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Critic Reviews
The IndependentJan 31, 2020
Season 6.5 Review:
In a valedictory review it’s remiss not to mention the voice performances, each of which has grown with its character. It’s a career-defining role for Arnett, but all the leads have found sensitivity and nuance amid the gags. ... For all its virtuosic experimentation, in its final moments BoJack Horseman reveals a conservative, even Christian, heart in which the world’s hardships are best met with old virtues: kindness, moderation, hope. In 2020, it is a radical thought.
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ColliderJan 31, 2020
Season 6.5 Review:
How do you end a series like BoJack Horseman? ... You find a middle ground, a milestone that ties off the story and acts as a pause before it carries itself forward on its own momentum somewhere off the screen. That is the only way BoJack Horseman–perhaps the greatest animated drama series ever created–could have ended, and that’s exactly the way it does.
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Oct 23, 2019
Season 6 Review:
It thrives on an ensemble of BoJack’s friends and colleagues, each a multidimensional person trying to survive in a brutal city. ... These characters come to the fore, one by one, in the masterful eight-episode first half of Season 6. (A second batch of eight arrives Jan. 20.)
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Oct 23, 2019
Season 6 Review:
BoJack Horseman, six seasons in, is more clever, intelligent, and multilayered than 95 percent of comedies on television or any other platform. Its protagonist and other principal characters may still be in need of self-improvement, but the show in which they appear remains about as good as it gets.
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Sep 6, 2018IndieWireSep 6, 2018
Season 5 Review:
As extraordinary as the voice cast might be, it’s the quality of the storytelling which keeps our fascination. Even in the episodes which revel in delightful full-fledged farce, there is such depth of feeling to BoJack, such investment in its message. But the show’s beating heart also still somehow manages to stay engaged with its big ideas.
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IndieWireAug 30, 2017
Season 4 Review:
By the end of the season, we know these characters, and this show, far better than ever before. BoJack’s signature tropes--the background visual jokes, the animal puns, the brutal moments of sadness--remain reliably consistent, but turns the focus largely inward, ensuring that some of the more outlandish plots support and highlight the more emotional storylines.
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Jul 20, 2016
Season 3 Review:
Netflix's BoJack Horseman evolved from frothy talking-animal Hollywood satire to character-rich treatise on depression in its first season, deepened and darkened into one of TV's best shows in its second season and gallops into its third season with a profound confidence.
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IndieWireJul 13, 2016
Season 3 Review:
Many Season 3 episodes are definable in simple terms (“the one where BoJack goes on a press tour,” “the one where BoJack fights with Princess Caroline,” “the flashback episode”). They actually function as stand-alone on a level that you honestly don’t see too often. This leads to some jaw-dropping installments, which iris in on character on levels that range from hilarious to heartbreaking.
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Jul 13, 2016
Season 3 Review:
There’s a precision in the show’s expansion, a sense that the creative team wants to explore every corner of their comedy world--and every corner of the character’s psyches. Season 3 builds to one of the funniest, weirdest, and most profound moments I’ve ever seen in a television show--and that’s before the season finale.
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IndieWireJan 31, 2020
Season 6.5 Review:
Episode 15 feels like “BoJack Horseman: The Drama” while the start of Episode 16 feels like “BoJack Horseman: The Sitcom,” and (for once) the blend doesn’t come together as part of the series’ potent and inventive new genre. But it still sticks the landing. ... Balancing its tones, ambitions, and deep respect for its characters, the series emerges an unparalleled original. No more horse than a man, no more man than a horse. It’s both.
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Jul 21, 2016
Season 3 Review:
Because the writing and characterization on this show has been consistent (and superb), failures are often as hard-won as progress, a revelation that’s all the more stunning for its relatability. Most of the disasters are the result of minor missteps or oversights that snowball into untenable, albeit hilarious, situations.
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IndieWireJul 17, 2015
Season 2 Review:
So much of the BoJack DNA is tied up in BoJack's origin story as a '90s network sitcom star because the show itself is actively working against the concept that sitcoms represent the way stories should work; that there are easy answers for any of its characters. And that's what makes it feel so fundamentally true, at its core.
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The Daily BeastJan 30, 2020
Season 6.5 Review:
This final batch of episodes delivers on all of the surreal contradictions that have made BoJack Horseman great. Despite some rushed pacing, each character’s ending feels earned—and more importantly, the same can be said for the relationships they each choose to have with BoJack going forward.
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Jan 28, 2020
Season 6.5 Review:
This series was never just about a single (horse)man. If Mad Men felt like the end of a specific chapter in anti-heroic TV, BoJack Horseman, which debuted less than a year before Mad Men’s finale, serves as the epilogue that officially closes the book. ... BoJack Horseman handles the developments in its long-running Me Too–style story line with the show’s signature mix of thoughtfulness, earned snark, and occasional outright silliness.
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Sep 17, 2018
Season 5 Review:
In season five, BoJack Horseman brings all of that character development down around its ears, in a stretch of episodes that represents the most precise dissection of BoJack Horseman yet--and perhaps the first truly sustained artistic response to the #MeToo movement.
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Sep 14, 2018
Season 5 Review:
Philbert serves as a vehicle for BoJack’s ambitious meta-critique of how Hollywood consistently glorifies, humanizes, enables, and forgives bad men—fictional or otherwise. This critique operates on a few different levels, and only grows more complex as the season wears on.
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Sep 13, 2018
Season 5 Review:
This visually arresting series becomes an illustrated stage production for a while, and amazingly, it works. It’s a terrific working-through of grief, particularly survivors’ realizations that they’re never going to get closure on all the issues that gnawed at the relationship between themselves and the deceased back when they were both alive and could’ve talked to each other. ... Either way, it’s all part of the larger, Mad Men–styled disconnect between intelligence and wisdom that BoJack portrays so well.
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Sep 7, 2017
Season 4 Review:
How did a story about a depressed, alcoholic horse become one of the most human shows on TV? ... Can BoJack Horseman pull off a fracking story line? You betcha. ... And BoJack Horseman never neglects to expand its rich, Hollywood-parallel universe, which is largely responsible for the show’s sardonic brand of humor.
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Jul 22, 2016
Season 3 Review:
With its mix of curveball innovations and very BoJack elements, season three of Raphael Bob-Waksberg’s cartoon sitcom set in a species-mixed world of humans and animals might be its best overall, though it necessarily lacks the aspect of jaw-dropping surprise that made it so beguiling in its first two outings.
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Jul 20, 2016
Season 3 Review:
The absurdist comedy and hallucinatory visuals match the series’ take on Hollywood as a reality-distortion field. But the series never takes an attitude of easy superiority to its showbiz characters. At heart, BoJack Horseman is a comedy about lonely people (and animals) who are never by themselves. That melancholy spirit comes through beautifully in the stunning fourth episode of the new season.
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The GuardianJan 31, 2020
Season 6.5 Review:
We can all find jewels in unexpected places. If you’re open to having a pink talking cat struggle with the grief of miscarriage, or can find emotional depth in a horse with dementia being consoled by her errant son, then you bring to BoJack Horseman what it needs to be appreciated. And it’s worth it.
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ColliderSep 7, 2017
ColliderJul 22, 2016
Season 3 Review:
BoJack Horseman ends up becoming a thrilling, rueful study of the psychological games and uniquely vain, notably capitalistic decision-making that powers the entertainment industry. And yet, through its venomous jokes and unrelenting, uproarious gags, the series also recognizes how charming, joyful, and galvanizing entertainment for entertainment sake can be, no matter how stupid or silly it may seem.
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Jul 21, 2016
Jul 6, 2015
Season 2 Review:
It remains one of TV's best meta-skewers of Hollywood. [10/17 Jul 2015, p.101]
Aug 15, 2014
Season 1 Review:
BoJack hits funny bones hardest when it loads up on background gags--for example, the fact every character has a terrible ringtone provides surprisingly rich humor as the six episodes advance. [22/29 Aug 2014, p.100]
Sep 6, 2017
Season 4 Review:
The 12 episodes of the new season have episodes and moments equal to the show’s best. They also have ideas that don’t pan out, and an overall lack of cohesion--the main characters seem sequestered in separate story lines that don’t really mesh. A weekend binge is still recommended, but it won’t have the impact of the second or third seasons.
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The Daily BeastAug 22, 2014
Season 1 Review:
Some jokes fall flat, a few scenarios seem uninspired, and Arnett’s horse does seem strikingly similar to his hilarious man-child/magician Gob in Arrested Development, but this bizarre dreamscape where humans and anthropomorphic animals commingle and cohabitate is filled with promise, providing a fun, delightfully gonzo take on Hollyweird.
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