BoJack Horseman
- sarahwilk24
- Sep 1, 2022
- 2 min read
Updated: Jul 16
189 pieces | BUILDIFY: A1668-36498
Assembled by Sarah Wilkinson, May 2025
Interaction Rating: 4 / 5 (interaction with the set is encouraged, but use extra care)
Premise: Washed-up television actor BoJack Horseman has it all: fame, fortune, and glory, or does he? Living in the cynical landscape of modern Hollywood, nothing is as it truly seems with BoJack, because this horseman has a complex, jaded, and bitter past that still haunts him. Desperately trying to get back into the Hollywood limelight, BoJack will give it his all to get his career back on track and hopefully find happiness as well.
Favorite Moments: BoJack is one of those characters that speaks to the parts that live in all of us—those parts we don't like and try to bury. He spends most of the show running from those dark parts of himself, but there are also moments when he's forced to look at them head-on. Hunter's favorite moment of the show comes when BoJack is home alone on a bender and decides to get in his pool. He awakens in a recurring dream of his where he's at a dinner party with dead people from his life. Throughout the dinner party and the talent show that follows, the characters muse on their lives and deaths while an ominous black darkness draws closer and closer to BoJack. While this is all happening, Bojack is drowning in his pool. As the blackness subsumes Herb, an old friend whom he betrayed, BoJack tells him that he'll see him on the other side of the door from which the darkness is oozing out. Herb responds, "Oh, BoJack, there is no other side. This is it." The episode ends when BoJack is subsumed by the darkness, and all you hear is the sounds of a heartbeat monitor flat-lining. After the episode credits roll, the monitor begins beating again. It's the moment where consequences finally catch up with his actions, and he's forced to face the self-destructive force within him. Sarah enjoys the episodes with crazy antics, like Todd's rock opera, or when BoJack attempts to eulogize his abusive mother without realizing he's crashing someone else's funeral. Or when BoJack goes to an underwater world to premiere a movie and ends up being a temporary father to a clutch of seahorse babies, and not a single word is said in the entire episode.
BoJack's Mansion
2,275 pieces | LEGO: 42639
Assembled by Sarah Wilkinson, March 2025
Interaction Rating: 4 / 5 (interaction with the set is encouraged, but use extra care)
Significance of the Sets:
BoJack: The couple found a MOC (my own creation) set of BoJack wearing his trademark blue sweater and gray jacket from the show, complete with a little brick booze bottle.
Modern Mansion: The mansion reminded Sarah of BoJack's mansion in Hollywoo (the "d" was stolen by one of the characters in the show), complete with his sports car and numerous underage girls.
Where It's Streaming: Netflix; the finale aired in 2020.
Reason They Watched: It's one of Sarah's all-time favorite shows, and she wanted Hunter to watch it with her so they could discuss the complexity of the characters and their flaws.
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