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Do you remember the first time you heard about BoJack Horseman?

Who could have imagined that a depressed talking horse trying to revive his sitcom career could create such a huge buzz? It sounded ridiculous until it made us laugh and broke our souls at the same time, and basically rewrote the far reaches of what adult animation could blossom into.

Creator Raphael Bob-Waksberg turned that bonkers pitch into one of the most important and timeless shows of the 2010s. We got celebrity satire, Hollywood chaos, and some of the most devastating episodes ever animated. Ten years later, people are still quoting it, still crying over ‘Fish Out of Water’, and still fighting over whether BoJack deserved redemption.

And now the man behind it is back. Netflix has officially dropped its new series Long Story Short, and here is the kicker: this show was renewed for season two before season one even premiered. It is not just confidence; it is a flex.

So what is Long Story Short actually about? This time, Bob-Waksberg is not giving us life-lessons from the mouth of a washed-up horse. Instead, he zooms in on a family: the Schwooper siblings. We watch them age across time and the growing and messing up that it all entails, abounding in childhood tantrums, teenage drama, and adult compromises, crammed into one time-hopping animated comedy drawn in the style we’ve come to associate with Bob-Waksberg’s creations.

It is funny and a little chaotic, which makes these two-dimensional characters painfully real, because who hasn’t looked back at their history with their family and cringed a little with tears in their eyes. If BoJack was about one horseman seeking ever-elusive redemption through self-destruction, Long Story Short feels like it is about all of us. Something about how we stumble through life together, making mistakes and figuring things out way too late.

And, let’s be real, it would not be a Bob-Waksberg show without the sharpest voice cast. Lisa Edelstein, Paul Reiser, Ben Feldman, Abbi Jacobson, Max Greenfield, Angelique Cabral, and Nicole Byer are all stacked to elicit maximum emotion. Throw in Dave Franco and Michaela Dietz into the mix as recurring voices, and you have a lineup that could headline their own shows, much less elevate an already stellar ensemble. The talent is ridiculous, which means the emotional punches are going to land even harder.

The trailer already shows exactly what fans were hoping for. One second, you are laughing at a sibling fight that feels way too familiar, the next thing, you are getting smacked with a bittersweet moment that suddenly feels like it could be your own life. That’s Bob-Waksberg’s speciality. He sneaks philosophy into jokes and hides heartbreak within punchlines. BoJack tricked us into existential therapy with an animated horse, and Long Story Short is ready to do the same, but this time through the eyes of an entire family.

Of course, fans are already buzzing. The renewal for season two before the premiere makes this one of Netflix’s most confident comedy launches in years. Long Story Short is funny, weird, heartfelt, and already locked for another season. Ten years after BoJack, Bob-Waksberg is still making us laugh and cry all at once, and honestly, we wouldn’t want it any other way.