15 Greatest BoJack Horseman Episodes Of All Time

Is emotional damage hereditary? Is there some part of a parents' pain and loss that continues with their children? That is what The Old Sugarman Place and Time's Arrow attempt to answer, by using Beatrice Horseman as a character study. The Old Sugarman Place gives insight into her childhood; Time's Arrow inverts this story by shedding some light on her marriage to BoJack's father and her years spent with dementia.

Time's Arrow is easily one of the show's most inventive and heartwrenching episodes, working with a twisting non-linear structure to tell Beatrice's story as she remembers it. The faces are blurred, the events out of sequence, the emotions obscured. It's an honest and realistic portrait of someone with dementia, humanising Beatrice like never before. The episode doesn't exactly justify her behaviour, but does allow fans to see why she is the way she is - how terrible her marriage was, how awful her father was.

The icing on the cake is the final scene, in which BoJack gives his mother a moment of peace, finally offering closure to their long-fractured relationship.