BoJack Horseman Season 6 Episode 15 ‘The View from Halfway Down’, contributed by Afsa Ahsan (2025)
In this episode, the main character becomes unconscious and wakes up in this liminal space between life and death where he confronts all the people he has lost throughout the series as a consequence of his own actions. Conversations with each character are shaped by a certain type of loss—loss of life, loss of purpose, loss of vulnerability, and a loss of ability to connect with other people after a failed relationship.
The most important thing that this episode tries to teach its viewers is that we will make many decisions in our lives that will cause loss, and avoiding it will only deepen the scars left by the loss. Loss isn't something to be fixed, it is something to be faced. Because, in a way, everything you have lost never actually leaves you. It continues to influence you in some way, a lesson encapsulated by the following lines from the episode:
“Loss is a collaborative art between the people we lose and those who remain with us. We dance with the shadows of their absence.”