In Jeff Lemire’s post-apocalyptic comic Sweet Tooth, a pandemic kills off adults and causes new children to be born with animal features. In an era obsessed with stories about generational change, Netflix’s adaptation of the comic takes up the theme and ends up feeling like The Mandalorian mixed The Witcher, with elements from Mad Max: Fury Road.
For Netflix s Sweet Tooth, young actor Christian Convery takes on the part of a Gus, a half-deer/half-human hybrid boy that is a tiny ray of sunshine in a grim and gritty world. Based on the comics by Jeff Lemire, the TV series adapts that core throughline of the graphic novels and its in part [.]