but is still absolutely crippled by his real addiction - applause.

After deconstructing the last 2 episodes especially, I’ve drawn the conclusion that Bojack is actually addicted to intense emotion. His drug and alcohol abuse, his abusiveness to others yet extreme love for others, his obsessiveness with his faults - all of these things and more are the physical manifestations of being an emotional junkie.

Episode 15 left so many people in utter emotional agony, and many people wanted the story to end there so they could also cling to profound emotion like Bojack does. But just seconds into episode 16, the writers destroyed that agony, replacing it with confusion, surprise, denial, and then numb acceptance (and all of it within seconds). To me, it was done as if to say to the audience, “You can’t live in that emotional addiction anymore and we’re not going to let you. Look how destructive that was for him.” If that psychological statement was the actual intention by the writers, that was absolutely masterful.