Human Resources
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A Lot or a Little?
The parents' guide to what's in this TV show.
What Parents Need to Know
Parents need to know that Human Resources is an animated workplace comedy about the monsters from Big Mouth. This series focuses on the workplace lives of the Hormone Monsters, who help kids manage puberty, plus a new crew of creatures including Logic Rocks, Depression Kitties, and Lovebugs. Language includes "d--k," "bitch," "s--t," and frequent use of "f--k." Characters also frankly discuss penises, vaginas, butts, and various bodily experiences like birth and orgasms. Potty humor is frequent. Like its predecessor, this series is very edgy but also takes its content seriously, using comedy to address big issues that both teens and adults may be relieved to see on-screen (even if larger truths are sandwiched between snot rockets and farts).
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What's the Story?
This series focuses on the workplace lives of the Hormone Monsters from Big Mouth (including Maury, played by Jason Mantzoukas, and Maya Rudolph's Connie), who help kids manage puberty, plus a new crew of creatures including Logic Rocks, Depression Kitties, and Lovebugs, who work with adult issues in love and sex. These monsters are weird-looking (one is made of three penises and two hands) and kind of gross (a monster barista blows a "snot rocket" into a satisfied customer's coffee), but their work is even edgier. Staff meetings involve things like debating whether a client will have good sex after she gives birth. Young Lovebug assistant Emmy (Aidy Bryant) has a hard time paying attention to the details; she'd rather do impressions and doodle. So when circumstances find her becoming a senior Lovebug out of the blue, things get intense. Can Emmy handle her first clients? Will Maury manage his midlife crisis after turning 40 million?
Is It Any Good?
Once again, this show's creators don't hold back on raunch, but they're clearly committed to bringing frank (and wildly funny) discussions of sexuality to adults and teens. This commitment is the backbone of Human Resources, and addressing people's fears and insecurities through the use of "monsters" is a fun and successful framework that works as well here as it did in Big Mouth.
Human Resources' new characters are also a delight, including Randall Park as a Logic Monster who gently advises clients to not stand up the second a flight ends, and David Thewlis' bone-dry Shame Monster never fails to get a laugh. Yes, it's relentlessly filthy, but this show has heart (and all the other body parts, too).
Talk to Your Kids About ...
Families can talk about sexuality. When is it appropriate to talk about? When are jokes about it OK? When are they not?
What do you think about shows that are animated but created for teens or adults? Do you think little kids want to watch them? Why, or why not?
If you had to work as a monster, which one would you choose? Why?
TV Details
- Premiere date: March 18, 2022
- Cast: Nick Kroll, Aidy Bryant, Keke Palmer
- Network: Netflix
- Genre: Comedy
- Topics: High School, Middle School
- TV rating: TV-MA
- Last updated: January 7, 2023
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