Pop music is mercurial, changing in unexpected new ways as the result of an untold number of influences. Sometimes, a breakthrough artist puts on an old record to discover a new take on a forgotten genre. Sometimes, a technological innovation creates brand new sounds. And sometimes, as we’re now learning, DJs hear…
Between seasons of Big Mouth, Netflix’s sweetly disgusting animated comedy about puberty, co-creators and executive producers Mark Levin and Jennifer Flackett attended a talk by Sue Dunlap, the president and CEO of Planned Parenthood Los Angeles. “She said to a room full of writers and producers, your donations are…
Here’s what’s happening in the world of television for Friday, October 5 and Saturday, October 6. All times are Eastern.
Nick Kroll, on The Late Show to promote the Friday release of Big Mouth’s second season on Netflix, lent his talent for portraying obnoxious douchebags (like The Douche) to Stephen Colbert’s interview with a former Yale drinking bro of embattled Supreme Court nominee and truth-challenged rage-monster Brett Kavanaugh.…
If there’s one thing that puberty is not, it’s fast. It’s an agonizing process full of mystery and abrupt twists and turns—all things that feed the comedy of Netflix’s animated series about growing up, Big Mouth. And if there’s one thing that Big Mouth is, it’s fast. Scrub-backward-to-rewatch-the-scene (sometimes at…
In its first season, Netflix’s Big Mouth came up with a lot of creative ways to visualize the confusion and humiliation of coming of age. But, as is the extremely NSFW series’ wont, it goes further in season two, introducing David Thewlis as the source of unspoken adolescent disgrace, the Shame Wizard. That…
The hormone monster stirs: New episodes of Big Mouth are coming to Netflix October 5. If you’re thinking that the pubescent animated comedy forged a double entendre from that phrasing for this teaser trailer, you’re right—but not in the way you think.
Today’s question: What’s missing from our list of the year’s best TV shows?
Even though Netflix is loath to tell us exactly how many of its subscribers are watching what, the streaming platform does release its own year-end list of superlatives like any good media company. And the original series that users couldn’t get enough of, that they binged at a rate of 2+ hours of viewing per day,…
Nobody tells you that the best part of It is the cursing. That’s an odd takeaway from a Stephen King adaptation that features a spectacular haunted-house sequence and what’s surely one of cinema’s five scariest scenes set in a flooded basement, but take it from me, someone who was traumatized by seeing all of five…
Here’s what up in the world of TV for Friday, September 29 and Saturday, September 30. All times are Eastern.
Given that the average smart phone contains a couple gigabytes of highly personal information, the prospect of handing your phone to a complete stranger can be a scary one. That fear is only doubled if you’re one of the thousands of lonely Tinder users out there looking for love online, because now a stranger has the…
In this trailer for his Netflix animated series Big Mouth, Nick Kroll plays a teenager who is plagued by a literal hormone monster, and if that sounds like a fun metaphor for puberty, then you should probably watch the trailer. Big Mouth looks like anything but fun, as much like puberty itself, it seems to be more…
Nick Kroll wrapped up his Comedy Central series Kroll Show last year, and more recently has been pulling tuna-related pranks along with John Mulaney as part of Oh, Hello. But now he’s finally making his big return to television—or at least streaming television. That’s because Netflix has just given a series order to …
