A Spooky Compliment Influenced the Final Two Seasons of Netflix's Bojack Horseman

"Bojack Horseman" never feels prescriptive, but Bob-Waksberg is open about how he saw the show's impact through the directing process. "I'm not for censorship, but I'm for being responsible and really caring about what stories do and what effects they have," he told HuffPo, noting that the writers' room doesn't didn't always agree with his theory that TV normalizes a lot of behavior it shouldn't (he uses bad boy cops as an example). This friction between the two worldviews ultimately led to incredible television work, which tackles these subjects with rigor and regularity, walking a fine line between a story of redemption and a story of messy and convoluted consequences.

After hearing Weinstein's comment, Bob-Waksberg tells Vice that he began to question how the show was being received. "Are there people who really see themselves in BoJack in a major way?" he remembers asking, "And are they too comforted by this connection?" It's a thread that's woven into not just the show's fifth season, but also the latest, in which Bojack initially seems to have come to terms with his past before the full extent of the fallout from his years of misdeeds becomes finally apparent. In the end, his end is realistic: his daughter no longer speaks to him, he was removed from reruns of "Horsin' Around" and he spent a time in prison which left him as alone as ever. Yet, in the great tradition of awful men, he still has a few people in his life who care about him despite their better judgment.