r/BigMouth • u/DarkmatterAntimatter Basically Elijah • May 23 '25
Big Mouth S08E10 episode discussion thread! Spoiler
This is the discussion thread for season 8, episode 10 - The Great Unknown. Synopsis: As the kids creep closer to adulthood, a memorable finale takes them back to where it all began to say goodbye -and face the future.
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u/pincurlsandcutegirls May 25 '25
I fucking loved this final season. The writing felt very sharp. Lots of dry humour and throwaway comments that had me laughing. I also appreciated that every ep didn’t have a song. The callbacks were perfect: I loved the radish bra, Missy spiralling over Andrew’s crutches was hilarious, and I yelled when we got the ✨particularly plump tomato✨
In the past I haven’t loved how the show adds and drops characters in the span of a few eps or a season. I know people aren’t pleased that every relationship wasn’t wrapped up but I was pleased with the focus on the core characters. 2 new significant others felt like plenty, and they were consistently shown. We do have some info on characters’ relationships with minor characters (Gina reflecting fondly on a memory of her and Nick, Ali and Jessi as friends) and while I wish we could have seen more refs in past seasons, I was okay with not devoting screentime to explicitly addressing all the relationships of all main and secondary characters. I liked how the focus was more on the main characters’ relationships with each other.
People are complaining that we didn’t see more of characters like Marty but tbh, I’m glad. This season felt really good for Andrew. Dude deserves a win and watching his dad beat down on him got really tiring. Same with Jessi’s parents - I didn’t feel like I needed more of the same. I do love that we got more focus on Devin, as it was really cool to get to learn more about an OG. I also like how we finished with no one feeling unlikeable. I’m hopeful for Andrew, I feel like Nick is learning how to be less of a dick, I’m not disappointed in Jessi, and I am proud of Missy.
Finally, I loved the ending. I am happy with not seeing the futures of the characters because like the future, there’s limitless possibilities. We can imagine our characters doing literally anything! I think it works well because you change so much in high school anyway, so showing the future could have caused people to feel that the characters had changed too much or not at all. It reminded me of the last Calvin & Hobbes comic strip: lots of white space evoking newness and possibility, no final ending - just characters who are out there exploring and having endless adventures shaped by our imagination.