BoJack Horseman

BoJack Horseman
BoJack Horseman promotional poster
Genre	Animated sitcom Adult animation Dramedy Satire Black comedy
Created by	Raphael Bob-Waksberg
Voices of	Will Arnett Amy Sedaris Alison Brie Paul F. Tompkins Aaron Paul
Theme music composer	Patrick Carney featuring Ralph Carney (uncredited)
Opening theme	"BoJack Horseman Theme"
Ending theme	"Back in the 90's (BoJack's Theme)" by Grouplove
Composer(s)	Jesse Novak
Country of origin	United States
Original language(s)	English
No. of seasons	2
No. of episodes	24 + 1 Special (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producer(s)	Will Arnett Raphael Bob-Waksberg Aaron Paul Steven A. Cohen Noel Bright
Running time	25-26 minutes
Production company(s)	The Tornante Company Boxer vs. Raptor Productions All That Kazzaz Productions ShadowMachine Films
Distributor	Netflix
Release
Original network	Netflix
Picture format	1080p (16:9 HDTV)
Audio format	Dolby Digital Plus 5.1
Original release	August 22, 2014 – present
External links
Website

BoJack Horseman is an American animated sitcom created by Raphael Bob-Waksberg. The series stars Will Arnett as the eponymous character, BoJack Horseman. The supporting cast includes Amy Sedaris, Alison Brie, Paul F. Tompkins, and Aaron Paul. The series' first season premiered on August 22, 2014, on Netflix, with a Christmas special premiering on December 19. The show is designed by the cartoonist Lisa Hanawalt, who had previously worked with Bob-Waksberg on the webcomic Tip Me Over, Pour Me Out.^[1]

Despite receiving mixed reviews upon its debut, critics were more positive towards the second half of the first season and less than a week after its initial release, Netflix renewed the series for a second season which premiered on July 17, 2015. On July 28, 2015, the series was renewed for a third season, set to premiere in 2016.^[2]

Premise

In a world where humans and anthropomorphic animals live side by side, BoJack Horseman, the washed-up star of the 1990s sitcom Horsin' Around, plans his big return to celebrity relevance with a tell-all autobiography that he dictates to his ghostwriter Diane Nguyen. BoJack also has to contend with the demands of his agent and on-again-off-again girlfriend Princess Carolyn, the misguided antics of his freeloading roommate Todd Chavez, and his frenemy Mr. Peanutbutter, who is also Nguyen's boyfriend. The series satirizes Hollywood, celebrity culture, and the film industry.

Characters

Main characters

• BoJack Horseman (voiced by Will Arnett) – A self-loathing alcoholic horse in his mid-fifties whose acting career peaked when he starred in a successful show called Horsin' Around, a parody of 90s family sitcoms. Though he began as a young bright-eyed actor, he has since grown bitter, deeply depressed, and jaded towards Hollywood and who he has become post-fame. Bojack has been shown to be caring and insightful, but his insecurities, loneliness, and desperate need for approval often result in self-destructive actions that devastate those around him. After facing the people he hurt in his old life and coming to terms with his actions past and present, Bojack is slowly beginning to accept himself.

• Princess Carolyn (voiced by Amy Sedaris) – A pink Persian cat who is BoJack's agent and former on-and-off girlfriend. Earnest and unflagging, Princess Carolyn was a top agent at Vigor agency through her dogged pursuit of new talent and large network of odd personal connections. Though she struggles to find a balance between work, her troubled personal life, and taking care of Bojack and her friends, she enjoys her fast-paced hectic lifestyle. She left Vigor to start a new agency with her then-boyfriend, married coworker Rutabaga Rabitowitz, but after recognizing his duplicity and confronting her fear of being alone, she ultimately decides to leave him and run the new company on her own.

• Diane Nguyen (voiced by Alison Brie) – A human ghostwriter, misunderstood intellectual, and a Vietnamese-American third-wave feminist from Boston who lives with her rich and famous boyfriend (and later, husband), former sitcom star Mr. Peanutbutter. While writing BoJack's memoir, he and Diane initially develop a strong friendship that becomes increasingly awkward and strained after BoJack develops romantic feelings for her. Diane travels to the war-torn Republic of Cordovia to make a difference, but discovers that this life is not for her. Ashamed of returning to her husband, she develops a severe bout of depression, during which she drinks heavily and sleeps disheveled on BoJack's patio furniture. She is able to reconcile her feelings with Mr. Peanutbutter and gets a job at Princess Carolyn's agency, ghostwriting tweets for celebrities.

• Mr. Peanutbutter (voiced by Paul F. Tompkins) – An energetic and cheerful yellow Labrador Retriever who is BoJack's former sitcom rival and Diane's boyfriend (and later husband). Mr. Peanutbutter was the star of Mr. Peanutbutter's House, which, according to BoJack, "borrowed the premise" from Horsin' Around. He had a stint at filming a celebrity reality show called Peanutbutter and Jelly. Despite their rivalry, Mr. Peanutbutter cares a great deal about BoJack's opinion and admires him for his work on Horsin' Around. He has an especially good relationship with Todd, and his positive attitude and financial resources combined with Todd's outlandish schemes and plans often result in the two starting questionable business ventures, such as a Halloween store that is exclusively open in January. In the episode "Let's Find Out", Mr. Peanutbutter starts hosting his own televised game show after his film company enters bankruptcy due to his and Todd's extensive expenditures on useless products. In "Hank After Dark", it is revealed that Mr. Peanutbutter was formerly married to a woman named Katrina who was emotionally abusive. He has one additional ex-wife that has yet to appear or be mentioned other than in passing.

• Todd Chavez (voiced by Aaron Paul) – An unemployed, 24-year-old human slacker who ended up at BoJack's house for a party five years before the beginning of the series and never left. Although BoJack constantly voices disdain for him, he secretly cares about Todd, continuing to financially support him and sabotage his attempts to gain independence. Todd has been shown to possess a plethora of skills including an understanding of Japanese; entrepreneurial know-how, having allied with Mr. Peanutbutter for various business ideas; and writing and composing his own rock opera, but his overall laziness and video game addictions often hinder him from success. Todd also has an uncanny knack for getting himself in absurd and extremely dangerous situations when his friends aren't around, such as getting into gun fights on several occasions, ending up in prison, and in one case switching places Prince and the Pauper-style with a Cordovian dictator.

Recurring characters

• Pinky Penguin (voiced by Patton Oswalt) – An Emperor penguin who works at a publishing house and depends on BoJack's book to save his job and company. In "Yesterdayland", Pinky started working at MBN.

• Sarah Lynn (voiced by Kristen Schaal) – A human actress who played the Horse's precocious adoptive youngest daughter Sabrina on Horsin' Around, and who looked up to BoJack off-screen as a father figure. After the show went off the air, she became a successful pop singer in the early 2000s before drug addiction and alcoholism ended her career. Flashbacks indicate that Sarah Lynn's self-destructive behavior is in part the result of BoJack (whom she idolized) having neglected her as a child. Around the end of "Later", she was seen visiting Andrew Garfield (with whom she was mentioned as having an on-again, off-again relationship) at the hospital. In "Still Broken", it is revealed that Sarah Lynn's stepfather was a bear. It is heavily implied that she was sexually abused in her youth by her mother's boyfriend.

• Herb Kazzaz (voiced by Stanley Tucci) – BoJack's human former comedy partner, who created and wrote Horsin' Around where he also provided the voice of Mr. Libertore who runs the law firm where the Horse works as an attorney. The pair had a falling out at the apex of the show's success when Herb was blackballed by the network for being gay and BoJack did not stand up for Herb for fear of losing his own job. At the beginning of the series, they have not spoken for nearly 18 years. BoJack attempts to reconnect with him after learning Herb has been diagnosed with terminal rectal cancer and is being watched over by Tina. Though Herb reveals he lived a full life in spite of losing Horsin' Around, he has not forgiven BoJack for not having been a supportive friend. Despite his cancer going into remission, he instantly passes away due to an allergic reaction to the peanuts on a peanut truck in a car crash when his brakes gave out during a ride home from the hospital. It was also revealed that Herb's office was under the room where Savion Glover kept a studio. Following his death, Henry Winkler and Tina stole the manuscript of his poorly written novel to keep it from being published and tainting his legacy. In "Out to Sea", Herb's ashes are donated to the Jerb Kazzaz Memorial Orphanage (misspelled due to BoJack's email and the hedgehog owner's stubbornness to pay for its replacement).

• Tina – A brown bear who is the nurse of Herb Kazzaz. In "Still Broken", Tina was in collaboration with Henry Winkler to keep Herb's terrible manuscript for a novel from being posthumously published and harming his legacy. Unlike the other anthropomorphic characters on the show, Tina only speaks in growls.

• Charlotte Moore (voiced by Olivia Wilde) – A deer who was Herb Kazzaz's old girlfriend with whom BoJack was once in love. During a drug and alcohol induced stupor in "Downer Ending", BoJack imagines an alternate life where instead of becoming a television star he moves to Maine with Charlotte. In this fantasy, the couple get married, have a daughter named Harper, and lead a quiet rustic lifestyle. In "Still Broken", Charlotte attended Herb Kazzaz's funeral. In a discussion with BoJack, she mentioned that she visited Herb and read the part in BoJack's book on how he and Herb fought over a telescope. She tells him she only lived in Maine for a month and later moved to Tesuque, New Mexico. In "Escape from LA", BoJack drives to Charlotte's house to find she is married to Kyle and has two teenage children named Trip and Penny. She also owns a store called "Your Deer Friend". During his time in New Mexico, BoJack bonds with the 17-year-old Penny by becoming her "date" for prom. When Charlotte catches BoJack and her daughter in a compromising position in his yacht, she throws him out and orders him never to talk to her and her family again or else she will kill him.

• Beatrice Horseman (voiced by Wendie Malick) – A horse who is BoJack's neglectful, verbally abusive mother. Heiress to a sugar cube company, she primarily appears in flashbacks to BoJack's childhood. In "Brand New Couch", Beatrice calls up BoJack to tell him she read the book about him, and concedes that he was born "broken".

• Butterscotch Horseman (voiced by Will Arnett) – A horse who is BoJack's neglectful, verbally abusive father. He appears in flashbacks to BoJack's childhood. Butterscotch, who hailed from a working-class background, was an alcoholic failed novelist. He resented his wife's financial independence and took out his insecurities on BoJack. In flashbacks, Butterscotch is often seen yelling nonsensical conservative hyperbole such as claiming that the Panama Canal is for "Democrats". A flashback in "Brand New Couch" revealed that Butterscotch left Beatrice.

• Lenny Turtletaub (voiced by J.K. Simmons) – A turtle and big-shot film producer. He worked with Ed Begley, Sr., Lionel Barrymore, Buster Keaton and Edwin S. Porter during their youth, suggesting that he is extremely old (a reference to the lifespan of actual turtles).

• Paparazzi Birds - Two birds who would try to get incriminating pictures of BoJack.

• Sextina Aquafina (voiced by Aisha Tyler) – A dolphin pop-music sensation. In "Out to Sea", Diane meets with Sextina to discuss becoming her social-media ghostwriter. According to creator Raphael Bob-Waksberg, she is based on a girl who was in his and Lisa Hanawalt's English class as a senior in high school.^[3]

• Kelsey Jannings (voiced by Maria Bamford) – A human who was hired to direct the Secretariat movie. A divorced, lesbian, independent filmmaker, she sees the Secretariat project as her last chance to break into the big time and make enough money to get her daughter Irving into an Ivy League school (as opposed to Vassar). Cynical and initially dismissive of BoJack's talents, she and BoJack grow closer over the course of filming. She has a special fondness for Todd because she likes his face. She is later fired by Lenny Turtletaub in "The Shot" for filming a scene that involved Secretariat's encounter with Richard Nixon.

• A Ryan Seacrest Type (voiced by Adam Conover) – This is the name of a human character who hosts "Excess Hollywood" (later renamed "Excess Hollywoo" after BoJack steals the D in the Hollywood Sign and the D is accidentally destroyed in a helicopter crash) and interviews celebrities. He also hosts "Morning Time, Hollywoo" with a female human called Some Lady.

• Tom Jumbo-Grumbo (voiced by Keith Olbermann) – A blue whale who is a newsman and pundit on MSNBSea. Tom often reports on BoJack's misdeeds and other happenings in Hollywoo.

• Wayne (voiced by Wyatt Cenac) – Diane's human ex-boyfriend who is a hipster and a BuzzFeed writer.

• Officer Meow Meow Fuzzyface (voiced by Cedric Yarbrough) – A cat who works as a police officer at the Los Angeles Police Department's 12th Precinct. He takes his duties very seriously, although there is intense disagreement within the police force over whether he is a "reckless renegade", a "loose cannon", or just a "cop on the edge with nothing to lose".

• Charley Witherspoon (voiced by Raphael Bob-Waksberg) – A tree frog who is the son of Mr. Witherspoon. He works at the Vigor agency where his hand keeps sticking to things. Charley was briefly Princess Carolyn's assistant, but was later made an agent.

• "Vincent Adultman" (voiced by Alison Brie^[4]) – Princess Carolyn's boyfriend. Everyone except BoJack appears oblivious to the fact that he appears to be three children standing atop each other underneath a trench coat. Though he speaks in a child's voice and has awkward syntax, he also occasionally exhibits strangely keen insight prompting others to ignore BoJack's observations.

• Dr. Allen Hu (voiced by Ken Jeong) – A human physician who sells drugs to Sarah Lynn. An unseen character throughout most of the first season, he is the subject of a recurring joke based on the phonetic similarity of his name to "who" with BoJack and others believing that Sarah's drug connection is a man who simply calls himself "Doctor Who" rather than an actual physician. He made his first onscreen appearance in "Downer Ending".

• Sebastian St. Clair (voiced by Keegan-Michael Key) – A snow leopard billionaire bachelor who wants Diane to accompany him to a third world country, Cordovia. Though Diane initially looks up to him because she wants to change the world in a positive way, she quickly becomes disillusioned when it becomes clear he is more concerned with making a legacy for himself than with actually helping people.

• Jogging Baboon (voiced by Jason Beghe) - An unnamed white baboon that is often seen jogging by BoJack Horseman's house. In "Out to Sea", the Jogging Baboon comes across BoJack jogging. He tells BoJack that jogging may be hard at first, but it will get easier if he does it every day.

• Corduroy Jackson-Jackson (voiced by Brandon T. Jackson) – BoJack's human co-star in the Secretariat movie. He dies from erotic asphyxiation and the movie is dedicated in memory of him.

• Wanda Pierce (voiced by Lisa Kudrow) – An owl who is a network-television executive at MBN. She woke up from a 30-year coma and began a relationship with BoJack. Because she had missed the last 30 years of pop culture, she is initially unfamiliar with BoJack's history and fame, and must learn what transpired in the world while she was in a coma. She and BoJack break-up in "Yes And" where she claims that she can not have a relationship with someone as bitter as BoJack.

• Rutabaga Rabbitowitz (voiced by Ben Schwartz) – A rabbit agent at the Vigor agency who works one floor below Princess Carolyn. He later informed her of J.D. Salinger still being alive. Rutabaga cheats on his wife with Princess Carolyn, claiming he plans to obtain a divorce. He later persuades Princess Carolyn to join him in founding their own agency. After revealing his reluctance to divorce yet wishing to continue the affair, Princess Carolyn abandons him.

• J.D. Salinger (voiced by Alan Arkin) – In this show, J.D. Salinger faked his death and opened a bicycle shop. He was a client of the late Ronnie Bonito. After learning that he is alive, Princess Carolyn convinces him to work in television where he creates a game show that Mr. Peanutbutter hosts.

• Hank Hippopopalous (voiced by Philip Baker Hall) – A hippopotamus who is a beloved former host of a late-night talk show Hank After Dark. At the 1994 Animal's Choice Awards, he won the award for Male Animal in a Comedy, Drama or Variety Show, for which BoJack Horseman and Mr. Peanutbutter were also nominated and was given the award by Scott Wolf and Matthew Fox. Mr. Peanutbutter idolizes him and treasures having met him at the awards after-party. He is the host of a TV dance competition Hey, I Think You Can Dance. Hippopopalous is known in the TV industry as Uncle Hankie. In the episode "Hank After Dark", Diane inadvertently causes a controversy by including the beloved entertainer in a mention of celebrities who have done worse things than BoJack. The controversy involved unspecified allegations made against him by all eight of his female former assistants.

Minor characters

• Laura (voiced by Rachel Bloom) – Princess Carolyn's secretary in season one. She is replaced by a male assistant named Stuart in season two, but makes a brief non-speaking cameo appearance in "Higher Love".

• Vanessa Gecko (voiced by Kristin Chenoweth) – A Hollywoo talent agent, and the rival of Princess Carolyn. She is a seemingly better agent than Princess Carolyn and has a husband and kids. She temporarily shares an office with Princess Carolyn when their agencies merge.

• Neal McBeal (voiced by Patton Oswalt) – A seal who is also a Navy SEAL. BoJack gets into a tiff with him because McBeal called "dibs" on a box of muffins at a grocery store which BoJack later bought and ate out of spite.

• Quentin Tarantulino (voiced by Kevin Bigley) – A tarantula who is a film director. He is a parody of Quentin Tarantino.

• Mr. Witherspoon (voiced by Stephen Colbert) – A bullfrog who heads the Vigor agency. He is Princess Carolyn's boss and the father of Charley Witherspoon.

• Angela Diaz (voiced by Anjelica Huston) – A human woman in a position of authority at the studio that produces Horsin' Around. She gives BoJack a speech about how the entertainment business works, persuading him to leave Herb behind to preserve BoJack's own career.

• Bradley Hitler-Smith (voiced by Adam Conover) – A human actor who played the Horse's adopted son Ethan on Horsin' Around. A running joke in Horsin' Around was that he had a catchphrase to which the studio audience responded with an awkward silence. In "Still Broken", it is revealed that Bradley is living in Olympia, Washington, and that his parents divorced after BoJack had sex with Bradley's mother.

• Joelle Clarke (voiced by Alison Brie) – A human actress who played the Horse's eldest adopted daughter Olivia on Horsin' Around. In "Still Broken", it is revealed Joelle is living in England and developed a British accent.

• Tracy (voiced by Nicole Sullivan) – A character in Horsin' Around who works as Mr. Libertore's secretary.

• Goober (voiced by Fred Savage) – A character in Horsin' Around who always shows up to the Horse's house unannounced, leading everyone to say "Go home, Goober!"

• Abe (voiced by Garry Marshall) – A catfish director who replaces Kelsey Jannings after Lennie Turtletaub fires her.

• Katrina Peanutbutter (voiced by Lake Bell) – Mr. Peanutbutter's emotionally abusive human ex-wife.

• Kyle (voiced by Ed Helms) – Charlotte's human husband and the father of Trip and Penny.

• Trip (voiced by Adam Pally) - Charlotte's human son who is the younger teenage brother of Penny.

• Penny (voiced by Ilana Glazer) – A deer who is Charlotte and Kyle's 17-year-old daughter, and Trip's sister. She bonds with BoJack while he stays at their home during "Escape from L.A." where he acts as her surrogate date from prom. After returning from the home, she propositions him to have sex which BoJack rejects despite her saying she is of consent age in her state. Charlotte later finds her and BoJack in a compromising position on his yacht and is sent to her room.

• Copernicus (voiced by Liev Schreiber) – A Persian cat who founded the improv theater troupe/cult, Shenanigags (which closely resembles Scientology). He takes a liking to Todd and knows dozens of jokes related to the butt. Copernicus is thematically a parody of the founder of Scientology L. Ron Hubbard and visually a parody of Del Close.

Celebrities

The following celebrities appear either as themselves or anthropomorphic animal versions of themselves.

• Character Actress Margo Martindale (voiced by herself) – An exaggerated version of actress Margo Martindale who willingly goes along with BoJack's schemes no matter how convoluted or dangerous. BoJack and others consistently refer to her as "Character Actress Margo Martindale". She is arrested helping BoJack in one of his antics that involved a bank robbery and is incarcerated in Hollywoo Hills Super-Max Prison. In "Later", Margo was seen in the prison's cafeteria talking to her fellow inmates that resemble the characters from Orange is the New Black. In "The Shot", Margo is later released from prison and helps BoJack film a crucial scene for Secretariat. She had a shootout with the police when they recognize her face but do not know her name. She does this in the name of other character actors like John Carroll Lynch and C.C.H. Pounder.

• Beyoncé (voiced by Yvette Nicole Brown) – Beyoncé appears in "Our A-Story Is A 'D' Story", where she trips and falls on dollar bills that BoJack threw off a roof.

• Naomi Watts (voiced by herself) – An exaggerated version who plays Diane in Mr. Peanutbutter's film. While in character as Diane she engages in a fast-paced sexual relationship with BoJack, only to lose interest in him when her character is ultimately written out of the movie and replaced with a ball on a stick.

• Wallace Shawn (voiced by himself) – An exaggerated version who plays BoJack in Mr. Peanutbutter's film.

• Secretariat (voiced by John Krasinski) – A racehorse and BoJack's hero. He was banned for life from racing when there were allegations that he had been betting on his own races. After being disgraced, Secretariat committed suicide by jumping off the John F. Kennedy Memorial Bridge into the Ohio River.

• Andrew Garfield (voiced by Paul F. Tompkins) – Sarah Lynn's celebrity boyfriend with whom she has an on-again off-again relationship. He is depicted as sharing traits with the comic character Garfield, including a dislike of Mondays and a craving for lasagna.

• Henry Winkler (voiced by himself) – Best known for his guest spot on Law & Order: SVU, he gives the eulogy at Herb Kazzaz's funeral. During a discussion with Princess Carolyn, he says he knew Kazzaz when they worked for Habitat for Humanity. He and Herb's caretaker Tina kept Kazzaz's terrible manuscript for a novel from being posthumously published and tainting Kazzaz's legacy.

• Paul McCartney (voiced by himself) – He was to appear out of a cake Mr. Peanutbutter made for Diane's surprise party.

• Scott Wolf (voiced by himself) – Despite the last name, Scott is depicted as a red fox in this show. He is a presenter at the 1994 Animal's Choice Awards where he and Matthew Fox presented the award for Male Animal in a Comedy, Drama or Variety Show to Hank Hippopopalous. During the party that followed afterwards, Scott Wolf and Matthew Fox talked about their work on Party of Five to a woman.

• Matthew Fox – Despite the last name, Matthew is depicted as a gray wolf in this show. He is a presenter at the 1994 Animal's Choice Awards where he and Scott Wolf presented the award for Male Animal in a Comedy, Drama or Variety Show to Hank Hippopopalous. During the party that followed afterwards, Matthew Fox and Scott Wolf talked about their work on Party of Five to a woman.

• Daniel Radcliffe (voiced by himself) – The surprise celebrity guest of the first episode of Mr. Peanutbutter's game show.

• Lance Bass (voiced by himself) – Depicted as a bass fish, he is a celebrity guest on Mr. Peanutbutter's game show.

Guest characters

• Vanessa Gekko (voiced by Kristin Chenoweth) – A human Hollywoo agent at FME who is Princess Carolyn's rival. She temporarily shares her office when their agencies merge. In "The Shot", Vanessa appears in a fantasy when Princess Carolyn envisions herself in a serene painting.

• Irving Jannings (voiced by Amy Schumer) – Kelsey's daughter.

• Amanda Hannity (voiced by Christine Baranski) – A manatee who is editor-in-chief of Manatee Fair magazine.

• Mia McKibbin (voiced by Tatiana Maslany) – A mouse who works at the game show. She is trying to earn the respect of J.D. Salinger and finds Todd extremely immature.

• Ana Spanikopita (voiced by Angela Bassett) – A human Hollywoo agent who specializes in getting celebrities Oscars, hence her title "The Oscar Whisperer".

Music

The main title theme was composed by Patrick Carney, one half of the blues-rock duo The Black Keys, while the ending credits theme "Back in the 90s (BoJack's Theme)" was performed by the indie-pop act Grouplove.^[5] Jesse Novak composed the incidental music.^[6]

In addition, the show featured the Death Grips song "No Love" in the tenth episode of the first season.

Episodes

Season		Episodes	Release date
	1	12	August 22, 2014
	2	12	July 17, 2015

Reception

Critical reception

Season 1

The review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes reported 53% favorable reviews based on 15 critics, with the site's critical consensus reading, "It's intermittently funny, but in most respects, BoJack Horseman pales in comparison to similar comedies".^[7] On Metacritic, the season received a rating of 59 out of 100, based on 13 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews".^[8]

Erik Adams' review of the first six episodes gave the series a C+ grade; in the review, Adams wrote that the show "spoofs the emptiness of celebrity, but does so without any novelty or true insight".^[9] At Slate, Willa Paskin was more enthused. "[It] is perhaps a little more clever than it is uproariously funny, but it is often very clever, and, moreover, well-tuned to the ludicrousness of the sort of low-level fame that surrounds BoJack". She likened it to 30 Rock in its ability to "[present] big ideas without having to commit to them".^[10]

Chris Mitchell from Popzara was equally optimistic about the show's future, saying that "Fans of FX's Archer or Fox's Bob's Burgers will definitely want to check this one out, as its rapid-fire delivery is always consciously spot-on".^[11] The New York Times described the show as "hilarious and ribald".^[12] Margaret Lyons of Vulture gave a positive review, describing it as "radically sad. I love it".^[13]

However, the second half of the season received much more positive reviews. Ben Travers of Indiewire believed one possible reason for mixed reviews of the show was critics reviewing only the first half of the season, with the second half changing drastically in tone and developing a darker and deeper meaning. This change was so drastic it resulted in Indiewire changing its policy to only review entire seasons of shows on Netflix, instead of just the first six episodes, which would have boosted BoJack Horseman's C+ grade.^[14]

Season 2

The review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes reports 100% favorable reviews, based on 12 critics, with an average rating of 8.8/10. The site's critical consensus reads, "BoJack Horseman truly comes into its own during season two, maturing into an ambitious comedy that sensitively blends wackiness with dark, nuanced drama".^[15] On Metacritic, the season has a score of 90 out of 100, based on 7 reviews, indicating "universal acclaim".

Entertainment Weekly critic Marc Snetiker said, "BoJack has become one of TV's best meta-skewers of Hollywood".

Awards and nominations

Year	Award	Category	Nominee	Result
2016	Critics' Choice Television Awards	Best Animated Series	BoJack Horseman	Won
	Annie Awards	Best General Audience Animated TV/Broadcast Production	"Brand New Couch"	Nominated
	Writers Guild of America Award	Animation	"Hank After Dark"	Nominated

References

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5. Reilly, Dan (August 29, 2014). "The Black Keys' Patrick Carney Wrote the 'BoJack Horseman' Theme Song". Spin. Retrieved October 2, 2015.
6. "Jesse Novak to Score Netflix's 'BoJack Horseman'". Film Music Reporter. June 30, 2014. Retrieved October 1, 2015.
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8. "BoJack Horseman – Season 1". Metacritic. Retrieved April 28, 2015.
9. Adams, Erik (August 21, 2014). "Netflix's entry into the adult-animation race, BoJack Horseman, stumbles out of the gate". The A.V. Club. Retrieved August 22, 2014.
10. Paskin, Willa (August 22, 2014). "The Longest Face". Slate. Retrieved August 23, 2014.
11. Mitchell, Chris (August 29, 2014). "BoJack Horseman Popzara Review".
12. Neil, Genzlinger (August 24, 2014). "A Talking Horse of a Different Color: Blue". Retrieved August 31, 2014.
13. "BoJack Horseman’s Radically Funny Sadness -- Vulture". Vulture. Retrieved January 16, 2016.
14. Ben Travers (June 27, 2015). "7 New Netflix Shows to Binge Watch in July 2015 - Indiewire". Indiewire. Retrieved January 16, 2016.
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External links

• BoJack Horseman at Netflix
• BoJack Horseman at the Internet Movie Database
• BoJack Horseman