Netflix renews Sweet Tooth for third and final season

Sweet Tooth will have “a satisfying conclusion” in season 3. Meanwhile, Netflix has been silent about renewal hopes for shows like Shadow and Bone.

Sweet Tooth will have “a satisfying conclusion” in season 3. Meanwhile, Netflix has been silent about renewal hopes for shows like Shadow and Bone. Based on the comic book by Jeff Lemire, Netflix’s Sweet Tooth follows the adventures of Gus (Christian Convery), a human/deer hybrid who leaves his isolated rural home after his father dies to go in search of his origins. In season 2, he and several of his fellow hybrids are captured by a paramilitary group who thinks the hybrids can help them understand the plague that has devastated the world. Meanwhile, Gus’ protector Tommy Jepperd (Game of Thrones veteran Nonso Anozie) fights to secure his freedom.

The second season of Sweet Tooth premiered just last week and has been watched for around  48.3 million hours in the first four days of release, according to Deadline. Now, Netflix has renewed the show for a third and final season.

“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,” said Sweet Tooth creator Jim Mickle. “At the beginning, I think you set out to tell these landmark pieces of Gus’ story and the big pieces of the comic book, but the beauty of long-form storytelling and Gus’ 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.”

"Season 3 is an Arctic story with exciting new adventures and what we hope will be a satisfying conclusion to this epic tale. Gus is going to see a side of the world and humanity that he didn’t see in Season 1 or 2."

Sweet Tooth has been a solid little hit for Netflix, and I’m glad to see it get a final season. Three seems about right; that’s enough to bring the story to a conclusion without dragging.

Meanwhile, other Netflix series hang in limbo. I can’t help but notice that the second season of Shadow and Bone was released way back in mid-March and still hasn’t gotten a renewal order despite Netflix seemingly having plans to turn it into a cinematic universe. The self-contained nature of Sweet Tooth may have helped it reach the finish line while Shadow and Bone may collapse under the weight of its ambitions. We’ll see how things go.

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