It was perfect for me. Bojack is a compelling character, but I love the rest of the cast and it felt good to have some closure for them.
Mr. PB for the first time exploring himself outside of romantic relationships, Todd no longer lost in the sea of adulthood, PC achieving her dreams, and Diane finally welcoming healing into her life.
TVFHD is a masterpiece. But ending the show with that would mean Bojack successfully unalived himself and that’s just not it for me.
Elaborating: I feel like they could have done what Kubrick did with A Clockwork Orange. That is Stanley Kubrick didn’t allow Alex to grow (he actually reverted) past his droogish ways. That made the movie great!
I feel like BoJack was who he was, not good nor bad, and it should have ended that way.
Him trying to grow/change is perhaps just a quick way to end the show on a happy note.
i don’t feel like the show ended on a happy note, i felt like it ended largely neutrally. bojack is still in prison and he has long time friends (two of them) but they hold him at a distance, he has the possibility of relapse, and his friend who was pretty much closest to him essentially implied they would never talk again. even in the conversation he had with todd in the finale, bojack showed he wasn’t entirely clear of his need to be liked in the public eye. anything can happen with him, but regardless he needs to work for it. i love a clockwork orange, but the story and characters are very different from bojack.
Neutral is right, it felt happy to me compared to the rest of the show since seemed at peace perhaps due to him having the near death experience.
a quick way to end the show on a happy note.
It wasn’t happy though.
Bojack lost all his friends. He’s in prison. His public reputation is down the toilet and likely will never be recovered. The threat of relapse still looms over him.
It was great. Life keeps going.
Post #2737474 about “hey guys I totally did not understand one of the biggest themes of the show and think that Bojack should’ve died and basically got away with all the shit he did with zero consequences”.
“Every season should have ended on the downer episode because that’s how I’ve been taught to digest media and am incapable of understanding anything different.”
He should have got away with it. He is who he is.
There are characters that are created for change and improvement, like Todd for example, and I would like to think BoJack was more of a shitty catalyst for PC, Dianne, and Todd to grow throughout the series.
I felt that the way Diane and Bojacks head slightly tilted towards each others at the very end implied that they still cared for each other and would keep helping each other to grow. But that’s just my opinion.