Human Resources (2022–2023)
7/10
All too monster.
10 February 2023
This concept makes a lot of sense to me. I like the franchise and now that the kids have mostly completed their character arcs, the show should go on but now focusing on the most fascinating part: the world building.

I love all the personifications of our emotional needs and this vision of how every person has a teem of spirits to help them navigate the world. The joke is partly that each of these spirits have their own issues to work out if you hadn't noticed.

I wonder if it all mightn't be better if the main focus were the lives of a few humans and the Magic Team was a fun visualization of our neuropsychology but I suppose we already got that with Big Mouth.

A bit hit and miss: they recycle some basic ideas with more than a little smugness, some of which I have reviewed in detail. We have passed the point in which defending new Mothers who don't like their children is subversive, people!

I liked the inclusion of characters glimpsed in BM, like that transexual kid and her family.

Ultimately this show, though not exactly a masterpiece or a sure thing, did have a lot of personality, humor and eventually a lot of pathos.

I would say if you lost interest in Big Mouth before the 5th season then do not bother otherwise, go in with realistic expectations.
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