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Sweet Tooth: Will There Be A Season 4 Or Spin Off? Possibilities Explored
Sweet Tooth Season 3 ended with Gus saving the world, leaving room for a potential sequel or spinoff if fans and Netflix want it.
Sweet Tooth is one of the most popular fantasy drama series on Netflix, set in a post-apocalyptic world. The show has reached its closure with its third season but still has the potential for a sequel or a spinoff in the future.
How could Sweet Tooth's ending lead to a new beginning?
Sweet Tooth ended on a time-jump. As noted by CBR, showrunner Jim Mickle was well aware that, following the season finale, there was perhaps more to tell. He let it be known that the series could come back with a new tale if that is what the fans, or for that matter Netflix wanted. Season 3 wrapped up with Old Man Gus, Big Man Jepperd, Becky, and the Alaskan alliance taking down the forces of evil Zhang - with the former addressing his colony.
After his mother Birdie died, Gus burned down the magical tree; in response, Earth withdrew the Sick and left the hybrids to their own devices to once again become the dominant species. A Sweet Tooth revival would likely explore a young adult Gus, his first marriage to Wendy, and the lives of his hybrid family living in Yellowstone through the interactions of other characters such as Theo, flying Theo.
This new season looks into how the deaths of Birdie and Pubba could affect Gus since he was growing up, and how Gus could actually heal from the war trauma with his friends. It's also proposing Bear as a probable den mother, like Aimee's zoo. While human civilization is dying out, the science cells might hunt hybrids down for their cure, to engineer new humans, or at least keep them alive to make sure their survival is assured if something happens to them. The chapter is never clear about Big Man Jepperd's death.
Comic creator Jeff Lemire rounded out his story with this approach, showing an older, more aggressive Gus using a hybrid army to intimidate and kill any humans who broke their borders. Such a strategy could test Gus, his council, and hybrids who think that in order to save their home, they may need to become extremists.
That would be a test, probably, for Gus in terms of moral bearing, really challenging his ethics-something Becky and Jepperd accepted when they took to heart that the virus humanity needed was one that needed to purge it from the world.
A new season or spin off could expand the Alaskan Saga
There's the opportunity to expand Netflix's theme of the three seasons of Sweet Tooth into other parts of the world and hone in on domestic stories. Alaska could be that anchor, where Gus found the tree, and Nuka, the Snow Fox Girl, will head out to investigate new hybrids. In fact, the fact that Alaska is a short-sold state could mean it is a cross-over point for Gus' future stories since it's an epicenter for everything and the birth/death place for the first hybrid, Munaq.
Sweet Tooth: The Return has an evil cult seek a cure through hybrid DNA. So, in the show, Zhang tries to get it from tree sap, but in the comics, the cult uses human beings as their guinea pigs, cloning hybrids from other species and building with the remains of the first generation of hybrids, the so-called animal gods. This lore is the perfect way to delve into themes of colonization and genocide and how they affect indigenous communities, which is very prominent in the comics.
This opens up a path for Nuka to become a Chosen One, the new hybrids to have more agency, and an older Gus to bring his and Becky's animal army over. This one would focus on more horror and more nuanced stories than just warm, fuzzy family tales—the Return one all about evolution, with the Cu also picking up drones and the like. This would definitely freshen the property for a new audience and advance the narrative. Alaska was important in the comics, but on screen, it feels as if there is still untapped potential, now that it is ground zero.
Fans could see a different kind of warfare against hybrids and those sympathizing with them—hybrid sympathizers. Some groupings would have allied with militarized hybrids, like soldiers, which is an angle that Rosie and the Wolf Boys tackled. However, this can, in fact, make the hybrids the more sinister villains, inverting the whole essence of the franchise where people assume it would be humanity that would rule them in partnerships. Shifting gears to places like India could put new dimensions, though the show itself had not so much focus on religion.
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