Season 5 – BoJack Horseman

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David W @RT91245001 03/27/2024 BoJack Horseman’s fifth season is essential viewing for the series with critical episodes for character development that should not be missed. I would absolutely watch it again! See more Andrei D @RT74856639 09/23/2023 Mastery and depression See more Corey W @RT31768611 06/01/2023 Season five sees the titular Bojack on top of the world, but if we know anything about the mean, drunken horse it's that this dominance wont last. And, of course, it doesn't, but the way in which Bojack implodes treads new ground, including new depths of depravity. The star of his own "Netflix" style police drama, Bojack is finally starting to accept himself as a real actor, but after an on-set accident leads to an opioid addiction Bojack starts to spin out until he's threatened with losing everything. It's a complex season filled with half-hearted attempts to "get better" by a deeply selfish and bitter man, following a big name actor to their lowest point. The cast around Bojack is more complex too. No longer are Diane and Mr. Peanutbutter together, scratch Princess Caroline and Ralph too. Todd continues to set off on his typical whacky adventures, but even his story is imbued with meaning as he explores who he is by viewing the pieces that comprise him. As always Bojack Horseman stuns with its emotional depth juxtaposed against the relative hilarity of the characters, both in the background and the foreground. The season ends with a glimmer of hope that will undoubtedly set the target for the sixth and final season. Netflix's best show has never been better. See more Daniel O @Olshansk 12/07/2022 My friend and I like to recommend each other interesting podcasts, books, tv shows and movies that are not just engaging and fun, but also insightful and thought-provoking. I recently recommended him BoJack Horseman as a show that goes very deep and triggers a lot of introspection. I later found it ironic that the show I recommended for something like this is a "cartoon about a horse". It made me realize that it's part of the point: a balance between life while also not taking things too seriously. See more chris f @RT52347836 10/26/2022 I hate to be the guy who says, "Hey, the thing is really good but also still suffers from its genre trappings." But here we are. This season was not good. It was focused on mostly fleshing out all the cast's backstories and wrapping up loose ends. It keeps telling stupid jokes, keeps doing dumb bits, and keeps acting smarter than it needs to, even though everyone knows it's very smart and witty. And then it does things like "Free Churo," a 22 minute monologue that is so disparate from anything seen in western cinema that it - by itself - could almost hold up the entire season effortlessly. I could be the person that just continually says, "Hey, more of that," but that's the entire modus operandi. And just like Bojack, the show does something wholesome, earnest, and brilliant, before becoming distracted, confused, and blitzed out of its mind and doing things that drags itself down and regrets later. This entire series should be a drama. It'd be a fantastic drama. It's a good comedy, bordering on brilliant. But it's also a bad comedy, and a good drama. And I wish it was only a good drama, in the same way that I wish Bojack was just a good person. But that's part of the onus of this series, isn't it? Bojack isn't a good person; he's a bad one, and you really need to stop waiting for a redemption, because it's not coming; he's always going to fall back into his harmful awfulness. This show is not a good comedy; it's a brilliant drama that is riding a wave, and it'll never get better than this, even though it desperately deserves that; it will always fall back on its dumb tropes and silly jokes, and unless it's brave enough to acknowledge that its genre trappings are not the best part of the show, it will never go that last inch it needs to become stunning. See more lasse l @RT62932725 07/14/2022 Another very solid season. See more Read all reviews

BoJack Horseman — Season 5

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