Bojack Horseman S1. Raphael Bob-Waksberg. (2014)

This is one of the best written things that I have found in a really long time, each episode was an huge emotional kick in the ass and it's one of the most cathartic experiences I've ever had with a work of art. I've always had my reservations with the show for the same reasons that I have reservations with practically all of adult animation, I feared that it was simply going to be something edgy and crude with a bit of an interesting subtext but not much more to it, and even though you could see some of the adult animation tropes in it I would never say it's edgy or just crude, it's a very... real show. It's like what I mentioned with Nana just a couple days ago but taken to the next level; if there was a little space in Nana to romanticize situations or present the characters in a bit more exagerated or pretty ways, in this show all of that is sent to the trash can and it presents all of the characters in a pretty nude way without much decorations, which is not to say that there's not space for exaggeration (I mean, they steal the D out of Hollywood) but I feel like the moments where it's exaggerated or inverosimile it does it from the absurd and surreal instead of doing it from the romantic or idealized, and I feel like those same absurds and surreal situations are utilized to emphazise even more the very real processes that its charachters go through, which takes me to the thing that I love the most about the show. 

The writing work on the show, specially the one around the characters, has to be one of the bigger products of genius that I've seen in any fictional story, everyone are built in a way in which their flaws and qualities are crystal clear to see even when they are not in the focus, and everyone interacts in a way in which those strenghts and flaws interact in very natural ways and take them to really interesting places, but the crown jewel is the very same horseman that gives the name to everything. 

Bojack is one of the best examples that I've ever seen on how to do a real character in every sense of the word, because he has the classical arc in which he starts with clear flaws that he will have to work on, and through the story tou understand where his flaws come from and you truly empathize with him and the things he goes through, but throughout the season tou also ovserve the ammount of horrible and hurtful things he does towards him and all of the people around him, all of this while tou see how he authentically tries to be better, but in no point the writers stop showing him as what he is: a person (horse-person) that no matter his history or reasons, keeps having behaviors that hurt the people he loves, and at the end of the show you see the true results behind those destruvtive behaviours, no matter what the intentions were behind. Bojack's actions have real, hurtful and harsh consequences, even when you understand his reasons, the series doesn't allow you to deny the indoubtly negative impact that his actions have over people that didn't deserve to be hurt in that way, and that's what makes Bojack such a real and well written character, and the show such a great written one in general, in any other story his actions would have been fixed with a single conversation and he would have walked away learning his lesson, but not here, here you see how his actions hurt the people he loves, and those people walk away from his life because of those wounds, because in real life things aren't solve with only one conversation, and in real life, when you let yourself go by past wounds and personal flaws and you hurt the people you love, sometimes saying sorry, no matter how honest, it's simply not enough, and sometimes you just wind up in lonely night, remembering when things were better.