BoJack Horseman

Netflix | Release Date: August 22, 2014

9.1	USER SCORE Universal acclaim based on 309 Ratings

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OneandonlybbFeb 23, 2020

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. This show is so bad I made a metacritic account This show is unlogical, people claim these characters are so real but they are really not. Dumb world, full of "furries", characters are not interesting or engaging apart from the dog(mr.pickles) which may only be engaging because he's a dog ?. Horrible people, horrible decision, don't watch it. Gets worst and worst as the show goes on, the longer the show goes the more stupid the everyday plot becomes .… Expand

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GarrosFeb 4, 2020

This latter half of the season didn't feel right by me. It came off more as just bashing on Bojack and disregarding the environment he was cultivated in. It shifted the explanation for the cause of all his destructive behaviour from aThis latter half of the season didn't feel right by me. It came off more as just bashing on Bojack and disregarding the environment he was cultivated in. It shifted the explanation for the cause of all his destructive behaviour from a holistic standpoint to a purely an individualized one. And I don't mean that the writing just solely focused on the standpoint of Bojack and the people he hurt. The episodes also utterly avoided talking about today's America in any sort of capacity aside from a throwaway joke.

The penultimate episode was the most emotionally devastating one to me... But that also made everything before it meaningless. In the end, nothing matters. Everyone will cling to life and to some sort of meaning, but in the end we all will die. Yet if you slam that sort of message on the table with frankly a cosmic horror level of imagery (the black slime)... doesn't that have quite an effect on everything you have made before? Everything from Bojack's alcoholism, Diana's depression, Mr. Peanutbutter's denial, Princess Carolyn's workaholicism, Todd's zany schemes... In the end it will all be for nothing. They too will be consumed by the black slime and jump into the void, even if they regret it like Secretariat did.

The scene in the fake church turned out to not only be a warning, but also symbolic. Almost in the same way Stephen King addressed the reader in the final volume of the Dark Tower Saga to not to turn the page. This story had come to a close. Whatever loose threads this series may have had ultimately were too weak to tie something around. Yes, Penny's trauma was real. But even in those annoying reporters' eyes she was only a tool to use in regards to a maybe breakout story on a washout 90's star. And even those reporter's personal... relationship could not resolve in a satisfying manner. Thinking further, if we truly explored Princess Caroline's relationship with Judah in earnest, would it really have looked like the happy end we got presented with no context? And that's not even talking about Todd, Mr. Peanutbutter, and so many others in the series...

In the end, Bojack may have gotten what we consider justice for his actions. But did it do anything good in the end? Sarah Lynn is still dead. We don't know if Kelsey Jannings got a meaningful movie out. Not to mention that Gina's fate in Hollywoob is still unknown. And whatever happened to Hollyhock let alone Penny in the end?

All in all, this last half of the season is non canon in my mind. It did not resolve the threads left in the story to any sort of satisfactory end. The ones it did address it did so in a way that seemed to focus purely on causing Bojack misery, and that is unworthy of the fantastic cast of characters this show has built up. Raphael Bob-Waksberg gave me a sense of despair with this show. A feeling that nothing mattered and that nobody could be redeemed, no matter… Expand

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FatmanduSep 17, 2022

Family Guy was right, this is nothing more than "Normal Words but a Horse Guy".

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