5 To Watch returns with…sharks!

Marine puns abound in “Fish Out Of Water,” BoJack Horseman‘s stunning, mostly wordless underwater episode. It’s immediately obvious how much fun the show’s team had exploring this new corner of their weird, wacky world on BoJack’s ill-fated trip to the Pacific Ocean Film Festival, where attendees wear diving helmets and drink in swanky, flooded hotels. There is, of course, the requisite (attempted) shark attack, but not in the way you’d likely expect. BoJack shoplifts from a convenience store after realizing he doesn’t have the correct currency. (They use shells down there, naturally.) The shark owner—who has normal human legs, because why wouldn’t he?—proceeds to chase BoJack and his baby seahorse with a baseball bat and a crowbar until they take a tumble over an underwater cliff. Satisfied that his prey have damaged themselves enough already, the shark retreats. He may have been more successful if he’d used his teeth, but the concept of a mafia-style shark enforcer is so much more fun (and so much more BoJack). [Emma Keates]

A shark attack leads to a reawakening in this season-one episode of Lodge 49, Jim Gavin’s alternately sunny and melancholy drama that was canceled far too soon. At the start of the season, Dud (Wyatt Russell) is reeling from the loss of his father and the abrupt end of his own surfing dreams. His search for community leads him to the eponymous lodge and ends up running in tandem with a hunt for scrolls with alchemical secrets. Dud is determined to secure both, but the world of Long Beach, California, with its ailing aviation industry, doesn’t seem like the most obvious place to find them. Like any knight on a quest, Dud endures many great blows, both psychological and physical: He fears his father lost the will to live and that his own desire is also waning. A shark bite hardly seems like the remedy for a crisis of faith, but that’s just what happens at the end of “Full Fathom Five.” It’s a boon to Dud, who now has an alternate theory for his father’s death. The episode’s title is Navy code for “man overboard,” but the beatific look on Dud’s face makes it clear that he’s no longer a lost soul. [Danette Chavez] 

King Shark (Ron Funches) has been a beloved member of the Harley Quinn gang since day one. You might assume King Shark got his spot on the squad for his brawn, but the sweet, good-natured friend is actually the team’s tech guru. On occasion, we get to travel with him under the sea and check out what’s going on in the kingdom he has more or less abandoned to avoid an arranged marriage with Tabitha. It’s a place that holds traumatic memories for him, considering he accidentally ate 13 of his brothers there in a blood-induced blackout. The third-season episode “Another Sharkley Adventure” features the tragic tale of how King Shark finally ascended to the throne after reuniting with the only brother he didn’t murder. You can kind of guess how that turns out. The installment also depicts some of the “confusing traditions under the sea.” For instance, Prince Shark had to take care of his dad’s diapers while the old king was in hospice, noting: “And you know we all just shit in the water, so if you got to wear a diaper down here, you know things are messed up!” [Mary Kate Carr]