Bojack Horseman has continued its streak of over the top lunacy in its dark portrait of Hollywood and the real lives of celebrities. It’s grown darker and blacker still, hard to watch and digest at times. I say that as a good thing. It has consistently done and shown things that most other shows wouldn’t even talk about. This most recent season has taken us way further down the rabbit hole of fame than we ever wanted to go.

At some point I just stopped laughing and sat in total silence, eyes widened, genuinely curious as to the fate of each of our main characters. This is still a very funny show, but with each progressing season I find it harder and harder to label it a comedy. These characters have taken on real world value, somehow, even with all the insane things happening. Bojack Horseman himself is one of the most reprehensible protagonists we’ve had in recent years. And just when we think he’s turned a new leaf, he’s surprised us still with how damaged an individual he is. I think we keep rooting for him because there’s a little bit of self hatred in all of us, Bojack is that fully realized. None of us want to end up like him at 50, and we don’t want to see him like that forever. It’s a testament to the show that despite all the ruin he’s created for himself and those around him, we think he can still turn it around.