It’s kinda cool how sometimes his body language matches that of an actual horse. His ears tilt back and his eyes get all wide when he’s startled or scared. His ears perk forward when he’s paying attention. He pins them all the way back when he’s angry. The attention to detail in this show is incredible
@@danabell122 Prolly cuz any closeness felt along his life was tainted. It's always drugs, sex, or movie stuff that draws people in2 him. When he's put in front of a real human n has 2 act like 1, he crumbles.
Id like to think the last words I will hear will be from my Ex Fiancè. Hopefully she would tell me her day is good, unlike in the dreams she keeps telling me I was never enough for her. Life is a horrible horrible thing we all just have to wait for it to end.
@@danabell122Bojack is in love with the idea of Diane, not Diane herself. He loves the idea of someone that is as broken as he is, someone who has gone through pain and has been hurt like he has, which is why he tries to keep Diane close to him. However, Diane has learned to set boundaries in order to protect herself, which sets her apart from the other women in his life. When he kissed Diane, she was able to stand her ground and maintain her boundaries. Typically, Bojack tends to overreact or run away when other people set boundaries with him, like how he forced Eddie to fly then proceeded to destroy the summer house they rebuilt together after Eddie let Bojack know how upset being forced to fly made him, aka setting a boundary with Bojack. When Diane set her boundaries when Bojack kissed her, he respected her boundaries and remained friends with her. Diane seems to be the only woman he respects enough to "allow" her to have boundaries (he crosses Princess's boundaries constantly throughout the series). Diane is able to keep herself distant from Bojack to avoid being hurt by him, causing Bojack to not quite understand Diane on a personal level. I doubt he knows anything about her character development after she divorced Mr. Peanutbutter, and that final bit of character development is what allows Diane to finally cut Bojack out of her life, and their final moments together mark the end of the series. Bojack may think he loves Diane, but Diane isn't letting him close enough for him to actually understand who she is as a person, so he only loves what he thinks she is, his idea of her. I think at some point, he subconsciously realized how toxic he could be for Diane, which is why in his dying moments he's on a phone call with Diane and not conjuring a true image of Diane. He knows she's better off being as far away from him as possible, keeping a boundary or a block against him to keep herself safe from him. After all, Bojack never learns and constantly repeats the same patterns of behavior over and over again, even in his final moments with Diane. Diane's whole arc seems to be about boundaries, setting boundaries, letting go of some boundaries, that sort of thing.
@@Invictus1074 Hope you’re doing good and staying safe. If you need to talk to someone or need help, there are people who care. Sending support and hearts. ❤️❤️❤️
Everything about that episode is so brutal The way their car gets progressively more destroyed and Sarah Lynn gets more tired and hopeless The scene in the hotel perfectly portrays how despair feels for me At that point, there was no attitude that could make them feel better, nothing could solve what they had been doing for months
Not really relevant to the show, but it can also happen before strokes and seizures. We're often distinctly aware of something being catastrophically wrong with our bodies before we even know what we're feeling.
@@DustyHoneyYes yes, this distinction is very important. When I have panic attacks, I’m very aware of that “sense of impending doom” that can happen when you’re having an urgent health episode, and it makes the panic 10x worse. It’s very important to remember that that’s a normal feeling to have when you’re panicking, however terrifying it seems.
Even in her dementia riddled state, Beatrice could never be able to know what ice cream tasted like. She never had it. And even in a state of pure delusion, she was still lucid enough to remember that she had never tasted ice cream.
How do you know she never had it? When she was a kid yeah that’s obvious, but there was nothing pointing to ALL of her adult years saying she’s never had it
She did have a freezey pop, her mom let her though before she went into her grief fueled episode in Time’s Arrow I always thought her pause was her remembering how she only got it when her mother was in distress on the night things really changed
@@frozenzenberry4101 in one of the flashbacks it shows the mom saying to her having iced cream bc it’s a boys treat basically and that “a lemon with some sugar sprinkled on it is a good healthy girl snack” so I assume that from the OP is what they’re saying hahaha but I’m like she died at 80 years old and was clearly rebellious she must’ve had iced cream at some point we have no reason to assume otherwise besides the flashback when she’s like 8 yrs okd
"But it's... fake." "Yeah, well. It makes me feel better." This quote hits so freaking hard every time, because I'm guilty of doing the exact same thing as PC, creating idyllic worlds and situations in my head to escape into when life gets too much and everything that can go wrong goes wrong. Sometimes you have no other option but to escape into your own head where everything is perfect just to cope with being alive, which for me can be extremely depressing and overwhelming at times.
I feel the same. I had an overactive mind that I used to curb with daydreaming an exciting story. Now I feel like it’s the only thing I ever really wanna do. Life is so hard these days that I don’t want to hopelessly look for a light at the tunnel anymore, I just want to light a candle where I’m sitting.
that's why people believe in religion, it's all fake but makes them feel better. I love imagining I'm on a beautiful meadow and have kittens and puppies playing around me 😅
When I first watched the show, « I’m so tired of squinting » absolutely broke me. I distinctly remember saying it out loud _with_ Diane just as my eyes started leaking, despite never having seen the episode before. Then I sobbed for a good ten minutes before putting on the next episode. This show man…
Yeah... thats when kids edit Bojack videos. The true gut punch during Downer Ending is the abrupt cut to credits and people NEVER add it. Why do you think the episode is named like that!? And still here I am, crappy viewcounts and not daring to make my own clipshows due to the copyrights.
Speaking as someone who didn't just have an abusive bio mom, but later an abusive adoptive mother, I remember sitting in my room late at night watching the episode play out. When he said that, I broke down crying immediately. The anger and betrayal and the 'Why?' in his voice, I felt that. I *still* feel that to this day. I knew EXACTLY what he was feeling, still being a kid and having to live with the fact the person you're supposed to depend on failed you and for some survivors, you'll never know why.
Just watched that episode yesterday, man, even if it was just twenty-something minutes of Bojack speaking without any intervention, i think it's one of the most true, intense, deep and emotional pieces of TV i've seen in my life. It just pushes through your heart, even if i've never suffered abuse in any form it made me somehow feel that dread and hate he had against his mom, at the same time coming from a sincere deep feeling of begging for love. It's too much man
Another moment that breaks me is in free churro where bojack says this “ It was written by my friend Herb Kazzaz, who’s also dead now, and it starred this little girl named Sarah Lynn.” And just that pause bojack gives before continuing his monologue 💔
Its sickening how Bojack still viewed Serah Lynn as a little girl. And why wouldn't he? He watched her grow up from the age of three, was a paternal figure to her and romanticized the dynamic between 20-year-old him, in acting form, and her. Later reinacting being her father. Before he had sex with her countless times when she was 'legal', and gave her the drugs that killed her after she was sober for 9 months.
What are you talking about? 🤨 I've seen people talking about Hollyhock cutting Bojack out of her life and they didn't have any problem with that knowing how toxic Bojack he is.
@@ChelseaPariella I remember videos coming out around the time the final season was airing saying that Hollyhock was in the wrong to cut him off because "She was his only lifeline"
@@phi1105which is pretty fucked up, seeing as she was in college perfectly living in her life. She shouldn't have been a grown man's lifeline. BoJack's addiction with fame was what fucked him over. He fully deserved the consequences of his actions.
I still can't believe there are people who somehow think she was in the wrong, but there sure are people who think she somehow owed BoJack which is CRAZY to me.
I like how emotional masochism is addressed in this show Its pretty common but its usually not addressed properly Its so sad because even when you are happy you just feel empty So its either feel shitty or feel nothing Its why Bojack cant just be happy. He doesnt do shitty things by accident he needs to fan the flames of the dumpster fire which is his life. Its what the first version of dont stop dancing is about in my opinion
The fact when in 2:08 Herb says "I'm not worried, Bojack. The future is bright, just look at it" and gestures to a purely false skyline off a movie set that blocked the actual sunset does something to my brain.
19:52 The conversation between “Diane” and Bojack always sent chills down my back especially “ yeah…my day was good…” it’s like a mermaid soothing you with words to encourage your end! I’m not good at explaining…
I think you’re absolutely right. This version of Diane is what Bojack’s subconscious manifested to self-soothe. This voice line from Diane in my opinion was so soothing and sweet, almost like it was a completely different person, because it was. It was the version of Diane Bojack had in his head, how he saw her mentally. I truly believe that in the end, Diane is the person he had loved more than anybody else he’d ever met. Wanting to hear that her day was good before he died, wanting to sit in silence with her for a while before they parted, never to speak again. He really did just .. love her. In the most honest way, even though he never knew how to do it right.
I relate to Diane in a a lot of ways. I’m an Asian American fully disconnected from their Asian culture, I suffer from depression, we hold similar political beliefs, but the one that hits the worst is the reveal of what she had been writing. I’m not a writer but I am a musician and I remember so so so many times of having that exact same hatred of oneself and having to lie to someone’s face about it just do avoid their disappointment. Man, that reveal puts a hole in my gut every time
Not asian but im arabic/greek, and it was so nice to see someone like me. Like.. never enough of either culture somehow. Feeling like im cosplaying when i try to be a part of my familys culture. Not white enough to fit in with white people, but not non-white enough to fit in there either. I didnt know there were others like me
The single greatest quote in this show is from the Old Sugarman Place. Bojack is in the lakehouse, on the floor watching the Sarah Lynn show about her death. Simultaneously it shows Honey Joseph and Beatrice walk in 70 years ago searching for Crackerjack’s blanket. And Joseph says, “lets go, it’s only ghosts here in the winter”. What an amazing quote and show
There’s something that gets me when Bojack feeds his mother delusions. Bojack hates her, and we hate her for what she did to Bojack. But holding her accountable for what she did is useless now, and in the horrible decline of dementia, maybe she still deserved some peace of mind.
Someone else pointed out that she during that scene was probably aware and just lied about not knowing to give bojack some sort of closure. When bojack mentioned the icecream and she said it was delicious. But she never had ice cream.
@@CeraWorldit wouldn't be hard for someone with dementia to think they've had it, sure what they "taste" isn't probably what's real, but to them it is.
@@EggScramb1ed her expression as she sighs "It tastes... delicious" looks kind of defeated, like she's kind of accepted the fate that she has now after the awful life she's both had and given to her own child.
@@CeraWorld late response but she had one of those pop things honey said she couldnt after cracker jack died, you can see her eating it right when honey is doing that duet im pretty sure. maybe she was thinking of that?
I won't say she deserves peace but to avoid making others suffer and giving some grace to others in their time of need, is something that's needed to make our world a better place to live.
When you know that Bojack's mom was lying about her ability to not know where she was when she knows she's never gotten to eat ice cream as a child but in him comforting her she wants to give him the closure that she is happy enough with her memories and loneliness and reaped the life she sowed and his small act of comfort made her happier than the memories of her childhood post the death of her brother and the lobotomy of her mother ever was
Holy shit now that I think back to it, I never realized she never had ice cream. Her mom said it was only for boys or something, right? And during the scene where bojack is comforting her during my first watch I never got why she made that face. Thanks for pointing that out! This show has many great callbacks
Ppl with dementia can experience hallucinations and delusions. I don't think she was lying or playing along with Bojacks story, I think she was genuinely confused and surprised she COULD have ice cream and her brain made up the flavor she never experienced, and since ice cream is a special treat, of course it would be "delicious". But I do think your take is a much happier one!
I like to think that they thought theyd never speak again, but they did. They stayed friends - BoJack changed, they spoke over the phone, sent eachother letters... I like to think BoJack babysitted Ruthie, that he and Todd had movie nights, that he volunteered at a drama class... the silence on the rooftop wasnt disgust or hatred or anything else - it was uncertaincy. But everything worked out in the end. "But its not real." "Yeah, well. It makes me feel better."
I always loved Princess Carolyn's reaction to Judah's love song. She's happy, but not surprised. Her satisfied little sigh and her smile seem to say, "huh, we really do love each other, don't we? This makes sense. We're a perfect fit, so of course we should be together."
When PC named untitled princess caroline project "ruthie", i figured it was coming. It was the only thing i could think about the first time i saw the episode bc i needed to emotionally prepare myself for when that bomb dropped and i wouldnt cry bc my bf at the time wouldve made fun of me. But i did anyway. Like a lot. And i was right, he did. And it was very mean but he played it off as a "classic us" moment. So when i was done crying, i stood up, walked out of his house, and broke up with him before starting my car and driving away. As much as i was in shock that he mocked me to begin with, doing so after i had lost our baby was the final straw for me. Everyone, you deserve someone who wont belittle and mock you for having feelings.
Honestly good for you ❤ you should never let anyone laugh at that for real. It's a pain no man would ever even know how to start to deal with. You are strong as hell and don't ever give up
i rewatch this show like twice a year (early fall and late winter) for comfort. it’s a safe place for me - the bad parts make me feel more seen and like i can connect w a piece of me that isn’t as easy to access in daily life
That she isn’t in the mood for ice cream, while she’s surrounded by the change she meticulously stacked and the coffee cup, and she flips through channels abnormally fast? Dark.
When you think about it Bojack and Diane had the exact same problem as performers Diane refused to be happy so she could write her book about pain (good damage) Bojack saw his life as a performance (the show stopper)(the view from half way down) Both refused to be happy so they wouldnt ruin their art because the amount of pain theyve felt couldnt have been for nothing. To be happy they have to let go of the past and move on which makes the past seem insignificant Diane eventually writes her book and moves on from her past “Life a bitch and then you keep living” Bojack steps out of the light and stops being a celebrity He learnt that he could sell his sadness as a brand (especially after the interview) Only when he learns his lesson from the second interview is when he finally lets go Or when hes sent to prison where he isnt the centre of attention or showered in pity for his sadness is he able to let go
The most annoying thing about Bojack Horseman is... Trying to get family \friends to watch it. So many people can't get past "it's an adult animated comedy, and I don't watch those kind of shows" that they won't even give it a chance 😢😢 Oh well I guess it's their loss , they're missing out on a masterpiece
The “it’s you” scene got to me. I fall into similar thought patterns as bojack sometimes. I’m trying to remind myself that my actions are what matters, not feeling bad about myself.
5:00 I can't help but wonder if this scene where Sarah Lynn starts freaking out and asking if she's doomed is due to her body shutting down. I've heard that fatal heart attacks are often preceded by an impending sense of doom. Perhaps her body knew that it was dying and was trying to alert her.
There’s so many underrated parts of this show. I think one of them is how well written women characters are: PC and Diane and Sarah Lynn all had different endings but they were all amazingly written.
I know I’m so late to the party, but I always wondered if Sarah Lynn was comforted or terrified by Bojack’s words. He talks about being a blink in the universe to comfort himself about his own actions but that’s not what Sarah Lynn needed to hear. If anything she needed to hear that even without fame or fortune she is worth something. I always wondered if Bojack wasn’t only responsible for her death, but also for the terror she felt while drifting off to sleep.
I think that as tragic as it sounds, those words nihilistically comforted her enough to let go of her life. I interpret it as another one of bojack's selfish act of nihilistically consoling himself which leads to the death of sarah lynn. Thats just fucked up
I do the Ruthie thing. When I’m down and alone, I imagine myself reciting wedding vows, talking about how true love was worth the wait, how I’m so excited to start our family, how I can now look back on all the bad times with peace knowing they were leading me here. PC is right, it really does make me feel better.
The cinematography of this show is so fucking good. 2:12 we, the viewer, get to see the actual scenery, while it looks bright, beyond the fake sky is a slowly setting sun, signifying that it's bright now, and it will never stay bright after Horsin' Around.
The way diane says "ok" in his phone call just breaks my heart, reminds me of when i called the hotline when i was younger and the person was very sweet
@@ZK-ib2wp this made me tear up, i was in a bad place when i posted this (i just left a long term relationship) and im doing much better, thankyou kind stranger
Awwww that’s a sweet exchange. Nice to hear that you’re doing better. Btw reading the comment section on Bojack videos is like one big self-help group.
@@Rockleefan3 That moment still speaks to me, and idk why dianes phone call got to me, it just sounded like the person i talked to and i asked them to keep talking to me
My main takeaway from this show is the futility of calling people out. I refuse to capitulate and celebrate the characters who made Bojack as miserable as he made them. It was all pointless. No amount of torment will make anyone a better person. No one rises to the occasion. We have to be lifted up into it, and even though Bojack was and sometimes still is awful, watching him or anyone around him suffer simply does not make me feel better, and even if it could, I wouldn’t want it to. I can’t watch this series again. I can’t enjoy it anymore. I’m grateful for that.
Yes, I think people tend to miss the show layers. It's not only about how awful Bojack is and how he must suffer for his actions, i think this is one easy way of conceiving what the show is. But for me is a lot about healing our traumas and pain in order to be a better person because in the end everyone is a little fuckd up. We always came from a previous generation which had to handle its own issues and we're here experiencing ours. Easier to said than done, but still is as complex as living because living this life demands a lot of us but we still have to go on because life goes on nevertheless
2:39 Mr Whiskers ran away from Hollywoo(d) because he knew how miserable it was making him. If BoJack had done the same, Sarah Lynn would be alive. Penny never would've been traumatized for life. Hollyhock wouldn't get hurt so bad by someone she thought she could trust. Todd, who BoJack, maybe screwed over the most time and time again, wouldn't get hurt either. But BoJack needed people to love him and trying so hard for their approval eventually cost him everything.
@@sammybutler3027 It's probably half and half, changing your environment won't automatically change who you are or your issues, however if said environment has been exasperating or encouraging those issues than removing yourself from that place can be the first step to being ready and able to address them. The show does highlight at times how the media industry enables terrible behaviour, as well as endangers it's workers with unsafe working environments. Bojack's drug fuelled physical assault on Gina was imbued with his own issues, however it was drug fuelled and said prescription came from a stunt gone wrong and then the misuse was driven by chaotic shooting schedules. That's without all the covering up for valuable performer's awful behaviour. Or the treatment of child actors like Sarah Lynn.
@@sammybutler3027 Eh, I wouldn't say that Bojack's that different, certainly not in Hollywoo. By the "it's you" speech, I don't think the show means that Bojack is innately bad/broken, it means that he still has the ability to control his actions and is accountable to them regardless of what's influencing him. That includes thinking about the situations he puts himself in and the people he surrounds himself with and how he conducts his relationships. And of course he has to do it every day. He can't just put himself in a healthier situation and expect that to be it and finished, getting better is something you have to do every day.
POV - You’re high as all high hell wondering why this broken horseman and animal ppl in LA have such a complex and philosophically painful existence that rips ur soul outback and lays bares your emotions whilst society burns. Then remember it’s probably gonna be okay. Until u realise okay is the only stage of yourself that ur comfortable lying in. That. That’s too much man.
Something about the calm tone Diane has when she says her day is good makes me cry every time. She's never spoken in such a soothing tone in the entire show. Bojack was desperate for self-soothing in what could've been his final moments, and he just wanted to hear Diane say she was having a good day.
"You're what's wrong with you." is very hard to hear. But if you accept that, it helps so much. Someone once told me, and it really helped, they're still a true friend to me. And now I can be a real friend to them.
Bojack Horseman is my favorite show. I've never watched anything like it. I used to watch it in my darkest times to validate myself when no one else would. After I recovered, I couldn't bring myself to watch it. It made me - I made myself - spiral over small mishaps and find myself back in a dark pit. It's a shame that I can't watch this masterpiece without sinking myself into it. I had a rough day today and saw this .
The scene where Herb shows Bojack the beautful blue sky façade & tells him the future is bright really fucks me up. So many people in my life gave me all the perfect promises they thought I wanted to hear, some might have even been genuine. But regardless of whether their intentions were good or not, when I would finally see what was behind that fake blue sky, it tarnished the memories I had of those people. I'm fortunate to have found people who took the façade down & didn't sugarcoat the situation. And that takes a far greater amount of love & courage to do so. Please stay well, everyone.
There are other episodes that are much heavier, episodes that give me intense anxiety, or geniunely gave me chills, the scene at 11:05 makes me deeply sad. What id give to see beatrice hug her son just once, to show bojack any love, the same type of attention i rarely ever got as a kid myself
This show made me spiral deeper into my depression tbh. I never should have watched it in that period of my life. Now after well slowly learning to get pass it all, this show hold so much value in my life that no other show (well besides like two cartoons) hold on me. Even then its in a different way from those. This is comfortable that comfort you have when you go back to all that self hate and emptiness cause its a familarity, comfort in the emptiness. The other two are more of a self love and enjoy life way. This show brings me to tears everytime in such a specific way.
The moment bojack grants Beatrice a moment of peace by describing the lakehouse, even though she abused him his whole life and he didn’s owe her anything, was THE moment for me. I cried my eyes out. Really didnt think this show would have such impact when I started watching it. I’m rewatching for the second time now! Really one of my favorite animated shows ever
When I first watched this show it took me AGES to get through. I related to nearly every character and that made it very hard to watch. I'm glad this show exists and people are talking about it.
My life felt like bojacks but I try to not have it be, everyday I try to better myself but it's always hard... I think about that last quote I think about it a lot
Im so glad you included Diane at the airport. All that fighting all that effort and the rich man won and shes broken. And a random man just tells her to smile. Not a suggestion, not even a rude "you should." Just "smile!".
every single time i see the view from halfway down or a clip i literally start sobbing LMFAO one of the saddest episodes ive ever seen on any movie or series
for some reason, i believe that the reason Beatrice had that pause when bojack talks about vanilla ice cream, is because she hasn't tasted one before so shes trying to figure out how it taste.. probably something everyone has thought sbout but 🤷♀️
The showstopper might be my favorite episode of the series, with bojack’s swelling addiction and rage coming into full view and the melding of his character with Philbert’s culminating in strangling Gina and ultimately coming face to face with his addiction in the form of the massive caricature of himself. There was no more running away for him to do from there and the way that was represented was so tragic and haunting, and the music toed the line between sinister and ever so slightly uplifting perfectly. Love this show so much
This is a real show. Where people are flawed, difficult and sometimes insufferable but at times they are kind and loving. This is how we all are, good and bad. One of the best shows I have watched.
The first time I watched the view from halfway down and secretariat began reading his poem I sobbed for like a good 5 minutes purely due to the imagery of secretariat regretting his decision before he died but to late to stop himself from dying.
When I first watched this, I just started college and still inexperienced in a lot things. I enjoyed it for bringing attention to mental health, it's weird humor, and a few things I felt I related to but didn't understand why. Years later, I've learned I have a personality disorder, completely changed as a person, moved across the country by myself alone for my own good, and can now appreciate this show fully. My life's flipped upside down and when I decided to rewatch this show recently after this video, I finally understand. I love this show.
17:05 The same music that plays in this scene is the same music that plays when Hollyhock’s fathers tell Bojack “you are never going to see Hollyhock again“
It’s kinda cool how sometimes his body language matches that of an actual horse.
His ears tilt back and his eyes get all wide when he’s startled or scared. His ears perk forward when he’s paying attention. He pins them all the way back when he’s angry.
The attention to detail in this show is incredible
and his dad’s ears were always back! because he was an angry asshole
He neighs when he’s stressed out too.
Lisa hanawalt, one of the creators, is a horse girl, and prides herself on making sure the horse body language is accurate :3
😊⁰⁰❤⁰lp❤
Same with mr peanut butter, his ears perk up when he gets excited and he pants. It's cute af
The last thing Bojack’s consciousness wanted to hear before accepting death: that Diane’s day was good.
it’s such a strange moment of selflessness from him that makes me wonder why he can’t ask diane how her day was in real life
@@danabell122 Prolly cuz any closeness felt along his life was tainted. It's always drugs, sex, or movie stuff that draws people in2 him. When he's put in front of a real human n has 2 act like 1, he crumbles.
Id like to think the last words I will hear will be from my Ex Fiancè. Hopefully she would tell me her day is good, unlike in the dreams she keeps telling me I was never enough for her. Life is a horrible horrible thing we all just have to wait for it to end.
@@danabell122Bojack is in love with the idea of Diane, not Diane herself. He loves the idea of someone that is as broken as he is, someone who has gone through pain and has been hurt like he has, which is why he tries to keep Diane close to him. However, Diane has learned to set boundaries in order to protect herself, which sets her apart from the other women in his life.
When he kissed Diane, she was able to stand her ground and maintain her boundaries.
Typically, Bojack tends to overreact or run away when other people set boundaries with him, like how he forced Eddie to fly then proceeded to destroy the summer house they rebuilt together after Eddie let Bojack know how upset being forced to fly made him, aka setting a boundary with Bojack.
When Diane set her boundaries when Bojack kissed her, he respected her boundaries and remained friends with her. Diane seems to be the only woman he respects enough to "allow" her to have boundaries (he crosses Princess's boundaries constantly throughout the series). Diane is able to keep herself distant from Bojack to avoid being hurt by him, causing Bojack to not quite understand Diane on a personal level. I doubt he knows anything about her character development after she divorced Mr. Peanutbutter, and that final bit of character development is what allows Diane to finally cut Bojack out of her life, and their final moments together mark the end of the series.
Bojack may think he loves Diane, but Diane isn't letting him close enough for him to actually understand who she is as a person, so he only loves what he thinks she is, his idea of her. I think at some point, he subconsciously realized how toxic he could be for Diane, which is why in his dying moments he's on a phone call with Diane and not conjuring a true image of Diane. He knows she's better off being as far away from him as possible, keeping a boundary or a block against him to keep herself safe from him. After all, Bojack never learns and constantly repeats the same patterns of behavior over and over again, even in his final moments with Diane.
Diane's whole arc seems to be about boundaries, setting boundaries, letting go of some boundaries, that sort of thing.
@@Invictus1074 Hope you’re doing good and staying safe. If you need to talk to someone or need help, there are people who care. Sending support and hearts. ❤️❤️❤️
Another amazing one is
“When you look at someone through rose coloured glasses, all the red flags just look like flags”
yes from wanda :(
WANDA ML
Wanda. 😢
Before an overdose, a lot of people feel an impending sense of doom or unidentifiable dread. Sarah Lynn was already dying in the hotel room...
Everything about that episode is so brutal
The way their car gets progressively more destroyed and Sarah Lynn gets more tired and hopeless
The scene in the hotel perfectly portrays how despair feels for me
At that point, there was no attitude that could make them feel better, nothing could solve what they had been doing for months
Not really relevant to the show, but it can also happen before strokes and seizures. We're often distinctly aware of something being catastrophically wrong with our bodies before we even know what we're feeling.
@@QuikVidGuy It also happens when you’re going to have a panic attack. Which is somewhat relevant to the show.
@@DustyHoneyYes yes, this distinction is very important. When I have panic attacks, I’m very aware of that “sense of impending doom” that can happen when you’re having an urgent health episode, and it makes the panic 10x worse. It’s very important to remember that that’s a normal feeling to have when you’re panicking, however terrifying it seems.
She died when she was a kid. She was buried as an adult.
Even in her dementia riddled state, Beatrice could never be able to know what ice cream tasted like. She never had it. And even in a state of pure delusion, she was still lucid enough to remember that she had never tasted ice cream.
How do you know she never had it? When she was a kid yeah that’s obvious, but there was nothing pointing to ALL of her adult years saying she’s never had it
@@LiveforlifecaliI would like this answer too. Where does she’s never had ice cream come from?
She did have a freezey pop, her mom let her though before she went into her grief fueled episode in Time’s Arrow
I always thought her pause was her remembering how she only got it when her mother was in distress on the night things really changed
@@frozenzenberry4101 in one of the flashbacks it shows the mom saying to her having iced cream bc it’s a boys treat basically and that “a lemon with some sugar sprinkled on it is a good healthy girl snack” so I assume that from the OP is what they’re saying hahaha but I’m like she died at 80 years old and was clearly rebellious she must’ve had iced cream at some point we have no reason to assume otherwise besides the flashback when she’s like 8 yrs okd
@@Liveforlifecalias a parent, her new version of ice cream became alcohol
"But it's... fake."
"Yeah, well. It makes me feel better."
This quote hits so freaking hard every time, because I'm guilty of doing the exact same thing as PC, creating idyllic worlds and situations in my head to escape into when life gets too much and everything that can go wrong goes wrong. Sometimes you have no other option but to escape into your own head where everything is perfect just to cope with being alive, which for me can be extremely depressing and overwhelming at times.
I feel the same. I had an overactive mind that I used to curb with daydreaming an exciting story. Now I feel like it’s the only thing I ever really wanna do. Life is so hard these days that I don’t want to hopelessly look for a light at the tunnel anymore, I just want to light a candle where I’m sitting.
No need to feel guilty for it 🥺
Sorry stranger, I hope this world brings you peace at least. It is actually a known trauma response from the brain to protect, if that helps at all
that's why people believe in religion, it's all fake but makes them feel better. I love imagining I'm on a beautiful meadow and have kittens and puppies playing around me 😅
@@sugarkane1571 I’m guessing mother 3 probably doesn’t help
When I first watched the show, « I’m so tired of squinting » absolutely broke me. I distinctly remember saying it out loud _with_ Diane just as my eyes started leaking, despite never having seen the episode before. Then I sobbed for a good ten minutes before putting on the next episode. This show man…
it is a cartoon bruh wtf
@@Egonsraad
Yes it’s an amazing cartoon. :)
@@Egonsraad the majority agrees that animated disney films are far more emotionally impactful than their live action ones. what's your point?
Whenever I find out someone likes me less than I originally thought, I always hear Mr. Peanutbutter’s voice: “oh…”
@@Egonsraad yea and it gave me an existential crisis, it aint just a cartoon
The way baby bojack huddles up to his mom while she’s asleep because otherwise she wouldn’t let him close to her. :(
Can't believe you didn't put the second moment that breaks your heart in this show
"Happy birthday, Princess Carolyn"
"Thanks phone"
"You are fourty"
@GirlGeek723 ohno
@GirlGeek723 isnt it fourty?
@@ninastadermann8485 some britains say fourty
That absolutely destroyed me. 😭
Yeah... thats when kids edit Bojack videos. The true gut punch during Downer Ending is the abrupt cut to credits and people NEVER add it. Why do you think the episode is named like that!? And still here I am, crappy viewcounts and not daring to make my own clipshows due to the copyrights.
The quote during Free Churro that goes something like "I'm your son, all I had was you" was a hard hitting one for me. Surprised it wasn't in here
Speaking as someone who didn't just have an abusive bio mom, but later an abusive adoptive mother, I remember sitting in my room late at night watching the episode play out. When he said that, I broke down crying immediately. The anger and betrayal and the 'Why?' in his voice, I felt that. I *still* feel that to this day. I knew EXACTLY what he was feeling, still being a kid and having to live with the fact the person you're supposed to depend on failed you and for some survivors, you'll never know why.
you could just put free churro in here as the video and call it a day
Just watched that episode yesterday, man, even if it was just twenty-something minutes of Bojack speaking without any intervention, i think it's one of the most true, intense, deep and emotional pieces of TV i've seen in my life. It just pushes through your heart, even if i've never suffered abuse in any form it made me somehow feel that dread and hate he had against his mom, at the same time coming from a sincere deep feeling of begging for love. It's too much man
This show gave me a midlife crisis at age 19
Right? I think this show makes you mentally older
Quarter life crisis is a mean mistress
Same
13 for me 😭😭😭
Now watch it again ehen you get older and it will get more and more reletable
I think the most heartbreaking thing is Secretariat's poem during the View from Halfway Down
True
That was the scariest rather than most heartbreaking
Another moment that breaks me is in free churro where bojack says this
“ It was written by my friend Herb Kazzaz, who’s also dead now, and it starred this little girl named Sarah Lynn.”
And just that pause bojack gives before continuing his monologue 💔
I noticed this during my rewatch. It’s like he said “it starred this little girl named Sarah Lynn… who’s ALSO dead now” in his head
Free Churro is one of the best episodes of television i’ve ever seen in my life. it’s so well-done.
Its sickening how Bojack still viewed Serah Lynn as a little girl. And why wouldn't he? He watched her grow up from the age of three, was a paternal figure to her and romanticized the dynamic between 20-year-old him, in acting form, and her. Later reinacting being her father.
Before he had sex with her countless times when she was 'legal', and gave her the drugs that killed her after she was sober for 9 months.
Probably the most powerful bit in Free Churro was Bojack pleading with his mother. “I’m your SON! All I had was YOU!”
He didn't want to say she was also dead, but we all heard it 😢
Sarah Linn’s words about the shirt were so sad for me. A company’s economic interest was the only thing she had going for her
The hopeful surprised tone when she says "Really?" after Bojack suggests the planetarium is so heartbreaking
@@herefishyfishy13what ISN’T heartbreaking about Sarah Lynn’s life? Fuck, that’s too much man 😭
Why did I forget the “I’m tired of squinting?” line from Diane? That was actually devastating
I dont give a fuck what anyone says, Hollyhock was fully in her right to cut Bojack out of her life.
What are you talking about? 🤨 I've seen people talking about Hollyhock cutting Bojack out of her life and they didn't have any problem with that knowing how toxic Bojack he is.
@@ChelseaPariella I remember videos coming out around the time the final season was airing saying that Hollyhock was in the wrong to cut him off because "She was his only lifeline"
@@phi1105which is pretty fucked up, seeing as she was in college perfectly living in her life. She shouldn't have been a grown man's lifeline. BoJack's addiction with fame was what fucked him over. He fully deserved the consequences of his actions.
I still can't believe there are people who somehow think she was in the wrong, but there sure are people who think she somehow owed BoJack which is CRAZY to me.
@@citriosis Bojack is what? A GROWN MAN WHO CAN DEAL WITH HIS OWN PROBLEMS.
I like how emotional masochism is addressed in this show
Its pretty common but its usually not addressed properly
Its so sad because even when you are happy you just feel empty
So its either feel shitty or feel nothing
Its why Bojack cant just be happy. He doesnt do shitty things by accident he needs to fan the flames of the dumpster fire which is his life.
Its what the first version of dont stop dancing is about in my opinion
"It felt better than nothing. That thorough fucking shame was so much better than that horrible, empty nothing!"
This is especially hard as an artist. Kinda what Diane went through but not exactly.
"im so tired of squinting" made me absolutely insane and I analyze every single relationship I have through these lens now.
The fact when in 2:08 Herb says "I'm not worried, Bojack. The future is bright, just look at it" and gestures to a purely false skyline off a movie set that blocked the actual sunset does something to my brain.
19:52
The conversation between “Diane” and Bojack always sent chills down my back especially “ yeah…my day was good…” it’s like a mermaid soothing you with words to encourage your end! I’m not good at explaining…
i totally get what ur saying, like a siren, it sounds ominous because its not real comfort! like it's lulling him
@@threebirdsinatrenchcoat yeah!
He’s comforting himself
I think you’re absolutely right. This version of Diane is what Bojack’s subconscious manifested to self-soothe. This voice line from Diane in my opinion was so soothing and sweet, almost like it was a completely different person, because it was. It was the version of Diane Bojack had in his head, how he saw her mentally. I truly believe that in the end, Diane is the person he had loved more than anybody else he’d ever met. Wanting to hear that her day was good before he died, wanting to sit in silence with her for a while before they parted, never to speak again. He really did just .. love her. In the most honest way, even though he never knew how to do it right.
I relate to Diane in a a lot of ways. I’m an Asian American fully disconnected from their Asian culture, I suffer from depression, we hold similar political beliefs, but the one that hits the worst is the reveal of what she had been writing. I’m not a writer but I am a musician and I remember so so so many times of having that exact same hatred of oneself and having to lie to someone’s face about it just do avoid their disappointment. Man, that reveal puts a hole in my gut every time
REAL.
Being an Asian American is depressing, I wish I knew my culture. .-.
Same, I’m not Asian but I feel so disconnected from my culture
Not asian but im arabic/greek, and it was so nice to see someone like me. Like.. never enough of either culture somehow. Feeling like im cosplaying when i try to be a part of my familys culture. Not white enough to fit in with white people, but not non-white enough to fit in there either. I didnt know there were others like me
as someone who’s also asian american, i felt like diane was a perfect representation of what i felt throughout my life
Diane’s monologue when she sees Mr. PB grab his new gf by the small of her back and the scene after when she drives home bawling her eyes out
Damn
The single greatest quote in this show is from the Old Sugarman Place. Bojack is in the lakehouse, on the floor watching the Sarah Lynn show about her death. Simultaneously it shows Honey Joseph and Beatrice walk in 70 years ago searching for Crackerjack’s blanket. And Joseph says, “lets go, it’s only ghosts here in the winter”. What an amazing quote and show
That scene perfectly encapsulates what the episode is about
The duet scene wouldn't be so hard hitting without that
about this video: It was nice while it lasted!
But everything’s worse now!
There’s something that gets me when Bojack feeds his mother delusions. Bojack hates her, and we hate her for what she did to Bojack. But holding her accountable for what she did is useless now, and in the horrible decline of dementia, maybe she still deserved some peace of mind.
Someone else pointed out that she during that scene was probably aware and just lied about not knowing to give bojack some sort of closure. When bojack mentioned the icecream and she said it was delicious. But she never had ice cream.
@@CeraWorldit wouldn't be hard for someone with dementia to think they've had it, sure what they "taste" isn't probably what's real, but to them it is.
@@EggScramb1ed her expression as she sighs "It tastes... delicious" looks kind of defeated, like she's kind of accepted the fate that she has now after the awful life she's both had and given to her own child.
@@CeraWorld late response but she had one of those pop things honey said she couldnt after cracker jack died, you can see her eating it right when honey is doing that duet im pretty sure. maybe she was thinking of that?
I won't say she deserves peace but to avoid making others suffer and giving some grace to others in their time of need, is something that's needed to make our world a better place to live.
When you know that Bojack's mom was lying about her ability to not know where she was when she knows she's never gotten to eat ice cream as a child but in him comforting her she wants to give him the closure that she is happy enough with her memories and loneliness and reaped the life she sowed and his small act of comfort made her happier than the memories of her childhood post the death of her brother and the lobotomy of her mother ever was
Holy shit now that I think back to it, I never realized she never had ice cream. Her mom said it was only for boys or something, right? And during the scene where bojack is comforting her during my first watch I never got why she made that face. Thanks for pointing that out! This show has many great callbacks
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Ppl with dementia can experience hallucinations and delusions. I don't think she was lying or playing along with Bojacks story, I think she was genuinely confused and surprised she COULD have ice cream and her brain made up the flavor she never experienced, and since ice cream is a special treat, of course it would be "delicious".
But I do think your take is a much happier one!
Ngl downer ending when Diane doesn’t say anything hurts. She’s right not to say he’s a good person but man the pain
I like to think that they thought theyd never speak again, but they did. They stayed friends - BoJack changed, they spoke over the phone, sent eachother letters... I like to think BoJack babysitted Ruthie, that he and Todd had movie nights, that he volunteered at a drama class... the silence on the rooftop wasnt disgust or hatred or anything else - it was uncertaincy. But everything worked out in the end.
"But its not real."
"Yeah, well. It makes me feel better."
“every day, it gets a little easier. but you gotta do it every day. that’s the hard part” words that i now live my life by
Me too except i dont do the hard part
@@lowercasehorse2363then you dont really live by it
I always loved Princess Carolyn's reaction to Judah's love song. She's happy, but not surprised. Her satisfied little sigh and her smile seem to say, "huh, we really do love each other, don't we? This makes sense. We're a perfect fit, so of course we should be together."
I don't know why, but I love the fact we never see them kiss. Yeah, they get married, but they're never seen in a romantic setting. I love that.
When PC named untitled princess caroline project "ruthie", i figured it was coming. It was the only thing i could think about the first time i saw the episode bc i needed to emotionally prepare myself for when that bomb dropped and i wouldnt cry bc my bf at the time wouldve made fun of me. But i did anyway. Like a lot. And i was right, he did. And it was very mean but he played it off as a "classic us" moment. So when i was done crying, i stood up, walked out of his house, and broke up with him before starting my car and driving away. As much as i was in shock that he mocked me to begin with, doing so after i had lost our baby was the final straw for me. Everyone, you deserve someone who wont belittle and mock you for having feelings.
I hope you’re doing well. I really do. You deserve the world OP, even if I don’t know you
Honestly good for you ❤ you should never let anyone laugh at that for real. It's a pain no man would ever even know how to start to deal with. You are strong as hell and don't ever give up
I want to continue to be like you and communicate honestly despite the pain and be courageous to leave when you aren’t feeling what you need
"im not hungry" kills me every time. one of the most chilling lines maybe ever
I just noticed it last time I rewatched the episode. Bojack may not have meant any harm, but he and Beatrice both harmed her self image
i rewatch this show like twice a year (early fall and late winter) for comfort. it’s a safe place for me - the bad parts make me feel more seen and like i can connect w a piece of me that isn’t as easy to access in daily life
😢❤
I LIKE THAT YOU ADDED THE HOLLYHOCK LINE FROM THE JUDGE. I swear nobody else notices it.
That she isn’t in the mood for ice cream, while she’s surrounded by the change she meticulously stacked and the coffee cup, and she flips through channels abnormally fast? Dark.
@@eileensnow6153 I think this was the scene right before she passed out from the stimulants Beatrice was giving her.
@@QuikVidGuy that’s why I pointed out the coffee cup. That’s what Beatrice was using to drug her
I just noticed it last time I watched it...man, the details in this show
@@eileensnow6153I thought she wasn't hungry because of what BoJack said to her about weight? But the restlessness is definitely the drugs
Dianes monologue broke me
Yea. That and the good damage Monologue she’s gives to Pc
The "Im so tired of squinting" scene really got to me. Brilliant writing
There will never be another show like Bojack Horsemen
When you think about it
Bojack and Diane had the exact same problem as performers
Diane refused to be happy so she could write her book about pain (good damage)
Bojack saw his life as a performance (the show stopper)(the view from half way down)
Both refused to be happy so they wouldnt ruin their art because the amount of pain theyve felt couldnt have been for nothing. To be happy they have to let go of the past and move on which makes the past seem insignificant
Diane eventually writes her book and moves on from her past
“Life a bitch and then you keep living”
Bojack steps out of the light and stops being a celebrity
He learnt that he could sell his sadness as a brand (especially after the interview)
Only when he learns his lesson from the second interview is when he finally lets go
Or when hes sent to prison where he isnt the centre of attention or showered in pity for his sadness is he able to let go
The most annoying thing about Bojack Horseman is...
Trying to get family \friends to watch it.
So many people can't get past "it's an adult animated comedy, and I don't watch those kind of shows" that they won't even give it a chance 😢😢
Oh well I guess it's their loss , they're missing out on a masterpiece
I can relate to this SO MUCH! I’m trying to get just ONE PERSON to watch this and it’s so difficult
I had someone try to convince me that if you put adult humor in a cartoon, it'll be used to corrupt children, because cartoons are for children
Or they refuse to watch past the first few episodes of season 1 before it gets good 😔
I want my bf to watch it so badly with me, but he can't get past the 1st season!! AHHHH, I TOLD HIM TO JUST WATCH THAT SEAOSN 2 IS WHERE IT GETS GOOD
The “it’s you” scene got to me. I fall into similar thought patterns as bojack sometimes. I’m trying to remind myself that my actions are what matters, not feeling bad about myself.
That’s pretty cool
5:00 I can't help but wonder if this scene where Sarah Lynn starts freaking out and asking if she's doomed is due to her body shutting down. I've heard that fatal heart attacks are often preceded by an impending sense of doom. Perhaps her body knew that it was dying and was trying to alert her.
I love how one of them is todd killing the sex robot
There’s so many underrated parts of this show. I think one of them is how well written women characters are: PC and Diane and Sarah Lynn all had different endings but they were all amazingly written.
I know I’m so late to the party, but I always wondered if Sarah Lynn was comforted or terrified by Bojack’s words. He talks about being a blink in the universe to comfort himself about his own actions but that’s not what Sarah Lynn needed to hear. If anything she needed to hear that even without fame or fortune she is worth something. I always wondered if Bojack wasn’t only responsible for her death, but also for the terror she felt while drifting off to sleep.
I think that as tragic as it sounds, those words nihilistically comforted her enough to let go of her life. I interpret it as another one of bojack's selfish act of nihilistically consoling himself which leads to the death of sarah lynn. Thats just fucked up
I do the Ruthie thing. When I’m down and alone, I imagine myself reciting wedding vows, talking about how true love was worth the wait, how I’m so excited to start our family, how I can now look back on all the bad times with peace knowing they were leading me here. PC is right, it really does make me feel better.
the ending of brand new couch still haunts me because it reminds me so much of me and my own mother
The cinematography of this show is so fucking good.
2:12 we, the viewer, get to see the actual scenery, while it looks bright, beyond the fake sky is a slowly setting sun, signifying that it's bright now, and it will never stay bright after Horsin' Around.
literally all of free churro could be in this video and I love how you even mention it in the description
Free Churro is one of my favorite episodes ever
The way diane says "ok" in his phone call just breaks my heart, reminds me of when i called the hotline when i was younger and the person was very sweet
That's lucky. We're glad you're still here
@@ZK-ib2wp this made me tear up, i was in a bad place when i posted this (i just left a long term relationship) and im doing much better, thankyou kind stranger
Awwww that’s a sweet exchange. Nice to hear that you’re doing better. Btw reading the comment section on Bojack videos is like one big self-help group.
@@Rockleefan3 That moment still speaks to me, and idk why dianes phone call got to me, it just sounded like the person i talked to and i asked them to keep talking to me
at this point just put the last 5 episodes of s6 and you’ll get the job done 😭
facts
I love rewatching the end of season 6
@@quirkyblackenby said no one ever :D (it's heartbreaking)
My main takeaway from this show is the futility of calling people out. I refuse to capitulate and celebrate the characters who made Bojack as miserable as he made them. It was all pointless. No amount of torment will make anyone a better person. No one rises to the occasion. We have to be lifted up into it, and even though Bojack was and sometimes still is awful, watching him or anyone around him suffer simply does not make me feel better, and even if it could, I wouldn’t want it to. I can’t watch this series again. I can’t enjoy it anymore. I’m grateful for that.
Yes, I think people tend to miss the show layers. It's not only about how awful Bojack is and how he must suffer for his actions, i think this is one easy way of conceiving what the show is. But for me is a lot about healing our traumas and pain in order to be a better person because in the end everyone is a little fuckd up. We always came from a previous generation which had to handle its own issues and we're here experiencing ours. Easier to said than done, but still is as complex as living because living this life demands a lot of us but we still have to go on because life goes on nevertheless
13:25 i love this scene so much, the entire episode was great and every one of these scenes was perfect
YES I FINALLY HAVE SOMEONE WHO AGREES
2:39
Mr Whiskers ran away from Hollywoo(d) because he knew how miserable it was making him. If BoJack had done the same, Sarah Lynn would be alive. Penny never would've been traumatized for life. Hollyhock wouldn't get hurt so bad by someone she thought she could trust. Todd, who BoJack, maybe screwed over the most time and time again, wouldn't get hurt either. But BoJack needed people to love him and trying so hard for their approval eventually cost him everything.
Maybe but as Charlotte said the tar pit is yourself not LA so he would’ve probably still done those things just somewhere else with different people
@@sammybutler3027 It's probably half and half, changing your environment won't automatically change who you are or your issues, however if said environment has been exasperating or encouraging those issues than removing yourself from that place can be the first step to being ready and able to address them.
The show does highlight at times how the media industry enables terrible behaviour, as well as endangers it's workers with unsafe working environments.
Bojack's drug fuelled physical assault on Gina was imbued with his own issues, however it was drug fuelled and said prescription came from a stunt gone wrong and then the misuse was driven by chaotic shooting schedules.
That's without all the covering up for valuable performer's awful behaviour. Or the treatment of child actors like Sarah Lynn.
@@gota7738 true it does vary among different people but in bojacks case it was always him
@@sammybutler3027 Eh, I wouldn't say that Bojack's that different, certainly not in Hollywoo.
By the "it's you" speech, I don't think the show means that Bojack is innately bad/broken, it means that he still has the ability to control his actions and is accountable to them regardless of what's influencing him. That includes thinking about the situations he puts himself in and the people he surrounds himself with and how he conducts his relationships.
And of course he has to do it every day. He can't just put himself in a healthier situation and expect that to be it and finished, getting better is something you have to do every day.
@@gota7738 my thoughts exactly bro
Man what I would do to watch this show for the first time again, it's so great. I'm glad my friend recommended me it :)
POV - You’re high as all high hell wondering why this broken horseman and animal ppl in LA have such a complex and philosophically painful existence that rips ur soul outback and lays bares your emotions whilst society burns. Then remember it’s probably gonna be okay. Until u realise okay is the only stage of yourself that ur comfortable lying in.
That.
That’s too much man.
u good bro?
@@arghawan why would you ask that, hes watched bojack horseman how is he good ?
@@arghawanno one is fucking good man, but that's ok
Something about the calm tone Diane has when she says her day is good makes me cry every time. She's never spoken in such a soothing tone in the entire show. Bojack was desperate for self-soothing in what could've been his final moments, and he just wanted to hear Diane say she was having a good day.
This is nice….
Such a beautiful ending I swear.
"You're what's wrong with you." is very hard to hear. But if you accept that, it helps so much. Someone once told me, and it really helped, they're still a true friend to me. And now I can be a real friend to them.
bojack when he’s relatable (all the time.) when his mom said he was born broken i got so upset
Bojack Horseman is my favorite show. I've never watched anything like it. I used to watch it in my darkest times to validate myself when no one else would. After I recovered, I couldn't bring myself to watch it. It made me - I made myself - spiral over small mishaps and find myself back in a dark pit.
It's a shame that I can't watch this masterpiece without sinking myself into it.
I had a rough day today and saw this .
The scene where Herb shows Bojack the beautful blue sky façade & tells him the future is bright really fucks me up. So many people in my life gave me all the perfect promises they thought I wanted to hear, some might have even been genuine. But regardless of whether their intentions were good or not, when I would finally see what was behind that fake blue sky, it tarnished the memories I had of those people. I'm fortunate to have found people who took the façade down & didn't sugarcoat the situation. And that takes a far greater amount of love & courage to do so.
Please stay well, everyone.
There are other episodes that are much heavier, episodes that give me intense anxiety, or geniunely gave me chills, the scene at 11:05 makes me deeply sad. What id give to see beatrice hug her son just once, to show bojack any love, the same type of attention i rarely ever got as a kid myself
it’s you made me hurt so bad after i remembered everything bojack put todd through…it was satisfying, but oh god, did it hurt so bad.
I can't believe you didn't put " when you look at someone through rose-colored glasses, all the red flags just look like flags."
2:27 I’m a very “I don’t cry in front of people” person but I won’t lie, the first time I saw this scene, I cried with Bojack
This show made me spiral deeper into my depression tbh. I never should have watched it in that period of my life. Now after well slowly learning to get pass it all, this show hold so much value in my life that no other show (well besides like two cartoons) hold on me. Even then its in a different way from those. This is comfortable that comfort you have when you go back to all that self hate and emptiness cause its a familarity, comfort in the emptiness. The other two are more of a self love and enjoy life way. This show brings me to tears everytime in such a specific way.
The moment bojack grants Beatrice a moment of peace by describing the lakehouse, even though she abused him his whole life and he didn’s owe her anything, was THE moment for me. I cried my eyes out. Really didnt think this show would have such impact when I started watching it. I’m rewatching for the second time now! Really one of my favorite animated shows ever
i’ve never seen a show that can be so heart wrenching but also so funny & comforting at the same time. this show is something else man.
0:55 you can hear Bojack’s dream in the background and that actually kills me inside
5:21 Bojack resuscitating this pal just to slap him outraged is a great summary of his main problem.
the illusion of saving someone only to do something for his own selfish reasons for his own benefit. classic bojack!
When I first watched this show it took me AGES to get through. I related to nearly every character and that made it very hard to watch. I'm glad this show exists and people are talking about it.
Brand new couch hits hard.
yeah. seems like some kind of talk I'd have with my own family. it's a haunting thought
My life felt like bojacks but I try to not have it be, everyday I try to better myself but it's always hard... I think about that last quote I think about it a lot
“Everyone loves you but nobody likes you”
Im so glad you included Diane at the airport. All that fighting all that effort and the rich man won and shes broken.
And a random man just tells her to smile. Not a suggestion, not even a rude "you should."
Just "smile!".
my self care is not watching this video through because i’ll make myself sad. thumbs up tho! :D
Bojack comforting his mom after everything they both went through will never fail to make me sob
every single time i see the view from halfway down or a clip i literally start sobbing LMFAO one of the saddest episodes ive ever seen on any movie or series
What do you think LMFAO means?
I needed a good cry session! Thank you :)
for some reason, i believe that the reason Beatrice had that pause when bojack talks about vanilla ice cream, is because she hasn't tasted one before so shes trying to figure out how it taste.. probably something everyone has thought sbout but 🤷♀️
Somehow this is healing i am not alone the creators feel what everyone feels and are so vulnerable they listen to each other
The showstopper might be my favorite episode of the series, with bojack’s swelling addiction and rage coming into full view and the melding of his character with Philbert’s culminating in strangling Gina and ultimately coming face to face with his addiction in the form of the massive caricature of himself. There was no more running away for him to do from there and the way that was represented was so tragic and haunting, and the music toed the line between sinister and ever so slightly uplifting perfectly. Love this show so much
This is a real show. Where people are flawed, difficult and sometimes insufferable but at times they are kind and loving. This is how we all are, good and bad. One of the best shows I have watched.
"Bojack I don't like anything about me".😕
This show completely broke me, but it’s also one of the reasons I decided to get sober
4:30 I’ve felt that damn
"Oh Bojack, no" never fails to reduce me to tears
Judahs song is so touching to me. I cried watching that
the most brilliantly written show i’ve ever seen
Man I love this show. The dementia episode is one of the scariest things I’ve ever seen and made me a better artist. I should watch it through again.
The first time I watched the view from halfway down and secretariat began reading his poem I sobbed for like a good 5 minutes purely due to the imagery of secretariat regretting his decision before he died but to late to stop himself from dying.
diane not being able to look at her reflection and turning on the tv is too real
The sound design is stellar in this show.
When I first watched this, I just started college and still inexperienced in a lot things. I enjoyed it for bringing attention to mental health, it's weird humor, and a few things I felt I related to but didn't understand why. Years later, I've learned I have a personality disorder, completely changed as a person, moved across the country by myself alone for my own good, and can now appreciate this show fully. My life's flipped upside down and when I decided to rewatch this show recently after this video, I finally understand. I love this show.
Put the entire suicide nightmare scene and were all set
The View From Halfway Down
17:05
The same music that plays in this scene is the same music that plays when Hollyhock’s fathers tell Bojack “you are never going to see Hollyhock again“
grateful for this show
“We’re gonna go to the planetarium” 😭
I can’t believe the free churro episode lost to the Rick and morty vat of acid.
I remember watching Free Churro on a Saturday morning, and was blown away. That was so well written and probably my favorite episode of the series
“You didn’t pick up.”