TV episodes often begin as notecards on a board.
“The View from Halfway Down” began as one.
“Eventually, it landed on being the penultimate episode, which I think was really fitting.”
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Each season,BoJack Horsemanfans would await the penultimate episode with bated breath.
“That really created the driving force of what the episode was about,” she continues.
Heavy material, of course, but as always onBoJack, it’s leavened with humor.
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Tafel says with a laugh.
“That was Raphael’s idea from the get-go,” notes Tafel.
“I didn’t have any intention to have a poem in the episode,” the writer says.
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Alison, you’re able to’t set up a poem and then not have a poem.'"
“I always get really nervous when you see art in art,” she continues.
“you could’t write a bad poem that’s about such a serious topic.”
“They’re very experimental in how they write dialogue,” Tafel says.
Which I tried to, and then he took it and made it much better."
That’s incredible."
That’s the power, as the poem says, of knowing about the view from halfway down.
