When Netflix’s raunchy animated series Big Mouth first premiered, one aspect of the show’s world-building was critically adored:the hormone monsters. They were hailed as the “show’s most hilarious innovation,” the subject of rankings and quizzes, speculated who could see what among the pubescent teens of Big Mouth suddenly blessed by their presence.
So five seasons later, it’s no surprise that the now cavalcade of feelings monsters introduced on Big Mouth have landed their own spinoff. The concept of this week’s Human Resources (as a character knowingly notes in the pilot’s opening) was “sold as” the monsters of the original show getting to shine in their own version of The Office. The result is a little more what you would expect from a post-Inside Out world very much entangled with the vulgar stylings of Big Mouth: balls-out gross and surprisingly heartfelt.
The Big Mouth spinoff that goes behind the scenes of the creature world beyond our own, full of hormone monsters, depression kitties, shame wizards, among others.Returning are your favorites, like the guardian sex angels Connie (Maya Rudolph) and Maury (Nick Kroll, not Will Arnett, as some have thought), Lionel the shame wizard (David Thewlis), and lovebug Walter (Brandon Kyle Goodman).
They’re joined by a new coworker Emmy (Aidy Bryant), a lovebug who’s been freshly assigned to new mom Becca (Ali Wong) and strives to get her glow going. So much as this show has a primary arc it is Emmy’s, as she struggles to figure out her new responsibilities.
All the voice talent energy you’ve come to expect from the Big Mouth universe. The show is headed up by Bryant, and the familiar voices of Rudolph, Kroll, and Goodman. They’re joined by Randall Park (a logic rock) and
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