Written by Alison Tafel and directed by Amy Winfrey, the episode was released on Netflix on January 31, 2020, alongside the second half of the sixth and final season.

Guest stars in this episode include Stanley Tucci, Kristen Schaal, Wendie Malick, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Brandon T. Jackson, and Zach Braff.

"The View from Halfway Down" was widely acclaimed by television critics, who praised its ambitious concept, dark and serious tone, and function as the culmination of the title-character's story.

A young Beatrice Horseman (Wendie Malick) welcomes her son BoJack (Will Arnett) and a child-aged Sarah Lynn (Kristen Schaal) to a dinner party.

Also in attendance are Herb Kazzaz (Stanley Tucci), Crackerjack Sugarman (Lin-Manuel Miranda), Corduroy Jackson-Jackson (Brandon T. Jackson), and Zach Braff (as himself), all of whom are dead.

Butterscotch performs a poem titled "The View from Halfway Down", in which he (as Secretariat) expresses panicked regret over his suicide, while the door moves incrementally closer.

[3] Series creator Raphael Bob-Waksberg had wanted to do a "dinner party with everyone who had gone" episode of BoJack Horseman prior to production of the show's sixth season.

[6] In the film, when protagonist Joe Gideon goes on life support after coronary artery bypass surgery, he experiences a series of extravagant dream sequences featuring loved ones from his past.

For instance, the meals served at the dinner party reflect what killed them in life, such as Herb Kazzaz's peanut allergy, or the lemon that Corduroy Jackson-Jackson was biting while performing autoerotic asphyxiation.

[10] Although there has been some speculation that BoJack dies at the end of "The View from Halfway Down", with the series finale "Nice While It Lasted" serving as a dream sequence, Bob-Waksberg insists that the creative team never seriously considered killing the title character.

[6] "The View from Halfway Down" received widespread critical acclaim, with Ed Cumming of The Independent calling it a "tour-de-force",[12] Alan Sepinwall of Rolling Stone describing it as "amazing",[13] and Emily VanDerWerff of Vox ambiguously referring to it as "something else".

[18] Erin Qualey of Slate praised how the episode "illustrates that harboring unresolved trauma can be deadly and, in doing so, brings viewers to that dark yet somehow hopeful place that's long been a hallmark of the series".

'"[20] Vanity Fair's Tara Ariano referred to the episode as "destined-to-be-divisive",[21] while Joshua Rivera of The Verge contrasted the way that BoJack's guilt is "only alluded to" in the finale, but "explicitly given its due" in "The View from Halfway Down".

[24] Steve Greene of IndieWire called it "one of the best representations of dream logic ever put on screen: a jumbled mess of firing synapses that somehow manages to fit together into a coherent flow of its own making",[25] while Joe Poniewozik of The New York Times described the dinner party as "revelatory and haunting".