I love Bojack Horseman but really wish they stopped pushing politics. Its not that I disagree with the politics, it’s that it’s never presented in a way that is funny, or insightful. It feels like the show expects you to agree with it’s perspective, or it will just talk down to you. I skipped most of season 3 because of how preachy it was.

The creators mentioned South Park as inspiration and then claimed to “not agree with south parks politics”. The thing is they could learn a lot about how to send a political message in a TV show from South Park. Take PC Principal. The purpose of the character was to make fun of PC Culture. He is very clearly a comedic exaggeration of a modern left winger in America. You aren’t supposed to take him at face value, and as a result, his character isn’t a direct attack on anyone, so no one can reasonably be offended, because of how clearly he is a satirical exaggeration. And jn the end, he isn’t vilified, he is presented as someone trying to do the right thing but going a little overboard.

Meanwhile in Bojack horseman, MSNBC now runs 24/7 coverage smearing people who go against alleged rapists? Since when? How is that funny? If it’s not meant to be satirical, and meant to be serious commentary, it fails miserably. It has no bearing on the real world whatsoever. They could have at least bothered parodying fox news instead, and actually putting effort into making the news anchor parodys insightful.

The whole episode didn’t seek to add any insightful commentary into the #metoo situation. It didn’t even bother to consider that maybe, not everyone who watches the show is as aware of abuse in Hollywood, or that not everyone thinks that tangible allegations get ignored.

The abortion episode is another dumpster fire. What was the point? All I got from it was lots of preaching that abortion is okay. The story had no substance, and there was no real conflict except “pro life bad”.

You can argue that the show doesn’t have to be insightful about politics, but the fact that they are so witty and intelligent when it comes to examining the human experience and relationships tells me otherwise.

Edit: I see people are mad at me. You guys need to get out of your bubble, maybe watch media or read books that challenge your viewpoints instead of circlejerk them. I would love to have a discussion with why you disagree with my observations instead of just seeing downvotes. But again, you guys are the type that hate having your viewpoints challenged.