Nick Kroll’s animated Netflix puberty comedy Big Mouth is charming, yet repulsive

The New York Times

The frank comedy about puberty is adorable — if you can make it through the explicit jokes in all 10 episodes. As Hank Stuever notes, “Big Mouth can’t resist crossing several lines of decency, otherwise I’d happily recommend it as sympathetic viewing for the age group it portrays (and I still might, for older teenagers whose sense of humor has matured). 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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