Sweet Tooth season 1 ends on a major cliffhanger, and leaves plenty of unanswered questions still to be resolved. Based on the comics by Jeff Lemire, Sweet Tooth stars Christian Convery as a young hybrid deer-boy called Gus, and Nonso Anozie as his reluctant travelling companion and guardian, Tommy “Big Man” Jepperd.
From the start, Sweet Tooth is full of mysteries. What caused the “Great Crumble,” which simultaneously saw humans being wiped out by the H5G9 virus and all babies starting to be born as animal-human hybrids? Who is Gus’s mother, and why was his father already on the run when the Great Crumble began? What happened to Tommy between his career as a professional footballer and his new life as a lone wanderer? These questions are answered in part by the end of Sweet Tooth season 1, but there are still many details lurking in the shadows.
Given the overwhelmingly positive reviews of Sweet Tooth from critics and its leap to Netflix’s #1 spot on its opening weekend of release, a second season renewal is looking ever more likely. Here are the biggest unanswered questions for Sweet Tooth season 2 to delve into.
What Happened To Tommy’s Wife and Son?
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The season finale of Sweet Tooth reveals the tragedy hidden in Tommy’s past. He and his wife had a hybrid goat-boy son, and while Tommy was making up his mind about whether to abandon Louisa and the baby or return to the maternity ward and live up to his responsibilities as a father, they disappeared – presumably whisked away by the authorities. Of course, it’s also possible that Louisa saw Tommy get into the elevator and, fearing that she’d been abandoned and that people would be coming to take her baby, decided to flee the hospital herself. What exactly happened to them and whether they’re still alive remains a mystery.
Who Left Wendy At The Zoo?
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Another hybrid baby-related mystery is the question of who left Wendy to be raised by Aimee. There’s a gap between Wendy being taken away from Bear by the authorities, and the little pig-girl ending up in a shopping basket outside the zoo. One possible explanation is that one of the Last Men had a conscious, and wanted to save the baby from a terrible fate of being exterminated or experimented upon. It could have been Tommy, who was one of the Last Men before he started his new life as a roaming loner, and would have had good reason to be sympathetic towards a hybrid baby. It could also have been General Abbott’s right-hand man, Johnny, who has shown signs of undermining his boss. After asking Johnny to handle the detainment of Adi and Rani, Abbott warns him not to mess things up, implying that Johnny has done so in the past. Johnny also sets Adi and Rani’s horse loose so that she can be free, even if they are not.
How Are The Hybrids and the Sick Connected?
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The Last Men Army and most of what’s left of humanity blame the hybrids for spreading the H5G9 virus, simply because the animal-human babies began being born at the same time that people began dying. It seems clear that the hybrids don’t actually cause people to get the Sick, but Birdie said that the virus and the hybrids are two sides of the same coin, so they are connected. Did both the hybrids and the virus originate from the same microbe that Birdie’s team discovered in Alaska? Or perhaps there were several unique microbes brought back – one of which caused the creation of hybrids, while the other caused the downfall of mankind.
Why Do The Purple Flowers Grow Near The Sick?
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The animal-human hybrid babies and the H5G9 virus weren’t the only oddities to appear during the Great Crumble. Wherever people got the Sick, strange purple flowers also began to appear. In Sweet Tooth episode 5, “What’s In The Freezer,” Bear takes Tommy and Gus to a vast crop of these flowers called the Valley of Sorrows, and they’re revealed to have hallucinatory effects when Gus accidentally falls into them. Are the flowers responsible for causing the sickness, or could there be another reason that they grow when the virus is present?
What Happened To The Animal Army After Bear Left?
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After losing her family at a young age, Bear creates a new family out of children who have been orphaned by the Great Crumble and want to fight to protect the hybrids. Her control over the Animal Army slips, however, when Tiger challenges her and the army descends into chaos. It’s unlikely that we’ve seen the last of the Animal Army, given how important Tiger was in Bear’s life. But will Tiger get a redemption arc in Sweet Tooth season 2, or will she have twisted the Animal Army into something far more destructive and violent than it was under Bear’s control?
Is Jimmy Still Alive?
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Tommy’s old friend, Jimmy, bravely bought time for Gus, Bear and Tommy to escape by fighting overwhelming numbers of Last Men on a train. The prognosis for people who try to fight the Last Men is generally not good, and Jimmy was last seen being beaten into submission. However, that doesn’t mean he’s dead. He may have succeeded in fighting his way out and managed to get off the train, or he may have been captured but kept alive for questioning.
Why Is Birdie In Alaska?
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After finding a satellite phone among Birdie’s things, Bear is able to power it up and make contact with Gus’s mother. It’s revealed that Birdie is in Alaska, at the same research center where the microbes that created the hybrids and the H5G9 virus were found. Birdie originally set out to try and find Gus, but apparently at some point her goals changed. She may be in Alaska searching for a way to cure the virus, as a way of atoning for what she accidentally unleashed on the world. But if that’s the case, her priorities may become conflicted when she learns that Gus is still alive and in General Abbott’s clutches.