10 Best BoJack Horseman Episodes Of All Time
2. Fish Out Of Water (Season 3, Episode 4)
A silent episode isn't particularly new in TV. The Twilight Zone, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, even Frasier had a whole silent act once. However, just as it's said that just because something is new doesn't mean it's good, so too does it mean that just because something's been done before doesn't mean that it will be bad. You've just got to do it right, and holy hell did they ever do it right.
First off, the animation. BoJack's art style was already something special with it's kinda-watercolour, semi-imperfect splotchy style, but when it's placed under the watery lens of Pacific Ocean City it becomes something else to behold entirely. Couple that with the hypnotic, almost lonely sounding score and you've got something beautiful and captivating from the start.
What makes 'Fish Out of Water' such an incredible and essential episode of television is that it simultaneously manages to reflect everything at the core of BoJack as a series whilst working as a standalone entity entirely of its own. This episode expresses perfectly the isolation that we so often feel not just in unfamiliar places but also at home or even in our own skin.
It expresses our innate and desperate need to communicate, as well as our shocking inability to. It explores our desire for connection, that this connection is often found in unwanted or bizarre situations, and that these connections are often painfully fleeting.