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Critic Reviews
ColliderOct 8, 2018
Season 2 Review:
Big Mouth Season 2 cuts uncomfortably close to the quick at times and really makes you feel like you’re reliving your own adolescence. Luckily, the show is sweet enough to take some of the sting out of the close-to-home moments, but earnest enough to make you feel a real connection with these poor unfortunate characters.
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Oct 4, 2018
Season 2 Review:
The second season officially confirms that Big Mouth, co-created by Nick Kroll, Andrew Goldberg, Mark Levin, and Jennifer Flackett, deserves a spot in the Coming of Sexual Age Hall of Fame right next to Judy Blume books and every incarnation of Degrassi. ... The voice-work on the series also remains top notch. Everyone is so, so good that there’s no way to pick an MVP. ... This series deserves a Peabody Award.
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ColliderDec 7, 2020
Season 4 Review:
Season 4 does require some patience for many of its payoffs to hit with the level of optimism, joy, and laugh-out-loud insights you demand from the show. ... The final moments of Season 4 are as wholesome as I’ve seen on any animated show (predicated on a guest star performance I could never spoil, but made me smile the whole time), presenting a future with possibilities as big as Kroll’s big mouth. It just takes some burning, yearning effort to grow.
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Dec 1, 2020
Season 4 Review:
Big Mouth’s fourth season (of a guaranteed six, with a Human Resources spin-off coming) is all about embracing who you are, how you are, where you are. It is, as Missy herself would say, “not one hundred”; it’s about a 98 with two middle fingers straight up. And, like Missy herself, it’s loving, lovable, and eager to grow.
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IndieWireOct 5, 2018
Season 2 Review:
Even more than before, Season 2 is weird and proud of it; a living embodiment of putting it all out there, despite what people might think. In a very real way, these episodes are a form of activism, and in a season focused on teaching kids how to separate shame from guilt, it’s downright powerful. A Peabody Award would not be out of order.
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Oct 3, 2018
Season 2 Review:
Big Mouth’s general lack of shame and its love of a good anatomical reference is likely to keep the show from getting as big as it ought to be, but it’s shown that it deserves to be included in any conversation about TV’s animated greats. And the new season demonstrates that Big Mouth is capable of growing alongside its characters.
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Oct 18, 2023
Season 7 Review:
No matter the grade its characters are in, it remains one of the most reliable, inventive, and, yes, disgusting laugh machines in all of television. Season Seven continues to offer all of that, even as it’s dramatically shifting its world and adding lots of new characters.
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The Daily BeastOct 28, 2022
Season 6 Review:
Big Mouth, one of Netflix’s best shows, is back for Season 6—and bold as ever. ... It’s clear that the magic of the show lies not in its comedy, but in its wonderfully diverse group of middle schoolers and their personified, monstrous hormones—a genius invention that functions as the kids’ guides through the ins and outs of sex and sexuality. ... It’s beautiful and sweet, but it’s also funny; it’s everything the show does best.
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Oct 4, 2019
Season 3 Review:
Season three throws tonal and stylistic curveballs even more frequently. ... It’s a testament to this show that we feel so heartbroken for these kids. We know because we’ve been there. That’s what makes Big Mouth such a great coming-of-age story. It’s not just the raunchy humor and brilliant one-liners, although those are also exceptional.
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Oct 3, 2018
Season 2 Review:
A delightful second season. ... The voice cast is overflowing with performances so sharp and indelible, it makes it hard to look at the actors in other roles without thinking of them being menaced by disembodied furry penises. As Jessi’s Hormone Monstress, Maya Rudolph remains first among equals, perfectly capturing the way that puberty descends upon girls differently than boys.
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Oct 27, 2022
Season 6 Review:
There are gaps this time around, though. Maya Rudolph’s Connie isn’t as present (although Rudolph gets to flex her muscles as Diane, Nick’s loving mom who is at the end of her rope). Supporting characters like Jordan Peele’s Duke Ellington, David Thewlis’ Shame Monster, and Ali Wong’s Ali don’t get sufficient screen time. ... Despite these minor flaws, Big Mouth remains one of Netflix’s superior creative comedies.
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May 27, 2025
Season 8 Review:
In the end, all the gleeful obscenity took a backseat to the story’s true subject: the terrifying process of growing up. .... “Big Mouth” leaves them, and us, with one final lesson: Once you have the confidence to embrace your own messy quirks, you’re equipped to face whatever comes your way — pun somewhat intended.
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Dec 2, 2020
Season 4 Review:
There are still plenty of gruesome jokes to make you nearly gag, like a platoon of tampon surfers and a teenage boy’s penis that has a Long Island accent for some reason. But this time around the changes everyone is going through are a bit more abstract, for the better.
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ColliderOct 14, 2019
Season 3 Review:
The show’s commitment to being unflinchingly honest about the confusing (and sometimes exhilarating) experience of puberty and adolescence is what makes it succeed. It’s gross, but not without purpose; painful, but rarely cruel; heartfelt, but never cheesy. It’s also really fucking funny.
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Oct 5, 2018
Season 2 Review:
At its best and its worst, Big Mouth is a vivid, excruciating voyage back to a time in life that so many of us would love to completely forget, but laced with enough humor and good-hearted horniness (for those of all genders and sexual persuasions) to remind us why getting to the other side of puberty is worth it after all. ... Season two has made a case that Big Mouth should run for as long as it can keep telling painfully funny stories about horribly painful moments of life.
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RogerEbert.comOct 3, 2018
Season 2 Review:
The voice cast is one of the best on TV, but every episode is stolen by Maya Rudolph, who voices the female version of the Hormone Monster, and makes me laugh every single time. ... We spend way too much time with Coach Steve in season two for my taste--but this is a fearless, clever comedy more often than it’s not.
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Sep 29, 2017
Season 1 Review:
If Big Mouth were just a series of jokes about how weird and gross puberty is, it wouldn’t be much more than a decent way to kill some time during a slow weekend. But the show achieves a new, deeper level of comedy by remaining hyper aware of the fact that puberty isn’t just about bodies changing, but about what it means to grow up at all.
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Sep 29, 2017
Season 1 Review:
There’s a frankness and honesty beneath the show’s raunchiness that sometimes echo the best work of Judy Blume and other great chroniclers of adolescent angst, especially where the fraught and seldom-discussed feelings of boys are involved. It’s charming and repulsive all at once.
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Sep 28, 2017
Season 1 Review:
Sweet, progressive and breathtakingly filthy, the latest collaboration between comedians Nick Kroll and John Mulaney recalls the emotionally grounded squirminess of the boys of Freaks and Geeks and the sex-positive yet debasement-obsessed endocrinological chaos of, well, nothing I've ever seen.
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Nov 5, 2021
Season 5 Review:
This season stumbles a bit, especially in the early episodes, going over the top with a commitment to shock-value one-liners and gonzo predicaments that grows wearying. (At one point, Nick even calls out his old-man hormone monster, Rick, for being exceptionally disturbing.) But once it finds its groove around episode four, the series’ endearing mix of true-to-life relatability and absurdist extremes returns.
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