As we all know. Netflix screwed over the show and cancelled it when they planned on having one more season. Weāve all wondered what if the show had a revival for an epilogue season. Butterscotch was supposed to get a season like his mother. I had an idea for season 7 that serves as an effective swan song for the series- if there is a god I hope he makes this happen.
Bojack Season 7: Bojack become a Director
Thereād be a time skip to a little bit after Bojack got out of prison. Bojack decided to go back to Hollywood after all. The one difference is now he is a Director. He is still living with Mr. PB.
He has gotten his directing debut doing episode of Birthday Dad. Princess Caroline isnāt working with him directly but her agency is managing him and getting gigs. Itās mostly commercials and short films. Exactly where Kelsey was at the beginning of the last season.
Bojack was initially grateful for this second chance in the industry. He also found heād like directing more than acting since everyone looks up to him and he gets to be the center of the production without also being the ass. Yet as time went on he lost gratitude for Mr. PB and Caroline for giving him his second chance and started thinking he was āaboveā these small little gigs he gets and should be able to strike it big.
While trying to get gigs as a Director heād inevitable come across Kelsey. And things are awkward between them. He tries mending bridges saying he isnāt that person but she wants nothing to do with him and loves she has struck it big as a Director while he is a has been and now a D-tier Director. She tells him she wishes he deals with an actor as difficult as him.
Bojack would also come across other people he hurt in the industry and being haunted by his past mistakes depresses him.
When he returns to Mr. PBās home (the irony he is now in Toddās position would be delicious) he tells him maybe the return to Hollywood was a mistake and he considers hanging up his hat again.
Thatās when he gets a call: Ivy Tran, Food Court Detective is getting a series/movie adaption and he is being asked to direct.
Diane like she said last series doesnāt ever want to talk to Bojack again. Bojack tries to use this to get in touch with Diane again but she doesnāt want to go to set or see him, itās communicated to him itās middle school fiction and doesnāt have much depth. He can do what he wants with it.
I imagine weād also have flashes to Diane and how she is handling approaching 40 and becoming middle aged and being unequivocally not young anymore.
Bojack is hoping to make Ivy Tran his big break. The first thing they do though is age the characters up to high school- that way they can cast adult actors who look young, Bojack supports the decision since he never like directing child actors after Sarah Lynn.
Then one of the casted parts is this new and upcoming actor.
A young Horse who everyone agrees looks just like Bojack. Bojack quickly figures out this is his son. He tries to connect and reach out but his son wants nothing to do with him. Like Josh Peck: growing up he considered contacting his father but the more he read about him and the more scandals came out he just became so disgusted with him.
It doesnāt help that Bojack canāt even remember who his mother might be- he was drunk one night and had a one night stand with a mare he canāt remember since she looked like his mother.
He obsesses over his estranged son and comes to see him as who he should have been.
This also transitions us to finally giving Butterscotch his own season. When Bojack realizes his own son sees him the way he did his father itās breaks him. What also hits close to home is when his son said he always hated Horsinā Around- no Around. He thought the show was disgustingly sugary and everyone was fake happy (my own thoughts on Full house) and itās just a fantasy on what people want family life to be like.
This sends Bojack spiraling. He even tries rewriting the script to give his son more screen time. It comes across as unprofessional and his son hates it since it makes him look like a nepo baby and creates bad rumors around him. The producers threaten to drop him from the show if he doesnāt shape up.
I imagine at one point desiring to talk to Diane again he drives down to Texas to see her. Recreating how he just abandoned shooting for Secretariat. He goes down there and sees Diane genuinely happy with her new family in Texas. Bojack, deciding he shouldnāt pervert this like he did to Charlotte finally learns from his mistakes and leaves.
He goes back home and comes across his fatherās book.
He finally reads it. The book is obviously a fictional semi biography about how Butterscotch wishes his life went. The entire time we get a flashback to Butterscotchās real childhood and how he ended up at that ball and how his marriage fell about and how he even after he started working at his father in lawās company everyone mocks him and how he was a nepo hire- he wasnāt even on the board of directors.
We see to the end of his life with the duel.
Bojack comes to understand his father and how he let his bitterness ruin his life. Bojack goes back to work and finishes Ivy Tran. He maintains professionalism with his son and after shooting wraps up barely sees him. He sees him and his mom at the premier and he awkwardly waves at them but they donāt wave back.
The show is a hit and Bojack gets more directing work.
Bojack ends the series finally making it as a director but he finds himself searching up his son and following his career, occasionally looking up Hollyhock too.
He visits his parentās grave and makes genuine peace with them.
Bojack makes enough money to buy back his old house.
He ends the series right back where he started. All alike again. Wondering if it was all worth it.
This ending ironically also parodies the status quo is god trope of sitcoms. Bojack is back in his house with his fame and money restored but all his friends have either moved on or cut ties. He hates it. Being right back unable to ever progress. But he canāt do that since he always has to reset. Just like a sitcom character.
