10 TV Episodes NOBODY Was Ready For
4. The View From Halfway Down - BoJack Horseman
The penultimate episode of animated ode to self-destruction BoJack Horseman is the beautifully chilling The View from Halfway Down.
The title hero (?) wakes up in a strange house at a dinner party populated by characters who had died across the course of the series. These include his abusive mother, former co-star and friend Sarah Lynn, and his father Butterscotch, although he takes the form of BoJack's childhood hero Secretariat.
As the episode unfolds, it becomes very apparent that BoJack is in a bad way. The entire house acts as a waiting room for death and, the closer he gets to it, the more characters disappear.
The blood-curdling high point of the episode is a poem written by Butterscotch. It's about Secretariat's suicide, which he committed by jumping off a bridge. As the poem reaches its end, Butterscotch gets more and more afraid of death, eventually falling into the abyss without making his peace.
The episode ends with BoJack being consumed by a mysterious black liquid, but not after one last calming phone call with his friend Diane.
Bordering on psychological horror at points, The View from Halfway Down is everything great about this show rolled into one phenomenal episode.