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Behind The Scenes

Behind The Scenes | Animation | Big Mouth

Behind The Scenes

Netflix

After Shows, Tv Reviews, Society & Culture, Tv & Film

4.81.2K Ratings

🗓️ 7 December 2020

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

We’re kicking off this season of Behind the Scenes with Nick Kroll, Mitra Jouhari and Brandon Kyle Goodman, some of the masterminds behind the animated series Big Mouth, a show that captures growing pains like no other. We’ll talk to them about code-switching, camp showers, on-screen moments from their real lives, the gross-out stuff that makes us cringe, and so much more. It’s a peek behind the scenes of a show with big laughs and big feelings that will make you glad you aren’t in middle school anymore.

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0:00.0

On the first three seasons of the behind-the-scenes podcast, we focused on a single-hit

0:05.9

television series.

0:06.9

We've taken you to the upside down of Stranger Things, to the continent of The

0:11.2

Witcher, and to 1960s Dallas with the Umbrella Academy.

0:15.0

But if you've been on Netflix recently, you'll probably notice that these days

0:19.5

there are just as many incredible animated shows as live action. So on this season of

0:24.8

behind the scenes we're not focusing on just one show. We're getting a sneak

0:29.2

peek from five different hit animated series that take us from the middle school cafeteria to the

0:34.5

medieval realm of dreamland to the far-of planet of etheria. Each episode

0:39.5

will talk with showrunners, voice actors, and animators

0:43.3

about adapting franchises from the 1980s to present day,

0:46.9

how comedy changes from live action to the sound booth,

0:50.0

and all the steps it takes to bring cartoons to life.

0:53.4

We'll look at how Shera and the princesses of power became a diverse ensemble focusing on community.

0:58.2

Best Friend Squad!

1:00.4

How Voltron Legendary Defenders got girls involved in its cartoon world.

1:04.4

I can't man up.

1:06.4

How Castlevania turned a video game into a dark and gritty anime.

1:10.0

Oh God, Dracula!

1:12.0

And how the comedic cast of disenchantment draws from their real life dynamic

1:16.0

to voice a group of memorable friends.

1:18.0

You know it's a great night where we're still up to see the plague control.

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