BoJack Horseman

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Season 5
  • Network: Netflix
  • Series Premiere Date: Aug 22, 2014
Season #: 6.5, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1
User Score
8.9

Universal acclaim- based on 245 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 225 out of 245
  2. Mixed: 9 out of 245
  3. Negative: 11 out of 245
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  1. Thingsgobad
    Sep 14, 2018
    3
    This season was just awful. The episodes barely focused on character development as much as previous seasons and the storyline just keeps poking holes at itself with all the unnecessary flashbacks. The only good scenes in this season were the ones with Bojack acting on stage and going loony over drugs. That's it, I did not feel anything while watching this season. Also the episode ofThis season was just awful. The episodes barely focused on character development as much as previous seasons and the storyline just keeps poking holes at itself with all the unnecessary flashbacks. The only good scenes in this season were the ones with Bojack acting on stage and going loony over drugs. That's it, I did not feel anything while watching this season. Also the episode of Bojack's eulogy felt lazy. They could have kept it short and done so much more with the time they were given. The writers in Bojack Horseman are running out of content and that's clear to see. I hope season 6 just ends all of this madness in the best way possible because I don't see this getting better before it gets worse.… Expand
  2. SuperMax156
    Sep 18, 2018
    0
    People really like this show, and I respect that. But to be honest they've kinda lost me along the way. I am not sure anymore what this is supposed to be, at the beginning it made me laugh, but then it just became a big thing about wallowing around in self pity. Bojack's daughter sucks, Todd sucks balls as well. Yeah, I hate this show now.
  3. gotobedforever
    Oct 7, 2018
    1
    Bojack was off to a great start for the first few series but once other people start to notice what I've noticed about Netflix shows it's going to go down as a prime example of how Netflix Executive meddling ruins shows.

    It's pretty clear at this point that if you want Netflix to fund and support your show that they give you hiring quotas for "marginalized" individuals. You start to see    Bojack was off to a great start for the first few series but once other people start to notice what I've noticed about Netflix shows it's going to go down as a prime example of how Netflix Executive meddling ruins shows.

    It's pretty clear at this point that if you want Netflix to fund and support your show that they give you hiring quotas for "marginalized" individuals. You start to see the influence of executives in Series 4 where they utterly atrocious, unlikeable, boring, tedious character of Hollyhock is introduced.

    The more you watch this character and the plot surrounding her which is the first bad Bojack plotline you begin to come to the realization that Hollyhock doesn't exist because the show needed Hollyhock, Hollyhock is introduced because Netflix executives told the show creators that they needed to have more women and POCs in their show and that they had to come up with a character for Aparna Nancherla to play because she ticks those boxes and makes the Netflix execs feel good about themselves that their popular show wont mostly just be about the antics of two white men anymore.

    Of course this is all extremely short sighted because anyone who watched the show would already praise the characters of Diane and Princess Caroline.

    So after you've SLOGGGED through season 4 and started to dislike the show as Nancherla is given way more air time than her acting talent deserves and sat through far too many eye rolling jokes about her gay polyamorous dads you get to Season 5 and this is where it truly goes off the rails.

    In season 5 they start to bloat the show up with new characters, each more woke than the last. We have asexuals, lesbian black wives, every character has to have some sort of Buzzfeed victim point attributed to it exactly as if the creators of the show were given a quota to fulfill.

    You start to see this more and more with Netflix shows the more you watch them and once you notice it you'll realize the fulfillment of these quotas begins to impact the plot and characters you started to watch the show for in the first place. You start watching the show because you liked the nihilistic washed up horse.... but before you know it thats not what the show is about the show is about awkward asexual moments and a whiney young woman's incredibly badly acted daddy issues.

    Whatever this show had has been destroyed by executive meddling because Netflix is ashamed when it has a popular show where people watch and like watching storylines about men, even if those men happen to be horses.    … Expand

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Metascore
92

Universal acclaim - based on 6 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 6 out of 6
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 6
  3. Negative: 0 out of 6
  1. Vox.com
    Reviewed by: Emily VanDerWerff
    Sep 17, 2018
    90
    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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  2. The Atlantic
    Reviewed by: Lenika Cruz
    Sep 14, 2018
    90
    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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  3. New York Magazine (Vulture)
    Reviewed by: Matt Zoller Seitz
    Sep 13, 2018
    90
    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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