Not that Abbot does the evil science himself, since another of his captives is Sick expert Dr Aditya Singh. Any tiny inmate hauled off by the guards is unlikely to come back, unless it’s in the form of a hoof or claw worn around one of the bad guys’ necks. Those hybrids are locked up because oddball mercenary General Abbot (Neil Sandilands), an arresting Gaiman-esque visual creation with his bald head, huge grey beard and red-tinted John Lennon specs, wants to experiment on them to help him find a cure.

When the adults do appear, we are reminded that this is a series for older kids only: any viewer younger than Gus would find the violence of the post-Sick world too scary. “He’d tell me to grow a pair,” Gus tells the girl with the pig’s nose as he muses on what his pal would say if they were still together. Imprisonment means Gus has become separated from Tommy “Big Man” Jepperd (Nonso Anozie), his adopted father figure and physical protector. Season two feels, in its early episodes, like more of a kids’ show than ever, albeit with plenty of sly nods to the parents to keep them interested. He is a scientific experiment, made in a lab, and he might be the key to the story of the hybrids and/or the hunt for a cure for the Sick. Previously we have been following Gus (Christian Convery), a 10-year-old boy with the ears, antlers and senses of a deer, as he crossed a ravaged America – at first he was looking for his mother, but he’s recently discovered that no such person exists. In the absence of any other explanation, these “hybrids” are seen as dangerous vermin, routinely incarcerated or just killed by fearful humans. If you missed season one: the world has been devastated by the Sick, a virus which sprung up and rapidly spread right at the same moment when babies started being born with animal features.

Welcome back to the singular world of Sweet Tooth, the pandemic dystopia drama the whole family can enjoy. The chipmunk boy starts chewing the ground. The kid with the lion’s mane, the girl with the pig’s nose and the little guy who has the full face and trunk of an elephant all agree.

What tools do they have at their disposal? The floor is earth, so it’s obvious: the child who’s half-chipmunk should burrow out. First, they need a scheme to get hold of the keys. So, there are a bunch of kids imprisoned in a cell, planning their escape.

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