Forgive me if this has been done to death here, I’m relatively new to this sub. I personally always felt it was more poetically beautiful for Bojack to die. The tragic (anti)hero meeting his end after a chaotic life of destruction to himself and everyone around him. I don’t hate the ending we have, but I always felt there was a certain beauty and closure that felt right
I just finished the show last week and this is all I’ve been thinking about. They absolutely should have let him die in the end. The last episode could have been closing up everyone else’s story, but I think they chickened out at the last moment to have him survive. Imagine how powerful an ending that would have been
It wouldn’t have been powerful though. It would’ve been cliché and goes against one of if not the biggest message of the show: you have to deal with the consequences of your own actions.