Horsin Around: 10 life lessons we learned from Bojak Horsman

On Friday you will reach the end of the Walla decade series! Culture, the one that taught us the importance of proofreading and printout McCartney is the cutest man in the world, and that our lives will be more valuable if we stop blaming others, that a family can come in many ways and that it's never too late to change. Farewell to a masterpiece series

Horsin Around: 10 life lessons we learned from Bojak Horsman

1. Always proofread before printing

"Congratulations Diane and use a beautiful font," the large banner hung in the Pinatbatter family's honor was written in honor of the surprise party Mister had for Diane. This is one of the series' recurring jokes, in which Mr Pinatbetter fails to order signs without accidentally entering his final product. For example, a sign said at the couple's engagement party: "Congratulations to Diane and Mr. Pinat Butter, Pinat Butter is one word." At the wedding itself, the groom tried to correct the injustice and a different sign, and read it like this: "Congratulations to Diane and Mr. Pinat Butter, Pinat Butter is one word. Don't write a single word."

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"Congratulations Diane and use a pretty font." Maybe it was better to proofread? (Screenshot)

Banner in Bojak (Photo: Screenshot)

2. The number of animal jokes that can be invented is endless

In the television universe where the "Bojak Horsman" plot takes place, humans live alongside talking animals. It is confusing at first, and even a little disturbing when you realize the horse's sabbatical is a cat and at the same time a woman is having a relationship with a dog (to clarify the situation, Bojak asks Mister Pinatbatter explicitly: "Your penis was in her vagina?"). But once you get used to this strange situation, we will have a window of innumerable wit. There are the obvious jokes about a man's good friend, for example, Mr. Pinatbatter gets a report of speed chasing the postman. The lovable Labrador also drinks his alcohol out of a bowl, sleeps with his wife in a large dog bed, and fills his house with erotic images of pills Tennis - Princess Caroline runs at a gym with a mouse attached to the edge of her treadmill, her computer screen saver is a woolen ball and although she gets in trouble and misses constantly - she always lands on her feet.

But beyond these obvious jokes about pets, there are loads of visual jokes hidden in the background. For example, the MSNBSea news release submitted by Leviathan, esteemed director Quentin Tarantolino is a spider, actor John Hame is a pig, and also the lead protagonist of the acclaimed "Hamilton" Asking people who they are (and, like any owl, saying "Who" all the time), a rooster walks by Bojak's house every day and shouts, "Wake up, it's morning," and fish Merlin Brando serving Stella's beer. And maybe it's convenient to think that Diane is the black sheep of the family but in fact it's Gary, her adopted brother who is a black sheep, literally.

Anyone order an alarm chicken? (Screenshot)

Buzzing alarm cock (Photo: Screenshot)

3. Anyone can win the Golden Globe in the best comic book category

At the beginning of the month, Quentin won "Thank You, Mrs." Tarantino with the very non-comic crime drama "There were times in Hollywood" at the Golden Globe Award for Best Comedy or Musical Movie and raised quite a few eyebrows. This is not the first non-comic film to be nominated and / or won the category - even "Save the Watney" in 2015 won a surprise response to the very nomination, and his award. But with all due respect - the most impressive award winner was Bojak Horsman, who won the "prestigious" award for his biography book, which he did not write. "Wow, what an honor. I want to thank Hollywood's foreign correspondent," Bojak says in his winning speech, and then emphasized, "It's important to note that my book was neither comic nor musical. Do you even watch movies that you award? Feeling that ... besides, my book wasn't a movie. You know it, don't you? "

Thanks lady, but this is not a comedy, nor is it a movie (screenshot)

Bojak wins the Golden Globe (Photo: Giphy)

4. Men need to be feminists (and no, talking like a feminist is not enough)

Among the plethora of superlatives that can be given, "Bojak Horsman" has been one of the most feminist programs on screen in recent years. Despite the presence of the Woke movement in Hollywood, most films and series still fail to pass the simple "Bechdel Test". The test holds that in the movie / series there should be at least two full-featured women, they should have a conversation, and the topic of the conversation should be about something other than a man. Almost no Oscar nominated film this year, for example, passes the test - but Bojak "crushes" the test over and over again with strong female characters, who somehow manage to have a lifetime and complete conversations about men - precisely in a series that revolves around a man. That is, a horse.

The series does not forget about men who know how to "speak feminist" but act in the opposite way. It comes to a climax in season five, with Bojak hosting a morning show saying the banal sentence: "Of course it's not good to strangle women." This sentence makes Bojak a star among women. "It turns out that the problem with feminism in the first place was that no men dealt with it," Bojak testifies unconsciously about the root of the problem. Later in the season, he mentions how easy it is to "speak feminist" and at the same time continue to disperse toxic, violent and opaque masculinity.

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Bojak explains to Diane that "feminism should be fun" (screenshot)

Bojack the feminist (Photo: Screenshot)

5. Paul McCartney is the sweetest man in the world

"Rivolber" fans, "Sargent Pepper" and the white album didn't really need another reason to admire Paul McCartney, but the story behind his guest appearance in the second season of "Bojak Horsman" is particularly cute. The creators of the series wanted to bring in a big name to emerge as a character who pops out of a cake on Diane's birthday. The bigger the star, the more entertaining the scene, which is why the British knight, one of the most famous musicians in the world, was at the top of the list of candidates. To everyone's surprise, he agreed. In fact, even the creator of the series, Rafael Bob-Wexberg, did not know (and did not believe) until the last moment that the production of the then anonymous program could convince McCartney to participate in the program.

"I was driving in the car in the direction of work, and stopped to buy a milkshake," recalls Bob-Wexberg. "While waiting for the drink to be prepared, I received a call from the responsible producer who told me: 'Hey, did you see the email I sent you this morning?' And he said, "Yes, he is coming to record today. He will be in the studio for another five minutes. You will come here urgently." I did not wait for a milkshake, flew back to the car and raced to the studio. " Bob-Wexberg had time to direct McCartney's short line, and especially to meet the idol, to whom he testified that he was: "The sweetest man in the world."

6. We all play in the accusations game, and there are no winners

In the masterpiece "The Picture of Dorian Gray," Oscar Wilde explains that he refers to self-hatred as a kind of luxury. "When we blame ourselves, we believe we take the right of anyone else to blame us." In some ways, that's exactly the approach that gets Bojak into a loop of self-destruction. Bojack is the number one critic of himself just as he admires number 1 of himself, and at one point he believes that he detests himself and gives him the right not to change.

The series takes us on a journey into the human reproach (or in this case, the horse) that almost all of us can connect with. Bojak blames many of his shortcomings in the tough childhood he had with tough parents who didn't show him love. For their part, they blamed him for depriving them of self-fulfillment. As the series takes a zoom-out, we find out how much of Bojak's parents were difficult, and how unhappy they were in their relationship - regardless of Bojak's birth at all. He blamed them, they blamed him, and in the end they chose to ignore all those feelings and drowned out their feelings about alcohol, drugs and diet pills.

We can blame our parents for who we are, we can blame ourselves, and in the end, it's a cycle that never ends - until you learn to accept ourselves, and the people in our lives, as they are. It's easy to say, and hard to implement. Ability to forgive is the stronghold, and Bojack teaches us that even the big, rich and famous stars may not always be strong enough to make that change. The journey we go through with Bojak varies at his mother's funeral, which is accompanied by one of the heartbreaking monologues ever seen on screen. Nobody won a duel between Bojak and his parents, but if we learned anything from him, it is not necessary to wait for the angel of death to quell the game of accusations.

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Bojak's parents are guilty of all the bad things he did? (Screenshot)

Bojak and his parents (Photo: Screenshot)

7. Addiction is not a sexy thing, and rehab is an addictive thing

The fifth season of "Bojak Horsman" was probably the most realistic mirror ever of addiction on our television screen. Mostly, Hollywood makes addictions look like something quite appealing. Drugs make people mad (genius Doctor!), Alcohol makes introverted and shy people full of charisma and personal magic (hello Rajesh Kutrapali!) - and how cool it is to drink alcohol in the middle of a work day (almost every character in Mad Men) or Just close the day, every day, with a bitter drop in your throat (roughly the plot purpose of "Free on the Bar," "Horace and Pete," and in all, "The Simpsons").

Anyone who has faced a real addiction knows how much less glamorous reality is. Addiction does not make people inhibited and liberated, on the contrary - it encloses them within their own mental walls. Throughout the first five seasons of the series, Bojack is a prisoner of his addiction - and we witness the addict's slow, painful, and inevitable fall into the helplessness of losing control for the next dish.

Bojak's drug and alcohol journeys in the first four seasons changed in season five, where his addiction is authentically and crudely presented. There is nothing attractive about his behavior. There is nothing creative about his actions. The delusions caused by the drugs are not sexy, and the pain he feels does not arouse identification but mainly pity. While opioid addiction has become a real epidemic in the US, this is an important message.

The sixth and final season of the series (don't worry, no spoilers later) presents the final phase of addiction - the rehab. Of course, this is not an obvious choice, neither fictional nor human. Here, too, the creators of the series do not make life easy for viewers, because rehab is not an easy thing. While the "Trainspotting" movie taught us the physical cost of rehab, Bojack taught us the mental cost on the road to salvation. More precisely, the fact that it is not always the end of rehab is salvation. Almost never. Weaning cannot replace the drug, and the addiction will never be in the background. Either way, life doesn't stop when you're "inside," and no one will discount you because you're a former addict - most often it will be the other way around. Infinite series and films have dealt with the 12-step rehab method, we have seen quite a few characters sitting in front of a crowd of strangers and emitting: "I am called this way and I am an alcoholic." "The Covert" did it in the most realistic way possible, "Bojak Horsman" took it in a slightly different direction, but the hard and incessant coping, the one that always stays in the background, is equally authentic.

Tried to take it to the furniture and he said no, no, no (screenshot)

Bojak in rehab (Photo: Screenshot)

8. We choose our family, and it can come in all kinds of forms

Bojak's family was the classic family - educated parents in bourgeois professions, a child who grew up in a "good" home and well-groomed for success, who did well in the end. But he was unhappy. It's hard not to blame his parents for all his negative traits. It's hard not to see the dissonance between his role in the sitcom "On the Horse" in Nantes and the childhood he is experiencing.

But "Bojak Horsman" did offer redemption from the familiar and banal, and mentioned that family life is not necessarily the normative version we were used to in classic sitcoms. Princess Carolyn was finally able to find peace in the rat race (sorry) when she adopted a baby, alone, as a single mother. The girl is not like her, nor does she have any instinctive trait to treat a completely different sex baby (in the "Bojak Horsman" universe, this analogy is particularly easy, since she is a cat and the girl is a prodigy) - but she is happy, and the baby is happy. And that's what's important, isn't it? And it's not that single parenting is portrayed as a lasting bliss, the mental and physical difficulty involved in raising a child alone is displayed in its full cruelty.

Todd, also the first asexual figure in television history (Netflix's "sex education" already has another notable asexual figure), introduces a new version of the family, completely different from what we knew. The series has pairs of cat and mouse (literally), of dog and woman, of dog and man, of cat and three children-standing-on-the-shoulders-one-on-the-other-under-raincoat, horse and owl, man and doe . These are not necessarily messages of pride to the LGBT but a reminder that we choose who to love, and nowadays it is no longer predetermined. It is as if it should be obvious, we are in 2020, but no series has done it so casually and brilliantly Like "Bojac."

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The mental and physical difficulty of raising a child alone is displayed in its fullest cruelty (screenshot)

Princess Caroline and Ruthie, Bojak Horsman (Photo: Screenshot)

9. It's never too late to change habits. It gets easier over time, but you have to work at it non-stop

To say that Bojak has reached the bottom of the barrel, by the way, that would be a cliché. What is his worst moment? The time he betrayed his good friend and refused to support him as the broadcast network fired him for being gay? Maybe because of the time she beat Paul McCartney at the Golden Globe ceremony (hello, he's the sweetest man in the world!)? Who violently strangled his partner? Who kissed his friend's high school daughter? That ruined the chance of fulfilling his best friend's dream? Who slept with the girl who "raised" his TV show? Who made that girl fall back into drugs after she was weaned, then watched her dying instead of saving her?

Bojak's life is a collection of slumps, and he blamed himself for claiming to be who he was. His self-hatred was an excuse to change. The one who made him look at his life differently is Diane, the outsider who never matched the tar egg she hollowed out. The book she wrote about gave him a different perspective on himself, and even if it took him a while - he realized he could change for the better. It took him a while. His change was also external, when he let his hair blend naturally. It became easier over time. The secret was to work on it every day. On the other hand, one must remember that change alone does not guarantee happiness.

Bojak's change was also external, giving his hair a natural bleach (screenshot)

Bojak with white hair (Photo: Screenshot)

10. Not everything has an end, not all of us get a clue

Without going into spoilers about the end of the series, you could say that Raphael Bob-Wexberg was trying to do everything to close every plot line he best opened during the series, that's not a matter of course, certainly in a series with some very complex and deep characters going through significant processes.

Not all characters "will get what they deserve." Not everyone will have a happy ending, not everyone will have a bad ending, the majority will just go on with their lives because that's what happens in life itself. In fact, that's how every television piece ends, perhaps except for "Deep in the Ground."

In season one, we see young Bujac getting a warning not to drown in the quicksand tar egg that is Hollywood (so they were still called), and that can be seen as a kind of metaphor for the lives of us all. No matter if you are a movie actor, no matter if you are a software engineer, no matter if you clean the streets or change the CEO of a large company - all of us can at some point feel like a quicksand. The difference is that our lives are not binge, You can't wait for the end of the season to have some "happy ending" or "coming soon" - life is a collection of episodes, some better and some better. "Bojak Horsman" humbly accepted her ending, and we will have to continue without her. It's a lot of us, but not all of it. It's part of the magic of the series, part of its darkness. At no point did she feed us with a spoon, and always left us with a taste for more. God, but did not have a good series like her. Let's try to be happier than we received it. Until bingo Next.

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