BoJack Horseman

Netflix | Release Date: August 22, 2014

9.1	USER SCORE Universal acclaim based on 309 Ratings

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phuckoJun 1, 2021

Bojack Horseman is perhaps the most overrated animated show of all time.

To bite a keen line: This is a stupid person's idea of what an intelligent show looks like. Despite the praise that Bojack recieves for its approach of human issues,Bojack Horseman is perhaps the most overrated animated show of all time.

To bite a keen line: This is a stupid person's idea of what an intelligent show looks like.

Despite the praise that Bojack recieves for its approach of human issues, its clever humour, and its heartfelt writing, it handles each of these with a persistent inelegance, and lack of genuine daring.

In reality, the emotional approach is caught somewhere between carelessly hipfire and outright jarring; the toneless humour is borrowed straight from Hollywood's creative landfil; and the clever writing is... I mean, it's simply completent writing, and not much more.

Many people exclaimed that the series became better after the first half of the first season. In reality, it just became more generic - dropping the funny-animal humour that clearly failed to gain traction - settling into life as yet another show that bites the majority of its humour and style from the most marketable and easily adaptable adult cartoons of the past decade; and flexes emotional depth by shoehorning in the most approachable human issues it can find (while blatantly skirting any of the more risky or difficult ones). Sure, it does make more of an effor to delve into the human condition; but it does so with praise-driven desperation, and with no more skill than is needed to trick the inexperienced.

This lack of originality is (clearly) easy to miss, if you've got a small pool from which to draw your comparisons.

In short, Bojack Horseman is about as smart as a wet fart, and as tactful as a slap on the nose (Perhaps with an rolled newspaper). It's furbait, it's Oscarbait, and ultimately, it's a minor peak in the greater landscape of adult animation; elevated by a cultism that stems more from a need for thoughtful entertainment, than from the successful execution of such.

Is it outright bad? No, it's not; it's simply alright, though far too caught up in its own aspirations - and, quite frankly, so are many of its fans.… Expand

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JBrenneman444Jul 19, 2021

While I enjoyed the artist's style and some of the character dynamics, the bottom line is: you're much more likely to enjoy this show, if you're a liberal. It's not exaggerating to say 50% of this show's content is just handpicked lessonsWhile I enjoyed the artist's style and some of the character dynamics, the bottom line is: you're much more likely to enjoy this show, if you're a liberal. It's not exaggerating to say 50% of this show's content is just handpicked lessons from the liberal bible with cartoon animals virtue signaling in place of human ones.. as if we haven't had enough of that. Even my favorite character Todd, is eventually tainted with political ideology.… Expand

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lghulmAug 2, 2022

If this counts as "good" entertainment, it can only be because the majority of what is produced these days is total rubbish. It isn't that the show is bad, it isn't "bad", it just is nowhere near exceptional or great. Hard to feel in a worldIf this counts as "good" entertainment, it can only be because the majority of what is produced these days is total rubbish. It isn't that the show is bad, it isn't "bad", it just is nowhere near exceptional or great. Hard to feel in a world where standards had not continually dropped (what might have been!), it wouldn't get the same kind of praise it does, or deserve it.… Expand

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