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The Best Five Bojack Horseman Episodes

Bojack Horseman is a comedy cartoon series that was a feature in Netflix. The series was a hit show that revolved primarily around the protagonist. The name goes, a “horseman” who is a washed-up old star in Hollywood who had reached stardom early in his age and now plans to get back into the industry with an autobiography made on his life.From the seventy-seven episode that came out along its journey, it’s a tough call which one is the best, therefore here is the list of the top five Bojack Horseman Episodes. N


umber 5, “Time’s Arrow” (Season 4, Episode 11)


This episode in the series comes with a bit of more surprises than the others. Bojack goes to the nursing home where his mother, Beatrice, is kept who is suffering from dementia in her old age. Beatrice, Bojack’s mother, is often painted in a villainous light since her first appearance in the episode, “Bojack Hates the Troops.” This whole episode passes through Beatrice’s deteriorating mind plagued by dementia. Therefore the episode often jumps from point to point, leaving the audience in dread and awe at different instances. Bojack can be seen blaming his mistakes on the reason that his mom and dad were not good parents and that they didn’t raise him well.


This episode gives off a rare glimpse into the life of his mother, Beatrice, who is shown why she was cruel towards Bojack, and that all of her negative behavior was brought on by her not being able to fulfill her father’s wishes. She pushed Bojack away just as he now pushes everyone away from his life. The storytelling of this episode is non-linear. Bojack often uses both of his parents as scapegoats for his destructive behavior. While he learns to shoulder more responsibility for his actions over the course of the show, he’s not entirely wrong in harboring anger towards Beatrice and Butterscotch Horseman. This episode witnesses Beatrice being stripped of everything she ever was in search of a final moment of salvation. This was some excellent scriptwriting.


Number 6, “The View from Halfway Down” (Season 6, Episode 16)


This is one of the many dark episodes that this series has to offer, but this, the penultimate episode of the series, takes the cake as Bojack goes on depths that he had never before. The episode starts off with Bojack in a trance and floating on a pool. He starts to dream about a lot of things about all the people that he has lost over time and all the people he has let down. All of this is depicted as if Bojack has fallen into a rabbit hole of his mind. Although Bojack quickly comes into terms with that, he is dreaming he wanders further than he ever had before. Bojack’s attitude doesn’t seem to change, but soon the dreams turn into a nightmare, and he starts wondering if he will ever wake up. The dead dinner guests include Horsin’ Around showrunner Herb Kazazz, co-star Corduroy Jackson Jackson, Zach Braff, Bojack’s unforgiving mother, his war-hero uncle, a Freudian mix of Secretariat and his father, and of course, Sarah Lynn.


The guests perform for Bojack, filling out the line-up for an absurd talent show in his head. And as each of the end of their segment, they drop down through a door to nowhere, disappearing into the inky blackness. As all of the people he has known, disappear into nowhere, Bojack desperately tries to make sense of what is happening around him. This can be seen as the show’s final attempt to shake Bojack out of his self-destructive spiral, although he has tried to do that before, he had never been successful in making that last. Now being almost dead, opens his eyes, and he wonders what he wouldn’t give for a normal phone call to a friend. This dark satire is beautifully written.


“That’s Too Much, Man!” (Season 3, Episode 11)


This episode, as the name suggests, is a bit off the edge, but it’s still one of the best written and hard-hitting scripts in the whole series. The episode starts with Sara Lynn, who was Bojack’s co-star in his sitcom days. Sarah Lynn had just got over being sober for nine months when Bojack calls her up and asks if she is ready to party. Sarah Lynn immediately forgets about being sober and starts drinking with Bojack with no restraint.


“Free Churro” (Season 5, Episode 6)


This episode is one of its kind in the whole series and even one of the best in every series out there. This episode starts off with Bojack going to attend his mother’s funeral and stopping in a “Jack-in-the-Box” on the way where a cashier gives him a free “Churro” out of sympathy. This is a one of a kind episode for multiple reasons, one of the major reasons being that as Bojack reaches the funeral, he goes on to give an episode-long eulogy without any breaks in between. This is different from the general pattern as Bojack doesn’t go and drink his sorrow away or gets busy with shenanigans with Todd.


The eulogy basically acts as a counseling session that he never got. He had a captive audience for once, and he went on talking. Bojack started talking from his childhood right onto his adulthood and all the traumas he felt. Show creator Raphael Bob-Waksberg wrote “Free Churro,” and it’s a testament to his abilities as a writer that he was able to conjure up an episode that relies on a single character’s voice. Credit is due to Will Arnett as well, who delivers Bojack’s twenty-minute eulogy without interruption. The episode touches on a deeply spiritual level as it ends up establishing that there is no such thing as a closure as there is always more show left to do.


“Fish Out of Water” (Season 3, Episode 4)


The fourth episode of the third season kicks off with Bojack going underwater for the premiere of his films “Secretariat,” although unwillingly. Bojack has to put on a fishbowl helmet and further realizes that he cannot talk underwater. This brings on the biggest challenge for the writers in the whole Bojack timeline because the whole show is generally base of witty remarks and jabs at other characters, dialogues built the whole story, but stripping the main character of the ability to talk made that story that much harder to write and that much more interesting for the viewers.


Bojack was now left in a world that he did not like and in a condition that he wouldn’t have preferred. To add to his worries, he found himself followed by a lost child seahorse and not being able to talk; he had to find the child’s parent and hand over the kids. This gives the viewers a calm in the storm as Bojack silently observes a parent take care of his child and a wholly loving family that he never had. Moving away from that, the episode ends with Kelsey, who was fired from the set because of Bojack’s actions. Bojack, in a turn of events, tries to apologize to her, but due to the frustration of not being able to talk, writes a note to her. And when he finally gives the note to Kelsey, she hands it over and when Bojack realizes that the water had taken off the ink on the paper.


This instance also conveys the message that sometimes some people that we have wronged will never forgive us even when we try hard. Being that condition that it was, the disability to speak in the episode, without dialogue, every other aspect of the show shines. Jesse Novak’s score of atmospheric synths and electronic, at times jazzy, beats work to submerge the viewer further into the underwater world. Likewise, the animation style speaks for itself. Multiple viewings reveal all the small touches animators added when building the underwater landscape. It was a masterpiece all in all.


And these were the top five episodes of Bojack Horseman. But being what the series is Bojack Horseman’s place in television history as a poignant, sometimes painful, depiction of what it means to be human…even if you’re a horse.


Elisa Wilson is an avid technical blogger, a magazine contributor, a publisher of guides at mcafee.com/activate and a professional cyber security analyst. Through her writing, she aims to educate people about the dangers and threats lurking in the digital world .


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