2018-09-20 Entertainment Weekly

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Edited By| PATRICK GOMEZ @PATRICKGOMEZLA

call “aTrue Detectivetype,” carrying a flask

of his dead wife’s blood, but did he kill his

wife, is somebody secretly a ghost,is the

darkness a metaphor for darkness??? BoJack’s

new gig gives season 5 a precision-missile

focus on contemporary TV, encompassing

antihero chic, #MeToo, and the rise of

navel-gazing pretension as the de facto

mode of prestige television.

There hasn’t really ever been a bad epi-

sode ofBoJack. But last season stumbled

with a fully goofy political subplot, whereas

Philbertbecomes a centralizing force, a way

for the series to wrestle with its own bad self.

Eternal voice-of-conscience Diane (Alison

Brie) wonders ifPhilbert is “just a way for

IN SEASON 5,BOJACK HORSEMAN CONFIRMS ITS STATUS

as Netflix’s best TV show, a brash showbiz satire that’s

also a religious act of small-screen devotion. “All I know

about being good I learned from TV,” says BoJack

(voiced by Will Arnett). “In TV, flawed characters are

constantly showing people they care with these surpris-

ing grand gestures.” Few characters are more flawed

than BoJack, whose grand gestures trend apocalyptic.

This new season goes meta, with BoJack starring on

a cop drama calledPhilbert. Philbert’s what you might

BoJack Horseman

BoJack horsin’ around on the set ofPhilbert

DATE
Launches Sept. 14

TIME

Streaming

NETWORK

Netflix

REVIEW BY

Darren Franich @DarrenFranich

THE 10-WORD )This Penn Badgley thriller isGossip GirlmeetsAmerican Psycho.B+—KRISTEN BALDWIN

ONE OF THE

BEST SHOWS

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YEAR—SO FAR

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