{"id":6191,"date":"2016-07-25T17:41:31","date_gmt":"2016-07-25T12:11:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/13.201.39.237\/?p=6191"},"modified":"2016-07-25T17:41:31","modified_gmt":"2016-07-25T12:11:31","slug":"why-i-cant-bring-myself-to-say-goodbye-to-bojack-horseman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/13.207.105.184\/?p=6191","title":{"rendered":"Why I Can\u2019t Bring Myself to Say Goodbye to BoJack Horseman"},"content":{"rendered":"\nG<\/span>oodbyes are never easy. Especially when you\u2019re saying goodbye to something that means a great deal to you. There\u2019s an urge to put it off, to skirt around the topic in the hope that by not acknowledging the parting that looms, it will go away. It never does; it hangs over your head until you work up the nerve to get it over with, like ripping off a band-aid. But first, you need to steel yourself for the pain that you know is certain to follow. That\u2019s the reason I still haven\u2019t been able to watch the final season of Netflix\u2019s BoJack Horseman<\/a><\/em> \u2013 because the show has made a habit of hitting its viewers right in the feels, and my feels are not ready for its final blow.\n\nSeason 6, BoJack Horseman<\/em>\u2019s final season, was broken into two parts \u2013 the first released in December 2019 and the other arrived last week, on January 31. If Netflix hadn\u2019t announced that this was the nefinal season prior to their release, I would have been done with watching both already. But knowing that this was the final chapter was a frightening thought. This is a show that has spent years conditioning its viewers to expect disappointment<\/a>, and has made an art out of taking a relatable storyline and eliciting a \u201ctoo real\u201d reaction. For BoJack<\/em> fans, the show was an uncannily accurate mirror of our own lives, which is why the thought of a less-than-happy ending for our protagonist is so terrifying.\n\nThose who are familiar with the show (and those who have already seen the final season, probably) will know that this is a very real possibility. Despite its colourful, cartoon aesthetic, life on BoJack Horseman<\/em> is the complete opposite of sunshine and rainbows \u2013 again, another similarity with our real life. Those who haven\u2019t seen the show should stop reading after this point, if they want to avoid spoilers for what will go down as one of the most insightful animated shows of the 2010s. With that out of the way, let\u2019s admit that happy endings<\/a> are not BoJack Horseman<\/em>\u2019s stock-in-trade.\n\n

The reason BoJack Horseman<\/em> became such a popular show was because BoJack became a fictional stand-in for many of the fans.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\nFrom how the spark weakly flickers out for BoJack\u2019s idealised romance<\/a> with his former partner Charlotte, to how BoJack fails at finding happiness even at the pinnacle of professional success, to how even a genuine bond with a long-lost sister cannot provide BoJack the companionship he so desperately seeks, the story arcs on BoJack Horseman<\/em> thrive in reminding us that happiness<\/a> is fleeting, and that the next thing that will make us miserable is lurking right around the corner. If there is any solace to be drawn from the trials of BoJack and his friends, it\u2019s in knowing that even when things fall apart completely, you\u2019re still going to be around to pick up the pieces. The moral of the story is not \u201cwhat doesn\u2019t kill you only makes you stronger\u201d; it\u2019s \u201cif it didn\u2019t kill you, at least you\u2019re still alive\u2026 for better or worse\u201d.\n\nToday, BoJack Horseman<\/em>\u2019s astute portrayal of millennial angst is an established fact. It\u2019s easy to forget the dissonance viewers first felt when this cartoon show that featured a talking horse started delivering gut-punches instead of punchlines<\/a>. What was supposed to be an irreverent, surreal comedy became a painful examination of superficial 21st century lifestyles. This contrast has come to be recognised as the show\u2019s signature. Vanity Fair has called it \u201chilarious and haunting\u201d; AV Club\u2019s review said it was \u201cgut-busting and gut-wrenching in equal parts\u201d; IndieWire praised it as \u201cbeautiful and traumatizing\u201d; but I think the most succinct summary of BoJack Horseman<\/em> has to be when Rolling Stone simply called it \u201ca modern classic\u201d.\n\nThe reason BoJack Horseman<\/em> became such a popular show was because BoJack became a fictional stand-in for many of the fans. His problems, despite the pantomime setting, were identifiable as the same ones we were going through. And since 2014, we\u2019ve seen ourselves in him. So to know that his story is coming to an end is a sobering thought. And since it\u2019s easier to look away than say goodbye<\/a>, I haven\u2019t been able to bring myself to watch how it all ends. It probably won\u2019t work out the way BoJack planned, but that\u2019s what made the show so believable. And for fans like me, still trying to figure out a happy ending of their own, that\u2019s a frightening notion.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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