Well, this is quite a treat! The good word has come down the wire that Netflix's Sweet Tooth will be returning for a second season. The next installment of the series will run for another eight episodes and continue the grand adventure of Gus, Jepperd, and their rag-tag crew of apocalypse wanderers.
Jim Mickle is set to return as showrunner, writer, director, and exec producer. Team Downey will also return as the production team in association with Warner Bros. Television with Team Downey’s Susan Downey, Robert Downey Jr., and Amanda Burrell exec producing alongside Linda Moran. Meanwhile, Beth Schwartz, who acted as co-showrunner and exec producer on the first season, will not return for Season 2. Instead, she'll be showrunning the pilot for Peacock's Red Queen and developing new projects at Warner Bros. TV.
Sweet Tooth follows "the storybook adventures of Gus — part deer, part boy — who leaves his home in the forest to find the outside world ravaged by a cataclysmic event. He joins a ragtag family of humans and animal-children hybrids like himself in search of answers about this new world and the mystery behind his hybrid origins."
“It’s been equally thrilling and heartwarming to experience how people around the world have been falling in love with our deer-boy. We couldn’t be more excited to continue our collaboration with Netflix and keep following Gus and his friends on their extraordinary journey,” Mickle said in a statement.
I could not be more thrilled by this news. In addition to Marvel Studios' WandaVision, Sweet Tooth stands as my favorite series of 2021 so far. It's a fantasy adventure epic that takes Lemire's timeless tale and transforms it into something bold, new, and heartbreaking. If you've not checked it out yet, I highly recommend it. I hope Sweet Tooth gets as many seasons as it needs to tell a complete story without being rushed.