Big Mouth could have been a very bad show. The premise—a group of thirteen-year-old Long Island kids are ravaged by puberty—seemed like an easy excuse for bathoom humor, dick jokes, and loads of hot jizz. This is not untrue. Plotwise, the first episode turns on freshly pubescent Andrew’s desperate need to jerk off and late-blooming Nick’s shame at havin…
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