Four adult animated shows to watch after ‘Mating Season’
Netflix took viewers on a raunchy comedic drive with Mating Season over the weekend. And although next week has very well begun, the comedic fever is currently at its height.
Right after off-boarding the wild ride, we were all over Netflix, looking for the exact same blend of boundary-pushing humour, relationship neuroses, and unapologetic chaos. So, we guess, the remaining viewers are on the same boat as Best of Netflix.
Since Mating Season comes from the same creative engine of explosive wit and no-holds-barred comedic twists, your absolute best next steps are the sister shows in that universe, alongside some excellent existential comedies on Netflix that share the collective DNA.
So, if you’re feeling lost about where to park your car next, here are four adult animated shows on Netflix to stop by after Mating Season.
Four adult animated shows to binge after Mating Season
Big Mouth (Bryan Francis, 2017-2025)
Mating Season came from the Big Mouth creators Nick Kroll, Andrew Goldberg, Mark Levin, and Jennifer Flackett, so it only makes sense to start with their baseline. The flagship show swaps out the animal kingdom for the brutal hormone-fuelled trenches of middle school, complete with physical manifestations of anxiety, shame, and desire, namely the Hormone Monsters. It is basically the show that started it all.
Big Mouth centres on a group of Westchester County middle schoolers in New York at the most brutal phase of their lives as they navigate the awkward, terrifying, and hilarious realities of puberty. It follows how their physical and emotional transformations are guided and often complicated in more ways than one by the notorious Hormone Monsters, which primarily serve as personifications of human feelings.
Human Resources (Henrique Jardim, Alex Salyer, and Bryan Francis, 2022-2023)
The direct spin-off of Big Mouth that acts as a workplace comedy for monsters themselves is Human Resources. The animated office comedy follows the daily lives of the emotional creatures, such as Hormone Monsters, Lovebugs, and Logic Rocks, who work at a bustling corporation tasked with guiding humans through every stage of life, from birth to death. Instead of making teenage experiences its focus, the spin-off flips the script.
Human Resources highlights a diverse array of creatures that represent different facets of human experience, following them on a rollercoaster ride of messy business, where they navigate complex love lives, hookups, and unparalleled workplace drama within the creature world, serving as the perfect spiritual bridge to Mating Season. The show is more like adulting in the creature dimension.
Long Story Short (Raphael Bob-Waksberg, 2025-Present)
If you want your adult animated follow-up to mirror Mating Season’s sharp, raw exploration of messy relationships, Long Story Short is an incredible choice. Created by Raphael Bob-Waksberg, it follows the Schwooper family, a multi-generational, middle-class Jewish family in Northern California, over a 40-year span, jumping back and forth through time to chronicle their romances, compromises, and family dysfunctions.
While the adult animated series is grounded in incredibly sharp, realistic conversations, it swaps out the creature gags for a human family, which might make it feel worlds apart. However, it’s recommended because it scratches the exact itch for smart, unvarnished relationship comedy as Mating Season conveys. So, if you think of the latter as a wild night out at a crowded bar, Long Story Short is the late-night conversation at the diner afterwards.
Hoops (Ben Hoffman, 2020)
If you loved the embarrassing hilarity or the unfiltered outrageousness of Mating Season, you can also consider Hoops on Netflix. The adult animated comedy series follows Ben Hopkins, a pathologically angry, foul-mouthed high school basketball coach who is convinced that turning around his awful team – no matter what it takes – would be his ticket to the NBA.
Although Ben dreams big, reckoning it as the only way to turn his miserable life around, first, he must keep his dismal job and whip his team of misfits into shape. But that too comes with generational baggage, as he constantly feels overshadowed by the reputation of his famous NBA-star father. In short, Hoops is packed with purely crude, raunchy, R-rated humour laced with subtle reality checks. So, if you want zero filters, it has it in spades.