Sweet Tooth season 2: Netflix show expands its series regular cast

A year and a half has gone by since we heard that Netflix had ordered a second season of the series Sweet Tooth, which is an adaptation of the DC Vertigo comic book that ran from 2009 to 2013 for a total of 40 issues. Now Deadline finally has an update on what’s going on with Sweet Tooth season 2. Deadline reports that cast members Naledi Murray (The Undoing), Neil Sandilands (The Flash), and Marlon Williams (A Star Is Born), all of whom had recurring roles in season 1, have been promoted to series regulars for season 2. Christopher Sean Cooper Jr. (Circle Of Sisters Expo) and Yonas Kibreab (Blood Moon)  have also joined the cast as new series regulars.

Deadline notes that Murray portrays Wendy, Sandilands is General Abbot, Williams plays Johnny Abbot, Cooper will play Teddy Turtle, and Kibreab will portray Finn Fox.

Created by Jeff Lemire, Sweet Tooth was a coming-of-age fable of Gus, a boy/deer hybrid who leaves home to find the world ravaged by a cataclysmic event. He joins a ragtag family of hybrids and humans searching to find answers behind the event… ultimately discovering a vast conspiracy that forces him to question his very existence.

The cast of the series adaptation also includes Christian Convery as Gus, Nonso Anozie as Jepperd, Adeel Akhtar as Dr. Singh, Will Forte as Richard, Stefania LaVie Owen as Bear, Dania Ramirez as Aimee Eden, Aliza Vellani as Rani Singh, with James Brolin as the voice of the narrator.

Jim Mickle is the showrunner on Sweet Tooth and executive produces the show alongside Susan Downey, Robert Downey Jr., Amanda Burrell, and Linda Moran. The series is produced by Team Downey, in association with Warner Bros. Television. Team Downey’s Evan Moore is co-executive producer.

Sweet Tooth season 2 has the following synopsis: As a deadly new wave of the Sick bears down, Gus (Convery) and a band of fellow hybrids are held prisoner by General Abbot (Sandilands) and the Last Men. Looking to consolidate power by finding a cure, Abbot uses the children as fodder for the experiments of captive Dr. Aditya Singh (Akhtar), who’s racing to save his infected wife Rani (Vellani). To protect his friends, Gus agrees to help Dr. Singh, beginning a dark journey into his origins and his mother Birdie’s (Amy Seimetz) role in the events leading up to The Great Crumble. Outside the Preserve, Tommy Jepperd (Nonso Anozie) and Aimee Eden (Ramirez ) team up to break the hybrids free, a partnership that will be tested as Jepperd’s secrets come to light. As the revelations of the past threaten the possibility of redemption in the present, Gus and his found family find themselves on a collision course with Abbot and the evil forces that look to wipe them out once and for all.

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