'Sweet Tooth' Is Nearly Deerly Departed With Final Season Teaser Trailer, Premiere Date
Kelly Marie Tran joins the Netflix series based on the Vertigo comic
It’s high time for the hybrids’ journey to take a last ride to Alaska. Netflix has announced that the third and final season of Sweet Tooth will arrive on the streamer June 6, with all 8 episodes being released.
This season, as the official description describes, in the wake of the battle at Pubba’s Cabin that saw the defeat of General Abbot, Gus (Christian Convery), a part deer, part boy hybrid, and his friends Jepperd (Nonso Anozie), Becky (Stefania LaVie Owen), and Wendy (Naledi Murray) will journey to Alaska to find Gus’s mother, Birdie (Amy Seimetz). Birdie is deep in her work to discover how the deadly Sick originated. They are joined by Dr. Singh (Adeel Akhtar) despite his suspicions about Gus and his place in their goals of reversing the virus. On top of that Helen Zhang, played by Star Trek’s Rosalind Chao, her daughter Rosie, played by Kelly Marie Tran, best known as Star Wars’s Rose Tico and Raya in Raya and the Last Dragon, and the ferocious Wolf Boys, who seek to use Gus for purposes of restarting human birth and repopulation. The highs of success finding refuge at the Outpost in Alaska won’t lead to much settling, as Gus and friends meet even more new faces, including Siana (Cara Gee) and her hybrid daughter Nuka (Ayazhan Dalabayeva). Time is running out, testing alliances as destinies intertwine, and the fate of humanity and hybrids will be revealed in the ultimate climax.
The teaser features the snowy Alaska landscape, as Gus and his crew traverse it with a mysterious and towering beast with giant hooves providing quite the obstacle in hot pursuit. Big Man declares ominously annd unsettlingly: “You got nothing to live for until you got something to die for.” Based on the DC comic book series by Jeff Lemire on the Vertigo imprint, and thus produced by Warner Bros. Television, Sweet Tooth began with Gus leaving his home in the forest to find the outside world devastated by an apocalyptic event. Along the way, he builds a found family of humans and animal-children hybrids similar to him looking for answers about the new world and that mystery behind his hybrid origins.
The series is executive produced by Jim Mickle, Robert Downey, Jr., Susan Downey, Amanda Burrell, and Linda Moran. Team Downey’s Evan Moore serves as co-executive producer. Mickle spoke to Tudum about the third season, telling them “In a lot of ways, it’s exactly the story that I imagined we would tell, and in a lot of ways it takes on its own life. At the beginning, I think you set out to tell these landmark pieces of Gus’s story and the big pieces of the comic book, but the beauty of long-form storytelling and Gus’s journey over 24 episodes is the characters themselves tell you what they want to be. The crew and cast bring so much depth and point of view to who the characters are and where they’ve come from and where they’re going.”
