BoJack Horseman season 6, episode 12 recap: Xerox of a Xerox

BoJack Horseman decides to go on live television to talk about his involvement in Sarah Lynn’s death–but things don’t go as planned (of course).

BoJack Horseman has been an emotional ride over the course of six seasons, and as we inch closer to the end, one thing is clear. The path to redemption is the name of the game for our conflicted, lost horse. After the previous episode, BoJack has to face the facts. He was involved in Sarah Lynn’s death, and now the whole world will know (or rather, does know).

So BoJack Horseman decides to do the one thing we did not expect–talk about this incident on live television. In Chicago, Diane pretends to not care, but she’s more invested than anything. I mean this is BoJack, after all.

He’s all set to talk on Philbert and once the interview begins, he’s open about everything. But herein lies the problem. Because of his honesty and vulnerability, he expects immediate redemption. If he truly understood the real world, he’d know that is not how it works. But because of this expectation, he gets really, really defensive, and from there, the interview begins to crumble before his eyes.

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However, he manages to regain control and is honest about rock bottom, and knowing things were going to get worse before they’d get better. In fact, he says something that clearly explains the title of this episode when he looks back on his time as an actor and says he felt like “a Xerox of a Xerox of a person.” Does he mean horse, though?

BoJack Horseman has been breaking our hearts left and right in its final season, so when Diane refuses to watch BoJack’s interview live, it hurts a lot. Their friendship has been so incredibly complicated, and it seems like they can never catch a beat.

BoJack’s interview seems to go over well, so much so, that the network wants them to do another part to it. Instead of taking the win and moving on, BoJack Horseman does what he always does–gets too cocky and agrees.

As expected, the second part of the interview goes disastrously as the interviewer is fed information from the Philadelphia Story reporter. She has all this ammo to attack BoJack with and she does not hold back.

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It’s a rough interview to get through and paints BoJack in a bad light. But he gets through it, and the episode ends on a contemplative note. We’ve seen BoJack struggle throughout six seasons, but there was a time in his life when things were easier, simpler. And a reminder of that as this episode ends reminds us that unfortunate circumstances got the best of BoJack and even someone like Sarah Lynn.

Will BoJack move forward from this, despite his shortcomings?

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