BoJack Horseman: 10 Greatest Diane Episodes

Diane was a new person while on anti-depressants. The opening montage of the episode showed how she skimmed over the bad things that happened to her on a daily basis and could move on thanks to her pills, but this was all only skin deep. She was still being crushed by the weight of writing her new book.

She had never written about herself before, and though she had plenty of stories to tell, she couldn’t figure out how to do it. She struggled with the trade-off of a simpler every day life, while being unable to tell her story. It was supposed to be about going through trauma, but in a way that shapes you as a person. What she ended up with was a young adult detective novel on her hands, something that she never intended or wanted to write.

If she couldn’t put this book together it meant that her good damage wasn’t good damage, it was just damage. And her years of suffering were for nothing. She was being pulled apart from every direction, with Guy and Princess Carolyn telling her what to do. Just because she was on anti-depressants didn’t mean that life was all of a sudden easy.

She came off the drugs in order to write but suddenly began getting swallowed by the thoughts and feelings of not being good enough all over again. She apologized for being herself and wanted to die. This was arguably the most upsetting look at Diane’s depression throughout the entire series.