I finished bojack a few nights ago and while it did crush me it’s a lot more satisfying of a ending then people would give it credit for, I think people are wrong to assume it’s subversive because it doesn’t give closure, because for the first time in his life bojack looks at peace truly. And I’ll never understand people who think he should of died, what message would the show be sending if bojack took the easy way out and got to kill himself, he’s gotta live with the consequences with his actions and for the first time he fully accepts responsibility, I don’t think people understand that if he was going to die it was on HIS terms, he was going to kill himself and be martyred for it, have it hang around every single person who ever cared about him on their head, but the show said “no he needs to take responsibility and change”. Literally the last convo in the show is about horrible Diane felt after she listened to that voice-mail, and it harkens back to bojack talking about his near death experience at his moms funeral, “won’t they be sorry” was his first thought. Him dying is the worst possible ending for the show. But thats just how I feel
Of all the crazy takes of some people about the show. The “should have ended with look from halfway down” is by far one of the most bizarre for me. That would have ruined the entire show. Most defenses of this are within the realm of “well it’s realistic because it happens in real life” which is a terrible argument because you can use it to defend any bad writing. If a finale is “like real life” just because it’s random, non cathartic, disappointing, and more a sudden stop out of nowhere instead of an actual conclusion then it’s not a good finale.