Some additional saccharine information to report this morning: Netflix has renewed Sweet Tooth for a second season of apocalyptic adventures.

The collection is a live-action adaptation of Jeff Lemire’s DC Comics collection Sweet Tooth, which facilities on a human/deer hybrid named Gus (aka Sweet Tooth) who was sheltered from the world by his father after a lethal pandemic killed numerous people. Somehow, kids begin being born as animal hybrids—who’re resistant to the illness—and Gus ultimately units out right into a world he’s by no means identified to search out out what he’s been lacking. As you’d count on, it’s not all sunshine and lollipops as sure people blame the hybrids for the virus and hunt them for sport.

The collection is produced by Susan Downey and Robert Downey Jr., and its showrunners are Jim Mickle and Beth Schwartz. Schwartz spoke to io9 concerning the present in June saying, “The thing for me originally was the question [of] if you could make an apocalyptic story that took you to a place that you wanted to go, or actually gave you a little bit of a sense of hope or optimism, which felt like a rarity and felt like a real opportunity with a character like Gus.”

Sweet Tooth was a crucial success however wasn’t with out controversy. Netflix advertising and marketing paid for an advertorial within the weekend version of USA Today timed to the premiere on June 4. It acted because the entrance web page in some markets and featured photographs and several other tabloid-like tales about human-animal hybrids—even calling them a “national security risk.” In the time of “fake news” and conspiracy theories run rampant, it felt extraordinarily ill-advised. There was additionally a poorly-thought-out Netflix video stunning unsuspecting pedestrians with a lifelike hybrid. Not to say just a few days later Fox News broadcast an unrelated story about “opening the door for human chimeras.”

The collection stars younger Christian Convery, Game of Thrones’ Nonso Anozie, Adeel Akhtar, Aliza Vellani, Stefania LaVie Owen, Dania Ramirez, Naledi Murray, Will Forte, Neil Sandilands, and is narrated by James Brolin. All season one episodes are streaming on Netflix and we’ll you’ll want to carry you extra on the casting and manufacturing of season two as we all know it. Are you excited for extra Sweet Tooth?

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