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Alison Herman
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Courtesy of Amazon Prime Video Over eight seasons on Netflix, the animated series “Big Mouth” made raunchy humor out of anthropomorphizing human emotions. Starting with the Hormone Monster, who personified the raging id of puberty, the show’s menagerie soon expanded to other abstract concepts: depression, anxiety, even love. Assigning personalities and quirks to everyday parts of human life, it turns out, pays dividends.
Comedian Joe Wengert served as a writer, producer and voice actor on “Big Mouth” for many years, and has applied this lesson to his new venture “Kevin,” which streams on Amazon Prime Video. Co-created by Wengert and actor Aubrey Plaza, who voices several characters throughout the eight-episode first season, “Kevin” swaps abstract mental health concepts out for something more concrete, if no less mysterious in their inner workings: our pets. The title character — played by Jason Schwartzman, who also sings the very catchy theme song — is a tuxedo cat whose life is thrown into disarray by the breakup of his human owners. Rather than follow either party to their next apartment, Kevin opts to take up residence in a local shelter, among a ragtag crew of his fellow animals.
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