Nature doesn’t want us back…

“We never gave her a good reason to keep us around in the first place.”

Thus speaks Aimee in this final episode, when valiantly defending the Hybrids in this season one finale. To a certain extent, she’s got a point – even though the virus was made by humans, it also appears to have been nature’s slap-back. The two sides of that redemptive/damning coin for the application of her research.

As you’d expect, we get answers to our key questions, and Big Man proves how big his heart truly is, which of course we knew all along. We get Bear’s story, and our three leads finally intersect – in quite a poignant way, in one case. There are some moments that shock and there’s a reveal that, while I sort of saw it coming, was still a hopeful moment. That sums it all up for me really: hope. It’s what we all need a bit of right now and in that sense it’s a strangely comforting drama, despite the all too real pandemic-driven dystopia. “The great crumble happened slowly…” Chilling.

Yes, this episode gives us answers, but it also leaves us thirsting for more. They packed an awful lot in, but it didn’t feel too rushed, a fate that often befalls finale episodes. Yet I did feel as though I needed one more episode at the end, and there’s clearly a hope for a second season. It’s a fine line between satisfying the narrative arc and leaving the audience engaged enough to tune in for the next season, and I’m not entirely convinced that Sweet Tooth executed this balance perfectly, because part of me feels something was missing. So I’m taking a point for that. Nevertheless if a good measurement of a show is how much it moves you, it ‘got me right in the feels’, in the last few minutes.

Verdict: Take a long swig from that cup of kindness, for the sake of us all. 9/10

Claire Smith