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<em>BoJack Horseman</em> and Women Who Try to ‘Have It All’

In its final season, the Netflix series inventively captures the fatigue—and guilt—that many working mothers experience.
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This story contains spoilers for the second episode of BoJack Horseman Season 6.

Even when they’re technically anthropomorphized cats, . Princess Carolyn (voiced by Amy Sedaris), the long-suffering Hollywood agent on Netflix’s , has learned this repeatedly over the past five seasons. She’s navigated wobbly relationships, fertility struggles, and, of course, the complications of working with the series’ titular washed-up actor. At the end of Season 5, Princess Carolyn finally got the baby she’d long wanted and feared she could never have. In the first half of ’s sixth and final installment, released Friday, she’s seen tackling a new hurdle: the demands of

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