{"id":400776,"date":"2019-03-22T06:56:57","date_gmt":"2019-03-22T05:56:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/season-5-of-animated-series-bojack-horseman-addresses-metoo-campaign-with-mixed-results\/"},"modified":"2019-03-22T06:56:57","modified_gmt":"2019-03-22T05:56:57","slug":"season-5-of-animated-series-bojack-horseman-addresses-metoo-campaign-with-mixed-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/season-5-of-animated-series-bojack-horseman-addresses-metoo-campaign-with-mixed-results\/","title":{"rendered":"Season 5 of animated series BoJack Horseman addresses #MeToo campaign, with mixed results"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3 class=\"nomargin\">\u00a0<\/h3>\n<h2>Season 5 of animated series <em>BoJack Horseman<\/em> addresses #MeToo campaign, with mixed results<\/h2>\n<h5>\n<p>    By<br \/>\n    Josh Varlin<br \/>\n    <br \/>22 March 2019<\/p>\n<\/h5>\n<p><em>BoJack Horseman<\/em>, the animated comedy-drama series, returned to Netflix for its fifth season in September 2018.<\/p>\n<p>The show continues to investigate the entertainment industry and its \u201cside effects\u201d in a novel manner, deftly combining comedy and tragedy in a parallel universe full of anthropomorphic animals. The <em>World Socialist Web Site<\/em> has reviewed Seasons <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsws.org\/en\/articles\/2016\/08\/15\/boja-a15.html\">3<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsws.org\/en\/articles\/2017\/10\/25\/boja-o25.html\">4<\/a>; these reviews provide a more general overview of the show. (Readers who have not seen Season 5 and are concerned about spoilers are advised to stop here.)<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps inevitably, the #MeToo campaign finds reflection in <em>BoJack Horseman\u2019s<\/em>latest season. Despite initial concerns that #MeToo would be treated uncritically, the show does not adopt or endorse wholesale its methods and views: the junking of fundamental democratic principles such as the presumption of innocence; a Manichean worldview of villainous, monstrous abusers (generally male) and saintly victims (generally female); the use of unsubstantiated allegations of a wide variety of behavior, ranging from the boorish to the possibly criminal, to remove people from the public spotlight. Not entirely, at least.<\/p>\n<div class=\"imageFull\" style=\"width:480px; oveflow:hidden;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wsws.org\/asset\/d435501e-8002-4ef9-9af6-ac9239334f7G\/image.jpg?rendition=image480\" srcset=\"\/asset\/d435501e-8002-4ef9-9af6-ac9239334f7G\/image.jpg?rendition=image960 2x\" width=\"480\" style=\"width:480px;\" \/><span>Flip lunges at Bojack<\/span><\/div>\n<p>Despite the general support for #MeToo from showrunner Raphael Bob-Waksberg, reality is more complicated than that, and <em>BoJack Horseman<\/em>, despite its fantastical elements, attempts to speak to reality. The show is too intelligent to be simply a #MeToo parable about its protagonist\u2019s fall from grace.<\/p>\n<p>The season opens with BoJack (Will Arnett) in the eponymous role in <em>Philbert<\/em>, a \u201cgritty\u201d television drama about a violent cop who may have killed his partner. (<em>Philbert<\/em>, the show-within-a-show, is awful, an&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsws.org\/en\/articles\/2019\/03\/22\/boja-m22.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Season 5 of animated series BoJack Horseman addresses #MeToo campaign, with mixed results By Josh Varlin 22 March 2019 BoJack Horseman, the animated comedy-drama series, returned to Netflix for its fifth season in September 2018. The show continues to investigate the entertainment industry and its \u201cside effects\u201d in a novel manner, deftly combining comedy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2526,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-400776","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2526"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=400776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400776\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=400776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=400776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=400776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}