annabaloo
Seriously though. Best show currently on television.
At first, I thought it was another cartoon for adults only with poor drawings. But it's not. It's different.
For one, the jokes are funnier and the sads are sadder. The first season starts out more of a plain funny show, but beware this show will break your heart if you stick with it.
It is also a really clever show - I'm sure that I'm not smart enough to catch all the references but sometimes I get the jokes and that feels good.
Also, this show may be one of the depictions of depression on TV and movies ever.
qbi-51387
THIS IS A REVIEW OF SEASON 4 (MOSTLY) CONTAINS VERY MILD SPOILERSExcellent series that I fell in love with. Insightful jokes, dark humour, superb tone and pacing.It all ends with season 3 though.Season 4 is almost completely devoid of any humour. It's full of unnecessary and uninteresting story arcs, and in most of the episodes Bojack is basically a background character.The premise of this season takes a bit to establish, and while the premise itself is fine and could be eventually interesting, it takes too long and is not utilized in any way. Only way it IS utilized is the end its consecutive story arcs.Bojack-centered story arc is short and relatively minor compared to the screen-time given to other characters personal dramas. It feels like a show in Bojack Horseman universe, and not a show about its main character.It wouldn't even be so bad, if not for completely botched ratio of depressive / funny content. The best part of this show was exactly that - when the writers wanted to 'go deep' with Bojack story, they masterfully connected jokes and drama, so after watching an episode, a viewer was left with this 'tears of sadness mixed with laughter' bittersweet kind of emotion. It made the show unique, and true. Not every episode was like that, but the depressing/existential ones usually were.When the first seasons made me feel bad, it was for a reason, or at least it felt that way. Bojack, apart from being self-centered arrogant asshole on daily basis, usually TRIED to do the right thing when it came to deeper moral problems. Obviously he usually failed miserably along the way. It made the character easy to empathize with, and made him feel realistic in his eternal dilemma - do the right thing, or succumb to egotistical self-centered thoughts. A rather universal human predicament.Sure, Bojack struggled and complained a lot in previous seasons, but now? Now there's NO struggle, No dilemma, there's ONLY complaining (and not the comical one). Bojack was always an asshole, but his dilemmas were understandable - at least when they weren't entirely comical or sociopathic. Now, in place of real and universal human (horse?) emotions, we get toxicity and depression. And almost nothing else. Sure, toxicity and depression are common too, but they are certainly less comical than being pathologically self-centered.Bad analogy: You could say that before, it seemed that Bojack needed some serious therapy with a psychologist (like we all do to different degrees, right?) and there was still some space for humour. Now, it looks like he needs hospitalization, psychiatrist, and lifelong drug therapy. It's not funny at all, it's just sad.Watching 'current' Bojack just makes me feel lousy. Awful things are happening to characters for Non-Bojack related reasons (or for no reason at all), and it's a weak thing to do, narratively speaking. Really weak and lazy writing, sorry to say it. Weak, when compared to the quality of previous seasons. Feels like a first draft of a script, and whoever wrote it mistook cheap drama for depth. 'Bojack Horseman' seems like The Simpsons story all over again. After a great beginning with several excellent seasons, the show falls into mediocrity, with each new episode being a weak imitation of what made the show great in the first place. Did the original writing team walk off the show? It certainly feels like that.Sorry for my rant, but i used to LOVE this show up until now. A real pity.
