Netflix Debuts 10-Episode Animated Comedy Mating Season From Big Mouth Creators

6 articles · Updated · The Guardian · May 27

Mating Season has launched on Netflix as a 10-episode animated comedy centered on Josh, a dumped bear navigating mating season after waking from hibernation to find his girlfriend gone.
Nick Kroll and the Big Mouth team carry over that show's explicit, gross-out style, using animal courtship, hookups and sexual panic as the engine for jokes and character drama.
The review says the biologically accurate animal behavior creates more distance than Big Mouth did, with episodes leaning on details like canine copulatory ties and hippos spraying feces.
That tension also defines the show's appeal: beneath the shock gags and Disney-style animal imagery turned sexual, it is framed as a breakup comedy with more heart than its premise suggests.
Netflix is effectively positioning the series as a spiritual successor to Big Mouth, though its longer-term promise may depend on whether it matures beyond novelty in later seasons.

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