Plus, the concerns of the humans they support: postpartum depression, crippling credit card debt, and college vs. Well, they’ve always been messy, but now they get to be messy with a focus on more adult concerns: all kinds of addictions, unrequited love, and long-term relationships. Screw the humans (and the monsters want to) because these monsters are messy fun. Human Resources (a delightfully punny title with multiple meanings) features familiar creatures - Hormone Monsters, Shame Wizards, Lovebugs (and Hateworms), Anxiety Mosquitos, and a Depression Kitty from the mothership - but adds more shrewd a Logic Rock, an Ambition Gremlin, an Addiction Angel, and Need Demons. Netflix’s newest adult animated sitcom keeps much of the encyclopedic pop culture references, keen human insights, and full-throttle raunch from the mothership but grafts it onto a workplace sitcom that - thankfully! - shifts the focus from early teens to adults. Fans - okay me - of Netflix’s adult animated puberty comedy Big Mouth rejoiced at the announcement of its monster-focused spinoff, a chance to learn more about these ancient harbingers of human development.
