Peter_jordanson

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 years ago

Ahhh thanks; that makes total sense! It's kind of a running thing lately in animated shows it seems. where the first season feels like a pilot season and it gets good after the first couple of years. I might try it again, hell, i might even pick it up after season two.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (2 children)

I couldn't Stomach Bojack for more than the first season; To elaborate, for the few episodes i watched i think the episodic cartoon format of the show worked against it; Because it felt like the monster of the week exercise was more of a "Bojack's little atrocity of the week;" And it wore me down before i could watch more. Maybe the show got better afterwards, but for what i saw the format got very stale.

I'm not even that type of person who's expecting a moral or happy ending in a story, But for this particular character in a spiral of self destruction, i feel i've seen it portrayed better in other shows like say "fleabag" Where he overarching plot lets me see at least a semblance of progression and understand the quirks of the character. Maybe it's just that I find American television too slow. "last two seasons" Makes me thing there is more than three?

Also people who watched Bojak; How do you feel the show's Handling of mental illness holds up against critics of modern psychology like Ashley Frowley? A little example:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oji8LCbCi4I&ab_channel=RoomforDiscussion

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 years ago (4 children)

I really hate american celebrity culture and i feel i could never connect to the characters. I also feel this show falls in line with a certain media obsession with mental illness going around. Particularly that discourse that paints mental illness as some sort of insurmountable block in the road that gives some people the right to act like jerks.