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Why Netflix s Sweet Tooth is the anti-Walking Dead
The creators talk us through the show s surprise direction. I’ve always loved dystopian, post-apocalyptic fiction, says Jeff Lemire, the creator of
Sweet Tooth. I’d always wanted to do my own take on that.
But that s not easy. As Jeff points out, there s a long history of dystopian storytelling, and between franchises like
The Last of Us, this genre has continued to thrive in ways that the survivors living in these stories can only dream of.
Still, like the zombies that populate these works, repetition is definitely starting to sink in, and not just because we re living through our own apocalypse either. As brilliant as these stories are, killer virus narratives are multiplying even faster these days than the contagions themselves. Amidst all the chaos, it s going to take something really special to resonate now with fans of this gen
In Sweet Tooth, a new post-apocalyptic series from Netflix, based on the comic book by Jeff Lemire, a young deer boy must survive a strange new world ravaged by a pandemic.