What is Big Mouth about?
Teenage friends find their lives upended by the wonders and horrors of puberty in this edgy comedy from real-life pals Nick Kroll and Andrew Goldberg.
Puberty's horrors and wonders upend teenage friends in this brisk, darkly-comic animated series.
Absurdist and campy, with dry wit. A comfort watch at a brisk pace. Emotionally it carries some weight.
Streaming on Netflix.
Big Mouth parents guide
Strong sex and nudity, which is more than most TV-MA titles carry. Beyond that, some violence and frequent strong language.
- Scare
- Not scary
- Jump scares
- None noted
- Gore
- No gore
- Violence
- Some violence
- Some fighting or peril.
- Sex and nudity
- Strong
- Strong means explicit or repeated sex, extended nudity, or sexual assault shown on screen, attempted or completed, even partly off screen. Any one of these is enough.
- Language
- Strong
- Frequent strong profanity or slurs.
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Cast and crew
Created byNick Kroll, Mark Levin, Jennifer Flackett
StarringNick Kroll, John Mulaney, Jessi Klein, Jason Mantzoukas, Maya Rudolph, Fred Armisen
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