Netflix Renews ‘Sweet Tooth’ For Season 3 Just A Week After Season 2

Sweet Tooth

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I don’t know what’s going on with Netflix lately, but they are really picking up the pace when it comes to renewals of shows that seem to be doing well. Usually, it used to take anywhere from 4-6 weeks to renew a show, even one that was clearly doing performing, but now? The Night Agent and The Diplomat were picked up for second seasons in just two weeks each. And now Sweet Tooth, where season 2 hasn’t even hit #1 on the service yet, has already been renewed for season 3 just a week after release, which is said to be its final season.

Here’s Jim Mickle, the showrunner, on the renewal:

“In a lot of ways, it’s exactly the story that I imagined we would tell and in a lot of ways it takes on its own life. At the beginning, I think you set out to tell these landmark pieces of Gus’ story and the big pieces of the comic book, but the beauty of long-form storytelling and Gus’ journey over 24 episodes is the characters themselves tell you what they want to be. The crew and cast bring so much depth and point of view to who the characters are and where they’ve come from and where they’re going.”

And what he says about season 3 specifically:

“Season 3 is an Arctic story with exciting new adventures and what we hope will be a satisfying conclusion to this epic tale. Gus is going to see a side of the world and humanity that he didn’t see in Season 1 or 2.”

The announcement cites a very solid 48.3 million viewing hours in season 2’s first four days, which no doubt contributed to the fast renewal. Sweet Tooth is kind of a sleeper hit for Netflix, one that you don’t see that many headlines about, but it’s a solid performer in terms of viewership and critically as well. Season 1 had a 97% on Rotten Tomatoes, season 2 has a 93%.

Also with season 3 being the final season of the show, it’s a rare series on Netflix that will in fact get a beginning, middle and end. I’ve remarked in the past that after a slew of cancellations, Netflix was becoming an unfished graveyard of series that people may find, start and then discover whoops, Netflix cancelled them on a cliffhanger 3-5 years ago. The more complete, coherent series Netflix has to discover the better. But they at least have to perform somewhat well to be allowed that, which Sweet Tooth apparently has.

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