I have no trouble at all binge-watching this gem of an animated series, especially when the media-landscape is glutted with more content to stream, watch, download and binge than ever before. One episode into Bojack Horseman Season 4, and I found myself already looking forward to re-watching the whole series upon completion. It's a delicious and hard-hitting saga, with animal puns galore! The writing pulls no punches on our modern-day obsession with celebrity and the media, all while skillfully creating a world with a variety of animal/humanoid characters who nevertheless feel all too familiar. Season 4 is available to stream right now and I'm already halfway through the thing. Crazy, right?
One of my favorite episodes so far of what I've watched of this season has got to be Episode 2, "The Old Sugarman Place", a retreat into Bojack's past that sadly becomes all too revealing of Bojack's mother's upbringing. Her past is littered with the unfairness of womanhood, war, loss, and trauma and is made all the more real being presented alongside Bojack's coming to grips (then rejecting) with the death of Sarah Lynne, as well as the tragic backstory of a side character, a widower dragonfly named Eddie. Yes, a talking dragonfly reduced me to a teary rubble. The juxtaposition of the two narratives--Beatrice's loss of her brother, Crackerjack, to WWII as well as the subsequent lobotomy of her mother, combined with the present-day narrative of Bojack being unable to deal with his own losses, let alone comfort others who have lost loved ones is--is masterfully done. It's totally brilliant.
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