Probably the best episode of the season until now. The ranking thing and why it is bad, seeing someone as only a part, being bi or pan as boys or girls... A lot of things to consider and this episode really teaches a lesson which is not taught in schools. Also the Frankenstein monster part was amazing. Combining every best part of people and turning it into one people doesn't work just like making the best 11 of the soccer in the world. They won't have chemistry. A part of a person is not good on its own.
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Edvis-199717 December 2020
BigMouth and Ep. 29. Trying to be all-Inclusive, ostracising some in the process.
michellez-8234419 July 2020
Warning: Spoilers
As others have written, this program is NOT for everyone. It's the Coming of Age Tale and Sexual Awakening of tweens/teens, (7th Graders, apparently, 12-13 year olds.), in the 21st Century and all that that entails within modern Western Culture. Whew.
Who this program IS for is kind of a question. Almost no parent who is aware of the program is letting their younger children watch this unsupervised. WAY too much cursing and way too many sexually-related themes and storylines. Few parents have the time and/or patience to watch with their children, pausing every 30 seconds to explain cartoon kids can curse all they like, YOU can't. And asking their kids if the sexual themes reflect their concerns and quietly asking themselves if they are unnecessarily opening up things their kids had previously had no interest in.
Teens have already been there, done that. Is this for young adults who want to reminisce about what a pain puberty and adolescence was? I'm 26, so maybe? I can't see older adults too into this. It's ONLY been 13-14 years since I was 12-13 and I'm thinking no way I was THIS obsessed about sex. Nor was anyone else that I knew in school. Seems overdone. Older adults might be even less inclined to buy this.
Season One was well done although I still feel like the children are drawn with over-sized heads that make me think of toddlers, not young adults or children passing from childhood into adulthood. Season Two seemed to start to lose the easy nonchalance of the first season, becoming a bit too preachy and Season Three seems to have completed that with this notion/impression that there are way more LBGTQs than there actually are. And kinks aplenty!
THE most honest depiction in Big Mouth is of the stereotypically slender, well-dressed gay boy who realises just how alone he is. Otherwise, the song played is that no matter your particular preferences, you're always in good company. Except Andrew. Andrew sucks.
This rather odd notion that kids who ARE different sexually won't feel all alone during these years is brought to a really weird conclusion in this episode in which the new girl, who is OF COURSE so cool and so self-assured, announces that she is pan-sexual and that that is totes different from bi-sexual and just WAY cooler than mere Heteros and homosexuals, referred to insultingly, in my opinion, by said new girl as "Borings." This seems to reflect the failure of many attempts at inclusivity in which a down-trodden group is uplifted at the expense of another group.
You don't get respect for one group by disrespecting another, the same as you won't likely get lots of help to end prejudice against your group if you are prejudiced against another group. Justice for all. Respect for all. (Apologies for the long rant in a review that is ostensibly about one episode.)
Who this program IS for is kind of a question. Almost no parent who is aware of the program is letting their younger children watch this unsupervised. WAY too much cursing and way too many sexually-related themes and storylines. Few parents have the time and/or patience to watch with their children, pausing every 30 seconds to explain cartoon kids can curse all they like, YOU can't. And asking their kids if the sexual themes reflect their concerns and quietly asking themselves if they are unnecessarily opening up things their kids had previously had no interest in.
Teens have already been there, done that. Is this for young adults who want to reminisce about what a pain puberty and adolescence was? I'm 26, so maybe? I can't see older adults too into this. It's ONLY been 13-14 years since I was 12-13 and I'm thinking no way I was THIS obsessed about sex. Nor was anyone else that I knew in school. Seems overdone. Older adults might be even less inclined to buy this.
Season One was well done although I still feel like the children are drawn with over-sized heads that make me think of toddlers, not young adults or children passing from childhood into adulthood. Season Two seemed to start to lose the easy nonchalance of the first season, becoming a bit too preachy and Season Three seems to have completed that with this notion/impression that there are way more LBGTQs than there actually are. And kinks aplenty!
THE most honest depiction in Big Mouth is of the stereotypically slender, well-dressed gay boy who realises just how alone he is. Otherwise, the song played is that no matter your particular preferences, you're always in good company. Except Andrew. Andrew sucks.
This rather odd notion that kids who ARE different sexually won't feel all alone during these years is brought to a really weird conclusion in this episode in which the new girl, who is OF COURSE so cool and so self-assured, announces that she is pan-sexual and that that is totes different from bi-sexual and just WAY cooler than mere Heteros and homosexuals, referred to insultingly, in my opinion, by said new girl as "Borings." This seems to reflect the failure of many attempts at inclusivity in which a down-trodden group is uplifted at the expense of another group.
You don't get respect for one group by disrespecting another, the same as you won't likely get lots of help to end prejudice against your group if you are prejudiced against another group. Justice for all. Respect for all. (Apologies for the long rant in a review that is ostensibly about one episode.)
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