BoJack Horseman creator: “it’s easier to talk about very serious issues through the lens of these wacky cartoon animals”

Slate

Raphael Bob-Waksberg talks about the even darker fourth season, saying that the Netflix series is able to plunge dark depths because it features animated animals and a show business setting. “I think the show business setting kind of gives us that too because this industry is so over-the-top and outlandish,” he says. “It allows us to comment on this real stuff in a way that perhaps if you were more straight ahead it would feel almost, like, afterschool special–ish or maudlin or indulgent.”