I see some other reviews here saying how this episode is a leftist echo chamber and how it is not needed, and the absolute worst. But that is not the point of this episode, nor of this show. This show, or Diane, need not align with your political inclinations. Diane feels that way, and if you really admire the character, or the show, you would be able to appreciate her growth and development without relating it to your opinions.
9 Reviews
Your watching BoJack wrong (kinda)
johanlundberghik20 September 2021
Warning: Spoilers
The reviews on this episode is actually frustrating for the simple fact that people don't enjoy the art for the art. Instead they diminish it just because it doesn't align with your political views. Yes, this episode is hyperboly of american capitalism. But that's just because the writers wanted to make a characatyre to show us the evil in our ways while making it lighthearted and comedic.
Yes, Diane's melancholy is hard to watch and understand. But that's the point this show is trying to get across, depression is never understandable and a symptom of depression is expecting too much of yourself AND OTHERS while being hypocritical. She is sad, and the sadness clouds her judgement. How can people not get that?
But nevermind the "politics" involved. Appreciate the story of Diane finding love after a hard breakup with Mr. Peanutbutter. Doubting this love than finally accepting it when she reads the letters from Bojack (which plays as a smart allegory of her story).
Appreciate the well-crafted script. Appreciate Alison Brie's and Lakeith's acting and chemistry.
Appreciate the art.
Ars longa, vita brevis (Life is short but art is long)
Yes, Diane's melancholy is hard to watch and understand. But that's the point this show is trying to get across, depression is never understandable and a symptom of depression is expecting too much of yourself AND OTHERS while being hypocritical. She is sad, and the sadness clouds her judgement. How can people not get that?
But nevermind the "politics" involved. Appreciate the story of Diane finding love after a hard breakup with Mr. Peanutbutter. Doubting this love than finally accepting it when she reads the letters from Bojack (which plays as a smart allegory of her story).
Appreciate the well-crafted script. Appreciate Alison Brie's and Lakeith's acting and chemistry.
Appreciate the art.
Ars longa, vita brevis (Life is short but art is long)
so sad in a good way
Joey_w730 May 2022
The show is becoming more and more realistic as the characters deal with real problems, without the luxury of being over the nose rich.
It's just sad that they cant get everything.
Like diane said, either you dont get everything you want, or you get everything you want and then you dont know what you want.
It's just sad that they cant get everything.
Like diane said, either you dont get everything you want, or you get everything you want and then you dont know what you want.
Uninteresting.
eldreddsouza7 August 2020
We signed up for Bojack and not Diane Nyugen! We've had a Diane episode in the past and that was great but we didn't need it again. Especially a one like this which is not required at all. Couldn't care less about the other ox guy and this episode. The white whale video was cool though.
Worst Episode of the Series
kristi23748 July 2020
A Diane episode
jpw0003-950-93560119 February 2020
This is HORRIBLE! It's not okay!
adampkalb5 June 2020
Warning: Spoilers
It was bad before when it focused too much on Diane to fill the season and not enough Bojack. This might be tolerable, but Bojack Horseman writers - you have officially crossed my line when you made it legal for billionaires and richer to murder people like you thought that would be funny for a cheap joke, and after you had Whitewhale buying every company! Every Animal Girl Company, Girl Croosh, and many more. Well, guess what? It is never funny. It sounds like you are trying to bring the end of the world and make everybody hopeless and bleak because you think that is what realism is. Trying to legally or morally justify disproportionate punishment over employees asking for too many bathroom breaks is not funny, and is too serious, unrelatable and bleak for Bojack Horseman itself. No incompentent person's life is worth a billion dollars. If the joke was about how a billion dollars would cover bail money for killers, there are probably better ways you could have done this. When Donald Trump became president, he showed us that ridiculous things that are funny because we think they won't happen, stop being funny before the first time after they really do happen once we see the real terrifying ramifications of this exaggerated danger. I don't like this episode just because it exists to make Diane miserable when she can find no feel-good story to tell. Do you want to know the worst part about all of this? From what I have seen of Diane before (she doesn't like grand gestures or fun ballpit parties for instance), I actually agree with Guy when he asked Diane if she was against feeling any happiness of her own just because the rest of the world is on fire. My cousin said he knew about bad careless stuff like this when he was 15, but just learned to cool down and accept it when he shouldn't!
I will just tell all of you what Herb Kazzazz said to Bojack Horseman in The Telescope: "You have to know that it's never, ever going to be okay." Between landlords evicting people who can not get jobs during the coronavirus, America being the only developed nation without subsidized healthcare, and especially brutal police officers killing dark-skinned people without a second thought, there are too many unfunny cruel things about systematic cruelty in society that were too sad to be funny, even in 1998 when Stressed Eric was a show all about one character suffering from all of them because he was surrounded by other bad rude people with no empathy for him. The Good Place, in Chidi Sees the Time Knife, calls out unethical business for making morality too complicated for anybody who does good things to get into The Good Place. I despise this whole episode that amounts to poorly-executed satire of fascism and supremacy that keeps beating Diane down for trying to have a feel-good story. #Endwhitewhalesupremacy. Hmmm, I guess it is a scary metaphor for societal white supremacy, which George Floyd protests got us talking about. I love to hate on the bloodthirsty Whitewhale company killing off somebody for trying to out the unsafe working conditions, then bending the law to their will so murder is legal when you are rich. THAT is fascism and supremacy at its most extreme. Whitewhale is made of the most despicable monopolists ever. I'm glad Jeremiah Whitewhale isn't real, because he makes me sick. Did he bribe Congress, the president and Supreme Court to torture his dead employee? He is not above the law!
I will just tell all of you what Herb Kazzazz said to Bojack Horseman in The Telescope: "You have to know that it's never, ever going to be okay." Between landlords evicting people who can not get jobs during the coronavirus, America being the only developed nation without subsidized healthcare, and especially brutal police officers killing dark-skinned people without a second thought, there are too many unfunny cruel things about systematic cruelty in society that were too sad to be funny, even in 1998 when Stressed Eric was a show all about one character suffering from all of them because he was surrounded by other bad rude people with no empathy for him. The Good Place, in Chidi Sees the Time Knife, calls out unethical business for making morality too complicated for anybody who does good things to get into The Good Place. I despise this whole episode that amounts to poorly-executed satire of fascism and supremacy that keeps beating Diane down for trying to have a feel-good story. #Endwhitewhalesupremacy. Hmmm, I guess it is a scary metaphor for societal white supremacy, which George Floyd protests got us talking about. I love to hate on the bloodthirsty Whitewhale company killing off somebody for trying to out the unsafe working conditions, then bending the law to their will so murder is legal when you are rich. THAT is fascism and supremacy at its most extreme. Whitewhale is made of the most despicable monopolists ever. I'm glad Jeremiah Whitewhale isn't real, because he makes me sick. Did he bribe Congress, the president and Supreme Court to torture his dead employee? He is not above the law!
More Diane Cringe and Boredom.
matiyahu22 February 2024
By this point, I groan every time Diane appears on screen. This episode is entirely skippable: Diane as its central character. She's intolerable: selfish, narrow, and self-righteous. She's basically a pure-cringe conduit for those naive and sententious Leftist sermons that most of us outgrew by sophomore year.
She has become a black hole for this show. She sucks out the life and tanks whatever narrative momentum one feels building among the other characters. Also, while the other characters are genuinely aware of their flaws, it feels like Diane only gives lip-service to self-awareness and self-deprecation. Her character doesn't seem to really believe that she's flawed. She seems to think that she's kind of awesome. Because of this, BoJack must answer to her, recount every mistake to her, etc., simply because she is somehow owed as much.
It's a Diane episode. Do yourself a favor and skip it.
She has become a black hole for this show. She sucks out the life and tanks whatever narrative momentum one feels building among the other characters. Also, while the other characters are genuinely aware of their flaws, it feels like Diane only gives lip-service to self-awareness and self-deprecation. Her character doesn't seem to really believe that she's flawed. She seems to think that she's kind of awesome. Because of this, BoJack must answer to her, recount every mistake to her, etc., simply because she is somehow owed as much.
It's a Diane episode. Do yourself a favor and skip it.
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