It always feels a little silly when you work on NDA projects – you can’t really talk too much about what you’re working on, but this show was announced officially months ago so … here’s what I’m working on these days – it’s a new Netflix primetime animated sitcom from the creators of Big Mouth called Mating Season! This show is about animals telling their stories about friendship, love, relationships and sex.
We got to work with lots of our friends from Big Mouth – producing the show with Brutus Pink out of Titmouse again and it’s been a fantastic production so far. I’ll post more about the show later as more details get released – but for now, that’s what we have been working on!
Here’s the press release from Variety on the announcement:
The writing team for Big Mouth conducts table reads to evaluate scripts with a live audience. For season 8’s final episode, Netflix hosted a celebratory event with cast and crew, marking a shift from remote reads due to COVID-19. The event captured the chemistry of the cast, resulting in a memorable behind-the-scenes video release.
One of the things we do as part of our writing production on Big Mouth is table reads – a process where we all get together and the talent and writers to do a real time read through of the script. Many primetime adult comedy animated sitcoms do this exercise – one that is labor intensive and expensive, but typically worth it. This is a good way to pressure test the script and see what’s working and what isn’t with a live audience.
For Big Mouth season 8, to celebrate the final episode table read, Netflix put together a big internal event at the Netflix animation studio with a large audience where we invited many more people than a normal table – family, friends and lots of people who had worked on the show over the years. Even though this was back in 2024, the majority of our table reads from 2020-2024 had actually been remote / zoom tables since Covid. Something we initially thought would be temporary, ended up being over 50 zoom tables! Ending this show with a giant table read was a fantastic celebration for the cast, crew and Netflix.
In many table reads, it’s difficult to gather all the cast (or even the majority of them) for any given episode – everyone is off working other projects, busy shooting and you are doing these table reads usually twice a month. When that happens, you have other talent or (more often) writers fill in the roles for any missing talent. This being a big event, we managed to secure most of the talent for the episode and it’s amazing to see all those actors in one place!
Some of what you get to see with a live table read is the cast interacting with each other, messing around and enjoying the script. I think everyone there knew how special this moment was – there was a kind of magic in the air. It’s fun to watch this and see the actors riffing off each other and doing improv – we try to capture as much of that chemistry as possible in the record and hopefully it comes through in the final product.
I remember seeing them having cameras set up and filming the table read, but we weren’t sure what was ever going to be done with the footage. Here we are over a year later and they released a video of the table read to the public as part of the promotion for the final season.
It’s a cool behind the scenes look at what was a very special event and something that most people would never get a chance to see, so I’m glad it’s out in the wild for everyone to watch.
If you do end up watching the table read, you’ll get to see a peak behind the curtain at the beginning as Mark Levin (one of the creators of the show) does an intro to the table and talks about the history of the show along with some funny stories about executive notes and cut scenes that couldn’t make it into the series.
Also a nice article from Variety here about the last table read.
Here we are – at the end of a very gross era, Big Mouth season 8 (our final season) has dropped on Netflix this week! Go watch a few episodes (or all of em) and enjoy all the nonsense we have been tinkering on for the last 2 years.
Unlike most other primetime series, our characters actually age and change, and this season our characters got a little bit older and finally get to high school. I won’t spoil any surprises here, so you’ll have to see for yourself what changes happen this season with Andrew and Nick (and Missy) going to different schools.
This was also one of the most challenging seasons in some ways – we started this one way back in March 2023 and then almost immediately got put on hold because of the strikes. Our production luckily still had work finishing post on season 7 while the strikes were going on (and I ended up producing a pilot for Netflix around that time too since things were slow).
But fast forward to May 2025, and we have a season 8 drop on Netflix! I am very proud of this season and grateful for the fantastic team that put in so much dedicated work to bring it to life. It’s a beautifully animated close to the longest running series on Netflix and a show that means so much to a lot of fans out there.
And if you aren’t totally caught up on prior seasons of Big Mouth, you can still jump right in and be fine. Even though it’s somewhat serialized, you can pop in anywhere and enjoy the ride. Thank you to Netflix, the EPs, Titmouse, to the crew, and to our amazing fans for an incredible NINE year run with eight amazing seasons!
Today is the day! Human Resources season 2 is out in the wild – all 10 episodes are available on Netflix for you to watch!
It’s hard to believe we made this series all remotely, over Zoom / Evercast / chat / email / etc. I am very proud of what is an incredibly beautiful and touching season. The crew really went all out and built some amazing episodes here, so I hope you get to see some of it.
While we are here, I just want to say how grateful I am for the entire crew that made this show. EPs, directors, writers, boards, editors, production, designers, assistants, timers, compositors, checkers, animators, sound engineers, mixers, colorists, and probably some others I didn’t remember to list here. Fantastic, best in the biz team here. Much appreciation to all of them and the time we spent together making this killer show.
Sadly it’s also the end of the series, but lots of these characters will go on to be a part of the Big Mouth cast and we will get to see them again soon.
Go check it out! Out today on Netflix! Happy HR2 Day!
Now that Big Mouth 6 has been out for a few weeks, I wanted to post and send out some thank you’s to the fantastic crew that built yet another amazing season.
This is actually the first Big Mouth season that we made 100% remotely (not in person / in the studio at all). Hard to believe you can make an animated series fully remote with everyone in different places. It’s a weird thing to hire people and work with them for a year and never even meet in person! We started this one back in January 2021, everyone still in their homes…
I remember Big Mouth 6 was a nice “break” for the crew. After us figuring out and producing the Human Resources season 1 episodes (which tended to be all big, filled with lots of new characters and locations) the crew was beatup and tired! Not only was it the work of figuring out a new show but it was also a much more complex series. When they came back to Big Mouth S6 – they already knew all these characters and what to do with them. It was returning to an old friend. No one ever thought Big Mouth was easy but it definitely felt a little easier compared to Human Resources when we got back into it.
Ok on to some appreciation for the many people who make this …
Big Gratitoad to all of the EPs – Mark, Jen, Andrew & Nick, writers team and Titmouse crew who put this together. Thank you Lioi, Rico & Andy, Henri, Bryan, Alex, Ross, Ybarra, Kelly, Pablo, Glenn (and stacks of other people who I won’t drag out a list a names here with). Shout out to our incredible design teams, board teams, dial editing, compositing, animatics, editorial, checking, timing, and production teams. These people make this show look good!
Thank you to all our partners at the studios in Korea, Konrad and the whole sound team at Margarita, our friends at Light Iron, our track team at Syncmagic, and all our record studios.
Appreciation for Chris, Shannon, Antonio and Ben for creating and running one of the best studios in the business where we can make this wild show. Lastly, thank you to all our partners and friends at Netflix – Moon, Porter, and the entire creative team, Mike K, Talar, Amy and the production team, David, Lauren and the post team, localization / globalization, marketing, and the army of everyone else at Netflix who helps put this thing out in the universe!
Thank you, thank you, thank you – everyone who works on this show – you make one of the best shows out there and we appreciate you all and the work you do to bring this thing to the fans year after year.
Hi animation friends – trying a new thing this week where I collect some animation news stories from around the trades over the last week and plug it into this easy to quickie read format. Enjoy!
Finally, we can talk about this…Here is a look at our new show we have been working on for almost two years – the Big Mouth spinoff, Human Resources! This teaser does a good job explaining a little bit of the nonsense that is the Human Resources series.
If you ever watched Big Mouth wishing you got to see more of the monsters, then this will be right up your alley.
The cast on this show is unbelievable! Randall Park is Pete the Logic Rock (the Easter Island looking guy) and one of my favorite new characters.
Check out the trailer – this has been a labor of love for all of us – entirely produced remotely (from our collective homes) during the pandemic.
Human Resources season 1 – Coming to a Netflix near you March 18!
The wait is over (mostly) – It’s launching December 4!
Netflix finally announced it today, along with dropping the season 4 trailer. I watched the trailer again this morning and sometimes I forget how much crazy stuff we packed into one season.
The cast for s4 is just as crazy – Maria Bamford, Zach Galifianakis, Seth Rogen, Sterling K Brown, Lena Waithe, John Oliver, Paul Giamatti (FYI you will be surprised which character he is in the show), and a bunch of other people that they probably haven’t announced yet.
We started this season back in January 2019, so we are excited for everyone to get to see it. Check out the trailer below!
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