The serious and silly rub shoulders here, like travelers on a crowded bus trip. Brilliantly juxtaposing scenes from BoJack’s interview on The Charlie Rose Show with a gotcha shot from this world’s version of Maury, this first look at BoJack’s anxiety-ridden existence had the difficult task of establishing the show’s very particular tone (think Chuck Jones meets Don Hertzfeldt meets Albert Brooks) while also making blatant the sadness beneath it. “The BoJack Horseman Story, Chapter One,” Season 1, Episode 1 The highlight herein is an updated version of the show’s end credits song, adapted to underscore BoJack’s much less successful follow-up to Horsin’ Around.ħ4. Lots of obvious references abound-e.g., Princess Carolyn pitches scripts for No Country for Old Men and There Will Be Blood, though films actually being shopped around at that time instead of those just arriving in theaters might’ve been a better touch-not unlike a Trojan horse for the ongoing world building. This episode also lays general groundwork for episodes and seasons to come. Its title refers to the name of BoJack’s sophomore TV series, a vulgar satire that tanked and was promptly canceled. “The BoJack Horseman Show,” Season 3, Episode 2Ī novel exposition dump, this episode goes back to 2007, when BoJack and Princess Carolyn (Amy Sedaris), a cat, first slept together. It also, hopefully, satisfies those who will inevitably be curious about what a proper episode of the show-within-the-show looks like, and Todd’s four-word refutation (“I can’t, can’t I?”) of BoJack’s faulty logic stands with the funniest moments of the series.ħ5. Further enriching the world so thoughtfully laid out in the first season, this metatextual holiday episode, in which BoJack and Todd (Aaron Paul) watch one of the Christmas episodes from Horsin’ Around, came as an unannounced Christmas gift in 2014. The mere existence of this holiday episode made it unambiguous that BoJack Horseman was created out of love. Full truth: From here, mountains are made. In a way, it feels like a foundation stone of sorts (one of several), featuring as it does BoJack’s decision to open up to Diane (Alison Brie) for his memoir. BoJack’s (Will Arnett) profound pettiness makes him an asshole to many-here, it’s the contested dibs over a box of muffins at the grocery store that lands our remorseful horse in the national spotlight-and it’s admirable how this episode leads the charge in painting that fact unambiguously. Maybe they aren’t stretching their talent as much as you think they can. Maybe there’s a note or two out of place. “BoJack Hates the Troops,” Season 1, Episode 2įirst, let me be clear: I love this episode, which feels like an early performance by a beloved artist who went on to greater and more daring things. This exercise would have been much more difficult had the final episodes failed to deliver. Contending with BoJack Horseman, now as it comes to its conclusion, has meant contending with my own life these past six years, which have been made markedly better by this series. That’s a lot for any show, let alone the animated misadventures of a famous horseman, one whose life stands on the razor’s edge of celebrity privilege and deeply internalized emotional self-abuse. How we find happiness amid constant crisis. Netflix’s BoJack Horseman is about many things.
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