(Life Kit parenting has done a couple of stories on sex education for a new generation. Life Kit hosts Anya Kamenetz and Cory Turner talked to the creators of Big Mouth, life-long friends Andrew Goldberg and Nick Kroll about surviving puberty and shedding light on the 'shameful' moments many of us keep to ourselves.

In short, the show externalizes the turmoil of puberty to surreal, often hilarious effect. When a character is caught masturbating at a friend's house, he is whisked away by a Voldemort-like 'Shame Wizard' and tried in Shame Court. In the world of Netflix's Big Mouth, an animated comedy about tweens stumbling their way through the mysteries of puberty, every character has a 'hormone monster.' Literally, a horned monster that can appear (and disappear) out of nowhere and embodies each character's innermost urgings.

The Shame Wizard is set to return for Big Mouth Season 4 as well as the upcoming Big Mouth spinoff Human Resources.Andrew Glouberman, a character in the Netflix's animated comedy Big Mouth watches a condom demonstration. And while he admits to Andrew that he can sometimes get carried away with his job, he says his intentions come from a good place: he wants to encourage self-betterment and improvement.

ItвЂ™s implied that the Shame WizardвЂ™s harshness stems from his poor relationship with his mother and the absence of his father, lending a bit of empathy and understanding to the character. However, after a visit to the Monster World, Andrew realizes that shame can sometimes be important. вЂњThatвЂ™s how we got the idea of asking David to do it, and fortunately he said yes.вЂќДЄt the end of Season 2, the kids realize they can all see the Shame Wizard and band together to banish him. вЂњHeвЂ™s a villain, but heвЂ™s charming at times, and repulsive at times, and shame is the smartest person in the room,вЂќ Goldberg said of Varga. The character came to embody what they wanted to portray with the Shame Wizard, and eventually they asked Thewlis to join the cast. While writing Season 2, many of Big MouthвЂ™s writers happened to be watching the third season of Fargo, in which Thewlis plays the aforementioned villain VM Varga. вЂњBecause shame is clever and tricky and needles its way into you.вЂќ вЂњHe was like, вЂNo, shame is not a monster, shame is a wizard,вЂ™вЂќ Goldberg said. Initially, he wanted to call the character the Shame Monster, but co-creator Nick Kroll had a different take. The idea for the Shame Wizard was pretty simple: Goldberg felt the Hormone Monster needed an archrival. Guilt is, I did a bad thing, shame is, I am a bad thing,вЂќ co-creator Andrew Goldberg told Vulture in 2018. вЂњGuilt is, I made a mistake, shame is, I am a mistake. However, Big MouthвЂ™s writers wanted to draw a clear distinction between shame and guilt while writing the character. His goal seems to be to demolish what little self-esteem they have, destroying their confidence and taunting them about their mistakes and shortcomings. Whereas the Hormone Monsters encourage the teens to embrace their most deviant impulses, the Shame Wizard stokes their innermost shame about their changing bodies and hormones. The pointy-eared, bulging-eyed character is almost creepier than the VM Varga creature Thewlis portrayed in Fargo. So voicing The Shame Wizard marks somewhat of a turn in his career. The actor has lent his British accent to background characters of Family Guy in the past, but is better known for his live action roles, including turns in Wonder Woman (2017), Fargo (2017), and Zack SnyderвЂ™s Justice League (2021). The character may sound familiar to fans of Harry Potter: heвЂ™s voiced by David Thewlis, who played Remus Lupin - a former Professor of Defence Against The Dark Arts at Hogwarts - in the 2000s film franchise. But Season 2 introduces The Hormone Monster's mortal enemy, The Shame Wizard. Big Mouth's first season saw middle school BFFs Andrew and Nick lose countless battles against The Hormone Monster - an imaginary, Bigfoot-like creature slowly turning them into sex-crazed teens.

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