BoJack Horseman Asks Food to Do Too Much | Eater
"A chaotic, narratively charged restaurant BoJack bought in Season 1 after an insufferable one-upmanship with a rival, it serves as a recurring stage for romance, confrontation, comic spectacle, and existential rupture. Scenes here skew between farce and raw emotion: a restaurant blogger with an absurd rating system and a tutting critic provide satirical targets while a kitchen littered with detritus, overspills, and even fire literalizes the characters’ dysfunction. Staff and customers collapse into slapstick and pain alike—a new chef hands a donkey an apron and a waiter misreads a firing—yet the place also hosts intimate reckonings, such as Princess Carolyn cooking a risotto for a critic as a montage of shared regrets plays out; attempts to use a meal or a review to stitch up broken relationships repeatedly fail, exposing how food and dining in this setting are both comedic props and fragile band-aids for deeper wounds." - James Hansen
