Big Mouth

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Season 1
  • Network: Netflix
  • Series Premiere Date: Sep 29, 2017
Season #: 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1
Metascore
80

Generally favorable reviews - based on 6 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 6 out of 6
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 6
  3. Negative: 0 out of 6

Critic Reviews

  1. IndieWire
    Reviewed by: Ben Travers
    Sep 29, 2017
    91
    Big Mouth works because it’s unflinchingly honest. Whether it’s mining twisted jokes or universal human experiences, the whole concept comes together because it consistently tells the truth.
  2. Vox.com
    Reviewed by: Caroline Framke
    Sep 29, 2017
    80
    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.
  3. Washington Post
    Reviewed by: Hank Stuever
    Sep 29, 2017
    80
    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.
  5. New York Magazine (Vulture)
    Reviewed by: Jen Chaney
    Sep 28, 2017
    80
    The new Netflix series Big Mouth is a frank, very funny coming-of-age story.
  6. The Hollywood Reporter
    Reviewed by: Inkoo Kang
    Sep 28, 2017
    80
    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.
  7. San Francisco Chronicle
    Reviewed by: David Wiegand
    Sep 27, 2017
    75
    As over the top as some of the bits are, Big Mouth is likely to strike a chord of remembrance in adult viewers. If so, the memories probably won’t be quite as filthy or funny as they are here.

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User Score
6.6

Generally favorable reviews- based on 229 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 162 out of 229
  2. Mixed: 10 out of 229
  3. Negative: 57 out of 229
  1. Sojum
    Sep 29, 2017
    9
    Not for the faint of heart but funny as all get out. Belongs on the shelf with Rick and Morty. Smart. Observant. Well acted. And solid writingNot for the faint of heart but funny as all get out. Belongs on the shelf with Rick and Morty. Smart. Observant. Well acted. And solid writing that manages to sidestep most easy cliches and tropes. I haven’t laughed so hard since, well, the last episode of a Rick and Morty. :)… Full Review »
  2. profpotato
    Oct 1, 2017
    1
    if netflix thinks this show is gonna 'save them from debt' as it seems because of all the advertising this show gets, netflix is doomed. thisif netflix thinks this show is gonna 'save them from debt' as it seems because of all the advertising this show gets, netflix is doomed. this show is decently animated, the voice acting is alright though both of those are things that all television shows that are animated have. the good ends there, the dialog is on par with bad family guy, the artstyle is this hideous fish eye thing, and the plot is just about the most bland thing i've seen in quite some time, but with "HEY LOOK A SEX ORGAN" joke thrown in every 5 seconds. how this show is highly rated critically and by users is odd, and a bit sad. there's much better shows out there… Full Review »
  3. allforonereview
    Oct 13, 2017
    3
    I really don't understand the hype of this show. Most of us enjoy dirty humor especially when it's cleverly layered into a t.v show, but thatI really don't understand the hype of this show. Most of us enjoy dirty humor especially when it's cleverly layered into a t.v show, but that isn't what Big Mouth is. It's just 5 second loops of **** and dick jokes and riding on famous people references and events you will relate too. One example is the ghost of Justice Antonin Scalia tells one of the characters he's gay...that's it. The punchline is of course in life he was anti-gay and famous for it.

    Really the only character that gave me a laugh was that hormone monster. The rest was cheap comedy. Please stop comparing it to Rick and Morty.    … Full Review »
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