One day, I was looking around Netflix to see if I can find something I have never seen before. I was about to give up until I saw a little something called Bojack Horseman. It looked weird to say the least because beforehand I had watched trailers for it and clips and it looked interesting to say the least. But what really caught my attention was the critical and audience perception of it. All claiming it to be amazing. So I was like okay let’s watch it.
(2 seasons later…)
Shut up…. I’m not crying…. You’re crying….
(Season 3 ends…)
I think I need to just lie down and think about my own life. Why am I living the way I am?
If you couldn’t tell by all that, Bojack Horseman might be the best TV show I have ever seen. Not only the best Netflix show, but the best adult cartoon, the best TV comedy, and the best TV show period.
For what you may think might just be a series of stupid animal puns and clichés and unfunny jokes, Bojack Horseman not only hits you clever comedy, but it’s probably the most true show out there. Yes, I said that. A show about an anthropomorphic horse who had a TV show in the past and is now all washed up years later is the most true show I have ever seen. Yes, that may be what the show is about but that’s not really what it’s about. It’s about what would happen if not very nice people actually got consequences for their actions, because you never see that in shows. The ones that are rather unreasonable and hated all get rewarded. Ever notice that? But in Bojack Horseman. It’s beaten by just cruel, cruel reality. So beaten that we as an audience member tend to break our hearts for them because we relate to these characters because they go through the same problems that we do.
It’s a show about how depression makes us want to be better than we are so we end up changing the person that we are and the consequences that follow that.
It’s easily the most adult, adult cartoon out there. Bojack Horseman is a show that just does not piss around. It does not give any characters an easy way out. There is no happy ending. This is just their life and life is very very sad. Literally, everything that happens in the show stays that way throughout the entire series, for example, theres an episode where someone steals the “D” from the Hollywood sign and they eventually never find it. But that’s not all, not only is the “D” missing in the beginning of the show but everyone after that episode calls “Hollywood” “Hollywoo”. Also, everything that breaks in an episode stays broken, if a character is feeling indifferent at another character, they will stay that way for several more episodes, if a character dies in an episode they literally get axed off at the very last second and they have to deal with that death for more episodes to come. Characters literally have to deal with death and even overdose. It doesn’t reward the badly behaved characters it gives them consequences and even if they do come back they are never the same as they were. It’s amazing how realistic this show is. A show about a talking horse.
You may have heard people say “it changed my life” or “this made me a completely different person”. I will confirm after you finish up season 3 you will have a whole new perspective on life.
Not only is the show hilarious, not only is it beautiful to look at, not only is it relatable. But it’s the only adult show that treats its audience like adults. It’s heartbreaking, yes, but the point of the show isn’t just to make it depressing, it’s to tell us that this is how life works. Everything else you have seen haven’t been telling you the truth. There is no happy ending, there is coming back if you’re gone. They want to make a show about life problems and Bojack Horseman easily is the most heartbreaking and realistic show I have ever seen. Try to make it through the whole thing without feeling intense emotions.
