I'm in the second half of the season. It's growing on me.
Rick and Morty is like . . . actually, I was going to make an analogy, but it's just straight-up the creator of Community writing the drunken, cynical version of Doctor Who. The way it plays with genre tropes is amazing: it takes some worn-out scifi gimmick and runs it all the way out to its logical conclusion and then you realize that every scifi show out there has been half-assing everything. Except that pushing these things as far as they'll go leads inevitably to existential despair. It's so satisfying and so depressing all at once.
But at any rate, I gather I haven't really gotten to the meaty character stuff in Bojack yet, but it sounds like it'll be pretty similar to how Rick and Morty handles things: a genuinely pretty horrible person surrounded by a bunch of hopeless and borderline horrible people who the show gradually brings to you to love just in time for it to gut-punch you.
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Rick and Morty is like . . . actually, I was going to make an analogy, but it's just straight-up the creator of Community writing the drunken, cynical version of Doctor Who. The way it plays with genre tropes is amazing: it takes some worn-out scifi gimmick and runs it all the way out to its logical conclusion and then you realize that every scifi show out there has been half-assing everything. Except that pushing these things as far as they'll go leads inevitably to existential despair. It's so satisfying and so depressing all at once.
But at any rate, I gather I haven't really gotten to the meaty character stuff in Bojack yet, but it sounds like it'll be pretty similar to how Rick and Morty handles things: a genuinely pretty horrible person surrounded by a bunch of hopeless and borderline horrible people who the show gradually brings to you to love just in time for it to gut-punch you.