There’s death, several resonant #MeToo storylines that combine to crushing effect by season’s end, divorce, familial abuse, an episode-length and drug-fueled identity crisis, and a jaw-dropping eulogy episode (the sixth, “Free Churro”).
Season 5 finds the morally ambiguous Bojack starring in a pretentiously edgy streaming procedural called Philbert, cohabitating with a new love interest and on a semi-sober equilibrium before everything falls apart in violent fashion. You’re never going to be good because you’re not bad.” He helped a former child star go on a bender that led to her death, left a trail of chaos from his drinking and self-absorption, derailed a promising filmmaker’s career, and nearly slept with the teen daughter of a former flame, a dicey situation that returns to haunt him in a new set of 12 episodes.Īs Diane Nguyen says to our antihero toward the end of Bojack Horseman’s 5 th season on Netflix: “There’s no such thing as bad guys and good guys. Over four seasons, we’ve seen the titular washed-up-and-rebounded TV star BoJack Horseman engage in terrible behavior in between attempts at tiny, incremental redemption.
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