Winter Break Recommendations from Wes Creatives

Exams have been graded and final projects evaluated. Perhaps you’re enjoying some much-needed rest and relaxation after a busy semester, or you want to bring a little bit of Wesleyan home to share. We’ve compiled a list of entertainment offerings from Wesleyan alumni for you to enjoy until we return to campus in January.

Television and Movies

The seventh season of Big Mouth premiered on Netflix in June. Jennifer Flackett ’86 is writer and co-creator of the raunchy, animated adult sitcom about teenagers struggling through the turbulent, traumatic changes of adolescence. Big Mouth was renewed for its eighth and final season in spring 2023, making it the longest-running original scripted series ever produced by the streaming service. You can binge watch all 71 episodes this winter break—and then check out Flackett’s Big Mouth spin-off, Human Resources, also on Netflix.

If you’re interested in issues of social justice, we recommend No Accident (HBO Documentary Film) produced by Michelle Rabinowitz Carney ’02. The film follows the civil suit against the organizers of 2017’s deadly Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. Attorney Michael Bloch ’00 is interviewed in the documentary regarding his role representing the plaintiffs.