Bojack Horseman

Roar

Anybody watch this on Netflix? It's decent enough, nothing spectacular. Will Arnett is great and Mr Peanut Butter is brilliant. Not too many laugh out loud moments but it's solid enough

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxIXxrUQKYw

shortys94

I started watching, first episode was terrible, but it actually gets very good I find, I've watched quite a few episodes now and really enjoy it. Definately grows on you!

Angron

Saw it on netflix, been watching it over the course of the day. Picture reminded me of "The Magical Realm of Horse Man", so I gave it a lash. Decent enough show, cool voice cast.

Don't like Mr. Peanutbutter, he's too damned cheerful!

ShooterSF

Last few epidodes take a more drama-lite turn that I expected from this. Grew on me and hope they produce a second season.

Sideshow Mark

Only a couple of episodes to go, and I've really liked it. Not as many jokes as you'd expect, but a solid likeable show once you get over the initial weirdness. Pleased that it's been renewed.

calex71

This was the most excruciatingly dull pile of horse poo (pun intended) I've seen in a long while. Made it to episode 4 and a bit before giving up.

It's not remotely clever or funny, I wasn't going in expecting that or for it to like other catroons of it's kind but I was expecting to be entertained from the hype I had read on some other sites.

Maybe it was just lost on me

BoJack Horseman

calex71 wrote: »

Maybe it was just lost on me

You got that right friend.

Mezcita

BoJack Horseman wrote: »

You got that right friend.

Straight from the horse's mouth with that first post.

Zwillinge

Decent show, nothing amazing from it.

Enjoyable, but also just depressing but since they're animals it's not really that miserable

I'll watch another season sure!

I loved

when the slug poured salt onto himself!

Rezident

This was good fun, some great laughs in there.

shalalala

Just started and about 4 episodes in. Love it! Loved in the supermarket and the female dogs talk about how chocolate "literally kills me, but I just cannot keep away" so funny

BoJack Horseman

The "Christmas special" is dreck.

I've no idea what I was thinking.

ShooterSF

Thought it had it's moments. I love those silly discussions like the one about the cop in Die Hard probably because I like to annoy people by playing dumb and doing the same.

gimmick

The Christmas special was pretty awful alright.

Frank O. Pinion

Returns for season 2 on Friday, 17th July.

Frank O. Pinion

Season 2 was made available on Netflix today, which brings up the question of why is this thread in this forum and not the "Online TV" forum, as it's not actually a "Prime Time" cartoon?

BoJack Horseman

Season two was OK.

Started to drift towards the end I thought, I assume to stretch it into a 3rd season.

Harvey Low Fat Milk

Just finished season 2 today and I thought it was excellent. The show never offers easy answers or solutions for its characters and it has more depth than many dramas could only dream of. Plus it's always good to see character actress Margo Martindale on TV.

gimmick

Thought series 2 was excellent. Far better than series 1. Found myself chucking away throughout a good few episodes.

And I truly love how they truly over used the Hollywoo joke.

Really surprised there isn't a thread about this.

Just watching Season 3 and have to say that so far it's excellent - the underwater episode is wonderful.

GerB40

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Really surprised there isn't a thread about this.

Just watching Season 3 and have to say that so far it's excellent - the underwater episode is wonderful.

The definitely should be a thread for Bojack Horseman. It's a fantastic show and deserves more recognition.

Simi

It seems to resonate with some people, but most people I've talked to watched a few episodes & it didn't grab them at all. I think it's one of the best shows on television.

J. Marston

Definitely one of the best animated shows out there right now. For a show with such a silly premise, it gets quite dark.

GerB40

Simi wrote: »

It seems to resonate with some people, but most people I've talked to watched a few episodes & it didn't grab them at all. I think it's one of the best shows on television.

There's been many articles written about the show and it's depiction of depression. Bojack is such a great character that his obvious self hatred doesn't stop him from being constantly hilarious. It does take a few episodes until it really becomes great so maybe that's why your friends never clicked with it.

GerB40

The

episode set in 2007

is brilliant. Season 3 is looking good so far..

Shlippery

Excellent season. Really enjoyed it, in that kinda special depressing way BoJack instils within.

Will Arnett is a legend.

Mr E

Merged with main thread (moved from Prime Time Cartoons to Online TV)

Always thought this show is a slow starter and takes me a while to get back into , up to episode 4 in season 3 now (the underwater one). It's one of the best yet !!!!!!! :pac:

J. Marston

Episode 11 is so dark.

Mr E

Mr E wrote: »

Merged with main thread (moved from Prime Time Cartoons to Online TV)

No wonder I couldn't find it. Didn't check anywhere outside of here.

I absolutely loved this season. It just hit me so hard in loads of different ways.

GerB40

Whoa, that season was interesting... It got so dark sometimes that you'd forget you're watching a comedy but this programme can get away with it. The writers are certainly confident enough to tell their own story and not be swayed by populist shyte like a lot of "comedies". Yet some episodes (the 2007 episode in particular) seen to have more jokes per minute than even The Simpsons in their prime.

But two episodes that stick out, not just from season 3 but from the show as a whole, are

the underwater episode and episode 11. The idea of a mostly silent episode sounds stupid. It sounds like writers trying to be artsy and fancy but fúck me did they pull it off. For the first time in a long time we see a happy abandon in Bojack. He forgets himself for a little bit and as a result, he's actually happy with the baby seahorse. Of course it's sad for Bojack when the baby is reunited with his father but for a brief time we see a nurturing side to him that we don't really see with anyone else. Except Sarah Lynn. (The gag at the very end of the episode is superb). Sarah Lynn dying was so heartbreaking. Again, the writers should be commended for this as they have basically turned Bojack into an anti-anti-hero. We shouldn't like him but we try to but he is clearly toxic and he makes it almost impossible to like him. I do agree with the likes of Todd, Princess Carolyn and Diana abandoning him. They will clearly be happier without Bojack, but I still want him to somehow find happiness. And I doubt that can happen...

gimmick

Todds speech at him late in the series was pretty amazing. So un Todd like. The fact he used fúck kind of made it seem even heavier. The fact that word has been used 2 -3 times in the entire series gives it that extra weight.

The way the series ending was actually quite sad. Bojack is a bigger mess than ever before and now it seems he has a long lost daughter. Poor Bojack.

Good series. Mr Peanut Butter is still my favourite. Just so much enthusiasm.

Angron

Just breezed through seasons 2 and 3, I'm really looking forward to season 4 now. Show gets fairly deep and emotional at times.

NufcNavan

What a show.

Not what I expected at all.

It really reaches inside of you and pulls all the emotional cords, which catches you off guard because you're watching a cartoon.

ixoy

Season 4 starts September the 8th. Looking forward to it - I've never been more wrong about a show than what I originally thought it would be like.

mcmoustache

ixoy wrote: »

Season 4 starts September the 8th. Looking forward to it - I've never been more wrong about a show than what I originally thought it would be like.

I watched the first few episodes and just thought that it was OK. Not bad but nothing special. I came back to it some time later and something clicked after a few episodes. I ended the season wanting more.

I've since rewatched the first season and it's not that the first half was bad or anything. It's just that watching it for the first time, I simply didn't get it. I was seeing it through a lens of other animated comedies and in that light, it was nothing special.

Once I got it, I couldn't get enough. It's really something special.

Sabre0001

Is Bojack Horseman about to get zanier and more upbeat?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bf12qwPWDVI

Looking forward to this.

J. Marston

Sabre0001 wrote: »

Is Bojack Horseman about to get zanier and more upbeat?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bf12qwPWDVI

Looking forward to this.

Don't fall for it. Just when you're laughing at something, boom, emotional gut-punch.

Robert McGrath

J. Marston wrote: »

Don't fall for it. Just when you're laughing at something, boom, emotional gut-punch.

This.

Just finished season 4. Parts are quite dark but episode 11 is one of the best bits of TV I've watched in a long time. It really is a superbly made show when it gets it right - funny and heartbreaking in equal measure

Oh man.

Season 4 was incredibly well done.

All throughout the entire show, you're made to see what an absolute mean spirited wench Bojack's mother is. And then Time's Arrow comes along and.. bam. You start to see that she's the way she is because of outside forces.

The whole season was great.

Was this also the only season so far to end on an actual positive note?

Penn

Deleted User wrote: »

Was this also the only season so far to end on an actual positive note?

No, Season 2 ended with the shot of him running up the hill outside his house, and then the baboon tells him it gets easier.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2_Mn-qRKjA

Penn

Another great season, filled with some absolutely hilarious moments and characters, and some absolute gut-punches

(the Princess Carolyn reveal about her descendant in the future... never saw it coming for a moment. Pure genius writing.)

Occono

Penn wrote: »

Another great season, filled with some absolutely hilarious moments and characters, and some absolute gut-punches

(the Princess Carolyn reveal about her descendant in the future... never saw it coming for a moment. Pure genius writing.)

I did, because it was similar to a twist in another show. Spoilers:

in How I Met Your Mother, one episode has Robin talking to her future children, then it's revealed she's just imagining them in the present.

Penn

Occono wrote: »

I did, because it was similar to a twist in another show. Spoilers:

in How I Met Your Mother, one episode has Robin talking to her future children, then it's revealed she's just imagining them in the present.

Ah, never seen that.

When she lost the baby and started drinking I thought she was going to end up sleeping with Bojack (or at least show them getting back together, likely may have taken some time for her to get pregnant again so soon after a miscarriage) which also would have shown why her descendant was talking about Bojack and Diane.

bot43

The "Ruthie" episode

Jesus Christ

J. Marston

Finished season 4 and it was great. It's a rare show that can improve season after season but Bojack is doing it.

Doggy doggy...what now?

J. Marston

J. Marston wrote: »

Finished season 4 and it was great. It's a rare show that can improve season after season but Bojack is doing it.

Doggy doggy...what now?

Really I'm 4 or 5 episodes into it and finding it hard to get into this season, their not awful but not feeling it. From your post seems to be worth sticking with ?

GerB40

The depiction of dementia was outstanding. Rick and Morty is good but Bojack Horseman is miles ahead intellectually and comically. Bojack seem to have more of a grasp of his problems than he's had in the show so far and he deserved the happy ending he got with Hollyhawk. And I never thought I'd feel bad for his mother but this show keeps surprising me. If Bojack Horseman continues to thread the line between dark and funny carefully it could easily become the most important cartoon/comedy of recent times.

J. Marston

Deleted User wrote: »

Really I'm 4 or 5 episodes into it and finding it hard to get into this season, their not awful but not feeling it. From your post seems to be worth sticking with ?

I think so, it gets better and better as the season goes on but different strokes for different folks.

GerB40

GerB40 wrote: »

The depiction of dementia was outstanding. Rick and Morty is good but Bojack Horseman is miles ahead intellectually and comically. Bojack seem to have more of a grasp of his problems than he's had in the show so far and he deserved the happy ending he got with Hollyhawk. And I never thought I'd feel bad for his mother but this show keeps surprising me. If Bojack Horseman continues to thread the line between dark and funny carefully it could easily become the most important cartoon/comedy of recent times.

That's what I found amazing.

Mentioned before, but they spent a lot of the show going over how awful the mother was. And then in the course of a single episode, they turned around your perception and you realise that she is suffering as much, if not more, than anyone else.

It's one of the most heart breaking shows out there. I've rarely laughed out loud, but it's not supposed to be, I don't think.

Angron

It's funny, when I first saw Bojack crop up on Netflix a few years ago I was expecting a more lowbrow comedy, something in the vein of South Park. The show has certainly proven me dead wrong in that assumption the more it has progressed.