Even in its final season, Bojack Horseman left its audience with groundbreaking revelations about its titular character, Bojack, whose patterns of power abuse may have been caused by Angela Diaz, the producer who fired Herb Kazzaz. In Bojack Horseman’s six-season run, Bojack has made several mistakes that sullied his reputation; however, the show constantly analyzes these decisions and digs deep at its roots. From his alcoholism to his self-loathing, Bojack’s character and personality itself is slowly peeled away to reveal the sources, including parental abuse and finding early success.
The ending of Bojack Horseman's world of talking animals is one long downward spiral, as Bojack himself keeps getting worse throughout the second half. It's set off by the fateful second interview with Biscuits that highlighted Bojack’s habitual abuse of power. It was an accusation that divided many fans along the lines of whether Bojack really exercised his power over women or not. The answer to that is relatively complicated, due to the fact that the show does make the audience want to empathize with its protagonist, hence a lot of Bojack’s abuse of power is a result of ineptitude rather than malicious intent. The three major examples brought up by Biscuits Braxby are Sarah Lynn, Princess Carolyn, and Marcy Jerominek; the girl he raised on television whose death was caused by Bojack, the girl who was his agent, and the girl that saw him as a role model. It's seen that Bojack never actively grooms someone else, however, there’s a clear power imbalance in each of these cases. There are countless other examples, like Ana Spanikopita, Penny Carson, and Wanda Pierce, that show a similar pattern and establish that, whether subconsciously or actively, Bojack does exercise his power quite often. The only question is why.
The answer may be in the episodes after Bojack’s interview with Biscuits when he goes to meet Angela Diaz, the producer who convinced him to stay on the show after Herb got fired. Angela reveals that she manipulated Bojack into believing that he had no power over Herb’s firing when the reality was that she was actually scared of Bojack leaving the show. The scene occurs shortly before his near-death experience in his pool, however, the audience gets to see his immediate reaction to the news as he retaliates and says, "Every stupid decision I ever made... Every bad thing that has ever happened, it all started because of you." The reality of the situation dawns upon him: he was never powerless and that if he had even made an attempt to leave Horsing Around, Herb wouldn’t have gotten fired.
Bojack spent his entire life believing that his biggest regret, the betrayal of his closest friend, was caused due to his own lack of power. This might be the simple key to Bojack’s power differential, which may be a bid to ensure that he’s never powerless. It also extends to other decisions throughout, all the way back to season 1 when Bojack sabotaged Todd’s space opera to force him to continue to be dependent on him to season 6 where Bojack's toxic nature caused Hollyhock to avoid Bojack throughout the season. This fear of losing power paired with Bojack’s immediate rise to fame and success after the Herb incident might have been the cause of the pattern that Biscuits hints at in season 6 of the show.
Ultimately, the story of Bojack Horseman is one of reckoning and learning to be better in spite of the mistakes that every single one of its characters makes. Season 6 went a long way in showing its audience that Bojack has the potential to live a good life but also that he can’t simply choose to move past his mistakes, he must learn to do better every single day. If Bojack Horseman gets picked up for a season 7, there would be no better payoff than for the audience to see whether Bojack has truly grown past his abusive patterns.