The real, life-altering, is-this-who-I-am kind. That’s depression! Alienation of self is a classic manifestation of depression! And not that clichéd, fake-ass TV depression of just laying on the couch for an afternoon. We’re seeing BoJack’s mean streak in these moments, sure, but we’re also seeing how detached he is, that weird delay between saying something and realizing you’re saying it. The relatively bare-bones animation emphasizes these moments where BoJack loses control of his nastiness his eyes bulge a little, shocked by his own reflexive awfulness, but then he retreats, eyes relax, and he doubles down, insisting that he’s merely stating the facts, that he doesn’t care if he hurts anyone, that he’s just being honest or whatever.

“That was, and I don’t say this lightly, worse than a hundred September 11ths,” BoJack tells Todd.) At every opportunity to be kind or supportive or even neutral, BoJack winds up being abrasive, cruel, or damaging, sometimes on purpose, but not always. (The first draft of the rock opera is bad, though. And that’s wordplay.īoJack’s funny and smart, but he’s also unbelievably lonely - so lonely that he sabotages his sort-of-assistant Todd’s (Aaron Paul) rock opera so Todd won’t be able to leave his side. Peanutbutter: Well, it’s a working title.īoJack: Well, it could be working harder. It’s wordplay.īoJack: You may have too forgiving a definition of the word wordplay. It’s like a peanut-butter-and-jelly sandwich. Peanutbutter: We are calling Peanutbutter and Jelly.

Tompkins), BoJack’s golden retriever rival. Unfortunately for BoJack, Diane’s with Mr. He’s supposed to be writing a memoir, partially at the insistence of his agent, a cat named Princess Carolyn (Amy Sedaris) partially at the insistence of his publisher, a penguin named Pinky Penguin (Patton Oswalt, in one of many roles on the show) and partially because, well, what else is he doing? Eventually, he hires Dianne (Alison Brie), a ghostwriter and regular human, to help - only the two become way more than memoirist and ghostwriter. Netflix’s BoJack is about BoJack Horseman (Will Arnett), the onetime star of the ‘90s sitcom Horsin’ Around, but now a vaguely, persistently miserable louche. Look past the anthropomorphic animal characters and the satire of toxic celebrity culture: This show is radically sad. It’s also one of the most aggressive portraits of depression I think I’ve ever seen. BoJack Horseman coming exclusively to all Netflix territories in mid-2014.īoJack Horseman is a weird cartoon about a washed-up sitcom star (who’s a horse), a snappy social criticism of the entertainment industry, and the kind of in-jokey cartoon designed to tickle the internet.

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