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Given what BoJack was after at the end of last episode, we start in the state of okay.
Maybe a little better than okay.
The shows a hit.
Theyre filming season two ofPhilbert.
Ginas getting fame, but as BoJack tells us, Im not bitter and jealous.
I like seeing her happy, which is big for him.
He may have learned to embrace her, but he has not learned to trust any of this.
Especially when youre taking pills and you know its wrong.
And so BoJack knows something isnt right, something lurking on the horizon.
What were really showcasing here is the paranoia that stems from both trauma and addiction.
So BoJack becomes obsessive and confrontational.
The paranoia and anxiety is making him act out rashly, even for him.
Even calling Charlottes phone at one point.
He just has to make more okay.
Hes just feeding his addiction and the addiction feeds back.
Thats not protecting her, thats protecting yourself.
And it all keeps alternating back and forth.
That is until the dance number … Its all the traumas and moments of hope in his life stacked up.
And of course this is part of BoJacks ultimate fantasy.
Change is harder than skating through life, bargaining with it all, until he dies.
Which could be any time now with the way hes popping those pills …
He awakes from his dream with a start.
Then, finally, the overlaps of reality andPhilbertreach a critical point.
Gina finds his drug stashes.
They fight, but it all blends together for BoJack with a scene in the show.
In the show, he realizes there is not even a Fritz, its a creation of his mind.
A displacement of guilt.
He realizes that truly, he is the devil of his own making.
Gina leaves his apartment.
Lucid, he lets her.
They literally have to pull him off … its all on film.
And its always there, staring back at you.
But the second scene obviously works much better.
I love the idea that Todd somehow is taking this job, seriously, too.
Also Henry is still his inappropriate boss.
I love being monogamous!
But thats just the space around the lie growing.
I cant explain how many people I know who were lost to this.
I hate it with a fiery passion.
And yet I understand it with compassion.
There is so much damage we have to undo.
Oh my God the fake bad drama credits song that opensPhilbert.
Detective note: Check Dark Web
Thats awful!
I know how much you didnt want him to be murdered!
This time,its personnel.
What do they know?
Do they know things?
NICE CALLBACK
Chipotle (DO CALL)
I feel like Im kind of defaulting to 8s here.
Best Bit Part Animal: STINGRAY LIOTTA.
I guess the big problem is hes not funny.
Im not sure what that says, but it really sets him apart from the other characters.
Like Gina in his bigHorsin Aroundsleep shirt.
