Big Mouth Season 4 Ending Explained What Nick Starr Really Means

Big Mouth Season 4 Ending Explained: What Nick Starr Really Means

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The Big Mouth season 4 finale ended with an epic showdown between the kids and Nick Starr — a future version of Nick; here’s what he represents.

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Big Mouth Season 4 Ending Explained What Nick Starr Really Means

Nick Starr was finally defeated in the Big Mouth season 4 finale, but what really happened to the kids, and what does the ending mean for the series going forward? Big Mouth season 4, which debuted December 2020, introduced Tito the Anxiety mosquito, voiced by anxious stand-up comedian Maria Bamford. Throughout the season, main characters Nick, Andrew, and Jessi found themselves plagued by Tito’s buzzing insecurities, and only by coming together could the friends find ways to combat (and silence) Tito’s voice.

Big Mouth is a Netflix Original animated series created by Andrew Goldberg, Nick Kroll, Mark Levin, and Jennifer Flackett. The series is loosely based on Goldberg and Kroll’s adolescence, growing up in a suburb of New York City. Kroll provides the voice for a fictionalized version of himself, while comedian and writer John Mulaney voices Andrew Glouberman, loosely based on the show’s co-creator, writer and producer Goldberg.

The season 4 finale sees Nick Kroll’s body being overtaken by Nick Starr — a self-serving version of Nick, first introduced in Nick’s dream about his future. Starr is ostensibly a cautionary tale — he represents what Nick could become in a terrible future if he continues on a path of selfish, closed-off behavior. More than that, however, he is manifestation of the season’s repeated occurrences of characters isolating themselves rather than do the right thing: support each other.

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What Nick Starr Represents In The Big Mouth Season 4 Finale

In Nick’s dream of the future, as seen in Big Mouth, season 4, episode 6, “Nick Starr,” is a desolate place where global warming has ruined the planet, people have resorted to cannibalism, and Nick is, somehow, an extremely wealthy celebrity who hosts a game show. Nick lives alone with a robot companion, clearly based on Andrew — hinting that a part of him desires a relationship with his childhood friend, even if in adulthood he’s completely unable to maintain healthy adult relationships. Nick Star even speaks in a phony, exaggerrated manner, but it’s not until the finale that the show reveals why: so terrified at the prospect of rejection, Nick Starr has buried his true, honest, and caring — and therefore vulnerable — self deep inside, and hides behind a fake person he himself created. The jokes about him using “Oh Yeah” to experience orgasm and him considering marrying a bottle of alcohol are amusing; yet, underneath the absurdity is a tragic implication for the character, who’s spent so much energy “protecting”himself from pain that he has completely isolated himself from all humanity.

Initially, Nick misunderstands the point of his prophetic dream in Big Mouth. In episode 8, “The Funeral,” he recognizes a similarity between his current situation and something he saw in the vision, but he responds inappropriately because he fundamentally doesn’t understand why the future he saw was so bleak. Nick reaches out to comfort Jessi when she leaves the funeral, but the sweet moment turns toxic when he tries to kiss her. Nick looks at the situation from his own, selfish, perspective, but he should be trying to see Jessi’s point of view: she’s hurt, and she needs a friend. In the penultimate episode, “Horrority House,” he similarly misunderstands the point of the ayahuasca journey, taking the lesson to “protect himself” rather than be truly introspective, which allows Nick Starr to take over his personality.

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In the end, Nick is able to conquer Nick Starr, not by killing him, but by understanding that he is a part of Nick’s character and embracing him. In the end, Big Mouth season 4 is largely about accept oneself and others, warts and all. The overall thesis of this season is community and friendship: only when the friends come together and help each other (by sharing their own strategies for dealing with Anxiety, and in Jessi’s case, depression) are the threats of Nick Starr, Depression Kitty, and Tito manageable. All signs indicate that Tito could return in Big Mouth season 5, but luckily, the group now has strategies to quiet her incessant voice of negativity — and strengthen their friendships in the process.

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