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This was another modest episode. After the Todd-centric story, the spotlight is now on Diane. We know that Diane has a terrible family after she receives a call to be notified that her father died. She is not distressed at all for that news because she despised him, for justifiable reasons. The big problem is that she has to return to Boston to meet again with her miserable mother and her detestable brothers. A series of events makes her slowly losing patience at the point of completely becoming berserk. And hey, I can understand her. Her family is excessively atrocious. Not only that they don't take care of the funeral, that they are constantly manipulating Diane and they are always loitering. They also humiliated her with a hard prank when she was 16 and drew balls on the corpse of their own father, among others irritating acting, turning him into chum later. Few times fictitious characters generated so much hate on me. And, since that was the purpose, I guess that's a merit. As expected, BoJack didn't help at all since he only passes time with Diane's brothers and supports them. However, he shows a certain maturity being nearer to Diane and writing a really nice letter to her to remedy his actions. Oh, and I loved it when BoJack played with the kaleidoscope. The subplot was a bunch of non-sensical casualties, including tourists believing that pathetical David Boreanaz rip-off and Todd listening photographs. I actually liked how Princess Carolyn was involved in the story but, overall, it was not a strong episode.

So, are you a Zoë or a Zelda? I think I am closer to a Zoë. Incidentally, I guess I've watched this episode in the Zoë mood. I can't find too much to remark from this one except for the brilliant meditation about what character of the Mr. Peanutbutter's show are you more alike to, and except that stunning ending, reflecting on the idiosyncrasy of Diane, and particularly of BoJack, who are defined like Zoë too (the latter one, got it undoubtedly deserved). That was the kind of montages that makes me love the show. The actions of BoJack in this episode confirms the meanness and selfishness there are inside him. He poked out a likable side and bury it ruining the big opportunity Todd had to mature. Other minor highlights are the hit-and-miss dynamic between BoJack and Todd, both when they are confronted or working together, and the new storyline opened to future episodes, since the episode finished with a first-plane of the ticket of the videogame that damaged Todd. One of my problems with this one is that Todd's project barely calls my attention. His opera is always boring for me, whether when it is supposed to be boring and when it is supposed to be great. Another one is that I didn't care for the new characters except for Margo, whose participation is always delightful. Neither Wayne, who delivered too little and only advantage is the possibility for Mr. Peanutbutter to shine with his hilarious observations, nor Virgin Van Cleef, who is probably one of the least memorable guest characters of the entire show. Oh, and this is probably the least funny episode so far.

Sarah Lynn, the tender girl of Horsin' Around, 12 years later sex-symbol, is 24 years later an authentic disaster. As well as his fictitious dad, she is now a ruined shadow of what she was, manipulative, far away from her glory days, and is now misspending her richness in parties and drugs. Her downfall is evident, reaching the point of being the guestroom of BoJack, and falling even lower after their farewell, admitting she was never to grow and that she was going to surround with sycophants and enablers. I quite like how their dynamic was displayed here. It's like if Sarah features BoJack, while the horse occupies the role of his close people. BoJack playing the role of a permissive father was actually funny. He gives her a lot of ridiculous authorizations and permissions, even letting her destroy the house. However, the scene where they pass time together was kinda refreshing. I laugh out loud when Bojack simulates the credits rolling after that. I was not able to foresee the big twist: now they have sex. That was an odd decision that made me leave the show for a second time, but that I don't mind anymore. Todd and Diane played a supportive function. The former, being the of the voice of the reason and the mature one, was actually great. I uniformly liked the joke of the comparisons between his situation and Sarah's at BoJack's house. Princess Carolyn shines approaching Sarah and making her take the bait in a plan to cheat Vanessa Gekko. The endings, with the paparazzi birds taking photos of BoJack and Sarah having sex, was a clever opening of a future storyline. Not one of the best episodes, though.