Sweet Tooth Season 2 Ending Explained: Does Gus Have Powers? Is Ms. Zhang The New Main Villain?
Sweet Tooth Season 2 finale has answered many of the questions audiences had about television fiction while creating entirely new ones for the future of the series. Throughout its 8 episodes, the second season of Sweet Tooth has focused on Gus’ imprisonment at the hands of General Abbot, as well as the efforts to rescue him and use him to produce a cure for humanity. This has caused suspense even among comic book fans. Moving away from the source material has increased the uncertainty of the series. Making audiences even more fond of Gus and the collection of lovable characters who supported him throughout the season. That said, the fact that the Sweet Tooth Season 2 finale had to kill off so many plotlines—and some characters, too—makes it easier to miss certain details regarding the overall story of the series finale.
Sweet Tooth Season 2: Summary Recap
The threads pick up exactly where we left off at the end of last season, with Gus (Christian Convery) locked up with his fellows and Jepperd (Nonso Anozie) just recovered from his gunshot wounds ready to save that child who, slowly, grew fond of it. Over the two episodes that we have seen, Sweet Tooth Season 2 does not waste much time and proceeds as fast as a train, bringing to the fore the conflict between the Last Men, led by the soldier Abbott, ready to eradicate the threat of the hybrids. In this post-apocalyptic world, the survival of the human race is at stake, even if the hybrids are children who do not know violence, except the ones they suffer.
It is a conflict that also draws the co-protagonists of the story who will cross (or are led to cross) including the scientist Singh (Adeel Akhtar), also under blackmail, who will be forced to conduct experiments on Gus, slowly discovering his origins (and already in the second episode we will learn about several elements that will give a new perspective to the story), the activist Bear (Stefania LaVie Owen) and, of course, Jepperd. The fulcrum of the narrative is precisely a conflict between humans and hybrids that is not resolved only with weapons, imprisonment, and the ideals of the Last Men, but which coincides with the hybrids themselves. In the group of kids forced to give each other a hand to survive and try to escape, we understand their condition of being freaks and something in between. Between being animals and humans, the little ones have to come to terms with their identity and finally feel like themselves, far from the simple labels that the ruined world seems to no longer satisfy.
This week one of the best series that Netflix left us back in the summer of 2021 returns, a year after the state of alarm ended nationwide. It was still a time when the fear of a new devastating outbreak mixed in a confused way with tranquility. Perhaps for this reason, a fiction that a priori could have gone unnoticed managed to reach the hearts of many viewers. And that quiet fear, coupled with all those new strains of COVID-19 we’ve seen lately, are issues that are reflected in the new season of our favorite deer boy. During the new episodes, we don’t just see Gus and a group of cute hybrids trying to escape from General Abbot or Tommy trying to achieve the same goal. Dr. Adi, who here definitely reveals himself as a kind of anti-villain with complex motivations, is the most important character in the installment. It is because he is the only one who can find a cure in the face of the imminent threat of a new and deadlier outbreak of the disease. And this is something that, despite his horrible decisions, we can’t help but relate to.
Sweet Tooth Season 2 Ending Explained
The escape plan of the hybrid team backfires in season 2, but the kids find a sign that Jepperd and Aimee are around. When they hear that they left the city, they decide to come up with another plan to get out of that place before they become part of Dr. Singh’s experiments. Dr. Singh performs a risky experiment and manages to uncover more of Gus’s past. Armed with new information, they embark on an expedition to the labs where Dr. Gertrude Miller created the deer boy and find more pieces of the massive puzzle. Big Guy and Aimee seek shelter and backup. In the process, Jepperd acknowledges her sins from her past, much to the shock and disappointment of Amy, who reproaches him for being part of the last men and hurting so many hybrid children.
As Becky strikes up a new friendship, joins the last few men in hopes of rescuing her friends, and begins basic training, General Abbot uses Gus as an example, and Dr. Singh obsesses over his research as he prepares an important presentation. After learning of Jepperd’s crimes, Aimee and the Sky Lords cut him out of the plan. However, Big goes to the zoo on a bus. With the help of purple plastic flowers, they trick the last few men into the zoo. Near the end of the second season of Sweet Tooth, the zoo becomes a battlefield when the rescue mission collapses and families are reunited (and separated) amid chaos. Aimee burns down Singh’s lab and reunites with Wendy and the other kids. Jepp also meets Gus and Bear. The group heads to the cabin in Yellowstone National Park, but Singh, General Abbot, and the last men go after them.
During the battle, Abbot kills his brother when he tries to stop him and confronts Jepp. The fight ends with the general being trampled by buffalo, but before dying he shoots an arrow at Gus. Although the little hybrid manages to survive, Aimee dies due to the virus. At the end of season 2 of Sweet Tooth, after discovering some tapes, the group decides to search for Dr. Miller, while the ruthless and intelligent Helen Zhang decides to find the cure that Abbot did not get. So, will there be season 3?
The Trip To Alaska?
Gus’s gang agrees to head to Alaska to find Birdie. In total, three different factions have decided to travel to the icy place: Birdie, Gus’s group, and Dr. Aditya Singh. This is because this is where it all started, for both the hybrids and the virus. Although Birdie knows the most about it, not even know the full story of the microbes that ultimately created life and brought death. It seems likely that Ms. Zhang and her group are also heading to Alaska in search of Gus since they obtained Singh’s audiotape and thus evidence that tipped them off. This should also allow for more of a role for Ms. Zhang and her faction of her, which has only been shown briefly in Sweet Tooth season 2 thus far.
The Meaning of Dr. Singh’s Vision?
As he wanders into the purple flowers that gave Gus his vision, Dr. Singh has a vision of his own that convinces him to go to Alaska. The vision shows him carrying Gus into a snowy area, approaching a cave, and then smiling. It should be noted that the cave is very similar to the one Gus sees in his vision of him, suggesting that they are both dreaming of the same place. In the comics, some of the biggest revelations about the protagonist occur in a similar setting.
Does Gus Have Powers?
During the showdown with Douglas Abbot, Gus seems able to summon a pack of buffalo that stomp the villain to death. Although this could be interpreted as a normal stampede, it suggests that the little one has powers. In addition, the young hybrid claims that something was in the cave where his mother was calling him. He also seems to miraculously heal after being impaled with a crossbow bolt. Thus, all these signs point to Gus having some kind of special connection to nature itself.
Is Ms. Zhang the New Main Villain?
In the final scene of Sweet Tooth Season 2, we see Mrs. Zhang receiving the recording from Dr. Singh. After listening to her she states, “I’m going to have to take care of this myself”, and then she turns around to feed some mysterious encased creatures raw meat. In this way, it seems that the creepy doctor and her “guys” of hers are a very dangerous threat to Gus in the third season. What’s in the boxes is most likely the werewolf brothers, one of the main threats from the original comic.
