10 Best BoJack Horseman Episodes Of All Time
1. That's Too Much, Man! (Season 3, Episode 11)
Since the beginning, BoJack was never presented to us as a good person. However, there was no doubt that he was capable, possibly even deserving, of redemption. BoJack always felt like a tale of one man's redemption after spending most of his whole life falling. This episode cast a vast shadow over the possibility of BoJack deserving forgiveness.
'That's Too Much, Man' is at best anxiety inducing and at worst utterly horrifying. We know we aren't in for an easy ride when an episode opens with BoJack gleefully helping his friend break nine months of sobriety. Everything that follows does nothing to discourage the feeling that maybe we've been rooting for a monster all this time.
Every moment in this episode is stomach churning, but the AA sequence stands out for laying bare BoJack's sins. Of course, we already knew what BoJack did in New Mexico, but for whatever reason hearing it from the horse's mouth, as it were, really hammered home just how abominable his actions were.
Then there's the fake-out. With any other show this would've felt cheap. After Sarah Lynn passes out and BoJack panics, we see her at her most vulnerable. We see the damage that Hollywoo, and BoJack, have wreaked upon her throughout her life. BoJack recognises his part to play in it all and arguably does the one unselfish thing he does all episode in taking her to the planetarium, but too little too late, and BoJack's left with her final words to haunt him. The only honest expression of what she wished she could've done with her life.
That's too much, man.