BoJack Horseman - The Most Depressing Cartoon Ever | Salari

I love BoJack Horseman, and I think you will too. Here's a few reasons why you should watch it, and what I think makes the show so special.

[HappiestEverEmoBoy]

One episode gave me an existential dread fueled panic attack and I had to leave the room and turn it off. 10/10 would reccomend.

[xGrifo]

lol diane being the black sheep in a family with a literal adopted black sheep is probably the best joke in the show

[ArtistRiley]

And you haven't seen the view from halfway down at this point yet

[genesischaparro]

Quoting Bo Burnham: "We all deserve love, even on the days that we aren't our best, because we all suck but love can make us suck less"

[aidanredding]

I was genuinely afraid to watch the last 4 episodes. That's how powerful this show is.

[WillXtinger]

Bojack Hits you according to how you are emotionally at the moment, is not a sad show, it's a human show, it doesn't romanticize deppression or any of the issues it deals with but rather treats it as it is, a real issue. It's not depressing it deals with depression, it is about maturing and recognizing when something is wrong and what happens when you decide to not do anything about it, you are supposed to get help if you feel you need it, or you end up hurting yourself and everyone around you.

[passmaker]

"bojack horseman is at it's heart a comedy", i cried more than i laughed watching this show

[existentialgamer]

This is my favorite show EVER. The moment it hooked me was when PC’s phone said “you are forty”. That’s when I knew this wasn’t just your standard irreverent adult animated show.

[kedrednael]

Todd's asexually was planned from the start right. His first conversation in the show was this:
Bojack: "We are not roommates, you are my houseguest"
Todd: "Well we don't need to put labels on things".
He didn't know how he should label himself from the very beginning, he didn't want the usual label.

[senyaborovikov]

This is a criminally underrated channel and a criminally underrated video essay

[acetrigger]

"it gets easier, you gotta do it everyday... but it gets easier."

- Learning, Working Out, Mastering a New Skill and Living Life.

[Penguinstudios]

Todd is the only good representation of an asexual character I have EVER seen

[kingdonut]

It’s ability to make you cry and then laugh right afterward and then feel bad you laughed is unparalleled

[rosenrot]

I think the moment Herb said "So what you're saying is. You're sorry. Okay. I don't forgive you." is what caught my attention. That "Oh...this show is more than I thought." moment I think every viewer of the show has at some point. I've dealt with abusive family. It's absurd how many times people that were never abused try to push the whole "You should forgive them if they say sorry. It's the right thing to do." Even stomaching a few said apologies that I knew weren't real. Just to avoid more drama. The whole not forgiving an abuser thing never even crossed my mind as an actual valid option. So that bit in the telescope episode almost felt freeing in a way. I don't mean freeing like "Oh Bojack did a shitty thing, that makes my shitty behavior okay." No not that. I know Bojack wasn't an abusive parental figure to Herb. But that whole scene just caught me way off guard but in a good way. A moment in a show about a talking horse got me to go back to therapy and find a healthy way to deal with this trauma. Finding a healthy way to have a mindset similar to Herb's in that scene. It's done wonders. Bojack is a depressing show but it's done so much good for a lot of people. And I'm still so glad I gave the show a shot.

[kaleidoscopickait]

I LOVE bojack horseman. It’s depiction of depression is extremely accurate and it’s dark comedy is top notch

[animalkings]

The depiction of Bojack's mother going through dimentia and the long speech that Bojack did for her at the wrong funeral was just so powerful. After rewatching it a secind time its still one of my favorite moments in the whole show.

[lildrummerboy]

As someone with depression, ADHD, and anxiety. I’ve never seen a better portrayal of several different mental illnesses. The show doesn’t take itself too seriously and that’s what makes it so beautiful. The way the highs in the show feel overshadowed by the sadness of the lows is exactly how life feels with depression. Despite having animal Characters and being physically far from reality, it’s emotionally the closest thing to the real world.

[ehehehehehehehehehehehehe]

I work behind the scenes in a lot of tv media and holy shit can I say, the depiction of the people in Horsin around and just the show in general when you see the whole thing is so accurate this is how lots of actors, even child actors, behave off camera. It was so cool to see

[aspiringcoconut]

BH is my favorite tv show ever, love to see the analysis

[grdlcknein]

A sad fact of life that this show mercilessly hammers in is that some people are raised "To be happy" and others "to be sad". As I talked about this show with a friend, comparing Mr. Peanutbutter with Bojack, we came to the conclusion that Bojack's basal state is "misery", and there's nothing they can do about it. Meanwhile Mr. Peanutbutter's is "happiness". This means that while good things might cheer Bojack up temporarily, he will inevitably revert to his base state of feeling bad about himself. While for Mr. P, unless something is going actively wrong he's happy by default. On a superficial level this is comparison of how your outlook on life can be all the difference in the world but we're shown how both these mentalities are rooted in the circumstances of their childhood. This is a psychobiological fact of how the brain develops since we're little and it permanently rigs us for either success or failure. And the show makes a brilliant work of demonstrating all of which I talked about above.