The Netflix show Sweet Tooth, based on the DC Vertigo comic book, is expanding its number of series regulars for season 2
A year and a half has gone by since we heard that Netflix had ordered a second season of the series Sweet Tooth, which is an adaptation of the DC Vertigo comic book that ran from 2009 to 2013 for a total of 40 issues. Deadline has a new update on Sweet Tothseason 2. Deadline reports that cast members Naledi Murphy (The Undoing) and Neil Sandilands (The flash) have been promoted to series regulars in season 2. Christopher Sean Cooper Jr. (Circle Of Sisters Expo) and Yonas Kibreab (Blood Moon) have also joined the cast as new series regulars.Deadline notes that Murray portrays Wendy, Sandilands is General Abbot, Williams plays Johnny Abbot, Cooper will play Teddy Turtle, and Kibreab will portray Finn Fox.Created by Jeff Lemire,
Sweet Tooth
was a coming-of-age fable of Gus, a boy/deer hybrid who leaves home to find the world ravaged by a cataclysmic event. He joins a ragtag family of hybrids and humans searching to find answers behind the event… ultimately discovering a vast conspiracy that forces him to question his very existence.The cast of the series adaptation also includes Christian Convery as Gus, Nonso Anozie as Jepperd, Adeel Akhtar as Dr. Singh, Will Forte as Richard, Stefania LaVie Owen as Bear, Dania Ramirez as Aimee Eden, Aliza Vellani as Rani Singh, with James Brolin as the voice of the narrator.Jim Mickle is the showrunner on
Sweet Tooth
and executive produces the show alongside Susan Downey, Robert Downey Jr., Amanda Burrell, and Linda Moran. Team Downey and Warner Bros. Television produced the series. Team Downey’s Evan Moore is co-executive producer.Sweet Tooth season 2 has the following synopsis:
As a deadly new wave of the Sick bears down, Gus (Convery) and a band of fellow hybrids are held prisoner by General Abbot (Sandilands) and the Last Men. Abbot is determined to consolidate power and find a cure. He uses the children to feed Dr. Aditya Sing (Akhtar), who is racing to save Rani (Vellani). Gus agrees that Dr. Singh will be helped by him to protect his friends. This begins a dark journey into Gus’s past and the role of his mother Birdie (Amy Seimetz), in the events that led to The Great Crumble. Aimee Eden Ramirez (Nonso Anozie), and Tommy Jepperd, Tommy Jepperd, work together to free the hybrids. Their partnership will be tested as Jepperd’s secrets are revealed. Gus and his family are on a collision course as the past’s revelations threaten their redemption. Leave a comment below to let us know what you think.
