BoJack thinks that's a dumb plan, and Penny says him lying that he was here to buy a boat was dumb too, and she questions why he's really here. Charlotte asks him too, saying he'll really be doing her a huge favor. She then questions why he's really here. Charlotte says she said a lot of things when she was young, she thought she was so deep. BoJack stays there for two months, living in his boat in the driveway. Penny is still suspicious and questions why he would leave Los Angeles, which is right next to the ocean, to get a boat in landlocked New Mexico. BoJack tells her to go to bed. But in addition to these antihero influences, the series is also a clear articulation of Joan Didion’s vision of California: from her obsession with looking at the hopes and follies of the American Dream to the quintessentially American fantasy of escape and starting over that renders California both alluring and devastating. At a time when outrage is normalized in our culture, but sadness is still seen as useless and self-destructive, “BoJack Horseman”’s insistence on finding meaning in grief has effectively captured the cultural zeitgeist of the late 2010s. The episode Escape from L.A. begins where the previous episode ended, with BoJack standing next to his car outside Charlotte's store in Tesuque, New Mexico. His life with Charlotte’s family is picture perfect, which the episode drives home with fake sitcom credits that deliberately echo those of Horsin’ Around. Maddy has passed out, is unresponsive, and has slurred speech. Penny then panics and drives away quickly, going against her plan because she didn't think he would be wearing a tank top. It makes the moments when he really, truly fucks up that much worse. And we have gotten many hints at how his mother’s constant lack of approval shaped the way that BoJack sees himself and the world around him. One night, during dinner, Penny gets annoyed at a dad joke Kyle tells, and she eventually storms up to her room. Pete calls them down. Penny is one of the more realistic fictional teens I’ve seen in recent memory, which is in no small part thanks to Ilana Glazer’s grounded and empathetic voice performance. BoJack says he was in town and decided to stop by and asks if she wants to get drinks, despite it being early in the morning. He goes to his balcony and looks out. “BoJack Horseman” has always been a show that is self-aware about its lineage: a season three poster features a close-up of BoJack looking squarely into the camera with the words “Soprano, Draper, Underwood, Horseman” over his head. At the end of Yes And, Charlotte is about to open her store Your Deer Friend when she sees BoJack outside standing next to his car, and she looks happy to see him. And then there’s BoJack, speeding back to LA on the good ship “escape from LA,” face blank and shades on. Charlotte is horrified and angrily tells Penny to go to her room. Many people seem to act surprised in seeing a cartoon traverse the wildly complex terrain of what it means to be human, but, the truth is, animated tales have long presented sadness as something that is worthy of investigation—from “Peanuts” cartoons that focus on Charlie Brown’s deep alienation, to early episodes of “The Simpsons” that consider the joys and struggles of being a family, to the zany, existential antics of “Rick and Morty,” which forces viewers to confront a potentially meaningless universe where there are so many possible realities that none of them actually really matter. Choosing a cover photo for this review was almost impossible. He then tells Charlotte that he should probably leave since he got his boat. Pete says this happened to his cousin and he died from alcohol poisoning. The joke in so many cartoons is that the characters are perpetually stuck—forced to wear the same clothes; to repeat the same catch phrases and jokes; to remind the viewer that whatever kooky adventure happens, they will remain pretty much unchanged. Charlotte asks him too, saying he'll really be doing her a huge favor. “I kind of think that all you are is just the things that you do.” The joy of “BoJack Horseman” comes not simply from its clever visual gags, and sense of whimsy, but in its humane portrayal of a world where stories might not be able to save us from sadness, death, alcoholism, drug addiction, or regret. BoJack agrees to leave. The best he’s ever been, hands down. Penny explains it's her crush Diego Mendoza's house. Now having lost all ties with Charlotte and the rest of Carson Family, BoJack is seen wearing sunglasses while sitting on his boat, which is being driven back to L.A. His face is expressionless as the boat drives from day to night from the desert of New Mexico to the busy highway of Los Angeles. BoJack asks her what would happen if someone needed to buy "turquoise shit" from her store, to which she says it's New Mexico, they can find it everywhere. Penny plays music on her phone and the two slow dance. 1.0k. In the final moments of season one, BoJack desperately wants Diane to tell him that he is good person, and she refuses, arguing instead that she doesn’t think that people are good or bad. She follows it out to the driveway, and she stops in her tracks when she hears a lamp break and whispers from inside BoJack's boat. (voice) (credit only). BoJack does not want to go in. Want to share IMDb's rating on your own site? 10 Thoughts on Bojack Horseman … She says she wants to have sex with him, claiming it's OK because she's sober and she has condoms in her room, she even knows how to put one on with her mouth, and seventeen is the legal age of consent in New Mexico. Looking for a movie the entire family can enjoy? 16 ‘Escape from LA’ ending. It’s hard not to watch this episode through your hands as BoJack slowly but surely work his way towards this disaster. The series has been laying the groundwork to prepare us for the possibility – probability – that his failure is a self-fulfilling prophecy. On the show’s part, there is a special challenge in getting us invested in someone like BoJack. On prom night Charlotte and Kyle take pictures of Penny's prom group, which includes her and BoJack, and her two friends, Maddy, her current best friend, and Pete Repeat, who repeats things he says (a running gag throughout the episode is that he forgets to do this). BoJack arrives home. r/BoJackHorseman: Subreddit for the Netflix animated series, BoJack Horseman, starring BoJack Horseman as BoJack Horseman. This is the episode that will shock the audience, and this is the episode that drives home some of the worst parts of Bojack. Bojack runs off to New Mexico to reconnect with an old friend, only to find she's happily married with a family. Charlotte says she does and notes that was really bad because a seagull could have chocked on one, but she remembers it fondly, along with the other times the three had together. When she and BoJack started to get along in the car, there was an alarm bell that went off in the back of my head that went something like, “ohhhh no, she looks so much like Charlotte, danger danger danger, please don’t do that, DANGER.” And this script from Joe Lawson (who also wrote “After the Party”) knows it. BoJack agrees. Don't Stop Dancing Till the Curtains Fall. She tells him she knows what she wants. For even more, visit our Family Entertainment Guide. Escape from L.A. Trip tries to defend himself, but Penny says he'll get a boner and will get benched. Who cares if a washed up sitcom actor drinks his life away in a Hollywood Hills mansion? “Somebody just told you a story,” the jeweler says, “I’m sorry.”. Trip tries to defend himself, but Penny says he'll get a boner and will get benched, to which Trip says he'll probably get one now since she mentioned it, and he goes back inside while covering his crotch. Escape from L.A. BoJack says she's too young and she doesn't know what she wants. BoJack tells her to go to bed. He asks what she's doing here. They laugh, and they kiss. It’s incredibly difficult to sell the now ubiquitous antihero as someone we should care about because…well, antiheroes are assholes. Vulture’s interview with creator Raphael Bob-Waksburg. BoJack asks if she remembers when she said that L.A. was a tar pit (which was seen in a flashback in The Telescope). One night, during dinner, Penny gets annoyed at a dad joke Kyle tells, and she eventually storms up to her room. BoJack jokingly says she sounds like his mother. When you believe you’re broken, and you don’t know how to fix it, the easiest thing to do is fall into that hollow space inside of you. I said it in the review, but I’ll say it again: the animation in this episode is next level. He is surprised Charlotte never brought up that she lived in L.A. and knew him after Penny questions who he is. Penny agrees. His house is a wreck. She thanks him for the night they had, and says that he actually treats her like an adult. She hopes he'll see her driving by his house and he'll talk to her. Press J to jump to the feed. He hangs up on her and then steps on his phone to break it. Charlotte instead invites him to her house. The heart of “BoJack Horseman," and what makes it easily the best series of the 2010s, is its insistence in not only finding meaning in pain, but in also creating something tender and beautiful out of it. It then cuts to later that day at about sundown, where Charlotte and Kyle are preparing dinner. BoJack and Penny climb to the top of a water tower. Next BoJack and Charlotte go to talk to her, and Penny reveals she is upset because Diego never asked her to prom, she asked him, but he rejected her for another girl. BoJack tries to apologize, but Charlotte, furious, cuts him off: she then tells BoJack if he is not out of her driveway within thirty minutes she will call the police and if he ever tries to contact her or her family again she will kill him. There’s BoJack sitting at Charlotte’s table with her family, grimacing through breakfast when he realizes that not everyone got stuck like he did. No Escape From L.A.: “BoJack Horseman” Channels Joan Didion In Its Fourth Season, The West Wing Returns for an HBO Max Special, Touring Masterworks: Adam Nayman Discusses His New Book on Paul Thomas Anderson, CIFF 2020: Black Perspectives Program Highlights Diverse Voices. After I got over my initial “holy shit” reaction/dread at having to write this one up, my first thought was shock that no one spoiled this episode in the comments. Didion famously opens her book The White Album with the line, “We tell ourselves stories in order to live,” and season four of “BoJack” unpacks what it means when our fantasies don’t measure up with our very real experiences.
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