For an episode of television that is a. animated, and b. Not designed in any way to showcase the disability experience(as indeed, very few episodes of television are, which is why I’m always looking for it in places where I probably shouldn’t find it.) “Bojack Horseman” seemed to highlight certain frustrations we all share, but that might hit harder for my disabled self.
The usually-selfish and coasting former sitcom star BoJack Horseman is riding high after the sports bio-pic “Secretariat” gets nominated in a film-festival in a sort of undersea Scandinavia. He struggles because of the equipment that allows a horse to breathe underwater—more on that at the end—and can’t sleep because of the time change.
Which makes him late for his event, fall asleep on a bus, and end up helping a male seahorse have babies(They get separated and one of the babies gets attached to BoJack, who is surprised, but for once, doesn’t attempt to leave the little beast with someone else…maybe the affection it gives him means more when he’s so vulnerable? It’s hard to tell with heightened emotions and minimal dialogue—as well as the, like, frustration muscle memory from trying to take a bus to college in a wheelchair for two years—sidenote, glad that paid off—literally making me sweat and fear for this cartoon horse the whole time.
Things should get more comfortable at the festival lovefest, right, but, as Paul Buchman would say, not so much. BoJack spots a director that he had a role in getting fired, but he thinks he can’t talk to her with his scuba equipment on. He pours his heart out in a note, only to find, after several drafts, that his musings are smeared and illegible. Adding insult to injury, the last day’s revelation that the scuba suits have a button at the neck so people can speak.
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