Hey, everyone. This is a series where I will be sharing my thoughts as I go through a show everyone in my circle recommended for the first time. It won't be exactly a first impression as whatever episodes I talk about will be watched at least three times before sharing these thoughts

Episode 8 - Old Acquaintance

This episode goes on two different routes

The first is a trip to Labrador Peninsula with Diane and Mr. Peanutbutter where he avoids talking to his older brother about a "serious" issue. It gives us a glance at how often that family avoids talking about serious things which makes their positivity less inspiring.

The real fun of the episode is in the other plot where we actually see the perspective of Rutabaga Rabitowitz and Vanessa Gekko working hard against Princess Carolyn to secure a role for their client.

It shows all the different routes each character takes to make the job go to their clients and how there are many pieces to making that happen in a fun sequence in the episode.

My Rating: 6/10

The episode is just good. It is a fun watch with expectation subversion to how characters we don't see might also be the good guys in their stories—also, the same but on a sillier aspect with Mr. Peanutbutter. Not much to say, it is a good episode.

Episode 9 - Best Thing That Ever Happened

This episode happens inside BoJack's restaurant Elefante where he accidentally fires the head chef who walks out taking most of the crew with him as a food critic is waiting. The main plot, however, is Princess Carolyn fighting for her job as BoJack is trying to fire her.

We get into a great depth of their relationship and the balance of it as the background and the aftermath of the firing of the chef provide the comedy in a rather nice and smooth way.

Everything in the episode unfolds as BoJack attempts to fire Princess Carolyn who seems to be so addicted to putting out BoJack's fires that she can't just walk away. The episode ends in a great heart-to-heart conversation.

My Rating: 7/10

This episode had so much going on considering the setup was already known. Nothing changed by the end of this episode and the previous one. However, the episode and premise were used to the best of the show's ability.

The problem is this is still an episode where essentially nothing happens or changes. The emotional weight of it seems trivial, especially when all the stuff said in that heart-to-heart seems to be stuff both are already aware of.

Episode 10 - It's You

The episode starts with the announcement of BoJack's nomination for the Oscars by Mr. Peanutbutter. We see the celebration and toxic reaction that has on BoJack only for everything to swerve back as Mr. Peanutbutter reveals that BoJack wasn't nominated.

In a way, you could view this episode as the two most likely outcomes of BoJack's journey to win an Oscar. One where he gets the nomination and one where he doesn't and see the difference between both.

BoJack's actions in this episode, the previous one, and most frankly throughout the entire season, we see BoJack successfully alienate everyone around him and it ends with Todd being the last to leave as he confronts BoJack about everything he did.

My Rating: 8/10

The title of the episode says it all "It's you". The ending of the episode can be used to examine every decision BoJack made ever since he was nominated to star in the movie "Secretariat". It can be traced to everything we know so far about BoJack. All the tracing and examination lead to one result: It's BoJack's actions that are to blame.

In Conclusion

From episode 8 to episode 10 it goes from mediocre to solid to good. These three episodes in specific actually mix well into one another that you can easily watch them as just one long episode.

If I know this show then episode 11 should be the episode with the shock ending. It is interesting to see how that would happen considering BoJack alienated everyone around him by the end of episode 10. Maybe something to do with Sarah Lynn or Beatrice Horseman (BoJack's mother)