Without a doubt the best episode I have seen so far of the series, I really felt the frustration and anguish of not being able to communicate with Bojack
This was so joyful to watch!
What a wonderful episode. The ending was the cherry on top. Loved it
i will remember this episode when all is said and done. its that good. cinematic too.
The number of times I've watched this episode may be a little more than the creators originally intended.
Wow. Best episode in the show. So original, funny without speech, and with dream like moments like the anemonas. And because there are basically no other characters, you don't even need to know the show, it could be a short of its own.
And if you know the show, this is a precious moment, where we can see that Bojack is not just an asshole, I mean you could have expected him to just drop the kid. The scene pursuing and trying to save the baby really channels old school comedy.
And more importantly, Bojack trying to say Kelsey he's sorry is precious. This was someone with whom he (briefly) had a strong real connection, for a positive reason, because they were taking risks to make a great movie together... and that got her fired.
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This episode is beautiful.
BoJack is transported to a whole new world, and there is almost no dialogue for most of the 25 minutes. There's just visual storytelling and music.
So BoJack needs to go to a movie premiere at a film festival, but he's got other plans: he wants to reconnect with Kelsey. But instead, he gets onto a bus and is taken far away from where the film festival and Kelsey are in the big city. At the last stop, BoJack helps deliver a herd of seahorses, but one of them sticks with BoJack. For the rest of the episode, BoJack takes care of it, keeps it safe and gets it back home.
But when he finally reaches his destination, the parent isn't that thankful. He offers BoJack some money, but that's it. And the baby, whom he's bonded and had a once-in-a-lifetime experience with, doesn't even say goodbye. It's almost without reward and is crushing to sit through.
On the bright side, BoJack's finally found the right words to write to Kelsey. When he hands it to her, it turns out the ink has washed away. Only after she leaves does BoJack learn that he could talk the whole time.
So I guess what the episode is saying is what BoJack tried to tell Kelsey.
"ALL WE HAVE ARE THE CONNECTIONS THAT WE MAKE."
It's heartbreaking to see the connections BoJack has severed.
The weird thing was, while I was watching this, I found that I couldn't breathe. It was a bizarre experience. I guess that's how real this world is to me.
IT'S BOLD, DIFFERENT & IT PAYS OFF.
TECHNICAL & ENJOYMENT SCORE: 9/10
This was such a fantastic episode. The best one yet!
«Kelsey, in this terrifying world, all we have are the connections that we make. I’m sorry I got you fired. I’m sorry I never called you after».
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«Kelsey, in questo mondo terrificante, ci restano solo i legami che creiamo. Mi spiace averti fatta licenziare. Mi dispiace non averti mai più chiamata»
Wasn't a big fan of this at the start but it just got better and better and my god it really payed off in the very last scene.
Sweet Jesus! That was adorable!
No words. Literally and figuratively. Just completely stunned.
A really beautiful idea. really like it
In this terrifying world, all we have are the connections we make.
Trippiest episode of anything I've ever watched. Brilliant, magical, funny and touching at the same time.
What a beautiful episode, I loved it.
9.5/10. If you'd said to me, "Hey watch this short film that's a cross between Lost in Translation and the opening act of Wall-E," I'm pretty sure I would just look at you funny. And yet that's pretty much what this was, and it worked beautifully. The undersea world BoJack found himself in, where he couldn't eat the food, couldn't engage in his usual vices, and most of all couldn't speak or understand the local dialect, captured the experience of isolation and confusion that can come from visiting a foreign country through a distinctively BoJack lens.
But it also created a great atmosphere for a format-bending episode. Offering a nigh-wordless half hour of comedy in a show that makes its hay from its dialogue could either be gimmicky or bold, and thankfully this episode tended toward the former. It helped to put the viewer in BoJack's shoes -- only able to communicate and express mood through non-verbal cues like gestures, body language, and the score.
And in the absence of dialogue, Bojack Horseman reverts to a certain Looney Tunes-esque vibe where BoJack finds himself inadvertently responsible for an adorable little seahorse moppet. (I had flashbacks to the "Buttons and MIndy"segments of Animaniacs and a dozen other classic cartoons.) The design and personality of the seahorse baby struck the right balance of adorable and mischievous, and it created a nice opportunity for BoJack to be caring, brave, and as always, eternally frustated.
But this being Bojack, of course there's a quiet strain of melancholy through the whole thing. When Bojack returns to the seahorse babe to its father, the dad is mildly grateful, but mostly blase, and the baby doesn't even wave to him when it's time for BoJack to say goodbye. They went through this experience together, through shark attacks and taffy explosions and being stranded, and the moppet is too little to even look up for his soup or appreciate what his equine friend did for him. There's an emptiness there, a sort of existential realization that all that effort, which was quite noble in and of itself, feels a little hollow without someone to share it with or to appreciate it.
So through this experience, BoJack finally finds the words to apologize to Kelsey Jannings, noting that grand acts are nice, but that accomplishments, even ones far more important than winning and Oscar like returning a child to their parent, can seem like building a sandcastle, inevitably fleeting and meant to be washed away with the coming tide. But that those connections between individuals are what sustain us and give us life and reason to go on in a world of sandcastles.
Again, this being BoJack Horseman, those words too are washed away before he can get them to Kelsey in any sort of readable fashion. To add insult to injury, he realizes in the end that he could have talked this whole time, which is the right combination of sad and funny. But overall, this is a wonderful episode that uses some great Warner Bros. silent capering to further the show's project of examining its lead's attempts to find meaning in his life, and finds an inventive way to convey that experience.
This was perfect. Unique, magical, and really funny.
Right into the feels. This show always manages to stun me. Magnificant episode!
This episode was beautiful, and so emotional. I love the way this show makes me end up with these mixed feelings...
Brilliant, unique, meaningful (without clichés). This episode beats the acid trip one in Season1 on my 'Best Bojack Episode Award'.
"in this terrifying world, all we have is the connections that we make".
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Wow, creative and amazing episode!