Do you think that if Bojack wasn’t famous or any other characters in the Bojack universe for that matter, would the show still make sense? I mean if Bojack was a normal being with a normal boring everyday job with a mundane, repetitive life would he still face the same magnitude of consequences for his actions?
I have had some alcoholics and addicts in my life, and yes, the show would still make sense. Bojacks actions are horrible, but only sometimes. The people around him stayed around because he wasn’t always like that and isn’t always like that. Also because he abused his power and privilege to keep them that way, but it’s hard to cut people out of your life. He had a community of people that saw him as a human (ironicly(?)), and a lot of his behavior was ignored because of the manipulative nature addiction and trauma can yield when untreated. This is true for a LOT of people out there, and the representation and validation I felt watching the people around him struggle to come to terms with it was huge.
That being said, him being famous made things WAY easier for his addiction to take hold. The jobs, the successes, the failures… they seemed easy to tell through the lens that was used. Maybe the showrunners were just writing what they knew.