7 Worst Things BoJack Horseman Has Ever Done

2. Getting Sarah Lynn Killed

BoJack Horseman
Netflix

Sarah Lynn was a tragic soul. Epitomising the ‘too much, too young’ child star model that’s seen Miley Cyrus and Britney Spears go off the rails, in many ways she seemed doomed from the start.

Sarah Lynn had gotten clean though, and had been living sober until BoJack calls. She jumps at the chance to relapse, revealing that she’d always had drugs and alcohol hidden around her house. BoJack was undeniably the catalyst though, setting her spiralling all over again.

As well as revisiting scenes from BoJack’s own past, throughout the bender we see Sarah Lynn open up and be vulnerable, losing her ‘over it’ veneer. She admits to having no identity, only dressing and acting the way she does because she craves the attention it brings.

Possibly the worst thing here is that BoJack never realises how much he’s hurting her. He even takes her to the planetarium, her favourite building. He gives a speech he probably thinks is hopeful, about how all life is meaningless in the scope of the universe. But it’s too late. Sarah Lynn has already passed on, with the haunting last words ‘I wanna be an architect’.

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