Season six begins where Sarah Lynn's life ends, showing BoJack lying to
a predictably lazy Officer Meow Meow Fuzzyface about
the circumstances surrounding her overdose, before returning to the present,
where BoJack is finally checking into rehab. He keeps a bottle of vodka nearby
to remind him of the past, which continues to bear down:
flashbacks continue, showing his reliance on alcohol while acting on Horsin'
Around, his penchant for bullying as a teenager, and childhood trauma, in a heartrending scene
where he drinks some of his parent's vodka before cuddling up to his mother, who's passed out
after a party. The requisite silliness quotient is pristine, and the gag involving a
Flintstones vehicle particular inspired.
The title of this episode is a lie, coming from Hollyhock's text message to
one of her dads—sent just as she's overdosing from the drugs BoJack's mother, Beatrice ,
is slipping into her coffee. The fallout sees Hollyhock understandably isolated by her fathers,
and BoJack, upon discovering the source of Hollyhock's near-demise, isolating his mother
in the worst nursing home room he can find, only to find that she recognizes him once more.
BoJack Horseman has dealt with death frankly since the beginning, but it rarely has so precisely
intuited the ways life continues to surprise even after hope seems lost.