In season one, episode seven of BoJack Horseman,

“You don’t have to work. You choose to work.” – BoJack Horseman

This is the Princess Carolyn episode.

In the midst of a company merger, Princess Carolyn has to work in the same room as her rival, Vanessa Gecko (who is not a gecko, which is much funnier), deal with a clingy BoJack looking for emotional rebound, and realize just how unbalanced her work-life balance. I’ve called Princess Carolyn a workaholic before, because I felt she was the kind of person who lived for ambition. Now, it seems more like she’s a workaholic simply because there’s nothing else in her life to take up her time, aside from BoJack, and I cannot stress enough how bad of an idea it is to get completely swept up in BoJack’s life.

I know absolutely nothing about being an agent, but I do know that offices are soulless places, and that anyone who willingly stays at an office after everyone’s already gone home either needs a personal life or is severely overworked. I assume Princess Carolyn isn’t overworked despite all the clients she seems to have, so she just needs way more than a hobby. Because, a hobby’s not gonna fix the soul-crushing loneliness that Princess Carolyn probably has where her heart is supposed to be.

Some people have life plan timelines and become terribly upset (to say the least) when those plans don’t pan out on time. Princess Carolyn seems like the type of person who had life plan timelines once upon a time and immediately threw them out once the first one failed, so she threw herself into her work instead to give her life some meaning.

I feel especially bad because Princess Carolyn actually got her hopes up for a relationship with BoJack, of all people and now, she’s alone at work on her fortieth birthday.

Princess Carolyn is forty (I always figured thirty-something at worst). Todd’s last name is Chavez and he’s a horrible drunk on bourbon. We’re learning a lot about people this episode.

We’ve also wrapped up a subplot that ended up being really, really dumb. I’m still not sure whether I would have liked it if the blackmail became an actual problem. On the one hand, it would’ve provided actual consequences. On the other hand, doing that might bring back Sarah Lynn, which I am not ready for, and watching these idiot birds get a legal dressing down after only trying to squeeze one-hundred and fifty dollars out of the person you’re blackmailing was both face-palm worthy and very amusing.

Next episode won’t be very amusing, will it? I’m guessing Herb has died and his parting words had a very negative effect on BoJack, who took Diane along with him, assumedly, for moral support. I don’t know if I’m ready for that. Can I just watch Todd’s life now that he actually has money from that job, assuming all that money didn’t go to repairs for all the equipment he broke during his drunken rampage? That’d be less emotionally destructive.

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