“There’s no such thing as bad guys and good guys! We’re all just guys! Who do good stuff, sometimes. And bad stuff, sometimes. And all we can do is try to do less bad stuff and more good stuff. But you’re never going to be good! Because you’re not bad! So you need to stop using that as an excuse.”
Life is a never-ending show, my friend
“You haven’t changed at all!”
Four-plus seasons in, the greatest strength of BoJack Horseman is the understanding of the way things do and do not change. On one hand (or hoof, paw, or pseudopod depending on who you’re talking to) is the long-standing ethos of the show that broken things stay broken, and that people don’t change without a lot of…
Mr. Peanutbutter is a character who never does anything halfway. We know this about him, having seen countless examples of where his ruthless exuberance and game-for-anything attitude can take us. He’s completely comfortable with his low level of celebrity, willing to take on any project that’s willing to employ him,…
At this point in its life, BoJack Horseman’s tendency to experiment within the confines of television is well-established. To name only a few examples, there’s the big swing of “Fish Out Of Water,” the structural shuffling of “Stop The Presses” and “After The Party,” the futuristic fakeout of “Ruthie,” the drug and…
“You know what ‘from’ means? It means you don’t have to be there anymore.”
The question of whether or not BoJack Horseman is a good person hangs over the majority of the series that bears his name. On the surface, the answer feels like an easy no: he’s an egotistical asshole, he’s disrespectful of most everyone in his life, and incapable of focusing on the happiness of another person for too…
Season five of BoJack Horseman sees the return of a long-absent and keenly missed member of the show’s universe. Not Vincent Adultman or Character Actress Margo Martindale, but Elefante, the high-class restaurant that BoJack purchased on a dare and has since run into the ground. It was the sight of many important…
The gap between seasons of BoJack Horseman is typically a fallow period for news about the series—most interviews, reviews, and think pieces coming and going within two weeks of the season drop—but there was a particularly meaningful story that came out this past January. In an in-depth UPROXX interview (Disclaimer:…
The lines between reality and fiction have always been shaky on BoJack Horseman. Beyond the obvious framework of being about show business, it’s a show with characters constantly grappling with the truth, dealing with the consequences of the lies they tell each other—and more frequently, the lies they tell themselves.…
Hot on the heels of his critically acclaimed and criminally rejected theme for AMC’s Halt And Catch Fire, comedian, podcaster, and A.V. Club favorite Paul F. Tompkins is back to having fun with theme songs. Only this time he’s brought some friends.
We eventually came to love Halt And Catch Fire, AMC’s examination of the rise of the internet age—and, more importantly, the human bonds, dysfunctional and otherwise, that made those techy connections possible. But while the show’s credit sequence has always lived up to those lofty ambitions, visually—offering up a…
A stellar cast gathers to narrate Stinker Lets Loose, the purportedly resurfaced novelization of a supposedly beloved ’70s trucker film of the same name. The story is part Smokey And The Bandit trilogy, part Every Which Way But Loose; the titular Stinker leads lawmen on a wild chase that apparently includes a chimp.…
We’ve been enjoying David Fincher and Joe Penhall’s Mindhunter a lot lately—give or take some arguments about Carrie Coon and Fringe favorite Anna Torv—but we have to admit that the show’s theme song leaves a little bit to be desired. There’s nothing fundamentally wrong with it; it’s just the kind of dull, vaguely…
Poor Teddy and Linda. Through the entire series of Bob’s Burgers, these two characters share the plight of wanting so badly to make everyone around them happy, but the harder they try the more things go off the rails. They are the two characters who are most free of cynicism and regularly embrace the simple joys in…
“It seems to me that you need a lot of courage, or a lot of something, to enter into others, into other people. We all think that everyone else lives in fortresses, in fastnesses: behind moats, behind sheer walls studded with spikes and broken glass. But in fact we inhabit much punier structures. We are, as it turns…
BoJack Horseman, you crafty evil bastard. You got me.
After a season where all of BoJack Horseman’s characters are trying to forge new identities for themselves—parent, candidate, blogger, asexual—“The Judge” represents a fair amount of backsliding for everyone. They’re falling off the self-improvement wagon, back into the bad habits and bad business ideas that they’ve…
You have to give BoJack Horseman credit: it’s hard to think of a weirder way for a show to be consistent. The previous episode “Stupid Piece Of Sh*t” was a journey into the deepest parts of BoJack’s psyche, and it was one of the darkest episodes the show’s ever produced. Now with “Underground,” there’s a journey into…
