![]() (Six of the ten episodes were either written or co-written by women.) In the second episode, Jessi (voice of comedian Jessi Klein), gets her period for the first time. Even though Nick and Andrew are the primary characters, it gives equal time to the concerns of adolescent girls and, again, does so in ways that other forms of fiction have not always explored. This is one of the best things about Big Mouth: the way it acknowledges the differences and similarities between the way boys and girls experience this allegedly magical time in a young person’s life. It’s quietly groundbreaking to acknowledge that boys often do the same thing. It’s not uncommon for stories of this ilk to focus on the tendency for young women to compare themselves to each other and feel inadequate. In the first episode, Nick develops intense feelings of insecurity after he accidentally gets a look at Andrew’s penis and realizes how far he has to go to catch up to his buddy on the sexual maturity spectrum. ![]() ![]() To that point: The two main characters are Andrew (voiced by Kroll’s Oh, Hello co-star John Mulaney), a compulsive masturbator whose body is speeding toward manhood while his brain clumsily races to keep pace, and Nick, his underdeveloped, big-lipped best friend who basically looks like a Muppet Babies version of Nick Kroll. But I also feel strongly that it performs an important public service.Ĭo-created by writer-directors Mark Levin and Jennifer Flackett, alongside Nick Kroll and his childhood friend, Family Guy writer Andrew Goldberg, Big Mouth is inspired by Kroll and Goldberg’s own experiences with puberty. Big Mouth could never be shown in public schools and its content may be too mature for a lot of 12-year-olds. It’s ten episodes of television that could only be made in this format because, as is noted in meta-fashion in the last installment, if it weren’t animated, it would skate way too close to being child pornography. ![]() (Netflix is honestly one show away from creating its own dick-pic subgenre.) It’s the outdated sex-education film Am I Normal?, except it actually understands what real kids go through and doesn’t hesitate to show us those things in all their disgusting and humiliating detail. This show is Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret, but more blunt and with a lot more cartoon dick pics. This animated comedy about the most challenging year in any adolescent’s life – you immediately knew I meant seventh grade, didn’t you? – focuses with absolutely no filter on the confusing, unforgiving hormonal shifts that make young boys visibly aroused at inopportune moments and force girls to bleed, lust, and burst into tears, whether members of either gender are ready for it or not. The new Netflix series Big Mouth is a frank, very funny coming-of-age story, with a heavy emphasis on the cumming. Nick Kroll voices Nick (center) in Big Mouth.
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