New Episode of Popular Netflix Show Features Idaho

In some of the most recent episodes of a DC Comics-based show on Netflix, the main characters are seen talking about Idaho and visiting a few locations here on their way to an escape boat.

The series is set in a future dystopian time where a sickness has taken out much of the human population and a rising group of human/animal hybrids is growing.

Netflix Series Visits Potato Hotel and Twin Falls, Idaho in New Episodes

The show is Sweet Tooth on Netflix and it isn’t the first time a Netflix show has taken jabs at Idaho or used us as an episode location. In another recent Netflix movie, The Union, characters make fun of Idaho and a few years ago, The Imperfects had an episode that took place in Idaho.

In Sweet Tooth, the main characters have to travel over the Rocky Mountains to Idaho as they head toward the coast to catch a boat to Alaska. It’s quite a long-distance adventure.

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The group finds a pamphlet for an Idaho Potato Hotel and meets a man who has just returned from a flight to Twin Falls to find a doctor. While watching the episodes, since I live here, I found myself looking for locations that were familiar - but I didn’t recognize anything.

There’s actually a reason though that I didn’t recognize anything: the show didn’t film in Idaho. All the scenes were shot in New Zealand. But, to the credit of the producers, they didn’t make Idaho look desolate or disgusting.

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To see the Idaho references in Sweet Tooth, you’ll need a Netflix account or a friend who will let you come over and watch. I haven’t finished this season yet, but they are on a boat in the ocean by episode 3 so the Idaho references are probably only in the first 2.