What I think about “Big Mouth” and “Human Resources”

“Big Mouth” and it’s sequel “Human Resources” are adult cartoons available for Netflix streaming. Last year’s June or May, I was told that I resemble one of the characters of the former, so I decided to watch the show. In a fortnight or a bit more I watched the first 4 seasons, and then the 5-th, when it got premiered last November. The show depicts the life of schoolmates who just hit their puberty, and each episode tells about the experiences many teens face with their friends and families, especially once they hit puberty, but does all that really, *REALLY* grotesquely. The series are heavily seasoned with cynicism, dark humor, swearing, not-so-pleasant scenes and depictions,
incomprehensible amount of references to millennial Western pop culture, and also dialogues about things which are considered taboos, even in American society. The whole theory of the show is that as we age, there are monsters, creatures which present themselves to us and take responsibility over their respective spheres of our thoughts and actions, each human being has his/her own team of monsters, that are almost always visible only to that person. Hormone monsters, anxiety mosquitoes, shame wizards, love bugs, hate worms and many more are that creations that live in our heads (rent free). They all work in this organization called “Human Resources” from where they are sent to their clients to fulfill a specific mission each time. As you might have guessed, the show “Human Resources” is focused on the relations of the colleagues working in the organization bearing the same name. The sequel has some new characters, which do not appear in “Big Mouth”, or are vaguely represented there. The main creators of the shows Nick Kroll, whose childhood self is also the main character of “Big Mouth”, and Andrew Goldberg, the bosom buddy of Nick both in the show and in real, have based the plot of “Big Mouth” on the events and embarrassments they lived through in highschool. The other voice actors’ life stories have also affected their characters. Most of the students have Jewish background, and therefore, the series is a representation of relations and lifestyle of Jewish (religious) community of The States as well. One of the non-Jewish characters is named Jay Bilzerian, he’s an Armenian student addicted to sexual life, just like Dan Bilzerian, from whom, I believe, Jay’s character was inspired. The visualization of Jay’s Armenian family hardly tells anything about Armenian culture, it’s more of a stereotypical exaggerated and distorted portrayal of Armenian households of LA: lawyer father, bully brothers, Pitbull dog named Ludacris feat. Pitbull, and strange mother. The show is officially rated as 17+, but I watched it a month before turning 16, and as much as I can tell, haven’t suffered any traumas (probably because I had already watched a similar show before). Though I liked both shows, I can’t generally say if I’d recommend the show to you or not, but since you’ll most likely feel disgusted from the first episodes, my ultimate answer is “No, don’t watch it”.