BoJack Horseman First Impression And Reaction: Season 6 - Episodes 7-8 And Half Season 6 Part 1 Overview

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Hey, everyone. This is a series where I will be sharing my thoughts as I go through a show everyone in my circle recommended for the first time. It won't be exactly a first impression as whatever episodes I talk about will be watched at least three times before sharing these thoughts

The Face of Depression

This episode has mainly two plot lines. The first is BoJack travelling across the country to reconnect with all the people in his life. The episode starts with BoJack cleaning the mess in his house while reliving all the events that have transpired in that house, all the actions he committed, and more. BoJack's inability to stand those memories sets him on a trip to reconnect with people from his past.

It starts with BoJack reconnecting with Sharona, we get to learn how that relationship went sour along with how much BoJack is to blame for Sarah Lynn's deviation from innocence. Second on the list is Todd and both talk about their lives and Todd's struggles, including relating to Asexuality. BoJack also visits Diane to reconnect and we see Diane's struggle with taking antidepressants.

BoJack then meets Hollyhock for a day and finds himself learning an important lesson while watching Hollyhock go through a fight with her friend, Tanya. Finally, BoJack finally visits Princess Carolyn and the pair go through Princess Carolyn's obsession with work and how she overworks herself creating another solution for another subplot.

The second plot of this show is pretty where most of the comedy can be found as we see Mr Peanutbutter become the national face of depression without him actually being depressed. Both Mr Peanutbutter and Joey Pogo embark on a journey to spread the word about depression in a very Hollywoodian way.

In a collision of the two main plots, BoJack and Mr Peanutbutter do end up meeting in this episode and we get a taste of the cross-over episode Mr Peanutbutter always yearned for. A beautiful moment, no doubt, and it's followed by great moving on scene.

My Rating: 9/10

This episode was simply amazing. One of the things that can be associated with the BoJack Horseman TV show is the fact that it keeps the details from the past. The worst part of this can be seen in the episode prior to this one, but this one actually shows the best part of it. I can't stress enough how amazing this episode is and in the sitcom world, this would have been a great final episode, however, there was a storm brewing and coming toward BoJack as we'll see in the finale of this half-season.

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A Quick One, While He's Away

This episode is more about gathering the details of past events and seeing the follow-ups to some of them rather than having a focus on one aspect or another which seems appropriate considering how many things they were aiming to connect.

With a hilarious pre-intro scene showing, the episode begins with a reporter for "The Reporter" named Paige Sinclair learning from another reporter, Maximillian Banks, about the possibility of foul play regarding the death of Sarah Lynn. The pair embark on a journey trying to see whether their doubts are true.

Kelsey Jannings, the director who previously worked with BoJack and got fired when she, along with BoJack and the others broke into the Nixon library to film a scene, struggles to find a job worth doing in a subplot about how Hollywood is doing gender-pandering nowadays. In the same filming lot, we see Gina Cazador trying to overcome the trauma, caused by BoJack attacking her in the penultimate episode of the last season while being seen in an unflattering light by people around her.

Throughout the episode, we also see Hollyhock with her friend and her friend's boyfriend on a journey through the city ahead of going to a party. The key moment of Hollyhock's segments in this episode is the same as the main plot twist of the episode and maybe the entire season as comes across Peter Pocket, who was there in episode 11 of the second season and it was his girlfriend who had alcohol poisoning under BoJack's supervision and supply before ditching boto Peter and his girlfriend in the emergency room. The episode ends with an implication that Hollyhocks learns that it was BoJack.

My Rating: 8/10

Considering how the episode lacked the existence of the usual main and side characters, this episode was very good when it came to keeping with all the characters it brought up. The ending pretty much tells us what the next half of this season will be about as the chickens come home to roost for BoJack.

What makes this episode so good is sadly what makes the season overall rather disappointing, more on that in the next part.

Season 6 Part 1 Overview

The first half of season six had mainly average-to-good episodes. However, I can't view it as average-to-good as watching the finale of the season really shows how the season itself should have been treated. Instead of having prolonged arcs about Diane, Mr Peanutbutter, and Tood, why weren't shown more appearances by Kelsey, Gina, Hollyhock, and Peter? It seemed like it was a perfect time to focus on all of that rather than the many time-wasting episodes we had to endure.

Many of the episodes in this season were basically one arc or moment carrying the episode into a passing grade. The show doesn't seem likely to bring up many of these characters again, at least not in a fashion where they'll be focused on, and these characters all deserved a better overall showing than these half-finished storylines trying to summarise their problems with a few scenes while we have seen full episodes of nothing starring Todd, Diane, and Mr Peanutbutter.

My Rating: 6/10

Once again, the good parts of this season save it from being way below average. The show will probably hold great episodes up ahead as it really built up too many good things ahead as there definitely going to be some good confrontations up ahead, but that doesn't mean the build-up to those confrontations was done well enough.

I think I will take a week or so before going into the remaining 8 episodes. But, that's it for now.

The End

Below you will find the previous episodes and seasons I talked about

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