In TV, he says, flawed characters are constantly showing people they care with these surprising grand gestures.
Few characters are more flawed than BoJack, whose grand gestures trend apocalyptic.
Season 5 (out Sept. 14) goes meta, with BoJack starring on a cop drama calledPhilbert.
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The show-within-a-show gives season 5 a precision-missile focus on contemporary TV.
The creator ofPhilbertis Flip McVicker (Rami Malek), a self-aggrandizing wannabe TV genius.
Maleks casting could be flagrant typecasting; hes the star ofMr.
But Malek is also a great addition to the ensemble.
There hasnt really ever been a bad episode ofBoJack.
couldnt match American reality for sheer absurdity.
Conversely,Philbertbecomes a centralizing force, a way forBoJack Horsemanto wrestle with its own bad self.
Princess Caroline (Amy Sedaris) is a producer on the show.
Other main characters wind up on thePhilbertset too including eternal voice of conscience Diane (Alison Brie).
She could be asking the same thing about our title character.
Sure, hetriesto get better, but is that just an excuse to keep getting worse?
The phrase difficult men has a different connotation lately.
BoJack began this series as a fading relic of 90s sitcom stardom.
Sins of his past are reconsidered (like That Thing In New Mexico).
Elsewhere in Hollywood, Princess Caroline juggles on-set drama with the difficulties of single-parent adoption.
Todd (Aaron Paul) gets an unlikely promotion and an unusual new colleague.
AndBoJacks experiments in structure get more elaborate.
Diane gets a showcase structured as a BuzzFeed-ish listicle.
And the sixth episode is, essentially, a 25-minute Will Arnett monologue.
Its hilarious and heartbreaking; expect excerpts to be performed at all upcoming high school theater auditions.
Some of these threads are more involving than others.
(My new heaven is Wanda Sykes as a mediating maven who rhymes recapitulation with de-escalation.)
Also, the animals can talk!A-
