‘Human Resources’ Showrunner Kelly Galuska On Using Monsters As “Representatives Of Emotion” To Create Something Special
15.06.2022 - 19:27
/ deadline.com
Coming off of her work on Big Mouth, showrunner Kelly Galuska knew that creating the monsters would be the most important part of Human Resources. From Emmy the Lovebug (Aidy Bryant) to Petra the Ambition Goblin (Rosie Perez), Galuska and her team of writers had their work cut out for them.
Human Resources follows the world of monsters associated with human emotions introduced in Netflix’s other adult animated sitcom, Big Mouth. The workplace comedy involves monsters assigned to adults as the representations of their feelings, like the Lovebugs, Logic Rocks, Hormone Monsters, and Ambition Goblins. The penultimate episode of the season, “It’s Almost Over”, follows Yara (Nidah Barber), an ailing grandmother with Alzheimer’s, as Walter the Lovebug (Brandon Kyle Goodman) comes to terms with the loss.
While the humans were the main focus in Big Mouth, Human Resources‘ focus on the diverse cast of monsters allowed for more personal stories about human emotions. In “It’s Almost Over”, Galuska and her writers told a deeply personal story about love and loss.
DEADLINE: There’s already such an expansive amount of these monsters in Big Mouth, how do you come up with more?
KELLY GALUSKA: That’s the thing that’s so fun about Human Resources; the number of emotions and feelings that human beings have are endless. So there are always more to explore, but the Lovebugs and the Logic Rock were the first ones we started with. Ultimately the show is about love more than anything else, so our way in is with the Lovebugs. But then as we went, the stories we decided to tell often grew new characters out of them. For instance, we wanted to do this episode about death, and ultimately that episode is about grief. So, it only made sense that such a
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