CHAT WITH KELLY

USA TODAY’s Kelly Lawler chats with readers Mondays at 2 p.m. ET at facebook.com/ USATODAY. Read edited excerpts below, email questions to klawler@usatoday.com or tweet them to @klawls and visit her live online.

AWell,

I certainly think we are in a time of heightened political awareness on TV. Politics are inescapable in the current zeitgeist, and because TV moves so quickly, current themes are easier to add to series and specials than they are to long-planned movies. Both Miss America and AHS are very political this year, and so are such series as Broad City (which plans to bleep President Trump’s name in the new season) or The Handmaid’s Tale. But it’s not unusual for the political discourse to affect art so profoundly. The Deer Hunter and Apocalypse Now were commentaries on the Vietnam War. McCarthyism was countered by Arthur Miller’s The Crucible. Right now we have a particularly heated and prolonged period of politics and art colliding, which is what might make it feel like all TV is about politics.

QWhat are you watching right now?

AI’m

currently about four episodes into the fourth season of BoJack Horseman, one of my favorite shows and probably my favorite Netflix original. The animated series is a Hollywood satire that follows BoJack (Will Arnett), a washed-up sitcom actor who happens to be a horse, trying to navigate aging, depression and alcoholism. It’s one of those series that I want to binge-watch, because I love it so much, but just can’t, because the subject matter is so heavy. This season BoJack reunites with his long-long daughter, Hollyhock (Aparna Nancherla), and he isn’t exactly a natural at fatherhood. BoJack (voiced by Will Arnett) is saddled with some heavy issues.