watch it.

i started watching Bojack Horseman when I was about 14 and quickly got obsessed. the portrayals of family dynamics, mental health, addiction and more hit so hard for me. as of right now, I have been diagnosed with Borderline Personality Disorder and have spent literal years in therapy trying to get better. I was constantly getting hospitalized for mental health reasons when I first started watching too. the reason I was so obsessed with it was because I saw myself being portrayed, I decided to put in effort to get better after I finished the last season. to be fair, it’s an incredibly depressing show at times. overdose, addiction, abuse and so many more disturbing things are mixed into a show that on that outside is a comedy with animated animals. If I was you I would watch it not just because it’s an amazing piece of media but I think it could really help you understand your kid

you can love a character and still think they’re a piece of shit. I love Bojack but he’s an awful person. Mr Peanutbutter was a terrible husband but it’s okay to find him hilarious. allow yourself to love a character and be able to recognize that they suck, their kindness or whatever doesn’t have to control how much you like them

Whos that dog?

oh absolutely, I would leave him so fast. Bojack was a terrible friend with very sporadic moments of being kind to Diane. just because he was struggling doesn’t mean she should stay, he was dragging her down with him and we’ve heard directly from the show that sometimes you have to let someone drown to avoid drowning with them. I 100% believe Diane thrived and was so much happier when she wasn’t constantly worried about keeping Bojack from destroying himself

there is definitely a lot of ambiguity but as someone who’s overdosed before there is a limbo-like stage some people go into. once when I was on the verge of something very bad, I could hear the people around me but genuinely couldn’t make myself move. she could have been completely dead or something like that

I never liked Bojack. from the beginning I found him to be weird (in a bad way) and the more I learned about him the more I got disgusted. he’s caused a lot of harm, I kept watching because I loved the complexities of the characters but bojack was never someone I could really empathize with

imo, Bojack is the “worse person.” while Eleanor has done some insane things, we see a lot more of the pain that Bojack caused. I will always consider a man who traumatized 2 seventeen year olds (penny and hollyhock) worse than someone who literally saved the universe

there’s a scene in a show called Crazy Ex Girlfriend (really good show) where after the main character is diagnosed with BPD, her therapist goes through the criteria and we get flashbacks of her showing said behaviors. I think of Bojack a lot when I read through the criteria, I can pin point very specific moments where Bojack dissociates and can’t handle long term relationships or anything like that.

a lot of people have a lot of very good reasons to hate Bojack. Gina, Penny, Charlotte, Herb, Sarah Lynn and most of the main cast all have VERY good ones. Though I would have to say the person who has the least justified reason to hate Bojack is Beatrice. She hates him despite the fact that he has done nothing but exist, his existence even as a young kid is enough for her to hate him. I feel like even if a part of her loves him she hates what he represents.