Still haven’t gotten around to watching BoJack Horseman?
Worry not: Creator Raphael Bob-Waksberg recommends episodes that serve as perfect intros.
In one sense,BoJack Horsemanis over.
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And yet, in another sense,BoJack Horsemanlives forever on Netflix.
Six seasons is a lot of TV, after all.
In this episode, BoJack tries his best to sabotage their wedding.
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“You get a sense of, ‘oh stuff is going down already.’
We’re joining these characters midstream.
There’s a climax in this episode where Bojack tries to stop a wedding.
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It’s also the introduction of Vincent Adultman, a fan-favorite character.
It brings back Margo Martindale, who’s also a fan-favorite character.
Just being in the world with these characters.”
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I feel like there are cycles, even just in the last five years.
Wow, men are being held accountable…but then it kinda subsided like, but are theyreally?
Some men are being held accountable, but by whom and for how long?
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In season 1 there is some misogyny and problematic behavior on BoJack’s part that is played somewhat lightly.
The show’s not gonna take BoJack’s side forever.
That’s an important bit of context for going back and watching the show from the beginning."
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It goes to serious places and also gets so zany," Bob-Waksberg says.
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What’s it gonna take to make you happy?
The answer that comes in this episode is, ‘yeah, exactly!’
That is what we are investigating!
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You are correct to be asking that.
We are also asking that.
BoJack is asking himself that, other characters are asking that, this is an investigation of that.
We are not ignoring that central irony.
We were brainstorming who might be fun.
He really liked the script.
It wasn’t just, ‘what if Harry Potter was secretly an ahole?’
You get a sense of that watching this episode.
Episode 1 of season 3 is a grabber, it makes it easier to watch the next one."
He continues, “This episode is very confidently what the show is.
I think it grabs you in a way that season 1, episode 1 does not.”
It is very standalone in a way that maybe isn’t the perfect representation of what the show is.
But it is very experimental, which most of our show is.
There was a lot of ‘let’s try this thing, let’s try that thing.’
It’s a very beautiful portrait of it.
I’m very proud of it, I think it got a lot of attention with good reason."
You hear just how self-loathing and abusive it is," Bob-Waksberg says.
It’s hinted at in other episodes but here we’re diving into it.
It’s also Illustrated with this very frenetic, messy animation style.
You see BoJack the way BoJack sees himself, which is very messy and unformed.
This episode gives you a sense of that side of the show.
It’s a good introduction to that kind of storytelling."
The face-acting was incredible in the episode.
What Amy and her team did is pretty incredible.
To watch it on its own is a different experience, you get a different appreciation for it."
BoJack Horsemanis streaming on Netflix.
