The raunchy comedy features plenty of interspecies action
Netflix’s raunchy animated comedy Big Mouth ended its eight-season run in May 2025, but the show’s creators have reunited to produce Mating Season, which premieres on May 22. The first trailer shows that they aren’t straying far from their previously successful formula, replacing a group of very horny middle-school buddies with a group of very horny anthropomorphic forest animals.
The trailer released on April 16 – which Netflix says is “National Horny Day” –shows the same mix of gross out and meta humor as Big Mouth. It opens with a nature documentary-style narrative about how bachelor bear Josh (Zach Woods of Silicon Valley) needs to find a mate, or his bloodline could die out.
Perpetuating the species doesn’t actually seem to be a big priority for most of the animals, given the trailer shows a duck excited about banging a bunny, a fox and a hound taking a tumble, a fawn with a wolf partner, and the raccoon Ray (Nick Kroll) getting way too excited about being sprayed by a skunk. Presumably, this is a world like BoJack Horseman where all the kids really take after one parent, rather than interspecies romance leading to a lot of chimeras.
Big Mouth was about how adolescence is hell, but you can get through it with help from your friends. Mating Season seems to be presenting the same message, but for dating. The trailer offers some jokes about dating apps juxtaposed with Kroll talking about how scary it is to be alone. Many Big Mouth viewers grew up with the characters, with the show providing relevant lessons on sex education and mental health. Mating Season will test if Kroll, Mark Levin, Jennifer Flackett, and Andrew Goldberg can retain that audience by guiding them through their next life phase with plenty of absurd humor. If nothing else, the concept will join Beastars in making Netflix the home for furry animation enthusiasts.
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