BoJack Horseman
| Television series | |
|---|---|
| German title | BoJack Horseman |
| Original title | BoJack Horseman |
 | |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Year (s) | 2014-2020 |
| Production company |
Tornante Co, ShadowMachine |
| length | 25 minutes |
| Episodes | 77 in 6 seasons ( List ) |
| genre | Sitcom , dramedy , black humor , tragic comedy |
| idea | Raphael Bob-Waksberg |
| production |
Will Arnett , Aaron Paul |
| music | Jesse Novak |
| Initial release | August 22, 2014 (US) on Netflix |
First publication in German |
September 16, 2014 on Netflix |
BoJack Horseman is an American animated series by video-on-demand provider Netflix that was released from 2014 to 2020. It is also Netflix's first adult animation series. The series tells the story of former series star BoJack Horseman, who has passed the high point of his career and now has to seriously clarify how his life should go on.
In the original version, Will Arnett plays the leading role of the anthropomorphic horse BoJack Horseman. Other speakers include Alison Brie , Amy Sedaris , Aaron Paul and Paul F. Tompkins . Despite mixed reviews, the series was positively received by audiences from the start.
action
season 1
In a Los Angeles where humans and anthropomorphic beasts coexist, BoJack Horseman lives, who, as his name suggests, is half horse, half human. In the 90s he was the star of the popular sitcom I believe me kicks a horse (in the original Horsin 'Around ), today BoJack lives with the bachelor Todd in a mansion above Hollywood, swims in wealth, but is unhappy and mourns the old one Time after. To revive his career, he wants to write an autobiography. Lacking motivation, his agent Princess Carolyn, a cat with whom he has an on-off relationship, hires him to ghostwriter Diane Nguyen. She is in a relationship with BoJacks Frenemy Mr. Peanutbutter, a dog and actor who starred in a television series that virtually copied the BoJacks series. BoJack feels drawn to Diane, but she marries Mr. Peanutbutter, although BoJack tries to hold off the wedding. Diane finally finishes the book on BoJack, which reveals the real me in no-show. As hoped, the book revives BoJack's career, earning him a Golden Globe and the film role of the racehorse Secretariat , which he had aspired to throughout his life. Diane, who previously wrote a book about Secretariat, works as a role advisor in the film.
season 2
The shooting of Secretariat turns out to be more difficult for BoJack than expected. The situation escalates when BoJack and director Kelsey Janning film a controversial scene with Secretariat and Richard Nixon that was not in the script and leads to Kelsey's termination. BoJack, who feels responsible, takes a break from Hollywoo (the name Hollywood got after BoJack stole the last letter of the Hollywood sign ) and went into hiding for a few months with his former girlfriend Charlotte, who has since started her own family. BoJack accompanies her underage daughter Penny to prom. She wants to spend the night with BoJack, who refuses. The time away from Hollywoo warmed up old feelings for Charlotte, who BoJack approaches that same evening. He suggests that she run away and leave her family behind. Charlotte, who doesn't reciprocate BoJack's feelings, angrily tells him to leave. A short time later, Charlotte appears one last time on BoJack's boat, on which he lived in her driveway. She catches him red-handed with her 17-year-old daughter, who looks like her mother.
season 3
Back in Hollywoo, BoJack beats the drum for his film Secretariat, which turns out to be a hit film and is even considered a candidate for an Oscar nomination. However, Mr. Peanutbutter - who is supposed to announce the nominees - loses the envelope with the officially nominated and then comes up with his own nominations together with Todd. Even if Todd first speaks out against adding Bojack to the list, because Bojack has been a bad friend to him lately and has slept with Todd's friend Emily, among other things, they still put Bojack on the list. After the announcement of the (alleged) nominees, it turned out that most of the nominations by Mr. Peanutbutter had been guessed correctly. However, Bojack's nomination actually didn't exist.
Bojack loses himself in his sadness again and tries to numb the grief together with his former co-star Sarah Lynn, with alcohol and other drugs . Sarah Lynn dies in BoJack's presence as a result of an overdose.
Season 4
Mr. Peanutbutter is seeking the post of Governor of California . Diane takes a job on a feminist blog, but finds it difficult to gain a foothold with her political and critical texts. BoJack now has a new project: Ethan Around , a sequel series for Horsin 'Around . A young girl who reminds BoJack of Sarah Lynn confides in him that she wishes to become like him one day. BoJack leaves the set in a panic, disappears from Hollywoo and even plans a suicide .
BoJack disappears from the scene for months. When he returns home, he is met by a young woman named Hollyhock, who suspects that BoJack is her biological father. Together they go looking for Hollyhock's mother, but don't find anything. Only flashbacks from the life of BoJack's mother Beatrice, who is now suffering from dementia , reveal that Hollyhock is actually BoJack's younger half-sister. Hollyhock is the result of BoJack's father flinging with the housemaid Henrietta. Beatrice had Henrietta put the baby up for adoption after Hollyhock was born. BoJack, who grew up in a loveless family and had a lonely, bitter childhood, became a big brother overnight. For the first time in a long time, a glimmer of hope shows in the life of the depressed BoJack, who has finally found someone who loves him.
Season 5
Bojack has to star in Philbert because of Princess Carolyn . He starts an affair with his new colleague Gina. Princess Carolyn wants to adopt a child, but there are some problems with the mother of the unborn child. Diane tries to find herself again after breaking up with Mr. Peanutbutter, but her feelings overtake her. By chance, Todd becomes the CEO and chairman of a company and thus the new boss of Bojack and Diane, who works as a screenwriter for the series. Bojack gets a lot of hallucinations because of his drug addiction and almost strangles Gina while filming the series. Todd's sex robot becomes the company's new CEO by accident, but fired after allegations of sexual harassment and the series is canceled as a result.
In the end, BoJack is taken to a rehab clinic by Diane to help him recover from his addiction.
Season 6
In rehab, BoJack grapples with memories of Sarah Lynn's death and his own difficult childhood. Despite completed therapy, BoJack first has to bring himself to leave the clinic. After leaving rehab, he travels across the country to see his old friends again. Diane now lives with the cameraman Guy in Chicago and is writing an autobiographical essay, but struggles with depression and writer's block.
In the second half of the season, BoJack re-socialized. He now teaches an acting class at Wesleyan University , where Hollyhock is also studying. Meanwhile, two reporters from Hollywoo find out that BoJack owned the heroin that Sarah Lynn overdosed on. In an interview, BoJack tries to justify himself and is initially well received. In a second interview, however, his actions are critically questioned, which makes him difficult to explain. From then on, BoJack has reached another low point in his life as an excluded member of society. His belongings are seized for illegally using the Xerox brand name during an interview.
The last two episodes describe two outcomes. The 15th episode starts in an unearthly place after BoJack drowned in his pool. The 16th episode shows how the new residents of his old house rescue him from the pool, but he then has to serve a prison sentence for burglary.
synchronization
The series was translated into German by Berliner Synchron on behalf of Netflix . The dialogue director was Mario von Jascheroff , who also wrote the dialogue books .
main characters
| role | Appearances | Original speaker | German speakers |
|---|---|---|---|
| BoJack Horseman | 1.01-6.16 | Will Arnett | Tobias Kluckert |
| Todd Chavez | 1.01-6.16 | Aaron Paul | Constantin von Jascheroff |
| Diane Nguyen | 1.01-6.16 | Alison Brie | Ulrike Stürzbecher |
| Princess Carolyn | 1.01-6.16 | Amy Sedaris | Ghadah Al-Akel |
| Mr. Peanut Butter | 1.01-6.16 | Paul F. Tompkins | Bernhard Völger |
Minor characters
Production and broadcast
The series was developed by Raphael Bob-Waksberg . BoJack Horseman was designed by artist Lisa Hanawalt and the animation was done by Los Angeles-based production company ShadowMachine . Michael Eisner's Tornante Company produces the series.
The first season of the series was released in all countries with Netflix on August 22, 2014. A few days later, the production of a second season for 2015 was announced. In Germany, the publication took place with the German launch of Netflix on September 16, 2014.
On December 19, 2014, the BoJack Horseman Christmas Special: Sabrina's Christmas Wish , written by Raphael Bob-Waksberg, was released without prior notice . Joel Moser directed.
The second season of the series was released on July 17, 2015. The third season of the series ran exclusively on Netflix from July 22, 2016 . The fourth season was released worldwide on Netflix on September 8, 2017. It included prominent guest appearances by Kimiko Glenn from Orange Is The New Black , Jessica Biel , Felicity Huffman , Scrubs star Zach Braff , Kristen Bell and Rami Malek .
On September 21, 2017, Netflix confirmed a fifth season of BoJack Horseman . On October 30, 2018, Netflix extended the series by a sixth season, which will be released in two parts from October 2019.
Shortly after the release of the first part of the sixth season, it was announced that it would be the final season. The second part, which was published on Netflix on January 31, 2020, marks the end of the series.
- Sale of broadcasting rights to Comedy Central
In July 2018, it was announced that Netflix had sold the television broadcasting rights of BoJack Horseman to Comedy Central. The streaming service had never before sold the exclusive television rights to an original series to a US cable broadcaster. The deal covers the first five seasons of the series. It began broadcasting on September 26, 2018, following the new season of South Park .
In Germany, the pay TV broadcaster ProSieben Fun and Comedy Central were also able to secure the rights to the series. The broadcast began on July 8, 2019 on pay TV and on July 14, 2019 on free TV.
reception
The reviews of the first season of BoJack Horseman were mixed, with Rotten Tomatoes 53% of the 15 reviews were positive. Metacritic gave the series an average rating of 59/100 based on 13 reviews. The second season was much better received, with an average rating of 90/100 on Metacritic and 100% on Rotten Tomatoes. The third season was also rated very positively with an average rating of 89/100 on Metacritic and 100% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Viewers have received the series positively since the first season. In the IMDb , the series received an average of 8.5 out of 10 stars from 56,327 users. Younger viewers rated the series better than older ones. On Netflix, the series received an average of 3.8 out of 5 stars from over 800,000 viewers.
English-language reviews of the first episodes of the first season
The 2014 website Vulture headlined BoJack Horseman as "The Funniest Show Ever About Depression". The series practice social criticism of the entertainment industry, but is above all a precise and aggressive portrait of the depression. BoJack Horseman is radically sad as a result, but also offers enough humor.
The Washington Post commented positively on BoJack Horseman , saying that the series is not just another well-worn commentary on the emptiness of Hollywood, but also offers wit, primarily through the mixture of the human and animal world.
The San Francisco Chronicle complained about the first episodes of the first season that the series neither used the potential of the premise, nor the potential of the "grandiose cast". The series offers interesting initial scenarios, but is poorly written, and the anthropomorphic world does not help either.
Matthew Gilbert wrote in the Boston Globe that the series was "ruthlessly mediocre". He criticized the cast of the speakers: Arnett once again used his stereotype of selfish character, Paul F. Tompkins was neither funny nor striking, and Aaron Paul's talent for speech was wasted on the sitcom cliché of the parasitic roommate. In addition, the jokes about bad sitcoms and Hollywood are uninspired.
Mary McNamara of the LA Times said the parody of the lives of celebrities only occasionally hit the right note. While individual storylines are dark and funny, the majority of the series only serves the cliché of a narcissistic, self-destructive actor.
Indiewire's Ben Travers said BoJack Horseman had little depth and that the only twist was the anthropomorphic world. Due to the good cast of speakers, the series is still sympathetic, although it cannot keep up with other Netflix productions in terms of quality. Travers noted, however, that the series was slowly finding its tone in the last two of the six episodes open to critics. His colleague Zack Sharf wrote a month later that the series would get much stronger in the second half, which was not accessible to critics in advance. BoJack Horseman is clearly produced for Netflix and is therefore based on binge watching , the first half of the series thus forms the exposure of the series in which various characters are introduced, which only pay off later in the season.
German-language reviews
Eike Kühl from Zeit Online is enthusiastic about BoJack Horseman and sees it as "a biting satire of the media and entertainment industry." The multi-layered series has a continuous story in the first season that makes binge watching mandatory. Despite numerous gags, the series has a serious core.
In the Tages-Anzeiger, Lena Rittmeyer is impressed by the animated film series BoJack Horseman , which she describes as a “clever study of society”. The series is peppered with gags and “also a study of the bizarre to tragic excesses of social isolation”.
Felix Böhme from the series portal Serienjunkies.de says that the first episode of the series makes a solid impression and has "some nice laughs, but it is not particularly unusual or original." The episode does not offer much new and the pessimistic satire on the entertainment business Hollywood only partially in the opening episode.
Josa Mania-Schlegel from Süddeutsche.de found: "If you think cartoons are otherwise rather stupid, you should give the second season of 'BoJack Horseman' a chance." The series is an "informed industry analysis" and "refreshing because it is untypical for the colorful cartoon film." A world in which often only gag follows gag. ”The author describes the main character BoJack as a“ protagonist with depth ”, the“ BoJack feeling ”is like a“ wild night, whose crazy course nobody can believe. ”
Trivia
The series is known for incorporating images from well-known artists. For example, " Blue Horse I " by Franz Marc is quoted in Season 2, Episode 1. Works by Gustav Klimt , David Hockney , Henri Matisse , Andy Warhol , Claude Monet and many other artists also appear in the series.
Episode list
Web links
- BoJack Horseman in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- BoJack Horseman from Netflix
- BoJack Horseman website
- Press review on BoJack Horseman at Metacritic (English)
- Press review on BoJack Horseman at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ BoJack Horseman. In: synchronkartei.de. German synchronous file , accessed on November 30, 2018 .
- ↑ Press release: BoJack Is Back And Only On Netflix! In: pr.netflix.com. Netflix , December 11, 2013, accessed September 29, 2014 .
- ↑ Lesley Goldberg: Netflix Renews Will Arnett's 'BoJack Horseman' (Exclusive). In: hollywoodreporter.com. The Hollywood Reporter , August 26, 2014, accessed September 24, 2014 .
- ↑ Megan Farokhmanesh: Netflix announces new Bojack Horseman season with a goofy, animated text exchange. In: The Verge. September 21, 2017, accessed September 21, 2017 .
- ↑ "Bojack Horseman": No season 7 for the animated series. October 31, 2019, accessed January 31, 2020 .
- ↑ Netflix series BoJack Horseman lands historic television deal . In: moviepilot.de . July 27, 2018 ( moviepilot.de [accessed July 27, 2018]).
- ↑ Timo Niemeier: Comedy Central brings "BoJack Horseman" to free TV. In: Dwdl.de. June 17, 2019, accessed June 24, 2019 .
- ^ "BoJack Horseman" (2014) - User ratings. In: imdb.com. IMDb , 2014, accessed on May 21, 2015 .
- ↑ Margaret Lyons: BoJack Horseman Is the Funniest Show About Depression Ever. In: Vulture. New York , September 11, 2014, accessed September 24, 2014 .
- ↑ Hank Stuever: 'BoJack Horseman': The equine ennui of a Hollywood stud. In: washingtonpost.com. The Washington Post , August 21, 2014, accessed September 24, 2014 .
- ↑ David Wiegand: 'BoJack Horseman' review: Saddled with mediocre writing. In: SFGate. San Francisco Chronicle , August 19, 2014, accessed September 24, 2014 .
- ↑ Matthew Gilbert: Netflix's 'BoJack' is one lame horse. In: bostonglobe.com. The Boston Globe , August 21, 2014, accessed September 24, 2014 .
- ^ Mary McNamara: Review: 'BoJack Horseman' canters through familiar satirical terrain. In: latimes.com. LA Times , August 22, 2014, accessed September 24, 2014 .
- ↑ Ben Travers: Review: Will Arnett & Aaron Paul Carry the Self-Aware 'BoJack Horseman' Out of the Glue Factory, But Not Much Further. In: indiewire.com. Indiewire, August 20, 2014, accessed December 13, 2014 .
- ↑ Zack Sharf: Why 'BoJack Horseman' Makes Netflix Matter in the Online Television Age. In: indiewire.com. Indiewire, September 24, 2014, accessed December 13, 2014 .
- ↑ Eike Kühl: “BoJack Horseman”: Tell me something about the horse. In: Zeit Online . Die Zeit , October 22, 2014, accessed on December 13, 2014 .
- ↑ Lena Rittmeyer: Everyone is their own animal. In: tagesanzeiger.ch. Tages-Anzeiger , October 8, 2014, accessed December 13, 2014 .
- ↑ Felix Böhme: Review BoJack Horseman 1x01: The BoJack Horseman Story, Chapter One. In: Serienjunkies.de. August 27, 2014, accessed December 13, 2014 .
- ↑ Josa Mania-Schlegel: Horse with dog life. In: Sueddeutsche.de. July 21, 2015, accessed July 21, 2015 .
- ↑ BoJack Horseman - The Blue Horse by Franz Marc. In: CulturaLista! February 3, 2020, accessed on February 9, 2020 (German).
- ↑ BoJack Horseman - The Blue Horse by Franz Marc. In: CulturaLista! February 3, 2020, accessed on February 9, 2020 (German).
- ↑ Zuzanna Stanska: ALL Art In BoJack Horseman We Could Find Gathered In One Place (5th Season Update). September 13, 2018, accessed February 9, 2020 (American English).