Designing Bojack's World

Imaginary Worlds

Eric Molinsky

Fiction, Arts, Society & Culture, Science Fiction

4.8 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 3 May 2017

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

Lisa Hanawalt had finally established herself as a freelance illustrator when her friend Raphael Bob-Wakesburg asked to borrow one of her drawings to pitch his animated series Bojack Horseman, which eventually ended up on Netflix. To Lisa's surprise, she eventually found herself in Los Angeles, overseeing a crew of dozens of artists as they tried to build a consistent world around her drawings of animal people -- which in some ways weren't that different from the stuff she used to draw as a kid. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	You're listening to Imaginary Worlds, the show about how we create them and why we suspend
0:08.3	our disbelief.
0:09.3	I'm Eric Mullensky.
0:11.7	You know when people keep recommending a show to you that you're just not that into?
0:15.4	That's what happened with me and Bojack Horseman.
0:18.0	So in case you don't know, it is an adult animated show on Netflix, where animals walk around
0:24.4	like people wearing human clothes, but then there are also regular people too, and nobody
0:30.2	makes a big deal out of it.
0:31.9	Now that part I really liked, I actually thought it was cool, and I love Will Arnatt, who
0:35.3	does the voice of Bojack Horseman, but I just didn't like the character.
0:40.1	In the show, Bojack Horseman is a washed up sitcom star.
0:45.0	He used to be on a show called Horsing Around, which is clearly a parody of Full House.
0:50.3	And now he's filthy rich, but miserable.
0:52.8	Like I said, I just didn't care about it.
1:03.9	But after the second and third season, I noticed that Bojack was making all these top 10
1:07.7	lists of critics, alongside great dramas like The Americans.
1:12.2	People whose tastes that I respect were urging me to give it another chance.
1:16.6	So I did, and I was hooked.
1:20.1	And I can see now how it took a couple of episodes for the show to really get its groove,
1:24.4	but eventually it became one of the most poignant animated shows I've ever seen.
1:29.2	Take this scene from season 2, where Bojack breaks up with his girlfriend, a network executive
1:34.8	who also happens to be an owl.
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