Netflix 2014-20Animation isn’t given enough credit as a source of complex emotional storytelling, not just visual ingenuity or jokes. “BoJack Horseman” had all three in spades, and may have done more to expand general audiences’ ideas of what animation can do than any show in the past decade. The brainchild of creator Raphael Bob-Waksberg and his high school classmate Lisa Hanawalt, an artist who would become the “BoJack” art director and go on to create “Tuca & Bertie,” “BoJack Horseman” told the story of a washed-up sitcom star, voiced by an all-too-convincing Will Arnett, who also happens to be a horse (and his agent-manager who happens to be a pink cat, and his asexual permanent houseguest who sounds suspiciously like Aaron Paul). Combining elaborate puns with a searching saga of change and accountability, “BoJack” struck a singular tone and maintained it for six seasons straight.
