As BoJack Horseman's childhood hero Secretariat once said, "All that exists is what's ahead." And coinciding with Netflix's anthropomorphic existential adult animated series turning 10 just yesterday, we now know exactly what's ahead for the team who brought us BoJack Horseman. As revealed by the streamer itself, BoJack creator Raphael Bob-Waksberg is reteaming with Michael Eisner's Tornante Company and animation outfit ShadowMachine to bring a new adult animated offering to Netflix. No, it's not an actual series of BoJack's show-within-a-show Horsin' Around (we still live in hope!), but rather Long Story Short, a family saga that sounds ripe to be both as surreal and profound as its equine predecessor.
Bob-Waksberg is set to serve as writer, showrunner, and executive producer on the show, his third post-BoJack project having previously co-created timey-wimey Prime Video animation Undone and written on animated sitcom Tuca & Bertie. The characteristically playful and provocative logline for the toon specialist's latest reads as follows: “Long Story Short is an animated comedy about a family over time. It’s about the shared history, the inside jokes, the old wounds. If you’ve ever had a mother, father, sibling, partner, or child, this is the show for you — and by the way, would it kill you to call them?”
“It is legitimately a thrill and an honor to be back doing what I love most: drafting enthusiastic pull quotes for press releases to Hollywood trade publications," said Bob-Waksberg in, well, a pull quote for a press release to Hollywood trade publications. "Who says you can't go home again?!”
We don't know any plot specifics about Bob-Waksberg's latest just yet, or indeed who will be among the voice cast bringing the animator's family saga to life (BoJack's Will Arnett, Aaron Paul, and Alison Brie-led line-up has set the bar pretty darn high though), but anything from the creator of one of the 100 best TV shows of all time has our attention. And with Long Story Short set to hit our screens sometime in 2025, the hype train starts right here — TOOT TOOT!