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How is it that a series so disturbed and repulsive as "Big Mouth" knows how to feel like this?

The fourth season of "Big Mouth" breaks new records of embarrassment and disgust, but these are some of the abysses they must cross in order to grow, and the rewards are exciting and delightful.

Plus, after watching this season it's clear why the whitewash of Missy's black character retired, which proves how smart this series is.

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Friday, 04 December 2020, 00:00

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Promo "Big Mouth" Season 4 (Netflix)

Over the past nine months, television works full of consolation have occasionally emerged, ones that have fallen on deaf ears to the need of humanity tucked away in its compulsive home.

The perfect corona episode of "Legendary Journey" was engineered just for that purpose.

"Ted Lasso" was created even before the plague but made a necessary massage to the soul, not because of an indirect or implicit reference to what we are going through, but because it presented a human and kind-hearted connection at a stage we so desperately needed.

The fourth and new season of "Big Mouth", which airs today (Friday) on Netflix, is perhaps the biggest representative of the comfort genre in 2020, although it was also written long before the plague: as early as last October, in parallel with the release of the third season, Andrew announced Goldberg, one of its producers, because the fourth season has already been written and recorded.

Despite this, with a kind of cosmic precision, the new episodes simulate the deep pit and the high mountain.

During them a "big mouth" takes us hand in hand to some dark places, but then also pulls us back into the light, more strengthened and maybe even with a tool or two that will help cope.

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A huge soul beats under the jeep.

"Big Mouth" Season 4 (Photo: Netflix)

Ages have passed since the third season aired in 2019, so most viewers will probably not remember at all that it ended in a big fight between the two protagonists of the series, Nick (Nick Carroll) and Andrew (John Maloney).

This was because of a kiss between Nick and Missy (Jenny Slate), Andrew's ex-lover.

The two starred together in a play based on the movie "Exposure" - originally starring Demi Moore and Michael Douglas - and when they rehearsed together on their lines in a kiss scene, they sailed it while Andrew the stage star watched them from the side without them knowing.

A big argument broke out between the good friends, and Andrew chose not to go to summer camp this time, leaving Nick alone on the bus.

Meanwhile, Jesse's mother (Jesse Klein) decided to move with her from the suburbs to the big city after the divorce, disconnecting her from all her friends.

All of this, by the way, gets a wonderful musical summary that opens the season.

These are starting points that undermine the protagonists, and "Big Mouth" exhausts them well as it gets more sophisticated than ever.

We know she's great at examining her characters from the inside out, with all the accompanying bodily secretions.

Coach Steve, for example, who has already exhausted himself and his role has already dwindled last season, appears even less this time around, and when he is already there it is in favor of a full-hearted plot.

The two extreme markers in the group of children, Lola among the girls and Jay among the boys, connect with each other in a kind of "oh, of course."

This time, unlike other animated series, the children grow up and go up to eighth grade, allowing her to explore new aspects of their adolescence (and also to drop by the way about Bart Simpson).

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The balances in the children's lives went wrong.

"Big Mouth" Season 4 (Photo: Netflix)

"Big Mouth" also gives extra emphasis to the meta-exam, and it also teaches the protagonists important lessons: Nick and Andrew discover that a pair of students they like (played by the wives of the "PEN15" series, Maya Arskin and Anna Konkel) have their own desires and even a program of their own. Themselves.

Meanwhile, the series adds a new creature to its extensive gallery: the mosquito of anxiety (voiced by comedian Maria Bumford).

At the summer camp, for which the first episodes of the season are dedicated, it is clear how much the balances in the children's lives have gone wrong, and in retrospect it also turns out that the events during the summer vacation are a microcosm for the rest of the season.

This includes, you should know, also new records of embarrassment and disgust.

"Big Mouth" never shyed away from being repulsive as far as her wild imagination could allow her, and thank God, it allowed.

This time she raises the shit index to 11, which is disgusting as requested, but as usual also insanely funny.

In addition, the children experience an abundance of public cringe moments - Nick in the camp and Jesse both there and in her new school, populated by rich and successful girls.

But these are some of the abysses they have to cross in order to grow, and the rewards are exciting and delightful.

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The real star.

John Maloney behind the scenes of "Big Mouth" (Photo: Brandon Hickman)

As always, the dubbing craft in the series is phenomenal.

The new season hosts or joins Seth Rogen, John Oliver, Lina White, Sterling K. Brown, Paul Giamatti, Zack Gallipnakis and, as mentioned, Bumford, Erskin and Conkel.

But with all due respect to all of these, the regular cast is truly amazing.

Maya Rudolph but it rightly won Emmy for her roles here, most notably Connie the Hormone Monster.

Nick Carroll, who is also of course one of the creators of the series and plays his character, is also responsible for Morris the hormone monster, Lola, coach Steve and many others.

And so does Fred Armisen, Jason Mentzox, Jordan Phil, Jesse Klein - and above all shines John Malaney, who plays Andrew.

The casual and measured manner in which he delivers some of the most scandalous lines of the series, is time and time again responsible for some of the funniest moments of “Big Mouth” since its inception to date.

Speaking of dubbing, and as befits a puberty series, "Big Mouth" proves that she herself knows how to grow up.

In August of this year, Jenny Slate announced that she was retiring from dubbing Missy, because black actresses should be dubbing black characters.

Slate still appears in most episodes of the season except for the last one, so she is replaced by Io Adviri, who also writes for the series (or rather, Missy's voice changes at the end of the previous episode).

The beauty is that the chapters leading up to it explain the change, and it is easy to see in retrospect the mental account that led to it: Throughout the season Missy becomes her racial identity.

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Examines its culture.

"Big Mouth" Season 4 (Photo: Netflix)

An encounter with her cousins ​​on her father's side, the black side of the family, causes her to first examine her culture and herself in relation to her.

"I just have a hard time with my racial identity right now," she says afterwards.

"My mom is white, my dad is black, my voice is a 37-year-old white actress - it's just way too much."

Later in the season she pampers Devon, the only black in the class apart, who teaches her a little more about what it means to be black - it's a touching journey made even more so given the behind-the-scenes change.

She’s not the only one going through a process of self-determination from the ground up: Matthew (Andrew Runles) is considering coming out of the closet in front of his religious parents and bringing in some of the most obvious, as well as exciting, moments of the season.

This is what is always so beautiful in this series.

Extreme as it may be, hysterical as it may be, the tremendous pulsating soul is always evident beneath the layer of the jeep.

Her containing emotional intelligence and basic kindness - all of these make "big mouth" what she is.

These are the things that are responsible for the success that led Netflix to pre-order seasons four, five and six, as well as its fast-paced and condensed humor, which also makes reruning views rewarding.

I just did not want the season to end, and when it ended I wanted to again (so that's what I did).

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37-year-old white actress Jenny Slate (Photo: Rich Fury, GettyImages)

And something that was true of her and part of her charm from the very first moment: there is something eternal in her.

Even if everything around changes, even if the universe examines us, adolescence remains as it was, with the same lewdness, anxieties, loves and insights.

In a volatile and worrying year like 2020, "Big Mouth" is a perfect answer.

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