BoJack Horseman: BoJack's 1st Solo Interview with Biscuits Braxby

BoJack comes clean about his past mistakes.

[@2012jaysean]

You know what does suck tho? Sarah Lynn’s mom and step dad never have to face shit.

[@strenghtbracer1826]

It's way more their fault than Bojack's tbh

[@adamlambboy8332]

Sarah Lynn would probably still be here if she had decent parents. They would’ve used her Horsin Around money to put her in college so she could become an architect. All the partying, drugs, and unstable behavior all could’ve been avoided if she had one solid parent in her life.

[@violetrose674]

Technically I don't think her mother did anything against the law. Parents get away with this all the time because there are no laws in place protecting child stars. But her stepdad needs to be locked the fuck up. He might be the most despicable person in the show

[@Satnanat]

@@violetrose674can’t believe there’s a ton of people denying the very obvious hints that he’d been sexually assaulting Sarah Lynn since she was a kid

[@tenkenroo]

Her mother was at best neglectful there is no way she didn’t know

[@gothicMCRgirl]

I hate that my knee-jerk reaction was to think that Bojack shouldn’t have done that second interview. No, he SHOULDVE done it, because it was about damn time that Bojack was finally held accountable for every shitty thing he’s ever done. The people that he hurt deserved that closure, at least. I’m glad he did it and I’m glad that it lead to his downfall, because at some point, you can’t outrun the consequences. The other shoe finally dropped.

[@nexus5253]

The jail time was just a bonus

[@Moniker8858]

Honestly the biggest problem to me with saying he needed this is that Bojack honestly moved past who he was it feels he's getting punished for actions he's moved past and been better because of it. The consequences should have hot Bojack the Hollywoo super star not Bojack the acting professor

[@Lurdiak]

I think what's interesting about that second interview is that not everything Bixby brings up was completely fair or true. For example it makes it sound like he lured Jameson out of rehab as an attempt to groom her. Knowing Bojack's toxic patterns it's not 100% impossible he could've ended that outing doing something inappropriate with her, but it definitely wasn't his intention and he was genuinely trying to keep her from breaking her sobriety and making a mistake. And it's genuinely messed up that Doctor Champ revealed a lot of this stuff when Bojack mistakenly thought their sessions were privileged. Another important thing is that we get absolutely no indication that Bojack's dirty laundry being aired helped anyone. Maybe Bojack deserved to be shunned from Hollywoo, and maybe Hollyhock needed to know just how low he'd sunk so she could distance herself from him before he fell back into old habits. Or maybe Bojack would've remained on the sober path and mostly stayed a better person if things hadn't gone this way. He definitely wouldn't have started palling around with Vance Waggoner of all people. Even Paige Sinclair didn't get much out of her crusade to find the truth, it was just something she got obsessed with because she had doubts about her wedding and wanted a distraction, but she still resigned herself to the married life with a man she probably doesn't love in the end. And Sarah Lynn certainly didn't get anything out of it, she's still dead and her mother is still exploiting her. If people want to see the second interview as justice or comeuppance for Bojack, that interpretation is valid, but I think the show leaves it very open to interpretation if it was "good" thing or not. It can also just be seen as something that only accomplished derailing Bojack's personal growth and recovery from addiction. But the crucial point is that he basically did it to himself by agreeing to the second interview in the first place. Even if it was an ambush, even if confidentiality was broken, even if no one's motivation for taking him down was anything but personal gain, he let his ego get to him yet again and walked into that noose.

[@tbbcch1039]

@@Moniker8858 But Bojack the acting professor and Bojack the Hollywoo super star are not two different people. They’re two sides of the same person; so it’s entirely fair for either of them to face the consequences of their actions. In fact, the second interview highlights this. When backed into a corner, Bojack starts showing signs of his past self. Shifting blame, throwing other people under the bus. He clearly wasn’t done growing, and hasn’t moved entirely past who he was. So he still needed this punishment.

[@beeziebubs2756]

⁠​⁠@@Moniker8858that’s the thing about past actions, right? Trying to be a better person and moving past those actions doesn’t change the fact that you still hurt people, or that consequences will eventually find you. Bojack’s problem was that he thought he should’ve been above those consequences because he sobered up or, when he was an addict, because he was broken or a celebrity. Feeling bad that you hurt people is a consequence, but it’s not _the_ consequence. In reality, this wasn’t about Bojack. He’s not the only affected party; there’s a reason why his second interview focused solely on his victims. This was really good storytelling because it creates a whole different kind of impact on the story to watch Bojack recover from his addiction only for all his past actions to come swinging in full force.

[@rerungirl]

Did you notice whenever he’s lying, he angles his neck in ways we literal haven’t seen the whole of the series.

[@TheKlutz31013]

😳

[@pieceaisa5046]

THATS TRUE

[@nikenike9521]

He angles his neck like that in the series a few times, but he never does it as much as he does in the interviews

[@sapphic.flower]

-bojack get defensive about how Sarah Lynn got the heroin -Bojack seemed to have lied about Sarah Lynn being what got him to rehab (the way he answered it). He went after strangling Gina. -when Bojack was asked about his other actions, he made the excuse it wouldn't be right for his victims that he "already apologized to in person". -says the celebrity life was what really killed Sarah Lynn which is somewhat true but it was him deflecting his accountability. In reality, the interview just managed to go well but we can see that he was still reverting to his typical self during it and especially after it.

[@RushdownNinja]

1) He wasn't really being defensive. The way she phrased it made it bought the heroin specifically for her and that's worse than just having it around. 2) Gina begged him not to tell anyone that the video of him choking her was real choking and not acting, so it would make sense that he would acknowledge it without actually acknowledging it like that. 3) When he said the celebrity life is what killed her it was true. Just kinda inappropriate in context. It wasn't really a deflection because he wasn't deflecting anything just making a comment .

[@biogerontology7646]

I think that he was not deflecting his accountability because he was asked how he felt. He did feel sad, he did feel angry and he did feel that the celebrity life killed Sarah Lynn. As soon as the presenter mentioned the herroin he retracted his statement. I don't think Bojack in that moment intended to deflect anything he was just expressing his feelings about 'the celebrity life'.

[@doubleace11554]

Well, tbh, while Bojack went to rehab after strangling Gina, he only really got motivated after seeing a photo of Sarah Lynn, and in his months there he kept the bottle of vodka to remind himself of what he did to her

[@quintboredom]

@@biogerontology7646hmm I disagree, I think he was deflecting, but from guilt, not from the topic, which is what he should feel (he's sooo terrified of that emotion that he's willing to do even worse things to not feel it).

[@Ashbrash1998]

​@@RushdownNinja3. I disagree, it played a part sure. But thia season he has been really defensive over what happened. And that is his guilt, he knows that the reason she died was because of him. That when she was dying, the first thing he did was make sure he was safe and leave her.

[@tabifiedler6944]

“I felt like a Xerox of a Xerox of a person.” Incredible writing.

[@tigertempertantrum6573]

If only I knew what a Xerox was. XD Edit: I get it now. Very clever. :)

[@JaredRotenberg]

@@tigertempertantrum6573 can u explain it please

[@tigertempertantrum6573]

Oh, well Xerox is a copying process, and he remarks that he copies what people do on television, which in essence is just copying and being fake too. That meant that he was 'copying something that was copying something else', if you get me. :)

[@JaredRotenberg]

@@tigertempertantrum6573 omg idk why I just saw ur response now but thank u so much for actually taking the time to write it out and explain it I honestly appreciate it ur a beauty

[@JaredRotenberg]

@@tigertempertantrum6573 ok that makes sense and considering he says he was just looking up to the fucked up people on tv this makes a lot of sense thank u :)

[@yagirl2124]

“he shouldnt have done the second interview!!” no, he should’ve- because bojack’s true, ugly colors need to reemerge (like they always do) in a way that will ACTUALLY get him in trouble for once. bojack’s addiction to fame and attention caused him to relapse back into his own habits- HE made the decision to do the second interview, proving how once again, HE is the source of his own downfall. HIS own wants and mindset are what pushes him to make the decisions that he does, leaving him to self destruct on his OWN terms. and usually, we don’t WANT bojack to revert back to his old self. we, as the audience, don’t WANT bojack to backtrack on all the progress he’s made because of HIS OWN terrible habits. but this time, i’m glad he did. i’m GLAD his own obsession w attention and validation went to his head as it always does- leading him to expose himself for the shitty person he is. for once- bojack being his own worst enemy worked in favor of the audience. it’s what he deserved

[@igniviscos]

what sucks to think about is how many people are able to stop themselves at that second interview? How many people are just a little smarter with a little more control and get away with all of it?

[@gothicpixelchick]

when he says he's glad he can finally stop lying and nearly gets cut off by a startling headlight falling and shattering. like the ball dropping about how he's lying about lying from the start, even now when all his past is about to be laid out in front of him for all to hear...oof. I know it's not the craziest symbolism this series has pulled but it doesn't even have to be. this scene is directly confrontational and haunting and it stings like a bitch

[@nexus5253]

All the eye and head turning really makes it seem obvious that he’s lying but knowing bojack it’s more he’s trying to scoot around the terrible things rather than face them head on. He knows the problems are there but is afraid to really face them since he doesn’t really know how. He’s not the biggest liar but he is a massive coward.

[@sofialozano4031]

Honestly, I think Bojack was finished the moment he admitted he lied to the police and that he was with SL when she died. Even if he hadn't done the 2nd interview, the journalist already knew about the 17 minutes ordeal and so did the police. If it didn't come out in the interview with Biscuits, the journalist still could've written about it all eventually and it would've come out just as badly, if not worse (in the interview you at least could seen Bojack looking visibly shocked finding out SL died in the hospital and that he could've saved her and admitting he was the problem. You don't get this sort of thing in an article)

[@ThePomeranianPrince]

True, but I think that the article wouldn’t have as much of an effect as the second interview. Remember, we have the audience knew that he had sex with Sarah Lynn but almost everyone within the world of Bojack never even knew that.

[@sofialozano4031]

@@ThePomeranianPrince theres that, though that one still has some loopholes for BJ, like the fact both were drunk and high when it happened and that she was in fact an adult at the time. Still pretty damaging either ways.

[@ladybug1681]

"I don't think it would be fair to the people who were affected by those mistakes." = "I refuse to be accountable for my actions."

[@lukerosales5879]

In a twisted sense, Bojack was right as well. Penny was willing to live a quiet life and forget the fact that she was statutory r4ped by Bojack, but that insufferable slag Paige STALKED her to get her to relive her worst moments for her own self-satisfaction. Charlotte felt that it would protect Penny if she didn't come forward and in a sense she was right - imagine the amount of Bojack sympathising incels who would've slutshamed Penny to suicide because of Paige's lack of boundaries or empathy to what Penny suffered through, especially since she followed her to Charlotte's house. The only thing Bojack was right about is that sometimes victims would rather not be known for the fact that they've been assaulted by a famous person.

[@ataraxia7439]

I don’t think that’s always the case or that having everything be public is the only way to be accountable. Some people genuinly don’t want the details of bad things other people did to them to be public and I do think that’s something we should try to respect if we can afford to.

[@thechosenjuan8776]

Nahh it can be a fair point

[@Brookesey]

"I've had a lot of what I thought were rock bottoms, only to discover another rockier bottom underneath" - Bojack Horseman. That quote just really speaks to me, and hits me hard.

[@nexus5253]

You hit rock bottom hard and you’ll eventually just be waiting at the bus stop with your one balloon.

[@michellegodwin6567]

He should've quit while he was ahead

[@falconeshield]

Addicts don't know when to quit

[@nexus5253]

Keep in mind it’s bojack we’re talking about

[@AzureRath97]

You go too far down the self pity well, you become quite cliché without moving on.

[@zacharynguyen7286]

Hope everyone doing good and staying safe. If you need to talk to someone or need help, there are people who care. Sending support and hearts. ❤️❤️❤️

[@NickTasy]

0:58 - 1:06 Story of my life

[@zacharynguyen7286]

Hope you are doing good and staying safe. If you need to talk to someone or need help, there are people who care. Sending support and hearts. ❤️❤️❤️

[@goodvibestv5380]

Travis Scott needs writers like this

[@sidneylominy7331]

What makes the second interview after this one even worse is the fact that it basically ruined and tainted whatever good reputation the first interview had given him

[@AllFiery]

I don't understand. Why does he have heroine if he's not doing heroine? Other than purchasing, how would he get it? Maybe someone gave it to him or whatever.

[@Nerkin610]

It was given to him, he didn’t want to use it but kept it as he did with all drugs; in occasion of a mega bender. Also it was a bit of a souvenir, it was the BoJack brand. I don’t want to spoil that storyline too much. But yeah, he had it because he wasn’t using it.

[@MrBruiserZartist]

See biscuits face, she knew this was bs

[@jonathantan7094]

Shouldn’t do the 2nd interview

[@zacharynguyen7286]

He should have

[@__greG]

Nabu

[@daijoubu_desu]

Kíváncsi voltam, ki ért ide előttem

[@radioactivebeverage]

gyors volt :D