Big Mouth

Heartfelt and genuinely the best show about puberty ever made. Graphic but not graphic for the sake of being graphic. It's a wonderfully smart, funny show. Hope there are many more seasons.

Tough to review. On one hand, the early seasons aren't good. The VA is very lazy. And it's basically animated child porn at times. On the other hand, it's become much more funny and clever over time. Kind of a shame it's ending now just when it was getting good. TL;DR: skip the first 1-5 seasons.

I loved the first three seasons -- they get a 9 for great jokes (some so quick you'll miss them if you're laughing at the previous joke) and fearlessly addressing the awkward and taboo changes that come with puberty. Season 4 introduced a trans character, and this marked the beginning of a noticeable change in BM's storytelling style: it started becoming preachy. I think the introduction of a trans character was good, but the writers chose to use the character's change (boy transitioned to girl/woman) as a device to preach to the audience about how to interact with and speak to trans people. It **** the air out of the rest of the characters. And this approach continued in seasons 5 and 6. Rather than letting the story unfold in an organic way, they chose to give some characters heavy-handed dialogue clearly intended to tell the audience what the writers believe is right and wrong about how you should deal with LGBTQ+ issues/people. What really knocked the show down a peg for me was episode 8 of season 6 where Jessi tells her dad and dad's pregnant girlfriend that they should raise the baby gender neutral and call the baby "they". [rant] Gender neutrality in and of itself is perfectly fine, IMO, but I don't need a cartoon to beat me over the head with a hammer labeled "GENDER ****!" There is no inherent problem with gender and pronouns; the problem is with people insisting that biological males *behave* a certain way and biological females *behave* a certain other way. People who believe in those stereotypes will continue believing regardless of what pronouns you insist they use. I really don't need a raunchy comedy about sex to try to convince me to refer to babies as "they". Just create engaging characters (which the show has done) and let their stories -- and *dialogue* -- unfold in a natural way. [/rant] The show still makes me laugh which is why I still watch, but if the show keeps amping up its preachiness, I don't know how much longer I'll stay for the ride. Preaching just isn't funny.

3 points for season 1 before it goes into cringe inducing spiral of wokeness for no real reason. The vomit inducing cringe fest is so over-done and forced it just ruins entire story and characters. By season 5 it is half the main cast, because that makes sense (4% vs 50%).

After the first season, the "left" $hit started to happen. Let me explain... The 1st season had minorities who fit into the story and were interesting as characters. But it got to the point where in season 4 the main antagonists are white males. 3 "stars" for the first season. -7 points for 2+ seasons.