It's just a damn good look at the hellscape known as current day middle school. While creator Nick Kroll and his writing staff are genius in their own right, the stories they tell this season aren't particularly inventive. Embarrassing party moments are broadcast live, where they have much longer shelf lives than they ever could have before social media. It's mostly smart revamps of unfortunate middle school traditions: where boys of past generations may have ranked female classmates with pen and paper, Big Mouth puts that list online. Even among the commentary, there are sweet moments like when Jay defines his sexuality after watching a very consumer-specific Netflix show called Gordy's Journey.
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That's not to say that Season Three is full of gloom because it's absolutely humor first. That's Big Mouth's greatest strength in Season Three-there's a bit of "laugh now, think later" to the comedy that makes you realize how easy it would be to screw up as a Logged On Teenager. The privacy of his story is a special touch and a nod to how little of our lives is private anymore. The best of those moments is in the season's standalone episode, "Duke." Set primarily in the early 20th century, the ghost of Duke Ellington (Jordan Peele) tells the story of losing his virginity which ends in a bit of a tease on how it actually happened. No other comedy right now is balancing the fraught reality of 2019 while also remembering the stupidly hilarious perils of just being a teenager.Įven in its less digital-centric episodes, Season Three finds a special way of showing how much the world has changed. But the through line that ties it all together is the generation-agnostic need to be accepted, be it through getting invited into the right group of friends or nabbing a few extra likes. For Nick, it's the personal fallout from posting a video of his dad doing his nude skincare routine using his new cellphone, Cellsea (played perfectly by Chelsea Peretti). Or learning the etiquette of sending a dick pic to his cousin (not a typo). Nick Kroll Explains What's Funny About Pubertyįor Andrew, it means being unknowingly recruited to attend a white nationalist meeting after streaming a vent-session about women. And yet, looking into the unfamiliar is what makes Season Three Big Mouth's strongest outing yet. It's simultaneously familiar and bizarre and grim as hell, but more than anything it highlights teenagedom through a Very Logged On perspective that reminds you why you're grateful to have been an adolescent in a less-digital time. The first two seasons of Big Mouth had a universal quality about them that checked boxes for adults and teenagers alike, but Season Three bravely wades into new territory, exploring the world that teenagers currently inhabit. Everyone has mangled a break up, pulled a boy out of a wheelchair, live streamed their frustrations to strangers, accidentally attended a neo-Nazi meeting, and then punctuated seventh grade by developing a "surprisingly toxic" online persona. Everyone has had a dodgy track record when it comes to consistent deodorant application. That's what has made Nick Kroll's Big Mouthsuch a relatable, massive success. No healthy adult has ever looked back on those years of hopeless abandon between childhood and adolescence with admiration.