Why 'BoJack Horseman' Works and '13 Reasons Why' Doesn't

In 76 episodes, Bojack Horseman deals with depression, drug abuse, unhappy marriages, adultery, suicide, and a mountain of other controversial topics, and I think the show draws from that because of two main factors: the writing fantastic animation; the second one might not make much sense, but Before I explain, let me list a few things that happen throughout the show out of context. The main character's former best friend dies of cancer and refuses to give him closure. One of the main character's friends dies from an overdose of drugs the main character gave him. the main character breaks into his old house, takes a bunch of drugs and almost drowns in a pool, then spends the next episode in purgatory and finally the main character is caught about to have sex with a 17 year old girl, all They are quite poorly taken.

Out of context, they sound more like news headlines than TV show plot points, but Bojack Horseman manages to pull it off and again, part of the reason it does so is due to the fact that it's animated when a movie or program is animated. this disassociation with real life because no matter how serious the topic may be, each one of them is being played by a talking horse throughout the show, every time one of these things comes up, it will involve only animals or an animal and a human . Due to the fact that they are animals the severity of what just happened to them

doesn

't really add up, it's the same thing in real life, if you hit a deer with your car you will get out and make sure the car is okay.

If you hit a person, abandon the car and flee the country, plain and simple, animals are not as valued as humans, so when the secretary commits suicide it's a disaster, but at the end of the day he's still a talking horse. if this had happened. been played in real life by a real actor, then this scene would be much more confusing than it already is. That said, when it comes to a topic like the one the show deals with, there's a fine line between compelling and ridiculous and

bojack

. Horseman perfectly walks that line like a gymnast on a tightrope and the best thing about the show's writing is that every time it steps over the line into the area of ​​ridiculous and overly dramatic, it's always played as a joke, which It's another great thing about writing.

The show's comedy actually underpins the drama because each character makes jokes every two seconds, so every time the quick jokes suddenly stop, the tone shifts to a much more serious one, adding weight to the already tense scene. but never that weight. overstays its welcome, strikes when it's most effective, and sticks around as long as it should, so what if Bojack Horseman was a live-action set in a high school, overdramatic from start to finish, had horrible characters, and an even worse dialogue? Well, here's how to Get 13 Reasons Why I'm No Longer a Virgin Boy, this show is a huge disaster if I've ever seen one, although I'm not talking so much about the first season but more about the second, third and especially the fourth one while I don't think the first season is great or anything, it's the most understandable of them all, so before we get into the nitty-gritty of why exactly 13 Reasons why they failed so badly, let's do what we did with Bojack I'm going to list a few things that happened throughout the show out of context, the main character finds out there's going to be a school shooting and approaches him and tries to talk him out of it, then the main character goes out of his way to cover up this crime that the program later redeems. this man who is going to murder everyone, the show spends the entire third season trying to redeem a serial rapist, the main characters actively cover up this murder and attribute it to another character and the show treats this as if it is the morally right thing to do and finally, the main character commits several more crimes than the one I've already mentioned and has never faced any consequences for these actions, as I'm sure you can clearly see that there are some stark differences between these two lists with this list. the panels read like news headlines, this one is more like the premises of some shitty snl parodies, remember earlier how I mentioned that

bojack

walks a fine line between compelling and ridiculous, well that

doesn

't really matter for 13

reasons

why Skipping right over the line and diving straight into the ridiculous, all four seasons take place over the course of Clay's junior and senior years of high school, so at most everything and everything else I didn't mention takes place. for two calendar years, not only is it downright ridiculous.

It is completely and utterly implausible that this school would be immediately closed and under investigation if there were so many murders, sexual assaults and crimes in two years at a high school. 13

reasons

why you're more of a fan than a Disney movie. It amazes me that even including gravity, they break so many laws in the show that they might as well opt for the laws of physics while doing it, that's what high school in America is really like. I'm from England and I'm very curious. Yes, season 3 and 4 of the show are set during Clay's senior year of high school think about everything that happened during that year now let me ask you what's the craziest thing that happened during your senior year of high school because I live in the state where You can bring a big .44 caliber revolver strapped to your hip to a Kroger's like it's the Wild West and the craziest thing that happened during my senior year was someone put on his pants during prom, this show is not only just horrible from a narrative perspective, but it also is. completely dangerous in april 2017, the month the first season was released on netflix, the suicide rate per use increased by more than 25 in the united states in all seriousness 13 reasons why it literally killed a portion of its audience , but for some reason Netflix renewed it for another three seasons, but I guess that's not saying much anymore.

Getting back to the merits of this show as a story, let's go back and look at our list. Let's delve a little deeper into the latter. Here throughout the show, the main cast of characters, if they are. They are not the antagonist, they are free from any and all consequences in Bojack Horseman. consequences are a big part of the show and for the most part they focus on bojack whenever bojack gave sarah lynn the drugs he paid the price with sarah lynn's death or more precisely she paid the price for His decisions, that's what happens with Bojack, there are consequences, but rarely is he the one who pays for them for every choice, every decision, every wrong move that makes the people around him suffer. bojack becomes addicted to painkillers and as a result he strangles gina bojack tells ceralyn the way he sees things and says that no one will ever truly love her, as a result she ends up just like him over and over again bojack negatively affects the people around him he is a cancer on his friends and he knows it.

In some ways, Bojack's self-hatred is justified. This is all very serious and the show treats it that way, just like 13 Reasons Why treats all the topics he tries to address with absolute seriousness, but the tone doesn't. It doesn't matter if what the characters say and do is absolutely incredible, this video in itself is a sin just for comparing these two. Bojack is one of the best TV shows I have ever seen and easily makes it into my top 10. The way it portrays the characters and the relationships are incredible and feel incredibly real despite the animation and most of the characters are animals.

Bojack Horseman is an incredible show and 13 Reasons Why is a morally bankrupt piece. There are many lessons that Bojack Horseman can teach its viewers too many drugs and alcohol. Make your life shit, don't hang yourself while masturbating, don't be aggressive with your friends, but the most important thing is that your actions have consequences and will affect others besides yourself, and although yes, this can be an issue quite simplistic, it presents it in a complex and compelling way, but 13 Reasons Why I Spit Consequences is a foreign concept in this fantasy realm. It's surprising that the show about talking cartoon animals is the more realistic of these two 13 Reasons Why Cancer glorifies suicide and depression and is one of the worst shows I've ever been subjected to and there's a very good chance real that some people are still alive and this show has never been made.