Current Events > Bojack Horseman is the show I been looking for

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Netflix actually made a good show!?!? :D

Netflix has a bunch of good shows and I'm a notorious hater of good things

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Yeah, it's quite good, though it suffers from some obvious burnout towards the end along with being canceled. It's still solid all the way through though.

Netflix has a shitload of horrid, pointless originals, but shows like Bojack and Ozark make up for the shit.

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Back in the 90s I was in a very famous teee veee shoow.

It's amazing how it goes from just so-so to amazing about halfway through the first season and stays good for the rest of its run.

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I haven't watched it but the premise doesn't fill me with confidence. Just feels like everybody blows up how depressed or whatever the cartoon horse is. Just sounds adjacent to all the not great eps of rick and morty where we get a big monologue every 5 minutes about how troubled a character is.

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darkphoenix181 posted...

Netflix actually made a good show!?!? :D

they have a lot of good shows

NinjaBreakfast posted...

I haven't watched it but the premise doesn't fill me with confidence. Just feels like everybody blows up how depressed or whatever the cartoon horse is. Just sounds adjacent to all the not great eps of rick and morty where we get a big monologue every 5 minutes about how troubled a character is.

Its funny, bro. Give it a chance

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Free Churro is my favorite episode.

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NinjaBreakfast posted...

I haven't watched it but the premise doesn't fill me with confidence. Just feels like everybody blows up how depressed or whatever the cartoon horse is. Just sounds adjacent to all the not great eps of rick and morty where we get a big monologue every 5 minutes about how troubled a character is.

Bojack Horseman is significantly better than Rick and Morty tbh

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NinjaBreakfast posted...

I haven't watched it but the premise doesn't fill me with confidence. Just feels like everybody blows up how depressed or whatever the cartoon horse is. Just sounds adjacent to all the not great eps of rick and morty where we get a big monologue every 5 minutes about how troubled a character is.

Bojack is way better written than rick and morty. It also tells a much more cohesive overall story and the depressing parts aren't just stuffed in the last few minutes of every other episode. It's just one of bojack's traits that he's depressed

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Its good, but the themes and plots sort of stagnate in terms of progression. I didnt have much motivation to continue past season 3, and reading spoilers for the rest of the show, it sounds like I didnt miss much >_>

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Even after hearing all the praise for what it becomes, I couldnt bring myself to even finish that first episode.

On the topic of good Netflix shows though, Master of None is terrific, and Glow is really good too. Oh, and their exclusive season of Shaun the Sheep.

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NinjaBreakfast posted...

I haven't watched it but the premise doesn't fill me with confidence. Just feels like everybody blows up how depressed or whatever the cartoon horse is. Just sounds adjacent to all the not great eps of rick and morty where we get a big monologue every 5 minutes about how troubled a character is.

Its just a great overall show. The comedy is great and the drama is great and when they meld together neither aspect undercuts the other

they also do some really cool experimental stuff with storytelling that couldnt be done outside of animation

truly one of the best shows of all timeit does pretty much everything right

rick and mortys depressing stuff doesnt work because it just comes out of nowhere and is such a tonal shift

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On paper I like the show, and the few episodes I've seen have been good enough, but I'm not really a fan of suffering porn where the point is to watch characters implode under their own flaws so I just couldn't get into the series as a whole. It's very similar to how I can't stand "Meet the Parents" style movies that boil down to "let's watch a nice guy trip through an endless series of embarrassing failures and suffer for 2 hours before finally getting the girl".

Like... I get it. Everyone in the cast is a bad person, and they'll fail at everything they do for multiple seasons because they're shitty people, and just when they think they're getting out of their hole some event will push them back in. I don't need 6 seasons of that.

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i'll take your guys word for it but i'm still not going out of my way to check it out.

and tbf i would say s1/2 of r&m did some good, more sombre turns. it just went to shit in s3.

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Its great. And I'm kind of glad it ended when it did instead of jumping the shark and drawing it out as a cash grab. Even though I wasn't a big fan of the ending tbh.

Still one of my favorite shows that I hold very dear to me.
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i only saw it because i heard so much about it and i was bored
i had absolutely no interest in it

and i ended up watching the whole thing and loving it. it really is an amazing show.

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Guerrilla Soldier posted...

i only saw it because i heard so much about it and i was bored
i had absolutely no interest in it

and i ended up watching the whole thing and loving it. it really is an amazing show.

Same

Pus_N_Pecans posted...

Even after hearing all the praise for what it becomes, I couldnt bring myself to even finish that first episode.

The first 6 episodes are a major drag, but by episode 7 it gets much better.

What makes Bojack stand out from other shows that deal with depression is that it actually makes me laugh.

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