The Reality within Bojack Horseman.

Talking animals has always been viewed as something sweet , cute, and family friendly. But in this Neflix original Bojack Horseman, we view more of a reality twist that makes us think about how we affect the world and how we affect the people around us. Within this show we first meet Bojack Horseman, a super-star from the 90's TV show Horsing Around who has constantly parties and partakes in alcohol and hard substances to keep up with everyone else younger than him. The series takes us on this trip surrounding this man and his faults until season six. We learn about his horrible childhood filled with alcoholic parents, substance abuse from them, with having access at a young age, and learning about his father's affair. We then learn about all the wrong his done to women; manipulation, coercing women for his benefit, and using the people in his life to get what he wants, no matter the cost. However, we start to have some slight sympathy. Did he really mean to cause these issues with people or did he in a way get trained to be like this by his father?

The creator and writer Raphael Bob-Waksberg, has done a marvelous job with not only using animals as humans but also giving them real world situations that we have to deal with every day. For example, at one point in the series, a woman shows up to Bojack's door expressing that she was his daughter, Hollyhock Manheim-Manheim-Guerrerro-Robinson-Zilberschlag-Hsung-Fonzerelli-McQuack. Named after the seven gay group couple that adopted her as a baby. Bojack and Hollyhock set out to find her birth mother, with Bojack's seemingly endless book of conquests, since he doesn't have a clue who it could be. Exposing a side of Bojack that Hollyhock didn't expect to see. Tying in with the fact that he re-slept with some of these women, doesn't make it any better. Then to find out that Hollyhock isn't even her daughter, she is his sister from his father's affair with the family's nanny/maid. Once realizing what this could means for both of them, Hollyhock has a realization that she was a bastard child and didn't want to be apart of a family full of secrets, sex and lies.

Bojack on the other hand was just glad to be off the hook from it all and only fully cared about Hollyhocks feelings when finding out that his mother had been drugging her for months to make her skinny because she was the affair child that she never forgave her husband for. Even though she made the mistress have the child and put it up for adoption in the first place. I related somewhat to this situation. Not necessarily a child showing up at my doorstep, but, having a half-brother come out of nowhere saying he's known almost everything that you've had happen to you during your childhood. It made me uncomfortable to say the least, as if I was being watched at all times(which we are by Big Brother) but I wanted to know how. But at the same time I didn't. To find out that there isn't just him, there is a total of five of us, meant that not only was my biological father a whore, but he also didn't care. The half-brother had expressed there was another sister he had and hinted at more. I found the rest by using my FBI woman skills and going through their Facebooks. It just goes to show that Waksberg, the writer and creator, has probably had some traumatic situations happen in his life similar to the rest of us and either gone the route of Bojack or gone the positive route of getting help.

Bojack Horseman has ran for six seasons. All six seasons can be found on Netflix as one of their most popular originals. What's your favorite episode? Did you see anything similar to your life from the series?