TV Review: BoJack Horseman Season 6, Part 1
For someone who spent their whole summer checking r/BoJackHorseman and r/TheStrokes for updates on when new stuff would be out from my two favorite sources of entertainment, I sure did play it cool about a week ago when Season 6, Part 1 of "BoJack Horseman" came out. I managed to avoid watching it in class, before class, and even kept my laptop away during lunch and dinner. However, I did watch it all other than that, and even though it's taken me a week to process everything, I'm now ready to tell you what I think.
Which is that I've completely stopped playing it cool and decided to turn my little corner of Blog into a BoJack tent evangelist scene. Seriously, watch the show.
It turns out that actually reviewing the season is pretty difficult without spoiling a bunch of things that are pretty crucial. I mean, the thing has been going on for five seasons. Basically, the show is about an alcoholic former sitcom star named BoJack—he's a horse, by the way— who made his millions in the 90s on a show called "Horsin' Around." Now middle-aged, BoJack lives alone in a huge house in a colorfully animated Hollywood populated by humans and animals alike, wondering what to do with his life. There are too many good things about this show to name: the hilarious animation, the blink-and-you-miss-them visual puns, the well-developed characters.
But what's really good about the show, and especially about Season 6, is that the show's animation allows it to be (for the most part) a deeply realistic, human, moving show. In one of the first scenes, all the characters are on an unintentional group call, and as they're trotted out, you realize that you missed them in the yearlong interval since Season 5. And we all just go along with it, because everything is so colorful, and because BoJack is a horse, and so we end up in this weird space where it's actually difficult to imagine that all the characters were drawn and voiced over, and not just created in their final form. In other words: have you heard the good news?
Fans of the previous seasons can rest easy knowing that all the characters continue to be multi-dimensional, funny, and realistic. This season will be the last—I think this is a good thing—and when the final 8 episodes come out, I think I will abandon all hope of playing it cool. If you see me on January 31 in the Ratty looking intently at my phone, I'm fine. I promise.
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