For your Netflix list: This cartoon horse deserves your time, your laughs and your tears.

BoJack Horseman is an alcoholic, a bully, a user and one of the most frighteningly real characters to have ever graced our screens. He is also a horse.

BoJack stars as the lead player in BoJack Horseman, the animated series that follows his life as a has-been sitcom star whose talent seems to have all but evaporated.

Over the course of three seasons, audiences watch as he swings numbly between attempts to reignite his life and attempts to sabotage it. He embraces but also misinterprets self-help podcasts, takes up jogging for all of four steps and reminds us of every egotistical loser we’ve ever dated.

The picture so far may sound bleak but BoJack Horseman is nothing if not comedy gold.

The series is set in the picturesque hills of Hollywoo. Hollywoo is a place where even the most self-loathing of animated horses can live a life muzzle deep in cocaine and not be disturbed.

It’s a place where PR agent and pink cat, Princess Caroline, can force herself to believe three children standing atop one another in a trench coat is her boyfriend and not a heart-wrenching joke.

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It’s a place of broken dreams and a nudge so strong to the audience it’s at risk of cracking the screen.

Yet the true magic of BoJack Horseman does not lie in its comedic offerings but in its insertions of real life wisdom.

Moments like when BoJack demonstrates his desired distance from those around him in the same breath as his longing for closeness.

BoJack: Taneisha, nobody completes anybody. That’s not a real thing. If you’re lucky enough to find someone you can halfway tolerate, you sink your nails in and don’t let go no matter what.

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Or when his best friend Todd explains why he desperately needs to take true accountability for his actions.

Todd: You can’t keep doing this. You can’t keep doing shitty things and then feel bad about yourself like that makes it okay. You need to be better.

BoJack: I know and I’m sorry. I was drunk and there was all this pressure with the Oscar campaign but now… now that it’s over.

Todd: No! No, BoJack, just stop. You are all the things that are wrong with you. It’s not the alcohol or the drugs or any of the shitty things that happened to you in your career or when you were a kid. It’s you. Alright, it’s you.

There are currently three series of BoJack Horseman available on Australian Netflix. Watch for a laugh, a cry and an insight into a world that reflects all that is wrong in our own.

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