Feed: Culture | The Guardian
Posted on: Friday, March 18, 2022 7:00 PM
Author: Stuart Heritage
Subject: Dame Helen Mirren as the Shame Wizard: Human Resources is Big Mouth's star-packed spin-off
| The legendary actor is joined by Thandiwe Newton, Henry Winkler and more in Netflix's puerile animated comedy about monsters, who are hormones incarnate Netflix's Big Mouth set out to perform a very specific task. An animated comedy featuring teenagers who are visited by hormone monsters, it planted its flag as a frank exploration of puberty as it objectively is; an awkward, horny, non-stop body horror nightmare. However, over the course of its five seasons, Big Mouth took its eye off the ball just a little. As the episodes wore on, you sensed that the creators were starting to lose interest in their human teenage characters, while growing more and more enamoured with the flamboyantly crude monsters that came to represent all their various adolescent desires and urges. This was reflected in the acclaim it received; for the past two years, Maya Rudolph has won Emmys for her portrayal of Connie the Hormone Monstress, a sort of horned griffin who – among other things – exists to teach teenagers how to masturbate. |