The sequence that marked me(and I’m pretty sure that it marked many other people too) the most from Bojack Horseman was those last scenes with Sarah lynn.
I don’t know if it is Schaal’s voice or how the writers worded her speech in the hotel room. It has something special. She doesn’t like anything about her. Everything she owns is what other people have told her to own. She is an image, a brand, not a person. And she is aware of that and she feels like it is too late to change. And there is Bojack. Having just declared his love for her and not really knowing how to help but by telling her that everything is going to be ok.
Months after I finished seson 3, I keep thinking on one thing. The dignity Sarah Lynn was killed with.
In spite of the seriousness this show takes itself with, it has the habit of making jokes out of situations like death. It had done it in two ocassions prior to season 3, one of them with a character that was important to the story.
But Sarah Lynn’s death was different. Even though the odds would be her dying in bad circumstances, for example a car crush caused by her or Bojack driving high, or that she commited suicide, she died in a peaceful way.
She died in the place she wanted to be(more than her own house), in the arms of the person that loved and knew her better, who also was the first man she ever liked, dreaming about her becoming the person she wanted to be. She died in her sleep, without pain.
No jokes were made about it. Not only that, but her funeral made Bojack realise that he needed a close, sincere friend like Diane.
And for a character that started being something between a joke and a comment on a rather superficial issue, that is amazing. This show is amazing.
(These are two posts from my personal blog of november 30 2016, back when I was completely obsessed with Sarah Lynn and BH and I decided to start this blog. I could not write anything similar now, so enjoy what past me had to say!).
theartofmadeline
origamiaround
kianamaiart
turnnoffyourmind
