Netflix’s “Sweet Tooth” follows a half-deer, half-human boy named Gus as he travels the country after a deadly pandemic wipes out much of humanity and allows nature to reclaim the…
” follows a half-deer, half-human boy named Gus as he travels the country after a deadly pandemic wipes out much of humanity and allows nature to reclaim the world. Sound familiar? The show is based on the DC Comics series from the early 2010s and filmed its pilot in 2019, long before COVID-19 or face masks became part of our everyday lives.
However, in a bit of uncanny foreshadowing, the show’s writers incorporated elements of life amid a worldwide pandemic that would become eerily familiar to everyone involved.speaks with with co-showrunners Jim Mickle and Beth Schwartz, executive producer Susan Downey and comic book creator Jeff Lemire about making the show during the pandemic and turning the gritty story into family-friendly fare.
The comic is much darker and grittier, why did you decide to make the tone more family-friendly and light?The ambition was to create it for a family audience. We want the whole family to be able to watch together. We talked to Jeff Lemire about how Gus is our true north and how his journey and his relationship to Jep and this interesting cast of characters and challenges they meet along the way are what’s important.
One scene that stuck out to me was when Gus and Jepperd encounter fellow survivors, who wear face masks when they first meet and eat dinner together. Were there other moments that were ripped from real life?That was written before COVID. During the pilot — again this was 2019 — we had a medical consultant that did a lot of talking about masks and when you would wear masks and when you wouldn’t. I remember thinking, “No one cares, no one knows,” not having any foresight at all.
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