The pros and cons of fame, and the toll each takes on a person, is a central theme of the show. Celebrity culture, children raised by TV, unchecked excess, drug abuse without the traditional normal consequences because the rich and famous are held to wildly different standards; all of these are central to BoJack’s thesis as a piece of art.

Without all that, it’s just a (realistic, mind you) depiction of addiction. Which isn’t bad, and does still hold together, but it isn’t BoJack anymore.

Well she definitely didn’t keep the half that would allow her to give fully informed consent. And Joseph Sugarman was a modern American man…