User Reviews

This is the first review that I am writing, I know it might go unnoticed but I think this episode deserves it.

It has once again, not only surprisingly good writing, but thought too. I love how The Closer is able to guide him and slowly send subliminal messages comparing BoJack's life with a newspaper subscription.

I even wrote down one of the sentences of the show in my notebook: "There's something very intimate about watching a person be herself. - When you see someone as they really are, it ruins them". I am still having an internal debate about the last part, but I had never seen in a show (specially not cartoons) in which they put into words this feeling of your intimacy being violated when you realize someone has been watching you all along, and at the same time, the feeling of watching someone you love being themselves, without any kind of filter or adulterants.

Once more, everything combined with hilarious humour, I wouldn't change a thing about this episode nor this show. BoJack has come in a point of my life in which I don't know if its dark humour is doing me more harm than good, but to conceive of a show that can have an effect on people's emotions like that is every writer's dream, or it should be.

Every episode that contains Margo Martindale is at least an 8, change my mind.

This was an episode that became increasingly more surprising as it went on! How the whole episode was centered on a phone call of BoJack complaining about a newspaper subscription, was actually quite brilliant!

As BoJack is complaining, he comes to a deeper understanding of himself and his life! He is affraid that he is gonna do something stupid, so he is affraid to get too close to someone.. affraid that people will stop liking you if you know how they really are!

He wanted to keep things in control to keep things perfect! He learns that perhaps the road to happiness is to accept that you are not in control!

Overall so many deep emotional moments! Amazing how much you can pull out of this show!

Excellent script and a wonderful episode.

Too many therapy sessions all enclosed in a 25 min episode.

Funny at many points, insightful at so many others.

Absolutely enjoyable.

There is also a classic joke about psychiatrists and patients that you'll find very interesting if you've never heard it before.

"You know that old joke about how many psychiatrists does it take to screw in a light bulb? The answer is just one, but the light bulb has to want to change"

On a side note I really loved the voice and acting of "the closer". A great choice for the role.

I love Bojack Horseman. It's a fact.

Not everything was good on this episode but it was very informative and kind of warm ending was really nice.

Bojack phones the L. A. Gazette to complain about receiving a newspaper to which he did not subscribe.

This is a good reflective character episode.

Plot wise nothing hugely interesting happens, but the script contains a lot of psychological insight for the main character which is slightly overly explained, but interesting nonetheless. These are the strongest scenes for me and the mystery around one important character in relation to this does quite intrigue.

There are some related A-B plots that work fairly well, particularly BoJack's relationship with the character Ana. The scenes involving Todd and Emily link well to the episode themes.