<em>Big Mouth </em>and the Poisoning of Teenage Boys’ Minds
In its new season, the Netflix animated comedy untangles the influences that can lead young men to embrace sexist ideas.
There’s no shortage of explosive bodily fluids on Big Mouth, the raucous Netflix comedy about a group of teens fumbling their way through puberty. But early in the first episode of the newly released third season, the series presents a more shocking visual than usual. During wood-shop class, Jay (voiced by Jason Mantzoukas) gets distracted by a female classmate’s bare shoulder and accidentally slices off the tip of his friend Andrew’s (John Mulaney) finger with a saw.
Despite all the blood, the incident is merely
