At one point, a well-meaning yet obsessed doctor is revealed to have lobotomised a talking crocodile. Still, when it’s scary it really goes there. There’s not much blood and no sex across eight agreeably action-packed episodes, while James Brolin is back as the folksy narrator introducing each instalment. But it has adapted to changing times with a darker tone, which may discommode parents who watched series one with their kids. Two years on, Sweet Tooth’s enjoyably pacy second season arrives with the real pandemic now a fading memory. The vibe was Mad Max crossed with My Little Pony and, given the circumstances, it was far more heartwarming than it had any right to be. The show side-stepped such complaints with its sunny aura. Given the world was staggering from lockdown to lockdown, the obvious criticism was that Netflix’s timing was less than stellar. ![]() ![]() The series, adapted from a cult DC Comics graphic novel, told the story of a young boy named Gus (Christian Convery), born with the ears and antlers of a deer in a post-apocalyptic North America devastated by a deadly virus. Yet it did little to quench the animal passions of Downey Jr, who was soon circling back to the same theme of talking furballs as executive producer of 2021 Netflix fantasy drama Sweet Tooth. The February 2020 stinker, in which the blockbuster star method-acted opposite chatting tigers and farting dragons, sank like a lead baboon. One of the few upsides of the pandemic was that it erased all memories of Robert Downey Jr’s atrocious Dr Doolittle movie.
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