BoJack Horseman
2014
Original language: English
- animation
- comedy
- drama
The story
Meet the most beloved sitcom horse of the '90s , 20 years later. He's a curmudgeon with a heart of...not quite gold...but something like gold. Copper?
What it’s like
Flat, saturated mid-century Hollywood palettes give way to dim, cluttered Los Angeles interiors: hand-drawn animation with clean lines, sun-bleached yellows and pale blues outdoors, and a warm, lived-in dinginess in the rooms where the characters drink and brood. Its sound is a mix of brassy cartoon stingers, jazzy piano and mellow indie-folk cues, with sudden silences that land hard after the jokes. The vibe is wry, melancholic and sharply cynical, the kind of comedy that is funny because it is sad. Pacing is quick and dense with cutaway gags, but episodes slow into long, quiet character scenes that linger on regret and self-sabotage. Its people are wrecked and slowly, painfully trying to change: a washed-up star confronting his own worst habits, and the friends and rivals who keep failing him and forgiving him. Intensity is high on adult content: frequent drinking and drug use, depression and suicidal ideation handled seriously, sexual references and crude humor, some harsh cruelty and occasional brief, cartoonish violence, but no gore. It suits late-night viewing or a binge when you want something bleakly funny and emotionally honest, and it is for viewers who enjoy satire of showbiz and dark, unsentimental comedy rather than anything gentle.
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