Prickly Muffin

I feel this episode deserves a 6 stars rating, even when I liked Sarah Lynn during the series.

It shows us what every child in her position of fame does, leaning to making music and doing drugs; until her career starts to go only downhill.

Wasn't a funny episode, and we got to see how Bojack abused Sarah Lynn verbally in the TV Show Horsin' Around, and Sarah Lynn's mother didn't care about her daughter's safety or integrity.

I don't know if it's the guilt that Bojack feels for how he treated her in the past, or what it is that makes him feel obligated to invite her to his house and allow her all the things she wants.

Bojack reconnects with a former sitcom co-star.

This episode has some funny moments, but it's more of a darkly humorous take on the personal life of a child star who has had a less than ideal start in life, plus the troubles that come from fame and falling out of the limelight. Plenty of this is recognisable in various real life individuals who the writers do not name.

Lots of the humour is derived from the banter between characters. There are a number of in-jokes and pop culture references that work well.

Sarah Lynn is portrayed as bratty and out of control, but the writers paint a sad picture of her backstory. There are some interesting, albeit unsubtle points made about nature vs nurture.

I genuinely love that the writer finally show me the glimpse of real princess carolyn. But still I'm not satisfy with episode. The story world is still so much flat and typical. And the plot is to thin for its context, the story is not moving forward if characters explain it to us. But there is no significant plot-point to accent it with this deep explanations of character's patterns or motivations.

We find out that Sara Lynn was verbally abused by BoJack as a child star on his TV show. She goes through what a lot of children in her position do. She uses her fame to get what she wants, but boredom gets her into drugs. Eventually, she is sexy and lost. BoJack tries to rescue her but has almost no skills to do it. He is still a child himself. Once in his house, Sara Lynn brings in her friends to demolish the place. And there is more (beyond the pale).

I love Sarah Lynn as a character. She is interesting, complex, and very fun. But her introduction does not show any of this. She, quite frankly, comes off as a jerk here. A decent satire of Hollywood and child stardom, yes, but not a very complex or likable character. This really drags the episode's rating down a couple of points for me, which is sad, because there are so many other good things about this episode, especially with BoJack's character. For one, you begin to see how terrible he really is. In the first two episodes, you just see him being kind of petty and jokingly bad. Now you can see him doing some truly awful things. At the same time, you can now see his sympathetic side. He isn't fully fleshed out yet, but he is now interesting, and you can see some of his character motivations.

Overall, a good episode for BoJack made worse by a bad introduction to Sarah Lynn - 6/10.