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Bojack Horseman: Free Churros
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Second season is out! Just watched the first episode and it was not only good but honestly an improvement over the last season too.
For those not familiar with the show
In a world where humans and anthropomorphic animals live side by side, BoJack Horseman, the washed-up star of the 1987 sitcom Horsin' Around, plans his big return to celebrity relevance with a tell-all autobiography that he dictates to his ghostwriter and recent love interest Diane Nguyen. BoJack also has to contend with the demands of his agent and on-again-off-again girlfriend Princess Carolyn, his freeloading roommate Todd Chavez, and his frenemy Mr. Peanutbutter, who is also Nguyen's boyfriend.
It's a show filled to the brim with dark humor. Not for someone looking for something lighthearted but definitely an amazing show overall.
Start binging!
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something about this show just makes it exactly suited to summer
Also, I can't believe (end of ep4 spoiler)
Gonna check out the audition/screen test shorts after I'm done the season.
Yes, I really like this show.
ahahah holy shit
I think what keeps it together, apart from the excellent writing and characters (that I care about as if I or someone close to me created them) is that all the seriousness, its all wrapped up in a fantastical, self-aware and therefore consciously and coherently evolving setting. Like in Community, 30 Rock or OITB, other favorite shows of mine.
It has the same effect that good fantasy or sci-fi literature has - the subtle detachment from the realistic and sane makes the characters and their situations more meaningful than if they were rooted to the exact same rules that people in reality or realistic shows have to follow.
I think there's this sensation that what I'm watching promises even greater things for the future, because it combined a daring concept in a different business model, operating in a changing industry and artform, with good-old competent execution and writing. I'm very affected and I want to understand why.
I need to find an annoying anglophile.
p-tang!
Subtle!
I'm at Chickens and I had to turn the show off for the time being because holy fuck is that dark. This show gets so bleak sometimes that I have to take regular breaks.
Also Lisa Kudrow is adorable. I want to date an owl now. YOLO.
"...only mights and maybes."
The cellphone ringer gag in the final episode was fucking amazing. had me in stitches and noone I know listened to serial so I couldn't talk to anyone about it.
Also I need a big red bag that just says "SPY SHIT" on the side.
"...only mights and maybes."
We don't really know what he was doing in that situation. That's the point.
He was self destructing in a worse way than we've come to expect.
I've also read that everybody involved in this show has an absolute blast doing it, which only makes me happier. And the names that they get on here! Olberman is one of my favorites.
Can't wait to get through the rest of second season.
Chicago Megagame group
Watch me struggle to learn streaming! Point and laugh!
Maybe. I don't think that's the kind of unambiguous lapse in all judgment the writers/animators wanted to present.
Best minor character ever.
Bojack Horseman, smashing past rock bottom like an industrial drill.
I'm really not sure what you mean? He knew full well what he was doing at that point and just how burned that bridge was going to be.
I really, really love this show. It is poignant as fuck, and every single emotional beat that they are shooting for hits me square in the chest.
Here's the song from the finale credits, which I found to be really great and went off looking for and then I found it and here it is.
"...only mights and maybes."
And the black sheep in the Boston episode kept making me chuckle in every scene he was in.
Yep, he likes to force other people into a confrontation where they have to forgive him for some awful transgression or put their foot down and throw him out of their lives for good. It fuels his whole self destructive psychodrama.
I do find it interesting it was pointed out that the f-bomb has only been used twice on the show. Both times by people from his past he felt the strongest connection to ejecting him from their lives.
"...only mights and maybes."
"...only mights and maybes."
Courtney Barnett is pretty great
Man, I've been told how to pronounce Nguyen like 5 times and I keep forgetting.
Also I love Wanda even if Bojack doesn't.
"...only mights and maybes."
Northern Vietnam: a quite fast (it sounds like one syllable) "gouyen" with the briefest of stops before the "g" sound. The 'ou' part of the vowel sound is really short.
Southern Vietnam: More difficult - sounds like how you'd pronounce the onomatopoeia "boing" if it had a g in the beginning. The beginning G is nasal, the vowel sound (diphthong) in the middle shifts from 'oi' to a subtle 'eh' sound (approx. how the first 'e' in 'cayenne' is pronounced) and the final -ng sound has a very weak g.
It seems as if critics are a lot more positive this time around, which is great. The first season isn't easy to get into but the 6/10 average it received is ridiculous.
He pronounced it as "Winn"
I loved how nonchalantly Bojack was like "you're not gonna get it" when someone tried to pronounce it.
WHAT THE FUCK BOJACK
Why would you leave that door open