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There's this phrase, "the whole is better than the sum of its parts" and it is completely applicable to Bojack Horseman....season 2 and 3. The parts of season 4 are much better than the whole. The big selling point should have been Bojack's daughter, but that thread was supplemented by a bevy of other stories almost the point of it itself being a 'B' Plot. Though...there wasn't much I feel to the Hollyhock plot outside of the carrot-and-string involving her birth mother.

Princess Carolyn's relationship and baby woes were the least part of this season for me. I did, however, very much like the episode narrated from the future with the ending really being just a example of how striking can be. Todd was like this too, but without any stellar kind of payoff. It was just the adventures of Todd--I am glad he found the Axolotl Girl in the end. And the backdrop running joke was a lot less wacky this time? With last season's being the spaghetti nonsense, Dentist Clowns seems a lot more down-to-earth.

The real winner of this season though was Beatrice Sugarman-Bojack and the look into her past. Not only was everything involving her childhood really well done technically (I loved the cross-scene between Beatrice's past and Bojack in the present at the lake house) but it was just about full-circle to everything we've learned about Bojack up until this point. That whole episode where Bojack and his dragonfly neighbor repairing the house was great.

I know I poo-pooed Princess Carolyn's relationship plot up there, and I still don't care for it much, but it does serve a purpose in exhibiting her breakdown. I don't know how else to put it. She 'Bojacks' herself for a while after her breakup but her big difference is she came back with the same passion she went out on, though maybe a little shakier.

I did feel bad for Beatrice. That was the intention. Her whole life was a bitter pill, a narrow hallway of familial structure and time-appropriate social contract which bled over to Bojack which in turn bled into his life and this whole show has been him just being an awful person and regretting it. With the goodbye to Beatrice, I feel like he kind of corrected himself and in the end set it up to maybe for the first time, take a better road.

Seriously though, the cinematography for Beatrice's stuff was great. I loved it. The way the lake cabin transformed to her childhood as the flashback walked through Bojack's present was great and her final episode was almost like if Shaft guest-directed a Bojack Horseman episode. I also loved Bojack's inner animation, that was fantastic too.

Overall, I liked season 3 better. It had that amazing seahorse episode, Sarah Lynn's death and felt more...grim, like the lowest point in Bojack's life. That said, I really do like how 'up' this season left things, even if everybody but Bojack is falling apart. Yo and for real who didn't see Diane and Peanut Butter breaking up?
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