Using Bojack to explain famefrom @_glassmuseum

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It seem like everybody famous is evil? Whenever there's new drama about some celebrity or another that gets exposed for being a criminal or an abuser or worse, people will always make witty jokes about how we make the worst people famous. But I feel like what this joke gets wrong isn't just that bad people happen to get famous, but rather that fame and success almost always require values to be compromised. I'm rewatching Bojack Horseman right now and even though the show's been out for over ten years, I'm still gonna talk about it because IDGAF is one of the best shows ever made. And something I noticed this time around that I didn't notice the first time I watched it is the significance of the role that setting plays. I I feel like setting is often an overlooked part of a story with things like character and plot overshadowing it. But in Bojack, setting might be one of the most integral factors of its story. Yes, I'm about to do a materialist analysis of Bojack Horseman. The setting isn't just an afterthought. It is central to the plot and it is what creates Bojack Horseman as we know him. And more broadly speaking, it's the structure that systematically creates assholes like Bojack. We see this most obviously in season one episode eight. So far throughout the show, we know that Bojack is a horrible, selfish, maladaptive individual. But in this episode for the first time, we see how this horrible individual, it doesn't exist in a vacuum, but rather how he is created by a system that incentivizes selfishness and callousness. Bodrich often uses his childhood trauma