{"id":10144,"date":"2019-09-07T14:52:09","date_gmt":"2019-09-07T21:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=10144"},"modified":"2019-09-29T14:56:37","modified_gmt":"2019-09-29T21:56:37","slug":"bojack-angeleno","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2019\/09\/07\/bojack-angeleno\/","title":{"rendered":"Bojack Angeleno"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

from Curbed<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018BoJack Horseman\u2019 is the only show that really gets my city<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

Tucked into the often-bleak narrative are disarmingly familiar glimpses of Los Angeles life<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By\u00a0Alissa Walker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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From the\u00a0dingbat apartments<\/a>\u00a0to the\u00a0ever-present freeways<\/a>, BoJack Horseman nails the tiniest details of LA\u2019s urban streetscape.\u00a0Netflix<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

To\u00a0live in Los Angeles means forever catching glimpses of your street or favorite restaurant staged as a\u00a0stand-in for someplace else<\/a>. Moving around town becomes an exercise in avoiding those film shoots, a constant reminder that we reside on a giant soundstage, where at any given moment, a beloved block or building is being carefully snipped from the surrounding context.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the last few years, however, shows have been set in actual LA neighborhoods, with characters referencing real places, sometimes with stunning geographic accuracy. There\u2019s the show\u00a0Love,<\/em>\u00a0which takes place in a\u00a0well-known apartment complex in the Valley<\/a>. In\u00a0Transparent<\/em>, the\u00a0neighborhoods where the family members live<\/a>, from Silver Lake to Marina del Rey, provide cues about their characters. LA\u2019s noir past\u00a0intersects with present-day addresses<\/a>\u00a0in the thriller\u00a0Bosch<\/em>. Issa Rae\u2019s\u00a0Insecure\u00a0<\/em>is probably the best example of the genre, offering a look at\u00a0everyday life in South LA<\/a>\u00a0with locations as mundane as a Rite-Aid pharmacy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But BoJack Horseman\u2014<\/em>the animated Netflix show by <\/em>writer Raphael Bob-Waksberg and artist Lisa Hanawalt, who were high school friends<\/a>\u2014is the first show to create an entire Los Angeles universe that feels like it was made for people in LA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For people who don\u2019t live here, BoJack Horseman<\/em> might appear to be an endless string of cliches: a narcissistic washed-up sitcom star (who is also a horse) voiced by Will Arnett, colonnades of palm trees, candy-colored convertibles, and jabs at celebrity culture. But tucked into the narrative are disarmingly familiar glimpses of actual Los Angeles\u2014well, Los Angeles if it were mostly occupied by animals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Every street scene sends me scrambling to hit pause. There are LA landmarks like\u00a0Chateau Marmoset<\/a>,\u00a0Fred Seagull<\/a>,\u00a0Parrotmount Studios<\/a>, and\u00a0Moose-O & Frank Grill<\/a>, but it doesn\u2019t stop with obvious parodies\u2014next door to Moose-O\u2019s is\u00a0Garcetti & Meatballs<\/a>, the winkingest nod to our\u00a0Italian-Jewish-Mexican American mayor<\/a>. Billboard icon Angelyne is\u00a0portrayed as an angelfish<\/a>. Even small neighborhood businesses get cameos, like\u00a0l.a. Aye-Ayeworks<\/a>,\u00a0Secret Hindquarters<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0confusingly named local grocery chains<\/a>. A dutifully updated Instagram\u00a0devoted to the hidden jokes<\/a>\u00a0has become the best way to catch the ones I\u2019ve missed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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