Without any fanfare this just dropped on Netlfix, time to binge I guess. Spoiler away after this post.
I always say I’m not going to binge Bojack when it comes out, and I always fail. Great eight episodes, and if the last eight pay off what’s been set up, I think I’ll be happy with the show ending. I mean, Bojack can end the show sober and happier (and I rather hope he does) but it doesn’t mean he might not have to eat shit and deal honestly with himself and others for his actions over most of his adult life. Same with actually dealing with the other characters in their arcs.
I just finished episode seven, and I almost don’t want to continue. It’s so close to a happy ending episode that I know everything is going to go off the rails in episode eight. Oh well, that’s Bojack.
Just finished. Thought it was much stronger so far than the mostly-misfire season 5.
I think that Hollyhock Manheim-Mannheim-Guerrero-Robinson-Zilberschlag-Hsung-Fonzarelli-McQuack is pretty sure she already knows the answer to her question at the end of episode 8.
I felt the first half of the episodes were just sort of setting the table and not terribly interesting. Diane’s description of depression hit pretty close to home.
Man, the writers really love ripping on Chicago, huh?
I’ve been binging seasons four and five. I’m trying really hard to get my wife to appreciate Bojack, and we got though “Free Churro” last night. I’m not sure I can convince her, because, well, talking animals. I was skeptical at first, but I think Bojack is probably the best TV there is, animated or not.
I’m here for the season 6 spoilers. Spoil away! I’ll get to the episodes soon, I hope.
I think it was in really bad taste for the LGBT community to have Tod be the serial killer. And Diane was probably the least screwed-up one on the show, and really didn’t deserve to die like that.
The “Chicago Baby Human” mascot was brilliant.
In the last episode they’re clearly setting up situations that will be bad for Bojack: Hollyhock finding out about some bad stuff he did, the screwball journalists investigating Sarah-Lynn and character actress Margo Martingale back on the streets.
I assume that the thing with the director is supposed to be another, the last thing being her hiring Courtney Portney. I only really remember her as the butt of tongue-twister jokes, was there any awkward situation with her and Bojack I’m forgetting?
Never mind, just realised the point of the scenes was about how he’s screwed over Gina, a character who had completely slipped my mind.
And the director is the one from Secretariat
I’m trying to think of another show where before viewing a new season it helps to rewatch the previous seasons more than this one and failing.
Arrested Development?
Venture Brothers? Breaking Bad?
There’s actually a lot of them.
So I showed up to the BoJack party a little late, but I’m glad I made it! My wife and I watched the whole series over the last 3 months or so. I expected nothing and got one of the best TV shows I’ve ever seen. Wow.
I realize you’ve all seen it and I’m not telling you anything you don’t know. But it amazes me how much we were made to feel for and care about these cartoon characters. And how somebody as objectively terrible as BoJack became such a sympathetic and relatable character.
Lots of ways they could have gone with the ending. I almost wanted to scream “DON’T DO ANOTHER INTERVIEW!!” at the TV. Of course we all knew he would, and what the result would be. Though if he’d been forgiven by the public and quietly went back to his teaching job, that might have been a happier ending, but much less satisfying, since (as asterion mentioned) he wouldn’t have had to actually deal with his shit.
Given the show’s propensity for skewering Hollywoo culture, I half expected the final episode to be a parade of series-finale cliches, and would not have been at all surprised if the last scene had been BoJack turning off the lights while walking out of a room.
But the actual finale was brilliant in its simplicity: BoJack has a one-on-one conversation with each of the important people in his life. And those conversations, while not wrapping everything up in a bow, very nicely punctuated each relationship, and ultimately left us hopeful for BoJack’s future.
I just can’t say enough good things about this show.
Agreed. I only wish you could have waited until the thread was a year old before you did, so I might have known not to go looking for a new season.
I DID take the opportunity to watch the Christmas special, though, so it wasn’t a total loss…