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Big Mouth Season 5 Review

The fifth season of Big Mouth is another strong showing for this hilarious series with a lot of great character arcs and terrific humor on display.

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“We’re not gay, your majesty.

We’re just British.

What’s the difference!?“

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Because this season is surprisingly quite serialized, I will structure this review differently this time around. I will touch upon some episodes later down the line, but first I will analyze the season character by character. First off, Nick and Missy. These two go together as they both get infected by the hate worm and become genuine teenage hater stereotypes. This was very important that the show acknowledge the anxiety and anger issues that many teenagers face instead of just focusing on the sexual aspects of this tumultuous life period.

It was weird seeing Missy like this, but ultimately her friendship with Jessi was saved and she went back to being a nice girl. Nick, on the other hand, continues to be the show’s biggest asshole and the series acknowledging that by bringing the voice actor and the show’s creator in live-action form in the finale was an ingenious idea that really worked.

Jessi is the one to blame as well as she is the one that is somewhat responsible for both of these kids’ anger issues and the show dealt well with her arc too. Her tumultuous friendship with her new best friend was also well explored and the show’s decision to depict friendship as some type of love was clever and quite truthful.

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Coach Steve was sidelined in this season for the better while the hormone monsters were fantastic. Maury is so hilarious throughout this season that he genuinely stole the show from everybody else with a plethora of quick quips and fun sex jokes. Rick also was very funny in his dumb behavior while Connie was particularly amusing this time around. These three really killed it here.

The hate worms were well realized and it was interesting seeing the deepening of the show’s mythology once again. Andrew did not get the best storylines this season, but he was as funny as he usually is. His relationship with his father was well explored.

As for Jay, he continues to be one of the highlights of this entire show. The magic subplot was only okay, but his eventual relationship with Matthew was very memorable and the fact that he chose him over Lola was quite unexpected. Lola herself is once again the funniest female character with her monologues being scene-stealers.

The middle stretch of this season was the weakest part as the serialization hurt these episodes. I personally wanted more standalone adventures with the crew, but thankfully the emotional engagement was stronger due to serialization, so it was worth it at the end of the day.

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The finale was explosive. A lot of crucial plot points happened in this last episode and all of the arcs were well concluded. Another highlight is the episode A Very Big Mouth Christmas. This was done in the vein of ‘South Park’ as it was so gruesome, perverse and ridiculous that it really worked. I did find the jokes centering just on Christianity and not on Islam once again hypocritical, but at least the episode was hilarious and the diverse animation styles really made it pop.