20 Best TV Shows Of 2018
4. BoJack Horseman
The biggest lie Netflix have told is that BoJack Horseman is a comedy. Sure, the show is funny in just about every way imaginable: visual gags, wordplay, slapstick, satire, topical, observational, dark, and absurd, you name it the show can do it and make you laugh out loud. So okay, it is kind of a comedy. But my god, does it hurt when you laugh.
Of course, we should know to expect this from BoJack by now, after Charlotte and Sarah Lynn and his mother and all the rest. And yet, it never gets easier. Season 5 of the show served up a brilliant satire of prestige TV, with BoJack getting a gig on new streaming show Philbert. But outside of the show, there's also a blistering commentary on the Me Too movement (most of it, somehow, written before the allegations against Harvey Weinstein), fame, addiction, and mental health.
What other show could, er, pull off a creation such as the sex robot Henry Fondle? Or have an entire episode that's just the main character delivering a eulogy, the camera never leaving him, with a punchline for the ages? Or, amidst all of that, build to a moment so shocking, so visceral, and so utterly devastating that you can't believe what you're watching, except of course it all makes perfect sense because the world is a weird, messed-up place and this is the perfect weird, messed-up show for it? BoJack Horseman is the best Netflix Original Series, and at this point, it's just a one-horse race.