10 Most Shocking Bojack Horseman Moments
2. Oh, Bojack. There Is No Other Side. This Is It.
As he lingers on the edge of death, Bojack is haunted by passed loved ones. As they discuss their lives, their meaning, their impact and face the prospect of the intrinsic meaninglessness of their existence, it becomes clear this is not the first time Bojack has joined the group in this limbo before death.
As Bojack faces his own demons, we explore the possibility that whether you’re a war hero or a pop star, in the grand scheme, all your actions amount the same sum of nothing.
It begins to dawn on Bojack that while he has seen this view from halfway down before, he has never been so far down, never gotten so close to the end. He asks Herb Kazzaz if anyone has ever returned from this place and reinforcing the existential nightmare Kazzaz tells him that there is no place, that it’s just his brain doing what it feels it need to do.
As Bojack and his loved ones put on a show to literally face their final curtain call, they echo Macbeth’s nihilism, demonstrating that, ‘Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player. That struts and frets his hour upon the stage. And then is heard no more: it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing’.
As the tar tentacles of abyss approach, Kazzaz tells Bojack that there is no other side. Only briefly able to run from this, Bojack tries to take solace in Diane. The screen fades to black, Bojack flatlines.
The episode is a masterpiece of melancholy, building to a quiet crescendo of heartbreak as Bojack goes to nothing.