Netflix's BoJack Horseman is comedic satire of a washed-up actor from a famous 90's sitcom Horsin' Around. It's riddled with nonsensical happenings in a world in which everyone is a human-animal hybrid. There's cheap jokes forever in the background, but its satirical nature comes from its take on the world at large, and its challenges.
BoJack Horseman doesn't fit into this modern world. He's constantly looking back at a better time; a simpler time in which his career was peaking, and he had everything he could've wanted in life. Fast-forward to the present, and BoJack is caught up in his depressions and struggles to pursue something greater in life now that he has peaked and inevitably fallen to the bottom of relevance.
The first season displays BoJack's sudden strike of creativity. He's wanting to get back into work, and finally start doing something with his time, but his mental health and self-destructive nature becomes a constant hurdle at creating any actual progress. His friends and colleagues are there to give him additional budges, but it's clear that BoJack must come to terms with who he is and who he wants to be in order to make the necessary changes in his life.
When the show isn't focusing on mental health, it's displaying a satirical take on the world at large. It's self-aware, and often its events mirror reality, although there's significant margin in terms of the fiction added onto it. Its writing actually falls into the sheltered world BoJack is living in; there's something for him to escape, and the world is often so chaotic and silly that it can be hard for an outcast to break into. He doesn't necessarily want to be a part of such chaos, but wants to have a life that allows him to peacefully ignore it all.
This season shows BoJack's attempt to get back up onto his feet, but it's clear that the process will be a long one.
