20 TV Episodes That Are Totally Flawless

2. The View From Halfway Down - BoJack Horseman

The Sopranos
Netflix

Everything about BoJack Horseman's penultimate episode is meant to rattle the senses and keep you guessing.

Starting out with BoJack stuck in some bizarre reality, surrounded by the people from his life who have died, The View from Halfway Down slowly unravels into an ambiguous nightmare as the former TV star realises that everything around him is a lot more than meets the eye.

An animated masterpiece front-to-back, the episode forces BoJack to confront his mortality, his biggest mistakes and his many unchecked flaws. Leaning into heavy themes of death, addiction, family woes and suicide, it unravels like a tantalising mystery and makes its answers almost impossible to find.

Pair these lofty ideas to a haunting animation style that is as surreal as it is symbolic, dark as it is hauntingly beautiful, and what you have is an episode of TV unlike any other.

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