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Shortly before the pandemic, I binge-watched all of BoJack Horseman from the dark cave of my late-night living room. I became obsessed with it. I talked about it to everyone…

Just before the credits roll in BoJack Horseman’s final episode, the camera tilts leaving BoJack and Diane visible from only the mid-chest up. If we weren’t already paying attention to…

He’s a man who has suffered no consequences. His is a recklessness born of experience. He’s like a malevolent Mr. Magoo. He always knows the I-beam is going to swing…

In Season 2 of BoJack Horseman, Hollywoo agent Princess Carolyn learns that J. D. Salinger is alive, hiding out at Joe Nobody’s Shop for Tandem Bicycles, having faked his own…

Back in the 90s, BoJack Horseman was on a very famous TV show. It wasn’t a very good show, but the characters, BoJack tells us, were good people.1 BH: I…

BoJack Horseman is set in a cartoonish world where hybrid beings satirize familiar behavior and in which backgrounds keep up the visual equivalent of a laugh track. We notice moles…

For the past few years, I’ve been teaching the BoJack Horseman episode “Fish Out of Water” in my writing courses. The episode forgoes dialogue for about 23 of its 26…

For the last three years, I’ve studied masculinity in the context of very public instances of sexual violence, collecting newspaper articles, tweets, documentaries, and books that detail allegations of sexual…

Like many recent sadcoms, BoJack Horseman offers viewers a gloss on a hostile affective world in which connections between people are easily shattered.1 BoJack is a horse in pain “all…

“Hey, you see those people?” BoJack says to ten-year-old Sarah Lynn at the start of BoJack Horseman’s third episode, looking out at the live studio audience of Horsin’ Around. Sarah…