BoJack Horseman Ending, Explained - Then You Keep Living

form of rehabilitation: an artificial environment where everything is controlled for him. “It's easy now, in prison. I don't have to make any decisions for myself. He worries me about what is going to happen when he gets out.” And, like rehab, prison becomes an opportunity for Bojack to try to make amends and be better. “I thought maybe when he got out, he could come back and volunteer.” This turn of events ends up mirroring another recent television antihero: Crazy Ex-Girlfriend's Rebecca Bunch. In the latest season of Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, Rebecca practically demands to be sent to prison. “Prison is what I deserve” Deep down, both antiheroes seem to feel that they need to be punished before they can improve.

And for both Rebecca and Bojack, her experience in prison leads them to want to give back and introduce themselves to other inmates. "Rebecca would like to volunteer." "But not with the theater, don't worry." However, a hard truth that Bojack faces is that even if he turns around, his friends won't be waiting for him. Instead of facing death as a result of his actions, Bojack has to accept more direct effects: the fact that the people he has taken for granted throughout the series will no longer be there for him. Most of the final episode, "Nice While It Lasted", takes place at Princess Carolyn's wedding to her former assistant Judah.

Echoing its title, the episode about a beautiful evening makes us painfully aware of the transience of the relationships we're witnessing: it's a chance for people to say goodbye to Bojack. Princess Carolyn gently lets Bojack down. At least professionally, the two are done. “I'm going to need representation. Someone who can take care of me, help me make the right decisions and

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me out of trouble.” "I can recommend some great people." Todd is nice to Bojack at the wedding: "So...why did we need to be on the beach?" “Oh, you seemed really overwhelmed at the party. I thought you could use some air. but he's moved on... “That guy was my best friend for about five years.

But not because we have something in common. I landed at his house one night.” And Diane talks about their relationship in the past tense; Although Bojack still feels that he needs her, she is done with him. "It's going to be okay. And I'm sorry. And thank you.” The time period the show covers is the duration of Diane's friendship with Bojack. In the first season, she is introduced as genuinely new to life in a stagnant part of Bojack, and one that suggests he might be happy one day. “You're responsible for your own happiness, you know?” Although Bojack is initially romantically interested in Diane, he eventually comes to rely on her as a friend and barometer of his own moral progress. "Diane, I need you to tell me it's not too late." Bojack, someone whose job it is to learn about him and understand him, consequently becomes a person who is able to validate Bojack, to give him the love and acceptance he craves from someone who knows who he is “You know me better than anyone and. "You can't not be part of my life." At the end of his near-death hallucination, Bojack launches into a moment of imaginary connection with Diane. "I'm not real.

None of this is." "Well, if it doesn't matter, can I at least stay on the phone with you?" "Okay." This reflects that, in real life, before almost drowning, Bojack calls to Diane and asks her to save him: “Diane, you're going to save me, right? I called you and you're coming to get me—take responsibility for him again “For seven hours I couldn't get through to anyone and I was sure that. You were dead and that it was my fault for leaving you, for feeling good, for not caring. But Diane has also made real progress and has her own life.

Their connection has finally been severed. I could have been the person you thought I was, the person who would save you." "That was never your job." "Then why did you always make me feel that way?" No one is obligated to show up to Bojack. And everyone does. It's going better in part because they're no longer committed to him. “Is it possible that letting me go is the happy

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? —The show doesn't need to end definitively with Bojack's death, because it was never just about Bojack. Rather, it was about the way he met these people and

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changed, avoided changing, and continued with his life, different in some ways and the same in others. "I believe there are people who help you become the person you end up being, and you can be grateful for them, even if they were never meant to be in your life forever." Like the show itself, the first season of Bojack Horseman ends with Diane and Bojack on the roof talking about party etiquette. "I don't like parties, huh?" "No, I never know what to do with my hands." “I wish I had my phone right now.” "I know what you mean.

I never know what to do with my hands at parties." In that first conversation on the rooftop, Bojack asks Diane if deep down she thinks he's a good person. "That's it." the thing. I don't believe in the bottom line. “I think the only thing you are are the things you do.” We're led to believe that this statement applies primarily to Bojack and his anxieties, but at the end of the series, Diane also made the decision to do something: end her friendship with Bojack. The only thing they can do is sit together and enjoy the night, even if it is temporary.

Let's go back to the title sequence. It doesn't end with the memorable image of Bojack at the bottom of the pool. It continues and concludes with Bojack floating alone on the water. Those closest to him have made permanent changes: Diane and Mr. Peanutbutter will not get back together. Todd has a job he loves and his own apartment with a mature couple. Princess Carolyn is married with a son and is following her professional dreams. But Bojack is apparently back to where he was at the beginning of the show, including the fact that Mr. Peanutbutter is the only person he can't seem to get rid of. “I sentence you to life imprisonment…full of my friendship!” Still, some things will inevitably change, even if those changes aren't all he wants, and some steps forward are small, like trying his least favorite fruit.

A running joke about Bojack hating honeydew eventually becomes a way to demonstrate what can happen if you give something new a chance. "Huh. Not bad." So rather than definitively

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Bojack's attempt to be a better person, Bob-Waksberg suggests that he, like most of us, will still be a person, with the potential to be better or worse. There is no “answer” other than to move on and live to see another day. “There's no point in beating a dead horse, right? Now what?" You're watching The Take. Thanks for watching and be sure to share and subscribe!