This first post will be about my favorite Netflix Original, Big Mouth. It may be the raunchiest comedy that exists at the moment. I have currently watch all ten episodes of season one four times and it just keeps getting better and better. For first time viewers it will be a shock. I promise that you will have never seen anything that pushes the envelope as much as Big Mouth does. It also holds a one hundred percent on Rotten Tomatoes.
The show follows Nick, Andrew, Jessi, Jay, and Missy on their journey through puberty. They are constantly followed and heckled by Morty and Connie. Morty and Connie are the embodiment of the kids hormones. Nick is the driving character in the show. He is the only one in the group that is not currently going through puberty. He becomes very aware of this in the first episode. The show consistently shows that his main goal is to catch up to his friends. Most of the problems that Nick goes through are him trying to connect to the struggles of the other kids even though he has no idea how. Another one is that his parents are very unknowing and very gullible. They baby Nick and want nothing else than for him to stay young and innocent.
Andrew is the socially awkward friend that is very uncomfortable with Maurty but has no choice in anything that he does to him. Every questionable decision that Andrew makes directly correlates with Morty’s opinion. His problems are in the forefront of the show because his monster is the biggest driving force of comedy. You slowly see Maurty shift from a belligerent psychopath to a helpful mentor to Andrew.
Jessi is the most mature of the group. She has been through a lot as far as her family life is concerned. She is in the middle of her parents divorce and looks to her friends for help. She goes through the whole show being the friend who tries, and most of the time fails, to maintain sanity, until she encounters her own hormone monster, Connie. Connie is the other half of Morty and the dynamic of them trying to transform the kids into adults, even if it is darker than it should be.
Jay is the psychopath. He is an aspiring magician who wants nothing more than attention. He seeks this attention because he gets none at home. Being the youngest brother of three he is, unlike Nick, disregarded by his institutionalize mom and his questionable defender dad. The only thing that Jay knows is fighting his brothers in their basement fight club and his special pillow.
Missy is farther out of the friend group but is Andrews love interest. She has cringe worthy awkwardness and has no idea how Andrew feels about her. The show constantly shows her flexing her intelligence and making her look crazy. Later in the show she realizes that she likes Andrew as much as he likes her and it creates a whole new arc of events of involving a awkward, middle school relationship
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