Spoilers forward for Candy Tooth. With the epic finale on Netflix, many viewers could be questioning what occurred to Large Man in Candy Tooth after that ambiguous ending.
The present follows a post-pandemic life the place people are affected by The Sick and human-animal hybrids emerge. A sheltered hybrid deer-boy named Gus, nicknamed Candy Tooth (Christian Convery) unexpectedly befriends a wandering loner named Jepperd (Nonso Anozie). Collectively they set out on a rare journey throughout what’s left of America. “In Season 3, everyone is coping with some type of wound or emotional loss, whether or not that was anyone of their life or part of themselves,” Mickle advised Netflix’s Tudum. “All people is wanting inward and trying to transfer on and in the end studying that life doesn’t cease. You need to preserve placing one foot in entrance of one other.”
Tommy Jepperd, or Large Man, is stabbed by Zhang within the Cave after she killed Birdie. Large Man asks Candy Tooth to inform him a narrative whereas wounded, and we discover out that Gus is definitely the narrator of the present as he grows outdated. Whereas telling the story, he recounts Large Man’s destiny.
What occurred to Large Man within the Candy Tooth finale?
Many followers presumed that Large Man died within the finale. Through the last moments of the present, the scene shifts to the current day the place Large Man asks Gus, “What in regards to the Large Man? Did he make it again with him?” It cuts again to the scene the place Large Man joins Gus overlooking the Hybrids working and laughing. Large Man fingers Gus maple syrup whereas they appear within the distance.
Govt producer Amanda Burrell advised Individuals that the ultimate scene may very well be interpreted “quite a lot of alternative ways” including that they did it “deliberately.” One interpretation might be that Jepp could be with Gus ceaselessly in his thoughts even when he did die, or that he’s in reality alive.
Some followers are content material with how the ending was portrayed. One fan posted on Reddit, “There’s lots of people right here unhappy that the present is over, however I feel the ending was excellent and to proceed it could be a mistake. Leaving it open for us to debate if the large man survived or simply survived by Gus was heartbreaking and but so comforting.”
“For us, it was at all times about these journeys for each of them and the attention-grabbing notion [that] Jepp discovered as a lot from Gus as Gus discovered from Jepp,” Burrell recounted to the publication. “That was actually essential to us is that they are surely complementary. We couldn’t have imagined that they’d discover one another and affect one another’s lives so deeply. It’s a love story in loads of methods.”
“We knew that we needed it to really feel like that Jepp was discovering an finish on the finish of this episode however we additionally needed to say, slightly bit ET-inspired, ‘He’s at all times with him. He’ll be proper right here,’” Burrell continued. “If the viewers needs to interact and consider that he sat there with him on the porch, then they will. However no less than for me, I feel it was an ending.”
Candy Tooth is now streaming on Netflix.
