{"id":11631,"date":"2018-10-18T10:15:27","date_gmt":"2018-10-18T14:15:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/?p=11631"},"modified":"2018-10-18T10:15:43","modified_gmt":"2018-10-18T14:15:43","slug":"ill-self-care-when-i-self-die-and-other-small-brilliances-of-bojack-horseman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/2018\/10\/ill-self-care-when-i-self-die-and-other-small-brilliances-of-bojack-horseman.html","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;I&#8217;LL SELF-CARE WHEN I SELF-DIE&#8221; And Other Small Brilliances of &#8220;BoJack Horseman&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>In which St Francis de Sales watches season 5 of the depressed-horse show and exclaims, \u201cIf only we could have your abjection without, you know, strangling a lady!\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>So on purely technical grounds, season five is <i>BoJack<\/i>\u2019s weakest. But it also might be the show\u2019s bravest. BoJack has always left disaster in his wake. His own self-loathing has damaged countless lives\u2014mostly, though not only, women\u2019s lives, even now that he\u2019s trying to do better, to get off the treadmill of seeking praise, oblivion, and then dramatic, no-cost redemption. He\u2019s so intent on playing the hero that his attempts at noble self-sacrifice backfire onto other people. (You never want your feminist stance against exploitation to end with somebody calling, \u201cCan we get some nipple ice for Yolanda?\u201d)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theamericanconservative.com\/articles\/the-cartoon-that-hits-home-in-our-metoo-era\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">more<\/a><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In which St Francis de Sales watches season 5 of the depressed-horse show and exclaims, \u201cIf only we could have your abjection without, you know, strangling a lady!\u201d So on purely technical grounds, season five is BoJack\u2019s weakest. But it also might be the show\u2019s bravest. BoJack has always left disaster in his wake. 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