New York Comic-Con 2019 Puts Big Mouth Front and Center

Hold On To What’s Left of Your Youth Bring your tears, hormone monsters, and all of your socially awkward tendencies to sacrifice to the Shame Wizard because Big Mouth Panel will be coming to this year’s New York Comic-Con this Thursday. The animation was recently renewed by Netflix for three more seasons. When I first started watching this series, I didn’t know what to expect. I honestly went in head first with the most monotone thoughts because I was desperately afraid of being disappointed. Alas, after the first three episodes of season 1, shocked would be an understatement. I was enamored with the way they approached puberty, sex, and insecurities. Big Mouth projects physical representations of our adolescent fears and allows us to see them interact with the world in ways we never wanted them to. Nick Kroll, Mark Levin, Jennifer Flackett and Andrew Goldberg gave me lessons two seasons of sex education.

Sure Big Mouth is three times more uncomfortable than the sex education classes I was forced to take in high school, but sixty times more entertaining. This animated series is filled with laughs, cringes and touching moments. From Hormone Monsters to Shame Spirits, I never imagined that I would latch on to these creative entities. I’ve grown to love each and every character so much that my conscience is now replaced with Maya Rudolph’s voice over of the Hormone Monster. Big Mouth taught me lessons about late-blooming, friendship and the inevitable reality of changes… In …