Based on the comic-book series by Jeff Lemire, 'Sweet Tooth' brings a sense of childlike wonder to a scary post-pandemic world. Alan Sepinwall's review.
As a result of Gus’ radiating kindness, plus other touches like some homespun narration by James Brolin,quickly starts to feel less like a dystopian nightmare than a slightly dark but mostly optimistic fairy tale — and a very entertaining one, at that.
Much of the show’s success leans on Convery. If the audience doesn’t feel an instant degree of affection for Gus, very little of it works. Convery makes Gus seem cute but not cloying, innocent but not naive, likable but not too perfect. It’s an impressive balancing act from such a young performer, and scenes with him bring out the best in Forte, Anozie, and Stefania LaVie Owen .
-up sunglasses. Like a lot of the characters, you can tell he was designed to look interesting on the comic-book page. But there’s not much to him beyond that appearance. Whereas Gus looks terrific — the ears in particular feel fully alive — but is also a fully three-dimensional person. The Singh and Abbott subplots also feel like they were designed for a more adult show, and perhaps had to have their edges sanded off once it became clear to Mickle and his collaborators that the show could be enjoyed by viewers not much older than Gus. In particular, there are major developments in Singh’s work on a cure that are only barely alluded to, because outright explaining them would be too horrifying.
The TV pilot was filmed in 2019, but the series didn’t return to production until after a very real and terrifying virus had radically altered life as we knew it. That first episode is already considerably lighter than Lemire’s comic. So the shift in tone wasn’t a result of Covid, but a lucky break nonetheless. There’s probably a more spiritually faithful adaptation of the comic that could be interesting in our own pandemic-altered world, but it would be hard.
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