“Big Mouth” is known for taking raunchy humor to new levels. Across five seasons and the recent “Human Resources” spin-off, the show has leveraged its playful animated world of horny pre-teens goaded on by cheeky manifestations of their physical and emotional changes to explore puberty from new and often shocking directions. However, “Big Mouth” is hardly an empty provocation, as the show has taken a winning approach to exploring sexuality in personal terms.
Yet for all the successes of “Big Mouth,” nothing in its initial run could prepare viewers for “A Very Big Mouth Christmas,” the eighth episode of Season 5, which throws a whole bunch of curveballs into the mix. The anthology episode, a recent submission to the Emmys, uses a hodgepodge of adventurous animation to envision several holiday-themed stories that take the show’s subversive edge in new directions, starting with a live-action framing device that finds hormone monsters...
Yet for all the successes of “Big Mouth,” nothing in its initial run could prepare viewers for “A Very Big Mouth Christmas,” the eighth episode of Season 5, which throws a whole bunch of curveballs into the mix. The anthology episode, a recent submission to the Emmys, uses a hodgepodge of adventurous animation to envision several holiday-themed stories that take the show’s subversive edge in new directions, starting with a live-action framing device that finds hormone monsters...
- 6/20/2022
- by Eric Kohn
- Indiewire
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