Jordan Moreau Netflix’s “Sweet Tooth” follows a half-deer, half-human boy named Gus as he travels the country after a deadly pandemic wipes out much of humanity and allows nature to reclaim the world.
Sound familiar? The show is based on the DC Comics series from the early 2010s and filmed its pilot in 2019, long before COVID-19 or face masks became part of our everyday lives.However, in a bit of uncanny foreshadowing, the show’s writers incorporated elements of life amid a worldwide pandemic that would become eerily familiar to everyone involved.Here, Variety speaks with with co-showrunners Jim Mickle and Beth Schwartz, executive producer Susan Downey and comic book creator Jeff Lemire about making the show during the pandemic and turning.
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