It may look like a frivolous animation about candyfloss-coloured animals, but with all the complex characterisation and serious treatment of its darker elements, Bojack Horseman is anything but cartoonish.
Bojack Horseman is surreal and dark, but surrealism and darkness aren't necessarily what separate drama from comedy.
Back in 2007, he tried to make a dark comedy called "The BoJack Horseman Show," with his writing partner, a Harvard-grad hamster named Cuddlywhiskers.
Netflix describes BoJack Horseman as "a dark, irreverent, animated comedy for adults", telling the sorry story of a failed legendary 90s sitcom star (and horse) who has been trying to find his way through a muddle of self-loathing, whiskey and failed relationships.
In "Sleepy Hollow," it was that headless horseman riding through the dark woods, and here it's the apes roaring and then thumping someone with their fists.
There would be a charge of horsemen, countered with muffled detonations and dark red flames of French muskets in the falling snow.
As the bundles of artichokes disappear to customers, more painted figures appear: armored horsemen with raised swords and shields, dark mustached men with white turbans and gold earrings and tall blue-eyed maidens with flowing blond hair and pointed hats.
While it's BoJack Horseman's darkest season, it's also the most hilariously meta.
A company spokesperson confirmed the streaming service is currently experimenting with a different login screen experience which replaces the black background behind users' names and profile thumbnails with full-screen photos promoting a Netflix Original series or special, like "BoJack Horseman," "Orange is the New Black," "Dark," "My Next Guest…", "13 Reasons Why," and several others.
I ordered a pint of Beckwatter through the small serving-hatch bar and, thinking about the walk back through the woods in the pitch dark, and the mouldy, creeping hands and the headless horsemen, not to mention the bloodsucking count, followed it with several more.
