Is there anything to learn from Bojack Horseman?

I don't think there's a lesson. It's a keen and insightful observation of many aspects of the human condition.

"Look, Alex, we've done a bad thing, okay? Just try and enjoy it."

I definitely think it shows 'lessons' about depression and just messed up characteristics that everybody has, no matter how put together they might seems.

That being said, I definitely feel like some people here are taking it TOO to heart. I can totally relate to Bojacks depression, but it's still just a fun Netflix cartoon to me - nothing that's groundbreaking or really eye opening like everyone is making this cartoon seem.

Probably something along the lines of "life's too short" mixed with "don't let your pride get the best of you", "accept who you are and find a way to be at peace with it", "do what makes you happy, not what makes other people happy", etc.

I would be disappointed if there was a clear cut moral message here. I think the show is intended to be relatable from many different angles, and that viewers can explore their own feelings through the feelings of these characters. In doing so there's a whole lot we can potentially learn about life and ourselves, but there isn't one particular message. I've learned a lot from watching BoJack.

The primary theme won't be completely clear until the show actually ends -- hopefully, since it's a story-driven program, it won't go on for 50 seasons like most popular cartoons, and it will have a concise, planned finish.

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Pride is not the opposite of shame, but its source. True humility is the antidote to shame.

Maybe it is, or maybe it isnt doing it effectively, but i kind of feel like the shows raising awareness for depression. So many people nowadays are depressed, dont know if there's a way out and show no outer signs its crazy. I feel like Bojacks a character all those guys can relate to. Other than that, its just a really good, fresh drama that's trying to change how cartoons work. Which is amazing imo, as its the most different yet relatable show I've ever seen, and never fails to impress me. (The artistry of the underwater episode, the incredibly sad season 3 ep11, i could go on)

If you want to kill yourself, you might as well. It doesn't matter. Nothing does.

We never see ourselves the way others see us, and we always refuse to recognize our objective faults ... even when they're explicit

If I learned anything from BoJack specifically? It's that jerk losers can be born, made, or a combination of the both, and that just because someone slaps a clinical diagnosis on them, doesn't make their *beep* behaviour any most acceptable or tolerable.

I don't think there's any moral lesson to be learned, per se. I don't see that being the direction of the show. It's there to present a bunch of characters in their slice-of-life situations, make us able to relate to them through their complexity, and let us simply decide what we get out of it. Personally, I don't like BoJack the character at all. He's not the kind of guy I would keep around as a friend or even a casual acquaintance; he's damaged goods, and toxic to people around him. That might sound insensitive or intolerant, but I'm the kind of person who doesn't excuse peoples' actions just because they had a difficult past or suffer a mental disease; their actions still have consequences on everyone around them, and if they are *beep* then they are *beep* and I don't keep *beep* around in my life.

It's a good show, overall. Not amazing or ground-breaking; replace the anthro animals with humans, and you've have one of any dozens of shows that already exist. It's a neat hook with it being animated, but it has yet to really wow me in any way. Then again, I am almost 40, I've dealt with a lot in my life already, so the drama isn't exactly unfamiliar to me.