Netflix Announces New 'Sweet Tooth' Season 2 Series Regulars and Premiere Date
Netflix Announces New 'Sweet Tooth' Season 2 Series Regulars and Premiere Date
Series is one of several made for Netflix based on DC Comics imprints
It’s a busy week for Sweet Tooth, the Netflix series starring Nonso Anozie based on the DC/Vertigo comic book created by Jeff Lemire. And for good reason too, as it’s been 21 months since the first season was released. Luckily, the wait is coming to an end soon. The premiere date of the second season has been announced, as have five new series regulars.
The second season will premiere on April 27, marking just 22 months between seasons. Its official logline goes “As a deadly new wave of the Sick bears down, Gus (Christian Convery) and a band of fellow hybrids are held prisoner by General Abbot (Neil 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 (Adeel Akhtar), who’s racing to save his infected wife Rani (Aliza 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.”
Indeed, Abbot is set to have an increased presence this season, as Sandilands, personally known best as Clifford DeVoe on the fourth season of The Flash, is one of the five new series regulars. Promoted with him are Marlon Williams as his younger brother Johnny, and Naledi Murray as Wendy, a half-human and half-pig hybrid often called “Pigtail”. Newly-introduced series regulars are Christopher Cooper Jr as Teddy Turtle and Yonas Kibreab as Finn Fox. Returning series regulars also include Anozie as Jepperd, Will Forte as Richard, Stefania LaVie Owen as Bear, and Dania Ramirez as Aimee Eden, with James Brolin as the narrator.
Sweet Tooth is not the first series based on a DC Comics imprint to be a Netflix original, as Lucifer would conclude its six season run that September, but two more projects have joined since: The Sandman, based on the Neil Gaiman comic, which premiered in August, and Dead Boy Detectives, which moved from HBO Max in DC’s latest round of brand confusion excuses as they start up their cohesive DC Universe with more closely connected films and television series.