‘Sweet Tooth’ Season 2 Ending Explained: Does General Abbot Kill Gus?

Welcome to Ending Explained for Sweet Tooth Season 2. The show’s first season on Netflix proved to be the start of a very charming and exciting adventure. The combination of Gus’s tenacity and innocence, along with the resourcefulness and serious demeanor of Big Man, was amazing. Many people got charmed, and when the season ended, many audience members were ready to watch a second season that would resolve the stressful cliffhangers from season 1. The time has finally come for Season 2 to resolve those narrative threads.

However, this second season of the show seems to have lost something that made the first one great. Diversity. Sadly, this second season eliminates the road trip element, and the characters just stay in one place for too long. You can feel that the series just drags and struggles to maintain any sense of progression. The season runs for eight episodes, but you feel as if it would have been better as just four episodes to tell the entirety of the season 2 storyline. It is a shame because, unless you are really into it, you might get bored really easily with this season.

The following paragraphs contain spoilers for Sweet Tooth Season 2. Read at your own risk.

Does Gus And The Other Kids Manage To Escape?

The ending of season 1 left us with Gus, our main character, separated from Big Man and then captured by General Abbot’s Last Man organization. Thus, almost all of season 2 focuses on how Gus and the rest of the kids will escape prison. General Abbot has forced Dr. Singh to create a cure and to do it. He has had to use various tricks, including using the kids as test subjects. Of course, it is all a failure, and Dr. Singh cannot create a cure for the virus that killed the world so many years ago.

In the end, Bear’s furry faction, this time led by Tiger, manages to assault Abbot’s compound. The battle is brutal, and it seems like the result of the battle is the extermination of both parties. Bear’s faction gets completely destroyed. Which for her is an utter failure, as her entire reason to live was actually keeping those people alive. Bear has one last conversation with Tiger, and the pair resolves their issues. Tiger says goodbye to Bear, and they part as the friends they once were. The attack allowed Gus and the kids to escape, so not all was lost.

Meanwhile, even in defeat, General Abbot is adamant that he must kill Gus and the other kids. He has failed to find a cure for the virus, Dr. Singh did manage to create a sort of cure, but he kept it a secret. Abbot has it but doesn’t know that he might have the true solution he has always sought. Abbot’s younger brother, Johnny, is unsure if keep following his brother’s madness is the correct way, and he starts planning his own escape from the General’s faction. Abbot takes his remaining soldiers and prepares to attack Gus’s home.

The rest of the kids fall under Bear’s protection. This gives the girl a new purpose in life. She promises to protect them all. Bear reveals that Wendy is actually her younger sister, the one she lost when she was a kid. Wendy is sad to leave her mother, Aimee, behind, and the relationship between her and Bear doesn’t seem to be starting on the right foot. Aimee decides that she will make her stand before General Abbot. She says she has been hiding for too long, and now it is time to defend the things she loves. Aimee, Big Man, and Gus start making a plan.

Does General Abbot Kill Gus?

The final moment of confrontation finally arrives. Gus and his team have managed to position traps around the house, and they wait for Abbot to make his move. Upon arriving at the forest where Gus’ house is located, Johnny commits mutiny. He aims a gun at Abbot’s head and begs him to leave the kids alone, forget about all this, and accept his defeat. Abbot reveals he doesn’t care about saving the world, finding a cure, or any of that. He only cares about winning against Gus. Johnny tries to shoot, but his gun doesn’t have any bullets.

The General kills his brother and leaves to search for Gus. Bear and Wendy leave the kids with Beverly, the woman who wanted to adopt Gus in season one. Then they decide to return and help Gus and the others in their fight with Abbot. Abbot manages to reach Gus’ home, but on the road, the traps take out many of his soldiers. He gets captured by Big Man, who is about to kill Abbot, but the General kicks Big Man’s injured knee and manages to escape. Aimee gets syringes filled with the virus and is ready for Abbot’s arrival.

Abbot arrives and almost manages to grab and kill Gus, but Gus uses his cry to make several buffalo come in his direction. The stampede hurts Abbot quite a bit, but the General is still trying to kill Gus. Aimee launches herself onto Abbot’s back and injects the virus into his veins. He will be dead, no matter what. Gus takes the cure, and Abbot is apparently dead. However, while Gus checks on his friends, the General shoots an arrow at Gus’ back before dying.

However, Gus is fine. He is wounded but alive. Meanwhile, Aimee did succumb to the virus and ended up dead. They have a big funeral for her, with all the kids assisting before returning with Beverly. However, Bear and Wendy stay with Gus and Big Man. They manage to find a map that details Birdie’s route, and she might be in Alaska. The team decides to go there and try to find Birdie once and for all. The season ends with the four of them embarking on a new adventure.