After all, BoJack said it himself way back in the pilot. But just like Don Draper doesn’t jump off a building at the end of “Mad Men,” BoJack also survives to look to the sky and find a shimmer of hope in the future. BoJack, after a long, nasty bender, nearly drowns in his swimming pool. By pushing the suicidal horse to the brink of death in its penultimate episode, the show broaches a possibility it’s been alluding to since the opening credits first ran. In the end, “BoJack Horseman” tries to have it both ways one more time.
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“BoJack Horseman” remains an outlier at the Primetime Emmy Awards, nominated for Best Animated Series for the first time last year, and I can’t tell you how many die-hard TV fans have told me the subject matter is simply too troubling to deal with. By the end of Season 1, once it proved the latter to be the case, the discussion shifted into what an animated original aimed at adults could effectively tackle - could a talking horse really be the next Don Draper?įor some, the conversation never evolved past that mental road block. Its roots in absurd comedy and dark drama were what caused critics to stutter a bit out of the gate (or, at least, this critic), unable to pin down whether this new show from a new creator on a new “online streaming service” was trying to imitate Adult Swim cartoons, AMC dramas, or actually forge its own path. 'BoJack Horseman' Review: Season 6, Part 1 Is an Exceptional Beginning of the End - SpoilersĮmmy Predictions: Best Actress in a Limited Series - More Than a Two-Horse Raceīalance has always been the impossible tightrope “BoJack Horseman” never fell off. 'BoJack Horseman': Meet the New Season 6 Characters and the Famous Voices Behind Them Unlike “Horsin’ Around,” “BoJack Horseman” never promised that “no matter what happens, at the end of 30 minutes, everything is going to be OK.” The series confronted addiction and depression head-on, often with a clarity and courage few other shows could emulate. (See: The 2014 “BoJack Horseman Christmas Special.”) But the silent final moments and subject matter speak to the series’ dramatic foundation. Bob-Waksberg spoke early and often of his love for ’90s sitcoms, which allowed him to not only reference them with hysterical specificity, but make a great “Horsin’ Around” episode all his own.
The episode of “Horsin’ Around” playing when BoJack is discovered facedown in the pool is the same episode playing in the hospital when, during an Episode 1 panic attack, he thinks he’s dying.įrom a thematic standpoint, the series finale also works as an homage to the genre “BoJack” loves and the genre it is the flash-forward, the seminal event, the reunion of characters, even the cuts to black (as though a commercial is about to play), all embody the form of so many sitcom endings. Peanutbutter’s first in a long line of Erica jokes pays off in the finale with the sheer implication of Erica’s always-offscreen presence forming the punchline. In the finale, he eats cotton candy at Princess Carolyn’s wedding reception. In the first episode, BoJack eats cotton candy at a house party. Even by Raphael Bob-Waksberg’s high referential standards, there are a lot of connections between the ending of “BoJack Horseman” and the beginning.