REVIEW: BoJack Horseman Season 6: A Definitive Retrospective of the Choices We Make, People We Hurt, The Places We Go (Part 1)
This review of BoJack Horseman Season 6 (Part 1) contains no major spoilers.
Five years after an unsuspecting audience first followed the funny-sob story of Hollywoo's most conflicted half-man, half-horse BoJack Horseman (Will Arnett) on Netflix, we're finally getting close to healing and recovery... until old wounds start opening up again.
The first part of the show's sixth and final season picks up right where Season 5 left off -- BoJack following the advice of his friend and confidant Diane (Alison Brie) to commit himself to a rehab. From then on, we see BoJack finally exerting sincere effort to improve himself while his friends go through their own personal issues that have surfaced in BoJack's absence.
Consistent to the show's strong character development, this season lets go of its lead horse a bit and explores the supporting cast's individual troubles: Diane's search for purpose, Mr. Peanutbutter's (Paul F. Tompkins) hollow sense of happiness, Princess Carolyn (Amy Sedaris) juggling her responsibilities as a career woman and as a new mom, and Todd (Aaron Paul) revisiting some old family problems. We also get to explore more of Hollywoo's side characters such as Pickles (Hong Chau), Kelsey Jannings (Maria Bamford) -- while poking at real-life topics like corporate greed, the shallowness of social media and the use of mental illness as excuse for harmful behavior.
The first 8 episodes of Season 6 remains strong and engaging all throughout, even containing one of the series' funniest (reminiscent of "After the Party" from Season 2) and perhaps the most hopeful episode so far.
Watch it now on Netflix, because on January 31, 2020, we start over again.
RATING: 5/5 Bags of Chips
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| BoJack Horseman is created by Rafael Bob-Waksberg |
Five years after an unsuspecting audience first followed the funny-sob story of Hollywoo's most conflicted half-man, half-horse BoJack Horseman (Will Arnett) on Netflix, we're finally getting close to healing and recovery... until old wounds start opening up again.
The first part of the show's sixth and final season picks up right where Season 5 left off -- BoJack following the advice of his friend and confidant Diane (Alison Brie) to commit himself to a rehab. From then on, we see BoJack finally exerting sincere effort to improve himself while his friends go through their own personal issues that have surfaced in BoJack's absence.
Consistent to the show's strong character development, this season lets go of its lead horse a bit and explores the supporting cast's individual troubles: Diane's search for purpose, Mr. Peanutbutter's (Paul F. Tompkins) hollow sense of happiness, Princess Carolyn (Amy Sedaris) juggling her responsibilities as a career woman and as a new mom, and Todd (Aaron Paul) revisiting some old family problems. We also get to explore more of Hollywoo's side characters such as Pickles (Hong Chau), Kelsey Jannings (Maria Bamford) -- while poking at real-life topics like corporate greed, the shallowness of social media and the use of mental illness as excuse for harmful behavior.
The first 8 episodes of Season 6 remains strong and engaging all throughout, even containing one of the series' funniest (reminiscent of "After the Party" from Season 2) and perhaps the most hopeful episode so far.
Watch it now on Netflix, because on January 31, 2020, we start over again.
RATING: 5/5 Bags of Chips