I stopped season 3 somewhere in the middle, because I was totally disappointed. It felt as if Big Mouth completely jumped the shark and left the premise, balance and special comedic touch that made it so great during its first two seasons.
But I gave it a second chance. And I gotta say, there was a point in this episode where I was about to quit for good. It wasn't the idea of Disclosure as a musical as a somewhat far-fetched idea for an episode - it's still Big Mouth.
It was the point where I feared this series somehow was going to create "comedy" from sexual abuse between an adult teacher and a student, no matter how relatively "light" the sexual part was (I hate to use the word light here, hopefully you'll just assume I consider any sexual conduct between adults and children wrong, like any sane person should). Fortunately, the writers were well aware of their boundaries as it turned out.
But the best things in this episodes were probably Missy's development and the resulting development in the overarching line between Nick and Andrew. I hope this series will continue to go back to its roots. Big Mouth is about grossness in a lot of ways, but it should be about meaningful grossness, not about vulgar trips to Florida.
But I gave it a second chance. And I gotta say, there was a point in this episode where I was about to quit for good. It wasn't the idea of Disclosure as a musical as a somewhat far-fetched idea for an episode - it's still Big Mouth.
It was the point where I feared this series somehow was going to create "comedy" from sexual abuse between an adult teacher and a student, no matter how relatively "light" the sexual part was (I hate to use the word light here, hopefully you'll just assume I consider any sexual conduct between adults and children wrong, like any sane person should). Fortunately, the writers were well aware of their boundaries as it turned out.
But the best things in this episodes were probably Missy's development and the resulting development in the overarching line between Nick and Andrew. I hope this series will continue to go back to its roots. Big Mouth is about grossness in a lot of ways, but it should be about meaningful grossness, not about vulgar trips to Florida.
