Probably a 6.5/10 for me. The episode certainly had its moments. The bits with George Takei making fun of self-help nonsense were pretty hilarious, and BoJack's overzealous happiness had its charms. But the psychological stuff that's supposed to make the show a cut above is a little too facile for me. I appreciated BoJack's mom's speech on the phone at the end, because there was a realness to it that made the effect it had on BoJack believable, but her speech to child BoJack in the beginning just screamed "here's an obvious psychological motivation for BoJack!" without any subtlety or deftness to it. Plus the Princess Carolyn business with her downstairs competitor wasn't particularly funny and didn't seem to go anywhere. There were certainly some laughs here (Dianne's bit with warning people about the cable and BoJack demanding gin in particular), but the setup for the meat of the episode was a lot less interesting than the payoff.
Shout by Andrew BloomVIP 9BlockedParent2015-09-16T16:19:50Z
Probably a 6.5/10 for me. The episode certainly had its moments. The bits with George Takei making fun of self-help nonsense were pretty hilarious, and BoJack's overzealous happiness had its charms. But the psychological stuff that's supposed to make the show a cut above is a little too facile for me. I appreciated BoJack's mom's speech on the phone at the end, because there was a realness to it that made the effect it had on BoJack believable, but her speech to child BoJack in the beginning just screamed "here's an obvious psychological motivation for BoJack!" without any subtlety or deftness to it. Plus the Princess Carolyn business with her downstairs competitor wasn't particularly funny and didn't seem to go anywhere. There were certainly some laughs here (Dianne's bit with warning people about the cable and BoJack demanding gin in particular), but the setup for the meat of the episode was a lot less interesting than the payoff.