted the future to the hybrids. Refusing to follow Zhang, the group leaves her to die in the cold. Gus and his friends eventually return to Yellowstone where they build a sanctuary for the hybrids. Years later, an elderly Gus recounts his tales to ahis new generation of hybrids which includes hisgrandchildren and Wendy'stheir grandchildrenfriends.

The third season holds a 10093% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes, based on 1114 critic reviews, with an average rating of 7.76/10.<!-- The website's critics consensus reads, "Closing out before it grows too long in the tooth, this richly imagined family series remains engrossing to the very end."--><ref>{{cite Rotten Tomatoes|title=Sweet Tooth|id=sweet_tooth|type=tv|season=3|publisher_hide=y|access-date=June 717, 2024}}{{cbignore}}</ref> Metacritic gave the third season a weighted average score of 74 out of 100 based on 5 critic reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews".<ref>{{cite Metacritic|title=Sweet Tooth|id=sweet-tooth|type=tv|season=3|publisher_hide=y|access-date=June 7, 2024}}{{cbignore}}</ref>

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