Netflix's Sweet Tooth makes the case that kids don’t need their hands held through the darker chapters of a story, any more than adults should be alienated by a kid-centric plot.
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Given the past 18 months or so, you’d forgive audiences for tiring of grim apocalyptic stories about deadly viruses ravaging the globe and changing our way of life forever. And on that basis, the arrival of Netflix’s Sweet Tooth – which follows a world 10 years after “The Sick” wiped out swathes of humanity and regressed society to a more primitive state, with survivors taking temperature checks and wearing personalised face-masks – could be a less than appealing prospect.
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But Sweet Tooth tells a different – and much odder – story than first appears, taken from Jeff Lemire’s popular DC comic of the same name. You see, around the same time that the disease started ravaging the world, strange “hybrids” were born to humanity, babies crossed with animals that seemed to have resistance to the disease but were blamed for its arrival.