Sweet Tooth Teaser Trailer: Netflix Series Adapt s Story Begins Here Posted on Jeff Lemire s comic book series Sweet Tooth has taken to go from the page to the screen, you know it s been a long one. But on Thursday, the light at the end of the tunnel was as bright as the sun with Netflix releasing the first teaser trailer and preview images for its eight-episode, live-action series adaptation from Team Downey s Robert Downey Jr. and Amanda Burrell, and Linda Moran. Set to premiere on June 4, the series introduces viewers to Gus ( Christian Convery)- part deer, part boy- who leaves his home in the forest to find the outside world ravaged by a cataclysmic event. He joins a ragtag family of humans and animal-children hybrids like himself in search of answers about this new world and the mystery behind his hybrid origins.