BoJack Horseman 4x2 - "The Old Sugarman Place" REACTION!!
Added 2021-03-25 03:10:28 +0000 UTC
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I think this episode highlights how a person gets stuck in the past, and doesn't break out from it. For the dragonfly, the past and guilt was holding him down (literally), and he couldn't break free from it. BoJack's trauma was partly rooted in his past as a child growing up, and by the many mistakes he's made over the years. He literally goes to his "roots" where his mother came from, to find himself, and after fixing up the house he realized his past was weighing him down, and he needed to break free from it. So, he literally broke free by demolishing the house, which can be a metaphor of breaking down a kind of construct of his past where he feels his guilt is rooted from (his family). Some of season 4's themes will be BoJack dealing with the roots of his past within his family, so it may be something to note going forward in how BoJack is choosing to approach this new obstacle in his life, that he never really fully confronted before. And, the reason the past of Beatrice as a kid growing up is part of the episode, is to show the roots of a past that, although BoJack doesn't have the full picture of, it's a past he still has to face. That's because the roots of his abuse as a child, came from Beatrice's own abuse and oppression as a child (on top of her estranged relationship with her mother and father). What formed in this past shown in the episode, was the seed of abuse, anxiety, and depression that grew from Beatrice, and then into BoJack, and BoJack will have to face it at some point, rather than run from it.
Brian Mannell
2021-03-25 04:45:32 +0000 UTCA Youtuber pointed out how the audience sees both Eddie the dragonfly and Honey Sugarman singing the duet in harmony with one another, so it sounds and looks beautiful, but to any viewer in either time period, either person would look virtually unhinged and on the verge of a literal breakdown, which they both very much were. And yeah, this fully recontextualizes Bojack’s mother and her entire nature as a defense mechanism that she’s had since early childhood. Their entire family is a cavalcade of trauma, abuse and neglect. It’s not until Bojack is able to destroy the totems of the past and live by Sarah Lynn’s actual philosophy of “suck a dick, dumbshit 😜” that he’s finally able to return to LA and the new chaos for this season can start.
VGreenGoblinV
2021-03-25 04:33:10 +0000 UTCI find this episode very interesting because the past flashbacks are more meant to connect thematically to the present and give us more context as to how Bojack and his mother became the people they are today. As for Bojack's arc this episode, he and the dragonfly are foils because both of them have chosen to hide in a place that is effectively a shrine to the past. Bojack, upon seeing that Eddie is still miserable despite hiding from his pain, decides to destroy his own monument that he had spent the better part of a year working on to hide from his grief over Sara Lynn.
Jason Lettieri
2021-03-25 04:01:43 +0000 UTCI think a main point of this episode was to show why Bojack's mom is the way she is. Bojack's grandmother tells her, "Promise me you'll never love anyone as much as I loved CrackerJack." and Beatrice says, "I promise." She definitely kept that promise lol.
Zane Pena
2021-03-25 03:52:56 +0000 UTC"Time's arrow"... so good.
Mike Williams
2021-03-25 03:41:40 +0000 UTCThis episode is truly heartbreaking, but I think it's great nonetheless. I love the parallels between Bojack's current struggles and his mom's scarred past. Once again the show making use of its animated format I think Bojack came to the old Sugarman's home to try to find some comfort after Sarah Lynn's death, thinking that fixing this broken down house would give him closure, but it doesn't. I feel this episode will give context moving forward too.
Aura Y
2021-03-25 03:39:38 +0000 UTCLove this episode, really clever how it tied different moments in time together by using the song. “I’ll take flight, maybe tomorrow not tonight.” Both Honey and Eddie were both stuck in the past and couldn’t move on
Chelle
2021-03-25 03:22:21 +0000 UTC
