Sweet Tooth

Our Review

Netflix’s best post-apocalyptic fable and the rare adaptation that outclasses its comic. The original Sweet Tooth comics were brutal and bleak; the show softens the edges into something closer to a Miyazaki film — a deer-boy wandering a collapsed world that’s somehow full of color and hope. That tonal gamble shouldn’t work, but it does, mostly because of Christian Convery’s wide-open performance as Gus.

Nonso Anozie’s Tommy Jepperd — a lone-wolf ex-athlete forced into fatherhood he never asked for — gives the show its spine. Their road-trip bond is the whole engine, and it’s genuinely moving by season’s end. Yes, it can be a little saccharine, and the villain plot is the weakest thread, but this is a rare show you can watch with your kid that still hits adult beats about extinction, faith, and found family.

Verdict: Watch it. It’s the gentlest end-of-the-world story ever told, and it earns every tear.