okay I just had to log onto fucking tumblr dot com to scream about the reviews Netflix’s latest original production Sweet Tooth is getting.
I’d say spoiler warning, but tbh it’s in the premise of the very first episode. There are animal/human hybrid babies being born, and they are being hunted.
Sweet tooth is a “a warmer take on a post-apocalyptic future”, titles verge. In the show, the so-called hybrids are heavily coded as neurodivergent, disabled kids. During the show, we are aware eugenics on these kids take place just off screen, at first.
It’s “whimsical and weightless” titles forbes. I think it’s episode 2 or 3, latest, when we learn that these hybrid children are experimented on in order to find a cure for an ongoing pandemic.
In this “gentle take on a dystopian tale”, as the rollingstone calls it, children are kept in cages in order to have their live brains dissected.
In this “pleasant family-friendly” show, as variety titles, children under the age of 10 are persecuted, murdered, and medically tortured.
But the deer boy is so cute, awww!
We should take this story for what it is. A very dark fantasy world in which children and infants are kept inside of cages and referred to as “it”, have all their humanity stripped away from them and are expermiented on for “the greater good”. It is okay to tell dark stories, but we should be honest about the cruelty we watch as entertainment.
On a side note, what’s with this recent trend to have prebuscent child actors take leading roles in very dark entertainment for adults? It’s like Stranger Things started a whole trend and I am not sure I needed to see real life child actors climb in cages and act like they are scared to have their skulls cut open without anesthesia. Again, I do not condemn the telling of dark tales, but perhaps we should reflect on whether or not we as a society need to put real life child actors through such an acting experience when the same story already exists as a comic and 100% without child labor at that.
Sweet Tooth is a dark, dark universe without heros. Everybody loses, everybody gets pushed to do the most horrible acts imaginable. “family friendly” my ass. This show needs some damn trigger warnings.
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