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Opening theme | "Make Me Feel" by Janelle Monáe |
Composer | Mark Rivers |
Country of origin | United States |
Original language | English |
No. of seasons | 2 |
No. of episodes | 20 |
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Editor | Felipe Salazar |
Running time | 25–28 minutes |
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Network | Netflix |
Release | March 18, 2022 – June 9, 2023 |
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Big Mouth |
Human Resources is an American adult animated sitcom that served as a spin-off and subseries to Big Mouth , centering around the workplace of the Hormone Monsters depicted in the series. Created by Kelly Galuska, Nick Kroll, Andrew Goldberg, Mark Levin, and Jennifer Flackett for Netflix, the spin-off series was announced in October 2019. [1] It premiered on March 18, 2022, and stars Aidy Bryant, Randall Park, and Keke Palmer. [2] The series has received positive reviews, and was renewed for a second and final season in April 2022. [3] [4] The final season was released on June 9, 2023. [5]
A workplace comedy set in the world of the monsters from Big Mouth, in which the monsters are assigned to a group of human adults as their representation of feelings.
No. overall | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original release date | |
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1 | 1 | "Birth" | Henrique Jardim | Kelly Galuska & Nick Kroll & Andrew Goldberg & Mark Levin & Jennifer Flackett | March 18, 2022 | |
When Sonya gets fired, an amateur Lovebug named Emmy tries to take over her client, a stressed-out pregnant lady named Becca. It's Maury's birthday, but he does not feel like celebrating. Joe and Gil get stuck on the elevator and soon end up in a division floor full of monsters of enlightenment. | ||||||
2 | 2 | "Training Day" | Bryan Francis | Victor Quinaz | March 18, 2022 | |
When the Hormone Monsters' chronic fornicating begins disrupting work, they are forced to take Sensitivity Training, but Mona is quite incorrigible about her horny instincts. In hopes to encourage Emmy, Walter takes her to meet with a client of his, an aging Mid-Eastern woman named Yara. Pete the Logic Rock is annoyed when Rochelle begins encouraging a client they share together named Doug to be superfluous with finances. | ||||||
3 | 3 | "Bad Mummies" | Alex Salyer | L.E. Correia | March 18, 2022 | |
The Shame Wizard, real name Lionel, is desperate for his mother Rita to approve of him, but soon discovers a shocking secret about her regarding the Depression Kitty. Emmy tries to get Becca to love her child. Connie offers to look after Maury's dicks, but she ends up getting in over her head. | ||||||
4 | 4 | "Rutgers is for Lovers" | Henrique Jardim | Mitra Jouhari | March 18, 2022 | |
Rochelle and Petra the Ambition Gremlin end up clashing on what college their client Nadja (the sister of Natalie from Big Mouth) should go to based on how it will effect her relationship with her girlfriend Danielle, leading to tensions at the high-school prom. Pete discovers that Emmy and Rochelle have been calling him a awkward nickname behind his back for 5 decades and is quite ticked off. Maury and Connie attempt to spice up their sex-life. | ||||||
5 | 5 | "Love in the Time of Postpartum" | Bryan Francis | Monique Moses | March 18, 2022 | |
Becca and her husband Barry's marriage begins to hit a rough patch when Becca goes back to work, which leads to both of their monster teams to see if they should divorce. When Maury and Connie find out that Sonya has been drowning her sorrows at a bar, they try to set her up with Rick, leading to strange results. | ||||||
6 | 6 | "The Addiction Angel" | Alex Salyer | Max Silvestri | March 18, 2022 | |
Dante the Addiction Angel causes a problem when he becomes Doug's new creature and puts him on a strict exercise program for the sake of fitting into his wedding suit. Joe and Gil steal Andrew from Maury to avoid losing their jobs, but they find that Andrew's non-stop masturbating is too much for them. Lionel tries to help Emmy kick her obsession with Dante when he dumps her. | ||||||
7 | 7 | "International Creature Convention" | Henrique Jardim | Mitra Jouhari & Caleb Hearon | March 18, 2022 | |
The monsters go to a convention in North Korea where Emmy gets angry at Rochelle for being with Dante, Maury and Connie take their relationship to the next level and Lionel is roped into an aggressive threesome with a Shame Wizard couple. | ||||||
8 | 8 | "The Light" | Bryan Francis | Brandon Kyle Goodman | March 18, 2022 | |
Sonya tells Emmy why she got fired; she hooked up with Becca's doula Claudia who ended up seeing her glow. Maury and Gavin become competitors in a cockfight. | ||||||
9 | 9 | "It's Almost Over" | Alex Salyer | Victor Quinaz | March 18, 2022 | |
When Yara begins to die, Walter and Pete find themselves visited by a walking sweater named Keith from Grief who tries to help them and Yara's family cope, but they are anything but thrilled to have him. Emmy and Rochelle have a spat at the office regarding what happened at the convention earlier in the season. | ||||||
10 | 10 | "Shitstorm" | Henrique Jardim | L.E. Correia | March 18, 2022 | |
A huge storm causes a blackout at Human Resources causing the monster to be unable to open portals to Earth and Gavin, Pete, Lionel, Petra, Walter, and Dante go to solve the problem. Becca, Doug and their spouses meet during the storm and tensions rise on account of Emmy and Rochelle. Maury gets pregnant but Connie is incredibly apprehensive about parenthood but things may change when Connie tries to save Maury when he gets trapped in the bathroom. Joe and Gil try to eat all of the food in the fridge during the blackout. |
No. overall | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original release date | |
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11 | 1 | "The Jizz Mitzvah" | Alex Salyer | Kelly Galuska | June 9, 2023 | |
On eve of Montel's Jizz Mitzvah (a ceremony where a Hormone Monster masturbates in public), Maury and Connie are befuddled when Montel decides they want to be a Shame Wizard. Emmy gains a new client who is rather adverse to the idea of romance, mostly due to the influence of her romance-hating Logic Rock, Van. Pete is forced to confess that he severed one of Dante the Addiction Angel's 3 penis' in last season's finale, which puts Rochelle in awkward position when Dante requests that she stop being friends with Pete. | ||||||
12 | 2 | "The Tell-Tale Dick" | Henrique Jardim | Victor Quinaz | June 9, 2023 | |
Pete is being harassed by Dante's severed dick. Lionel gets scared when Gavin's brother, Guyvin, visits and asks him about the details of Gavin's demise last season. Rochelle and Petra visit Rochelle's client Alice, a woman with spinal muscular atrophy, alongside an incarnation of Hope, but a misunderstanding involving a potential date has Rochelle be resentful of Hope. | ||||||
13 | 3 | "Total RePaul" | Bryan L Francis | Max Silvestri | June 9, 2023 | |
Walter tries to help an elderly client of his named Paul move past his deceased wife Evelyn by taking him on a vacation, but Paul soon feels as though Walter doesn't know him on a personal level. Pete gets advice from Maury on how to get Dante's penis to leave him alone after failing to kill it multiple times. Gil and Joe agree to get rid of a bunch of lobsters in Emmy's apartment in exchange for a special bagel she is saving, but the task proves to be harder than they expected. | ||||||
14 | 4 | "A League of Their Hormone" | Alex Salyer | L.E. Correia | June 9, 2023 | |
A softball match between the Horomone Monsters and the Shame Wizards leads to Montel, who joined the Shame Wizard team, to be a star player, much to Connie's consternation as she prides herself on being the best softball player there ever was. Emmy's attempts to encourage Sarah to start a relationship with a guy end up turning sour when Sarah's mother is brought up. A Hate Worm-turned Rochelle ends up venting her hatefulness by having intercourse with Pete, who becomes conflicted about the whole ordeal. | ||||||
15 | 5 | "Rochelle, Rochelle" | Henrique Jardim | Anna Salinas | June 9, 2023 | |
We are shown two timelines of what might happen when Rochelle decides to embrace her Hate Worm identity and what might happen if she decided to be a Love Bug again. | ||||||
16 | 6 | "Paul Me By Your Name" | Bryan L Francis | Shantira Jackson | June 9, 2023 | |
Walter's Horomone Monster boyfriend, Simon Sex, moves in with him, but Simon's gross habits end up getting on Walter's nerves. Paul decides to date again to take his mind off his late wife. Emmy's drive to find out why Sarah's mother is a touchy subject for her leads her to take a look into the Memory Bank, a section of the monster world where the human memories lie, but she gets more than what she bargained for. | ||||||
17 | 7 | "Tony: The Life of an Office Cold" | Alex Salyer | Caleb Hearon & Jordan Mendoza | June 9, 2023 | |
A germ named Tony ends up spreading a cold across the office and this leads to almost everyone present getting sick. | ||||||
18 | 8 | "Pity Party" | Henrique Jardim | L.E. Correia | June 9, 2023 | |
Mona and Lionel throw competing parties against each other and things soon escalate with Maury and Connie in a compromising position with him. Petra is called in to help a non-verbal four-year-old speak up to his lesbian mothers, but when Alice gets involved, things spiral out-of-control. | ||||||
19 | 9 | "On the Daughterfront" | Bryan L Francis | Max Silvestri & Walter Kelly | June 9, 2023 | |
Emmy resorts to desperate measures to make sure Sarah feels love when her father, previously revealed to be Paul, asks her to get her stuff out of her old bedroom, which leads to a pool of bittersweet memories that has Sarah, and by extension Van, to rethink their stance on love. Montel has to choose between a Horomone Monster college and a Shame Wizard college. | ||||||
20 | 10 | "Yipee Ki-Hate, Motherf**ker" | Alex Salyer & Chris Ybarra | L.E. Correia | June 9, 2023 | |
Rochelle unintentionally inspires all the hate-themed monsters to crash a holiday party and take over the system and the resulting Die Hard -like scenario has Rochelle regret her hateful ways and tries to save the day. Joe and Gil end up escaping being caught and attempt to take matters into their own hands. |
On October 3, 2019, Netflix announced a straight-to-series order for a spin-off series titled Human Resources, set within the show's universe. Kroll, Goldberg, Levin, Flackett, Nate Funaro, and Kelly Galuska were set to executive produce. [1] On June 14, 2021, more details of the series were announced, including casting. Nick Kroll, Maya Rudolph, and David Thewlis reprised their roles for the spin-off as Maurice the Hormone Monster, Connie the Hormone Monstress, and the Shame Wizard, with additional cast members Brandon Kyle Goodman, Keke Palmer, Aidy Bryant, and Randall Park joining the series. [9] On October 15, 2021, it was announced that Pamela Adlon has joined the spin-off, reprising her role as Sonya the Lovebug, and Goodman's and Palmer's roles were revealed. [10] On January 12, 2022, it was reported that Rosie Perez, Jemaine Clement, Thandiwe Newton, Bobby Cannavale, Henry Winkler, and Maria Bamford were cast in the series, with Cannavale, Bamford, Newton and Clement reprising their roles from Big Mouth. The series was released on March 18, 2022. [2]
On March 1, 2022, an official trailer was released with Helen Mirren, Lupita Nyong'o, Chris O'Dowd, Harvey Guillén, Janelle Monáe, Mike Birbiglia, Tim Robinson, Hugh Jackman and Ali Wong joining the spin-off. Jackman previously guest-starred in Big Mouth voicing a fictional version of himself, being depicted as one of Maury's dicks and Wong has voiced recurring character Ali since the third season. [11] [12] Later that same month, Kroll revealed the remainder of the cast for the series through social media. [13] On April 18, 2022, Netflix renewed the series for a second season. [3] On April 24, 2023, it was announced that the second season is going to be the final season. [4] In May 2023, an official trailer was released with Florence Pugh, Miley Cyrus, Eugene Levy, Isabella Rossellini, Sam Richardson, Niecy Nash-Betts, and Jason Mantzoukas joining the series. [5] Like Jackman and Wong, Mantzoukas previously voiced acted in Big Mouth as Jay Bilzerian. [14] The final season premiered on June 9, 2023.
On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, season one holds a 90% approval rating based on 20 critic reviews, with an average rating of 7.4/10. The website's critics consensus reads, "The Hormone Monsters are pushing paper and phalluses in Human Resources, a workplace spinoff of Big Mouth that's just as raunchy and sweet." [15] On Metacritic, the series has a score of 72 out of 100, based on 6 critic reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews". [16]
Elly Belle of The A.V. Club gave the series a B and said, "Familiarity with Big Mouth may bring in viewers, but Human Resources' distinctive humor and commentary on humanity will keep them watching." [17]
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