my brain is melting which means it's time for a bojack horseman season 4 review thread!! previous thread here:
https://twitter.com/hmsnofun/status/1302435358760607745?s=20
oh my god, vincent d'onofrio 
i love all the changes they make to the intro every season
i feel like i've had this exact conversation before
that's my favorite podcast
are you still looking for a star for your transgender teddy roosevelt 'plains, trains, and automobiles' reboot, 'plans, trans, a man, a canal, panama'?
oh so like democracy
yeah
fuck you
okay but that was actually very informative in a roundabout parodic sense
todd is trapped on a drone in the sky. which is not exactly what i expected when i ended the last thread talking about character development
walt whitmantis
not that the rest of this episode any more serious
this is very sweet but also, ugh, breeders
is todd gonna become governor, is that what's happening
yeah that's what's happening
oh my god this is so dumb
is mr peanutbutter becoming a fascist
god damn it
OOF
is crackerjack played by lin manuel miranda
me
oh this sequence is very good
aslkj;fadfgkl;hTHEY LOBOTOMIZED HER WHAT
this show!!!!!!
THIS SHOW!!!!!!!!!
MATTHEW BRODERICK???
what the fuck is going on with todd now
what a good boy yes he is
ms. taken
i am on the side of facts. and the side of feelings.
this name is too long to not be part of some elaborate pun that we won't get to for six episodes
>:[
that's a terrible thing to say to a baby! ;lkjasfdl;kjsadfjk;hlgfdahjk
true
todd runs like a muppet
god damn it todd
tatum
eyyyy
aw
!!!!
belly~
...
i volunte[crashing as keyboard is ripped away from me]
i volunte[crashing as keyboard is ripped away from me]
like an omelet bar at a mongoose convention, you are running dangerously low on eggs
YIKES
these soups will enrage you
😬😬😬😬😬😬😬😬😬😬😬😬
i love her
sometimes it's like that
there's a direction this could have gone, which would be so much more obvious- bojack saying "eww, gross," and then intentionally giving hollyhock the worst lesson. i always feel the ghost of a worse show in scenes like this, and i think that's what makes it so impressive
oh god here we go
oh my GOD
;LKJASDF;LKJASDGLJKHWHLJK
you always hear about mass shootings affecting other people's movie openings, but you never think they're gonna affect YOUR movie opening
mood
fucking robert siegel ringtone
oh my god HOW
food time in the forum
oh my god
this is so much to take in
everyone's become a sociopath
what the fuck is going on in this episode
slksdjfhglkh
too real, this episode
hrmm
hrrrmmmmmmmmm
OOF
fucked up family all in one room
god so we're doing this now huh. woof
true
this animation is really good, also: yeah no never had this internal monologue before
holy shit
every single celebrity in this show has their own face recreated all over their own house
this style is relentlessly charming
oh my god he's so fucking wise
damn judah
holy shit this sequence is really good
this season's already gone way more into the subjectivity of specific characters, and it's made everything so much more complicated in a really interesting way
fuck you
they got zach braff to play himself
oh good
i'm starting to feel self-conscious about how often my tweets are just an image of a line out of context with the words "oh my god" but oh my god
drunk diane is a delight
what the fuck is this rick and morty episode doing in bojack horseman
caucus for a
pants free platform
amend my bread
🎾
boob debate
pants free platform
amend my bread
🎾
boob debate
a boob debate is what you call a gathering of trans women who've only been on hrt for two years
n noooo
that guy called us a mob! let's kill him!!
i love it when we see different angles of bojack's face
we don't need to "get him," let's just tie him up someplace where he can't hurt us anymore with his dangerous ideas
me when i'm very good at starting campfires
anyway i guess zach braff is dead
fake it til you make it baby
post-climate-change coastal living
rip
i fucking knew that ant queen was played by rupaul
HNNN YUP
so now you can have other animals stitched together???
such an unbelievably good line
...is this a fanny & alexander reference?
there have been hints of animal breed being signals of ethnicity, but this is the first time in the show this kind of thing's had any material cultural consequence. very interesting development
what the hell
fuck you
i see we're getting a new twist on an american tail
this is art
OH NOOOOO
PRINCESS CAROLYN :'(
noooo
you're telling me
so it's just a coin flip. this is adding some really strange wrinkles to this show's racial dynamics
wow that episode hit hard!!!!!!!!
oh my GHODGD
punished carolyn
oh no
YOWZA
oh princess carolyn, no
she's like me, but she isn't mean which is pretty remarkable
IT'S ALL HER DADS
me
🎵too many dads🎵
NOO :(
this is so cruel
OH NO
lol
this is so interesting
this backstory with beatrice and butterscotch is... surprisingly very touching
nnNO
shut up you're crying not me
😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
i'm having a hard time coming up with commentary, this is all Extremely Good
oh good, more heartbreak
remember when there were clowns in the woods
oh diane
oh gosh
oh my god
an asexual axolotl
ljhkdfglhjkasd
well
oh my GOD 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
season 4 review: WHY HOW WHY AGH
season 4 was just. nonstop pathos for basically everyone. wowza. last couple episodes were clearly the work of a team at the height of their ability. god damn
i had no intention of going through all of season 4 in one day but it just kinda happened.
i think the most notable shift in season 4 is codifying species as a cipher for ethnic heritage. we've had hints of it particularly with labrador peninsula, but even the ocean city was like "yeah, what else do you expect, they're fish"
having mouse holidays be explicitly anti-cat gets us into racial allegory territory that the series so far has worked *very* hard to avoid. i'll be very curious to see if season 5 develops this thread at all or if they just leave it at that. kiiiinda hoping for the latter?
bojack works because what type of animal you are doesn't seem to have a huge impact on the life you lead. species doesn't have a direct correlation to class, etc etc. part of the joy of this series is that it's not beastars. they can just make people be animals for a joke.
this isn't a criticism so much as recognition of a narrative hazard. spend enough time in a universe like this and writers will want to start exploring its contours. this makes for good writing but it can also lead to a snowballing of factors that can distract from the main theme
so far they've done a good job of keeping these bits of story quarantined. like we have an explanation for fried chicken, we have labrador peninsula, but with the mouse holiday you're looking at something cultural, something systemic, and that requires a lot of unpacking
alright, one season left. i don't know anything about it except that it involves a callout of some kind. can't wait
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