Bojack Horesman is an animated series that somehow finds a balance between witty jokes and tragic storylines. It demonstrates generational trauma, types of addictions, and destructive behaviors through steryotypical parody characters. From the very first episode I immediately  felt a connection with a character called Diane, she was introduced with an awkwardly embarassing first immpression to the main character, Bojack. She has an analytical personality type that can sometimes go to an extreme of overthinking which affects her social interactions, career goals, and lifelong plans. Her main story revolves around her ruined idea of how happiness looks like, which leads to her abandoning many great oppurtunities and relationships because she doesn’t trust the feeling of content. The turning point in her story is when she jumps in a life changing decision without doubting her optimisim and trust into making the best out of this oppurtunity. I heavily relate to how over analyzing thoughts and actions removes the integral part of what brings us joy, expermintation. Failure for me and Diane is too daunting for us to face, so we hide behind the false narrative of “thinking in a realistic way” when life cannot be lived with calculations, rather, it should be experienced with the constant want to grow and learn.

Todd is the classic dumb type character that’s often treated as the comedic relief in the show; however, he taught me how important optimisim is in managing obstacles. I always assumed optimistic individuals only have their positivity from privilege and judged their trust as naivety, but Todd’s story was expanded beyond the parody character he portrays and showed how people shouldn’t look at outward factors as uncontrolable but as their way of responding to them as power. I often treat people’s judgement on life as a flat plan with optimistic personalities at the very surface with no deep thought behind their positivity, but Todd gave me anew prespective, a third dimension.