This essay contains spoilers for the final season of “BoJack Horseman.”“I haven’t done anything. Since I got out of rehab, I have been on my best behavior,” proclaims BoJack Horseman (voiced by Will Arnett), the eponymous protagonist of the animated Netflix show. In the second half of the sixth and final season, BoJack, a washed-up 1990s sitcom star and anthropomorphic horse, has found out reporters are planning to publish a damning exposé of his pre-rehab behavior. Male antihero TV characters like BoJack — the Don Drapers and Walter Whites who dominated the late 2000s and early 2010s — are usually designed to be empathetic. Since it began, “BoJack Horseman” has offered an alternative, forcing viewers to repeatedly see the damage its destructive protagonist inflicts, while complicating any empathy they might feel for him.

Source: New York Times February 01, 2020 16:07 UTC