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i’m mary poppins y’all

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sad horse

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A big theme featured in this season for me was ‘choice’, which seemed to be at odds with the symbolism that the past is perhaps cyclical and echoes into the present. For me, the moment when Ralph openly defies his parents and declares his love for Princess Carolyn is a direct parallel to the finale when Hollyhock chooses to keep Bojack in her life. Both PC and Bojack have been damaged by past experiences: Bojack has never had any positive or healthy relationships with family members and PC has never dated anyone who really cared about her and wasn’t an asshole. In both scenes, we see their first reaction is surprise. Neither character expects to be chosen or wanted, they’re so hardened by past hurts that to hear someone choose them for who they are, or despite who they are, is shocking. In this scene, PC is thinking that the past is repeating, another relationship has failed and she is going to be alone. Only for Ralph to wholeheartedly choose her over his family and to blast her past experiences out of the water. In their respective moments we see a prolonged focus on the emotions flashing across their faces. And for once we see them both truly and purely happy.

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R.I.P Famous Actor Zach Braff

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Reason no.384238738457 why I love and relate to Todd Chavez: he’s always unabashedly eating

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It may have taken us four seasons to get there but Bojack is finally learning how to be selfless. He went from wanting other people to make him feel good about himself to wanting to be good for other people. And if that’s not bloody good character development, I don’t know what is.

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It seems to be a significant character design that out of the Sugarman/Horseman family line, it’s specifically Joseph, Beatrice, Bojack and Hollyhock who have the diamond feature on their face. It’s obviously not a coincidence because a) it’s a tv show and b) Hollyhock is only Bojack’s half-sister and not the side with the characteristic. So if we assume it’s done to represent something, it presumably represents that classic “Horseman gunk” as Bojack puts it: manipulative, self-destructive tendencies and that depressive mind. Generationally and visually, we are led to think that Hollyhock and Bojack’s relationship could end up like Beatrice and Joseph’s or Bojack and Beatrice’s. Instead, Hollyhock and Bojack rise above these expectations. If we tie it all in with the "time’s arrow neither stands still nor reverses” message of this season, we see Bojack and Hollyhock relationship progress and move away from the past, they break the cycle: they don’t regress into what came before. Despite that tragic reminder of how it was for the past generations they are able to begin to build the foundations for a positive relationship.

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It was painful to watch Diane and Mr Peanutbutter’s marriage crack this season. Especially if we consider the main theme was of how “time’s arrow neither stands still nor reverses”. We see them struggle to move forward together throughout, Mr Peanutbutter’s attempts to become Governor highlight this. Any time we see them happy together is when their relationship is almost ‘standing still’, and there is constantly that reminder that they want to go back to how it all was before. However, we know that this is completely unrealistic, underlined perfectly in the last episode when we see them both physically and metaphorically out of sync with each other. At the virtual-reality estate agents they seem happy to make big plans together, though the whole scene is more obviously a joke for ridiculous VR, we see them unable to find each other whilst Diane is completely hung up on the memory of Mr Peanutbutter’s old house. When they arrive at their new home they immediately want to postpone everything, so they pull a Bojack - they run away. The only time all season when we really see them on the same page in the present, is their last scene. They are forced to realise that their life can’t go back to how it was before, with the severe lack of understanding in their marriage now starkly visible to both of them.

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Parallels between Beatrice and Bojack in the family portrait, both have that same wide-eyed innocence. As we all now know that gets robbed from Beatrice and taken from Bojack, to the point were they both resemble Beatrice in the second photo: miserable and devoid of joy. 

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Coming from the abortion storyline of Season 3, I think it’s extremely important that the writers included so much on Princess Carolyn’s miscarriages. The shame-free portrayal of Diane’s abortion directly contrasts with PC’s experience, especially as she struggles alone. I think it’s significant that everybody has an opinion in the abortion episode, everybody has some anecdote or comfort to give. Whereas PC is offered little to no direct support or acknowledgement. Her doctor treats her as callously and devoid of empathy as Diane’s did to her, except here we had no one speaking up, no one speaking back. She is given blame and no actual advice or help, emphasising the complete lack of support on offer for a lot of women who suffer miscarriages. Even well-meaning Todd is at a loss for words when trying to think what he should say to her at the apartment. Most heartbreaking of all perhaps, is that PC is well aware of the connotations of what has happened to her, she expects to be judged, she expects to be seen as weak and pitiful and incapable. PC’s storyline emphasises how far we still have to come in making a ‘miscarriage’ more than just some dirty word or something that women feel they have to hide.

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This ace cried at Bojack Horseman season 4 episode 3

Reblog if ur an ace that cried at Bojack Horseman season 4 episode 3

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but also can we talk about how you can’t go 20 minutes this season of Bojack without some reference to misogyny and how patriarchy fucks women up?? especially so in episode 11 and with all the insight we gain into Beatrice, how sexist expectations and men trapped her in an unloving and unsatisfactory life. and Honey was straight up lobotomized because she was grieving her son and received no support from her cheating and callous husband. and the way Princess Caroline is treated so callously by her doctors when she has her fifth miscarriage. even the gun episode was made into a gendered issue. the writers pulled no punches this season when being raw and honest about the damage of being a woman under patriarchy

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not gonna lie, bojack season 4 is one of the best works of narrative i’ve ever seen. it fucked me up, it hit home, it got perfectly real. “time’s arrow” deserves an emmy.

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Season 4 hit me hard

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when season 4 destroys you emotionally but you can’t stop watching

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her

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bojack is levels of petty i aspire to be

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