‘Big Mouth’ Was Courageously Filthy ‘Til the End, but About So Much More Than Sex: TV Review

SPOILER ALERT: The following piece contains spoilers for the series finale of “Big Mouth,” now streaming on Netflix.

It may surprise you to learn that “Big Mouth,” the Netflix animated series chronicling a group of teenagers’ physical and emotional maturation, concludes its eight-season run without one of its protagonists having sex. Then again, one of many lessons “Big Mouth” imparted to its viewership — some well past the travails of puberty, some just on their cusp — is that sex is an expansive idea. With Hormone Monsters, the show’s signature metaphor and comic creation, as their Virgils, the characters of “Big Mouth” have explored everything from oral sex to erotica to

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