Big Mouth

For a lot of people (or maybe I'll just speak for me) puberty is not just traumatizing but catastrophic. You're somewhere between 3 and 30 and you can have children but you can't have an adult conversation and your best friends are growing boobs. Big Mouth captures that abysmal period (...) in life with all the gross out humor that is perfectly inappropriate and genuine in equal measure. It somewhat fizzles in its mid-to-late season 1 episodes, but I'll certainly be looking forward to new ones.

It misses quite often but when it hits it's usually pretty amazing. A fun cast and some pretty ridiculous scenarios that even manages to mix in a good amount of heart. *edit - raised score after 2nd season.

I've never felt the awkwardness and terribleness of puberty in such an intensely funny manner. The show is clever, witty, absurd and I probably would've loved it even more if puberty was a more recent memory for me. The only downside is watching a show about kids regularly referring to sex, which is it's own kind of awkward.

In the push to differentiate, it seems like animation just gets uglier and uglier. And there are definitely some gross-out type jokes that just feel try-hard and don't work. But once you get past that, there's a seriously hilarious show that has a creative angle on depicting puberty. The show just keeps getting better, too.

Episodes and jokes can be a bit hit or miss, but when it hits, it hits it right out of the damn stadium. The entire concept of the "hormone monster" is brilliant, representing puberty's hormonal mind-screw as a disgusting beast that is nonetheless followed without question. How did any of us survive this shit? I'm still not quite sure, but I do know Big Mouth left me howling.

I had avoided this show based of stills and the animation. What an absolute shame as this had me absolutely losing it and It takes a bit for me to laugh out loud watching something. Relatable, quotable and so incredibly rewatachable. I'm smiling instead of putting an end of review quote about this show Edit - Fell off a bit.

It takes a little time to get into its world and tolerate the characters but once you look past that, it's actually very clever, has a lot of laughs and a lot of heart.

Juvenile tripe. If it was funny that would be the appeal

despite the animation, which is EXTREMELY off-putting initially, this is actually very maturely immature in its treatment of puberty. part of me wonders if the crudeness makes the subject matter unlikely to reach those who might find it most useful, but another part of me thinks 13 year olds are going to be able to find this on Netflix just fine.

Kind of amusing on the writing level (sort of like a somewhat milder somewhat younger American Pie or something), but my big stumbling block with it is in the art style, particularly the character designs, which I frankly find hideous. I kind of feel in general like every adult animated series that comes out looks worse than the last.