I genuinely don’t get why people call BoJack Horseman depressing. To me it’s literally SpongeBob for adults. It’s like absurd, goofy, random nonsense. Animals just doing human shit. I watch it the same way I watch SpongeBob: stuff happens, you laugh, you move on. Also… the show is colourful. Like actually colourful. Bright, muted, nice colours. How is that depressing? If it was meant to be heavy, it would look dark and grey, but it doesn’t. Most of what they say in the show is just regular stuff normal people say anyway, it’s not some deep poetic trauma speech every five minutes. People take one sad episode or one quiet moment and turn it into this whole psychological breakdown, and I’m like… what?

The only episode I’d even say is genuinely deep or sad is Free Churro, and even then, that’s literally the one time BoJack lets himself take things seriously. That’s the only time he allows himself to be upset, and it makes sense because his mom DIED and it’s not even about missing her, it’s way more complicated than that. Outside of that, I really don’t see it. 

The show is comforting to me because it doesn’t try to be comforting. It’s just absurd, unserious, stupid and that’s exactly why I like it.

And I also don’t get the underwater episode at all. People put so much meaning onto it, but it’s literally just a random episode where nothing happens.

Bojack Horseman is not Depressing