BoJack Horseman (TV Series) That Went Well (2016) User Reviews

Hands Down Best Episode of the Show (SPOILERS)

[nwgrubbs · 10/10 · 1 August 2016]

If this episode didn't have you in tears then you simply aren't human.

Storyline Summary: Sarah Lynn, probably everyone's favorite side character on this show, is dead. After 9 months of sobriety, she goes on a massive bender with Bojack and is dies in his arms. Bojack is devastated and hates himself even more for causing her death. Now he's even more lost than before. Todd is asexual apparently, which I really like since there aren't any asexual characters that come to mind when you think TV and cinema. Princess Carolyn is slowly sinking further and further into denial and will most likely come out even worse. She's almost a carbon cut-out of Bojack in the sense that no matter what, things just never go her way and she ends up even more depressed. And Mr. Peanutbutter is going to be a Governor. Hell freakin yes.

The saddest moment, in my opinion, is when Bojack has the conversation with the little girl playing Ethan's daughter that parallels the conversation Bojack had with Sarah Lynn that drove her to be a selfish person back when she was a child. Seeing him get Nam-style flashbacks to when he had another little girl look up to him and seeing him freak out at the thought that he could be creating a new Sarah Lynn was heartbreaking.

But the most WHAT THE HELL moment was when a teenage girl called Princess Carolyn's office asking for Bojack. At first, I thought it was Penny because I was too choked up over Sarah Lynn and Bojack. Then I looked again and got chills.

Bojack has a daughter.

10000/10 I cannot wait for Season 4.

The Best Episode Ever

[borowiecsminus · 9/10 · 28 July 2016]

Yes, I said it. It's better than "Bojack Hates the Troops." It's better than "Downer Ending." It's better than "Hank After Dark," "Let's Find Out," "The Shot," "Escape from L.A.," "Out to Sea," "Fish Out of Water," "Love And/Or Marriage," "Brrap Brrap Pew Pew," "It's You," and yes, even "That's Too Much, Man." This is the greatest episode in the history of "Bojack Horseman."

Why? Everything about it. Literally everything about this episode was perfect. Mostly because it was so sad. It is the saddest episode to date. It's so sad, it's almost physically difficult to watch. I seriously had trouble getting through this episode because it was so sad. It's like "Ozymandias." It's so good. That's why it's so difficult to see.

The heartbreak comes in many forms. First, the quiet heartbreak of Princess Carolyn's descent further into her own misery. Then comes the even more subtle sadness of Todd becoming a millionaire, and the viewer thinking, "Oh, no. Now Todd can move out." But he "accidentally" tips the waitress everything, and he's back to broke. Meanwhile, there's the heartbreak of the line that the little girl issues, drawing a heavy comparison to a young Sarah Lynn, and Bojack fleeing to where ever he can. Then Mr. Peanut Butter and Diane. While it's an opportunity for them, you can't help but ask yourself, "Can they survive politics?"

I make no exaggerations when I say that this is one of the best episodes of television in general. Like, Top 20.

A pitch-perfect end to a great season of a fantastic show.

S3 Review

[IPyaarCinema · 9/10 · 21 November 2020]

Review By Kamal K

Every bit as hilarious and devstating as the previous season, BoJack Horseman S3 is deeply relatable, expertly crafted television. This TV series explores trauma, self-destruction, and pain in such raw and poignant ways that it would be almost too much to bear if not for the comedy to balance it out. BoJack Horseman confidently traverses that high-wire, all while introducing novel story telling techniques that give each episode a distinct freshness. There is so much value packed into each 30 minute-or-less episode that it is almost a disservice to binge the series. Each episode deserves a chance to marinate and breath before diving into the next. Admittedly this is incredibly hard to let happen - it's difficult to pull myself away and not spend an entire evening engorging on BoJack's misadventures. BoJack Horseman S3 is television at it's best, most daring, and most deeply personal.

S3: As good as you've heard it is – a great season of a great show

[bob the moo · 29 March 2017]

After the second season I had felt like the show had drifted a little; specifically, I thought that the character elements were not always progressed or put to the core of each episode, and there were some episodes which felt like isolated 'japes' for my liking. This is not to say the season was bad (far from it), but more that I didn't think it hit the spot as well as the first season had. The third season is much more on-point with this though, and picks up with BoJack with 'his' performance has him in contention for an Academy Award – if he can get his PR right. At the same time his personal demons (and friends) continue to haunt him.

Taking that plot the season does well to produce episodes that stand on their own, but also deliver an overall season arc into which all the episodes fall. There are really no episodes which fall completely outside of it, and even the subplots do a good job of linking together or developing the supporting characters, or both. The content does the same, and BoJack has such great layering of comedy, tragedy, and drama. The comedy comes first of course, but it is never silly or funny to the point that it distracts from being more than that. The oddity of the world in which the show happens is part of that humor, and also shows how well written it is, that it can have silly comedy in the background or foreground, but we never lose the sense of character or story.

Season 3 is as good as you've heard it is. It picks up from the stronger back of season 2, and continues well in that vein.

"spaghetti or not, here i come"

[smclof · 9/10 · 21 May 2022]

My god this episode is amazingly hilarious and tragically heart-wrenching. The opening 10 minutes are some of the most chekov's guns to ever go off in one show, let alone one season of a show, and it's brilliant. Sarah lynn's death mixed with todd and mr peanut butter's arcs are pretty amazing. I really like how organic todd's arc was and didn't feel like it came out of nowhere. Bojack leaving ethan around to tend to himself and contemplating suicide is such a bojack move, and it leads to one of the best episodes of the series in season 4. Love love LOVE this episode.

this episode was perfect

[standledropstan · 10/10 · 5 April 2021]

I didnt cry watching it but when bojack talked to that little girl and she said that she wanted to look up to him it was sad becasue it showed how bojack is basically poison to people that look up to him princess carolyn goes back to her job as a manger now which can not be good for her and todd comes out as asexual which is cool but overall the episode is sad.

I am poison..

[and_mikkelsen · 10/10 · 15 February 2024]

This was honestly a really good finale and the best one so far! Everything that the season builded towards, and the events that occured, were handled extremely well in my opinion!

So many small subbtle amazing and emotional moments! Nothing was fed to you, instead everything was told through the actions!

BoJack is at a very dark place! He knows what he has done, and fears he can never change! Him realizing that everyone who gets to close to him, gets their life ruined, was such a tragic and emotional moment!

The end was brilliant, as a symbolic way to tell that BoJack still had a chance to move forward and keep running!

OH and that phone call.. I cant wait to learn more!

Imo one of the best episodes in the show

[vicentemallmannbrun · 10/10 · 6 March 2022]

The ending while Stars plays is peak TV. Overall best ep in the whole series. Best possible ending for such a great season and idk why I don't see as many people talking about how good this finale is.

Strong finish to the season

[snoozejonc · 8/10 · 30 March 2024]

BoJack looks to a new television show to escape his problems.

This is a fairly harrowing end to the third season for BoJack, but sensibly the writers include plenty of humour with other characters to balance the overall tone.

For me the strongest scene is the flashback at the start that involves a pretty bleak interaction between two characters presented in a fairly realistic way. What makes it hit hard is that it immediately follows 'That's Too Much Man'. Most scenes that involving BoJack are great, depending how interested you can stay in someone self obsessing.

Scenes involving supporting characters like Todd, Princess Carolyn, Mr Peanutbutter, and Diane are also good and look to be laying solid foundations for future developments.

The hilarious situation involving the spaghetti and Margo Martindale is very well thought out by the writers and contrasts the general bleakness nicely.

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[Edvis-1997 · 7/10 · 22 July 2019]

The ending was rly empty with a lot of holes which kind of disappointed me.