BoJack Horseman (season 5)


The fifth season of the animated television series BoJack Horseman premiered on Netflix on September 14, 2018. The season consists of 12 episodes.

Cast and characters

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Reception

Critical response

On the review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the series has an approval rating of 98% based on 42 reviews, with an average score of 9.33. The site's consensus reads "BoJack Horseman continues confidently down the thematic rabbit hole with a fresh and poignant season that's as devastating as it is hilarious". On Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, the season holds a score of 92, indicating "universal acclaim".
For Vox, Emily VanDerWerff gave the season a score of 4.5 out of 5, praising the show's "truly sustained artistic response to the #MeToo movement". Ben Travers of IndieWire, who writes that the "series seems infallible", notes the season's effort to look inward and address controversy, even its own.