Long Story Short

HAS ANYONE HERE SEEN THE SERIES YET?!?!?!?!?!?!?!,!?,!!,
For those who don't know, the creator of bojack horseman made a new series called Long Story Short and it's about a Jewish family and it is soooooooo good
It made me cry and I have no one to talk abt this omfg
I love bojack horseman, is my favorite comfort show and I've seen it like 15 time no kidding, and like 4 years ago, before the new series came out, he said in an interview that he wanted to make something different to bojack horseman, but omg it totally has that essence of rawness and sadness and healing and omggg
It was so good, my mind is in so many places
Omg.
I'm a hardcore bojack horseman fan and I wasn't expecting for the series to be in the level of BJH, but omg it's at that level and I cannot wait to obsessed with it and watch analisis of the episodes and rewatch them
So, spoilers ahead for anyone that wants to watch the show bc I wanna so yap about it
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Ok, first of all, a similarity that I noticed right away was the fact that in every episode(there's only 10 btw) the intro changes depending on the character they're gonna be talking about in that episode, and js like BJH mini things that are happening during that season, they'd added them to the characters in the intro and also change the intro in every season according to what bojack was going through, so that's fun
Secondly, I wanna talk about the characters:
- Yoshi
As the youngest brother he feels left out of the whole siblings banter, he's very much like a Todd, but if Todd were to be a little more conscious, like season finale of BJH kind of Todd, but I like that, they don't talk that much abt him, so we, as the viewers, don't know that much about him either, even after a whole episode was centered in him, all we can say is that he gets into silly adventures by being himself and sometimes he messes up, very silly and clumsy like, but one thing about him is that even though he's still Jewish, like his whole family, he ends up following more the path of orthodox judaism, and he talks about how he feels safe and he finds answers in that belief, his mother doesn't agree with this, just as how she normally doesn't agree with anything he finds interesting or anything he likes, but at the end of that episode, she tries to, which is a very rare instance of this different view we get so see of their mother.

- Shira
First of all, incredible representation of a queer character that is not centered on her whole deal being queer, she has a personality, she has problems with her family without homophobia, etc
Now, about her. I first wanna talk about her relationship with her brother. They're kinda awkward because of the grudge and trauma she feels towards his older brother, but she doesn't necessarily hate him, and they know that, it shows that they care and they even say it in a way, with the "Hey...yk" and "Yeah, I know, you too"
They don't know how to communicate with each other, knowing how it was even impossible for them to talk to their mother without her turning everything into an argument, but as their own person and as family they try to stay in touch and talk more and rely more on each other as they grow, cs family is all we have, and it seems they get closer after their mother's death
It really does show how they're more close with each other than they are with Yoshi, but not to the point of telling each other everything.
She's a great character w a strong personality, and her relationship with her mother in complicated, I feel like its that phrase of "as a woman I empathize with my mother, but as a daughter, I cannot forgive her"
Like the show does show how as a mother she cares about all her children, but she also criticizes everything they do, and wear and use and say, but she still loves her and misses her, we can see this in the episode "Shira can't cook", where she does everything she can to replicate her mother's recipe, and in her mother's recipe book we see a little note about the knish and how she only does it the way Shira likes it. They may not be the the best ones on telling each other how much they care and love for each other, but they both try their best to show it.

- Avi
Now, he's my favorite character and I hate how much I relate to him
He's insecure, but outspoken on his opinions and thoughts on anything; ever since he was a kid he didn't have that much friends and he likes different things from what was popular at the time.
Again, his relationship with his sister is a little rough, but they get along pretty well, even when they were kids they would talk about their mother and how she was, together as siblings do, but he has a lot more healing to do with himself that his sister pointed out that he hasn't even noticed before his sister told him.
About his mother, omg I have so much to say.
He doesn't hate his mother, I don't think so, but he dislikes her, he can't talk about anything with her because she either says she's the victim of the situation or storms off after turning it into an argument, she doesn't listen to him the most out of all siblings, even though she says she loves him, in one episode it shows how he's not ready to say that yet, even as his son
He moves out somewhere kinda far from where their parents live and he never checks out on them, he lives an agnostic life, which his mother doesn't approve, bc he was raised Jewish, and I feel like this is a way to cope for him to not have in any way similarity or relation to his mother. Having this kind of hatred of judaism or at least ignorance in the traditions, he even mentions that he doesn't feel anything when he used to do them. He's the one that holds a grudge the most, it's a complicated relationship. But he's willing to try and change and communicate if his mother would ever give him a chance to do so.
There's this one episode that stood out to me the most, about their mother's birthday, there's so many people like attending their mother's party and people go on stage and talk about how amazing she is and how she changed their life, but Avi hearing all this, is impossible for him to believe it, he only knows this one version of his mother that is controlling, the one that yells, the one that makes everything about herself, the one he can't even communicate with because she won't listen to him, he hates in a way and feels like everyone is lying because he only has bad experiences with his mother, he loses an opportunity with this girl he's been talking with the whole night because he cannot believe how she was an inspiration and an incredible person for everyone, but him. And I feel like this is part of his whole deal, the fact that there are some things for him to accept or even move on from, because he still holds a grudge and a kind of love and hatred towards his mother, like that one phrase of 'the good place' where Eleanor says "Why does Patricia get that mom?! If Donna Shellstrop has truly changed, then that means she was always capable of change, I just wasn't worth changing for"
He felt betrayed that everyone knew a side of his mother he has never seen, and it made the idea that maybe even strangers to him knew more about his mother than he knew about her, and in the final episode we see how much he cared for her, as far as going through someone else's clothes to steal something that belonged to his mother, which I think it was in a way for him to revindicate himself as her son for everything he's said and done to his mother, and that's why he's so hung up on stealing that. He reminisces about her and misses her and wishes he could've said more before she passed away, because he clearly cared, but didn't know how to show her or even comfront her, without again, turning it into an argument
He's an amazing father though, he talks and supports on everything his daughter wants, he cares about her safety and interest and friends and tries to always be there for her!
I could say more, but my fingers got tired, but if you've read until here, WATCH THE SHOW, ITS REALLY GOOD, OR EVEN WATCH BOJACK HORSEMAN, AND IF YOU ARE A FAN, GIVE ME YOUR OPINION BYEEEEEE