12/24/2023 0 Comments Sweet tooth recap are we there yet![]() ![]() Bear and Jepperd have serious doubts about Birdie being alive and debate how to prepare Gus for the worst, but before they can say anything to him, he spots smoke rising from a chimney in the distance. ![]() Gus and the gang stop by Sal’s Bar as they enter Essex County, with no idea how important this location is to Gus’s survival. Gus is more important than any of them will ever know, and that means he needs to be protected.Īimee and the Singhs are absent in this episode, which is entirely focused on revealing the truth about Gus’s conception to both the audience and the character. The show successfully sells that these characters have created a connection strong enough that Pubba would give up everything to help her, and Pubba knows that when Birdie says “miracle,” she means it. Birdie goes back to get her research, and that’s the last Pubba sees of her. They successfully sneak away with Gus, and Birdie asks Pubba to take the baby because nobody will come looking for the janitor. “We accidentally made a miracle,” Birdie says as she shows Pubba the world’s first hybrid, a meeting that will change the course of his life forever. Birdie doesn’t have her keys anymore but Pubba does, so they go back to Fort Smith together, make their way through the armed soldiers in containment suits, and find the baby Gus. Birdie is the one who tells Pubba to sit closer when they’re talking on the couch, and they’d be kissing if she didn’t get a phone call telling her the military is taking over the lab and seizing everything.Įverything except Birdie’s experiment, which is hidden in a storage closet, waiting to be retrieved. He has very sweet chemistry with Seimitz, who plays a character with much more confidence and conviction. He genuinely wants to know what Birdie is dealing with and how he can help her feel better, and that endears him to her a lot. Pubba is an unassuming figure sketching at the bar, but when he strikes up conversation, his warmth and compassion shines through. Even though he’s often cast in over-the-top roles, Will Forte is great at playing characters with understated charm. When they go to Birdie’s place for hot chocolate, she reveals that her late husband died of HPS (Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome) and Pubba talks about his dreams of being an artist who works on children’s books. The flip side is that if they inject the wrong microbes, all hell breaks loose. At the bar, Birdie explains what she and her team have been working on, telling Pubba about how they’ve been injecting microbes into chicken eggs in hopes of creating something that could save a lot of lives. His favorite song, “Ripple,” plays when they make their way to Birdie’s place, and both tracks create a very chill, inviting atmosphere for affection to bloom. Grateful Dead music does a lot of the heavy lifting in Pubba and Birdie’s courtship, starting with her favorite song, “Friend of the Devil,” playing as they get to know each other in the bar. She’s cagey about responding, but then Grateful Dead starts playing and they start talking about their favorite songs, calling each other out on how basic their picks are. Clearly something is wrong, so when he sees Birdie (Amy Seimitz) at the bar, he’s compelled to ask her about her day and make her feel better. Grateful Dead’s “Truckin’” plays over the montage of Pubba on the job, which ends with him seeing one of the scientists raging at something her colleagues are doing. ![]() Cut to one year later at Fort Smith Research, where Pubba (real name: Richard Fox) works as a janitor, cleaning up pools of fluid and watching scientists inject chicken eggs. “When Pubba Met Birdie” opens with some scientists on an expedition in Alaska, where they discover some sort of microbe deep in the ice. It gives concrete answers about the start of the H5G9 virus and why Gus is older than the other hybrids, situating Gus and his “parents” at the core of the pandemic. “When Pubba Met Birdie” is the big revelation episode, taking us back in time to when the Great Crumble began. Gus probably wouldn’t be alive if these two lost souls didn’t meet at Sal’s Bar on that fateful night, finding each other right before the world descended into chaos. Sweet Tooth is fixated on beginnings, and of all the starts this series has shown us, this is the one that feels most like the story’s true origin point. Once upon a time, there was a janitor and a scientist who worked at the same research facility and shared a love for the Grateful Dead. ![]()
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