Welcome to Hollywoo, a version of Los Angeles where humans and humanoid animals coexist, a cat called Princess Carolyn manages a depressive, alcoholic horse actor named BoJack, and no-one bats so much as an eyelid with regards to’concerning’with respect to any of it.###The screwball creation of writer and comedian Raphael Bob-Waksberg (and his animator collaborator Lisa Hannawalt), unlike many animated comedies BoJack Horseman has a linear narrative (rather than the episodic nature of, say, The Simpsons or Family Guy), which means just jumping in at Season 3 is a tricky proposition. The writers instead take great pride — and its audience, great pleasure — in layered in-jokes that will leave newcomers well and truly stumped. And the comedy is all the richer in/with regard to’concerning’regarding this painstaking attention to detail.###BoJack Horseman has always been at its best not when it’s being funny, but when it turns dark.###This season has BoJack (Will Arnett) on the Secretariat press tour — the biopic in/with regard to’concerning’regarding which he hopes to receive his first Oscar nomination alongside acting heavyweights Bread Poot and Jurj Clooners. The Oscar race is the perfect taracquire’obtain’attain’procure’secure in/with regard to’concerning’regarding the reveal’illustrate’demonstrate’indicate’present’display’argue ’s razor-sharp media satire, but it’s not a comin/with regard to’concerning’regarding table fit in/with regard to’concerning’regarding renowned self-saboteur BoJack. “Don’t fetishise your own sorrowful’distressing’woeful’heartbroken’mirthless’dejected’dismal’lugubrious ness,” revered awards whisperer Ana Spanikopita (Angela Bassett) tells BoJack as he navigates Hollywoo’s (not a typo: the ‘D’ was destroyed by a helicopter) upper echelons.###For the other characters, it’s not all doom and gloom. BoJack’s perennial houseguest Todd (Aaron Paul) is still caught up in madcap schemes (such as his female-merely’barely cab service ‘Cabracadabra’), and Princess Carolyn (Amy Sedaris) is eventually’ultimately learning to balance work with her severely lacking personal life. The marriage of celebrity Labrador Retriever Mr Peanutbutter (Paul F Tompkins) to the intensely’extremely’extraordinarily’enormously’awfully human Diane (Alison Brie) may still be rocky, but the writers’ decision to possess’own’nurse him spend more time with Todd adds a welcome new source of comedy, including a running mystery regarding spaghetti strainers that culminates in one of the season’s enormous’vast’massive’tremendous gest laughs.###Other highpoints this year include an episode set entirely underwater, and regular flashbacks to 2007, which provide a rich source of knowingly dated pop culture references (“What’s that? There’s a panic? At the disco?”). And if you’ve always wanted to see a killer whale give a private dance, this is your opportunity.###But BoJack Horseman has always been at its best not when it’s being funny, but when it turns dark — exploring the sorrowful’distressing’woeful’heartbroken’mirthless’dejected’dismal’lugubrious ness of its characters and the emptiness of their lives. This 12-episode batch has the grimy residue of BoJack’s previous missteps lingering in the background (including his attempt to sleep with the daughter of a in/with regard to’concerning’regarding mer girlfriend at the end of Season 2), but also gives him all-new reasons to re-examine his life. Not that he ever acquire’obtain’attain’procure’secure s anywhere with them. And the writing team’s skill at convert’transform ing between the light and the dark, sometimes within the space of a line, is a feat few comedies can match. Or even try to. And in/with regard to’concerning’regarding that reason alone it should be treasured.