Netflix has finally announced the premiere date for Big Mouth‘s final season. The beloved animated comedy’s eighth season will include a star-studded lineup of guest stars, including Wicked‘s Cynthia Erivo.
New episodes of Netflix’s edgy animated comedy Big Mouth will premiere globally on Netflix on May 23. The final season of the show will see the story drawing to a close as the beloved Bridgeton teens taking on new challenges as high schoolers, including driving, drugs, sexual inexperience, “enthusiastic consent,” porn and the teenage mind, cancel culture, their changing bodies and a fear of the looming future.
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“Through it all, friendship is the cornerstone for surviving this time of life,” Netflix’s synopsis for Season 8 reads. “Whether one’s puberty is just beginning, like for Nick (voiced by Nick Kroll) who gets his first growth spurt, or near its conclusion, like for a maturing (and prematurely balding) Andrew (John Mulaney).”
When the final season of Big Mouth reaches its climax, the characters will find themselves meeting a new creature named Compassion (voiced by Holly Hunter). The long list of guest stars in the new episodes includes: Cynthia Erivo, Holly Hunter, Steve Buscemi, Kristen Wiig, Quinta Brunson, Nathan Fillion, Ali Wong, Richard Kind, Maria Bamford, Keke Palmer, David Thewlis, Thandiwe Newton, Natasha Lyonne, Aidy Bryant, Rosie Perez, Lena Waithe, Billy Porter, Stephanie Beatriz, Whitmer Thomas, Chelsea Peretti, Chloe Fineman, June Diane Raphael, Zach Woods, Craig Robinson, and Jack McBrayer.
Season 8 of Big Mouth will consist of ten episodes, each thirty minutes long. The series regulars return for their roles, including Kroll, Mulaney, Jessi Klein, Jason Mantzoukas, Ayo Edebiri, Maya Rudolph, Fred Armisen, Andrew Rannells and Jordan Peele.
Big Mouth Explores the Challenges of Puberty
Since its debut in 2017, Big Mouth hasn’t been afraid to take big swings with its story, which follows a group of teenagers navigating puberty and all the struggles that come with it. The Netflix original animated show‘s openness about the human body and sex earned it critical acclaim, with its foul-mouthed humor and simple animation style providing the perfect level of nostalgia for the show’s intended adult audience.
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One of the highlights of Big Mouth is the appearance of the over-sexualized “hormone monsters”, including Connie (Maya Rudolph) and Maury (Kroll). Acting as a physical manifestation of the teen’s raging hormones, the monsters provide their own unique comedic guidance to the kids as they face their problems. The success of Big Mouth and the warm reception of the Hormone Monsters led to a spin-off series, Human Resources, which was a workplace comedy-type sitcom that centered around different hormone monsters doing their daily jobs. The show ran for two seasons and twenty episodes.
The final season of Big Mouth premieres May 23 exclusively on Netflix.
Source: Netflix
