Hello and welcome to a TV Recap series about our favorite half man/half horse 90's celebrity BoJack Horseman. Please join as I delve into the second season of the Netflix cartoon that takes on Hollywoo and discover what it takes to be famous while dealing with your deadbeat friends and traumatic past. While there's guaranteed to be hilarity, will there be as much brilliance as the first season? Let's quit Horsin' Around and just get on with it. Come for the recaps, stay for the jokes and dissections of each episode's best moments. It's the right thing to do. So join me every Friday, Saturday, and Sunday for the latest and greatest.
"When you look at someone through rose-colored
glasses, all the red flags look like flags."
- Wanda Pierce (Lisa Kudrow)
Plot:
Todd (Aaron Paul) gets interested in doing improv comedy. Diane Nguyen (Allison Brie) decides to live off of BoJack's patio, which upsets Wanda Pierce (Lisa Kudrow). BoJack Horseman (Will Arnett) decides to do a play in New York when he thinks that the new director Abe (Garry Marshall) thinks that they're making garbage. Turns out he was just saying that the movie wasn't Casablanca, causing a rift. BoJack confides in Diane by drinking beer and watching Horsin' Around, where things get really cynical. Wanda decides to break-up with BoJack when she thinks that he isn't doing anything productive. Diane claims that she doesn't want to talk to Mr. Peanutbutter (Paul F. Tompkins) because of how he makes her feel. Princess Carolyn (Amy Sedaris) starts a relationship with Rutabaga Rabitowitz (Ben Schwartz). BoJack goes driving to meet an old friend.
- Rating: 4 out of 5
Secondary Character MVP:
Diane Nguyen (Allison Brie)
If there's one character who has been through the wringer this season, it is Diane. While she had a promising career ahead of her, she has attempted to have it with poor payoff. Things with Sebastian's project didn't pay off. She feels bad about Mr. Peanutbutter, whom she cannot even feel the need to talk to. This is an episode where she reaches her bottom and is entirely hopeless to the point that she is slovenly and incompetent at everything. Yet, she is still a tragic figure who wants to be loved and feel like she matters. To an extent, you can't blame her for feeling so useless all of the time.
Best Joke
It is probably the most critical joke of the season. With BoJack convinced that even Abe knows that their project is a mess, he believes that "It's not like we're making Casablanca" is an actual throwaway line. BoJack tries to use it as a moment to move on and do something that will make him happier. However, it is at dinner later on that this comment comes back to haunt him. Abe is angry that BoJack is insulting his skills as a director, claiming that it was a literal statement and not some grand statement about the production. It was the start of many confusing literal sentences thrown throughout the episodes.
Overall Thoughts
I have to admit that one of the great things about BoJack Horseman is that is aware of the dark realities that come with everything it has done. While we have a silly story about Todd doing improv comedy, it is mostly about the falling out of every major relationship in the series. Everyone is distraught by the end. BoJack realizes that his biggest dream is being done by a sham due to a mistake he made. His relationship with Wanda is practically toast. And of course, Diane is so much of a mess that it doesn't even matter what happens to her. This is a very dark episode that makes me wonder where things will be going in the final two episodes. The show is so well written that it mixes jokes with tone to an impeccably great rate. Also, the guest stars are especially strong this week with Garry Marshall and Rian Johnson. I'll never know how it happened, but it's brilliant.
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