A bear wakes up and urinates uncontrollably, witnesses explicit animal mating, and spirals into shame. The show follows the same outrageous, witty comedic DNA as Big Mouth, making early content a clear indicator of whether it fits viewers’ tastes. Big Mouth polarized audiences with relentless sex, farts, and swearing, but it also captured adolescent boys’ mix of confidence and extreme awkwardness. Mating Season keeps the focus on sexual awakening, but frames it as survival-driven animal behavior. Characters are animals, and sex functions as a biological necessity rather than recreation, with a plot centered on a bear learning mating season has arrived and his girlfriend has left for an alpha.
"In the first minute of Netflix's animated comedy Mating Season, a bear wakes up, urinates uncontrollably across his cave, stumbles outside, sees two horny raccoons banging away, then spirals into a deep well of shame about it. At this stage, it is barely worth pointing out that Mating Season is the spiritual successor to the outrageous, witty comedy Big Mouth, so completely does it inhabit that show's DNA. And at this point, you will already know if the show is for you or not."
"Big Mouth, as popular as it was, polarised audiences like little else. That show was about the horrors of puberty and sexual awakening, and it was tailored with absolute precision to its target audience of hormone-battered adolescent boys. You could argue that it did this a little too precisely, because its juvenilia was so relentlessly nuclear-powered that plenty of people found themselves turned off by all the sex and farts and swearing. Quite honestly, it was their loss."
"Once you managed to peel back all the layers of overt offensiveness, Big Mouth might just have qualified as one of the sweetest shows on television. Adolescent boys are a confusing mix of full confidence and extreme awkwardness, and Big Mouth captured both in equal measure. If you're a certain type of male of a certain type of age, it was a given that you'd see yourself in one of the characters."
"That's a little harder to achieve with Mating Season, though, because here all the characters are animals, and sex isn't so much recreational as key to survival. Josh, the aforementioned urinating bear (voiced by Zach Woods), has realised that it is literally mating season. After hibernating for too long, he is dismayed to learn that his girlfriend has run off with a hulking great alpha bear. As such, he ends up forlornly unable to choose "
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