This animation explores the story of a brilliant star called BoJack Horseman and the successful television series 'Horsin 'Around' in the 1980s and 1990s. The star was a sensation, now back in order to live in Hollywood. In that big city, the star began to complain about everything, wearing colorful jackets and strange things that might happen to him.
Though Orange is the New Black has laughs buttressing the dramatic bits, BoJack Horseman was Netflix's first true original comedy, and it remains one of the streaming services' sharpest shows, down to its unexpected Christmas special.
If you're looking for a compelling-enough reason to start watching an animated comedy about a horse instead of the other critically-acclaimed series sitting in your watchlist, it's "Hank After Dark."
BoJack holds up to the light the delicate insecurities we all harbor before mercilessly shattering them with humor. That it all manages to come across as warm in the end is a testament to the cartoon's unlikely sensitivity, nuance and range.
[It] makes eccentric use of the best innovations in contemporary television comedy: finely tuned and obsessively curated throwaway jokes and gags; unexpected allusions to high and low culture; clever continuity and layers of self-reference.
Beyond the protagonist, the shining points of this season were the focuses on the female characters and the sharp as ever humor. A couple weaker episode plots aside, this is a great season.
Truly, I cannot entirely explain it; and yes, it might be better stoned. But it is a reminder of the gorgeous possibility of animation, the seductive pull of a world with different rules-even for us lonely, disaffected, cynical adults.
Bojack itself, which premiered its second season last night, stands head and hoof above other shows that serve as cautionary tales for fame knocking too early in the morning.
