This whole time, most of us never thought about the idea of how Bojack covered his tracks during the Sarah Lynn death. We just figured she died, not his fault, she wanted to do drugs anyway right?
He literally let her overdose without medical help and die because he wanted to avoid bad press. I mean seriously, if he got caught he’s a celebrity what would even happen to him? Jail for a little bit? In the show he already has been there prior to Sarah Lynn’s death due to cocaine possession and it’s not like he seemed too fazed by it.
Yes yes Sarah Lynn is an irresponsible addict for wanting to realize. But blaming a borderline suicidal addict for wanting to relapse when someone literally encouraged said struggling addict to do drugs again is unbelievable. Imagine seeing someone pass out on drugs literally YOU did with them and prioritizing you not looking bad INSTEAD OF TRYING TO HELP THEM GET MEDICAL ATTENTION AND LIVE??? If he was in a state of mind smart enough to think to leave and then call himself from her phone, he was smart enough to know how awful it was and that she could’ve potentially lived.
But that’s what he panicked about. The police finding him. Not the girl he’s known for 30 years passing out off of a bender he encouraged and getting her medical help as quickly as possible.
He verbally abused her her whole childhood to feel powerful… refused to ever be a real friend to her after the show ended and instead wallowed in his own self pity… was nice to her for a few days when she stabbed herself then later on helps destroy the girl’s health and sobriety for his pleasure bc boo hoo he wasn’t nominated for an Oscar and needs a druggie buddy.
Then leaves her to die from her overdose so that he, an incredibly rich celebrity with a good lawyer and knowing Sarah Lynn probably wouldn’t even be the type to sue or get revenge on him, doesn’t have to deal with legalities.
And the worst part is that Bojack spends so much of his bender with Sarah Lynn whining about how guilty he feels from Penny. “I ruined a young girl’s life”. Then so easily and effortlessly is willing to do it again except in a much worse way.
I cannot watch the series the same way anymore. Every time he wallows and feels sorry for himself it feels so gross knowing he was willing to let someone who felt so close to him literally pass out and die and felt absolutely zero sense of urgency by waiting 17 minutes to call help. All so Bojack gets out scot-free. Oh well if another human being that never did you wrong and grew up with you dies for it right.
The show is so incredibly well done. What an incredible twist. I no longer see it as a self loathing tortured relatable sad horse and now truly see it now as a portrait of a twisted man who rarely ever chose to rise above those around him and instead made everything about himself, and how even with rehab, good friends, therapy and a great new job he craves publicity so much that it backfires and the world finds out everything he’s really done. He has done nothing good that balances out his horrible actions. The show teaches us to not applaud the bare minimum from a messed up human being just because they’re messed up. I’m so glad the second interview happened and him trying to play the “I’m an addict. I’m powerless” finally didn’t work anymore.
So… I want to provide some context about something I am not sure many fans are aware of.
Biscuits Braxby reveals that Sarah Lynn wasn’t declared dead until she reached the hospital. However, I think a lot of fans believe this means Sarah was still alive and she could have been saved.
However, that’s not how being declared dead works. Even if a person is 100% dead, not-coming-back-no-matter-what, they’re not declared dead until they’re brought to a hospital and examined by a qualified medical professional.
Bojack delayed because he believed Sarah Lynn was dead— and it’s possible, or maybe even likely, that he was right.
Should he have called anyway? Yep. He should’ve realized it’s hard to tell with an overdosed person and she could still be saved. Is it also possible she was 100% dead and the timing of the call was meaningless? Yep. It’s entirely possible he was right and she was dead.
I think that ambiguity makes it muddier.
Either way, though, it was a horrible thing to do.
You’re definitely right that there could be some level of ambiguity about whether she was actually dead at the scene or not, since yea, you can’t declare someone dead until they’ve been evaluated for that at the hospital. You can still be “alive” without a pulse.
I don’t personally think it was too unreasonable for Bojack to have waited the 17 minutes on account of how inebriated he was. We’ve seen multiple times throughout the show and even throughout that very episode that Bojack has very little grasp of how time passes during his drug benders, so to him the 17 minutes could’ve felt like 2 or 3.
I will hold it against him that his priority was covering his tracks by using Sarah Lynn’s phone to call his own though. That’s not cool even if your time perception is warped.
Agree with this.
i said this the other day in a post about my initial thoughts on “thats too much man”, not having seen the episode where he’s interviewed about her death yet. he was having a blackout episode during the entire bender. blackouts dont make you move automatically like a robot, they just stop you from being able to remember most or all of what happened. his sense of time was very obviously distorted and interrupted, so the 17 minutes could have felt way different to him than it would to someone completely sober
I believe the sentence Braxby says is “But… she wasn’t actually dead yet, she died at the hospital” So… she was alive before reaching the hospital
I agree that’s what Biscuits believes— but personally, I believe Biscuits was mistaken, because there’s no way for her to know that. The only thing Biscuits could know is when and where Sarah Lynn was declared dead.
Then again: Maybe Biscuits spoke to one of the EMTs and they confirmed Sarah Lynn still showed signs of life when they were transporting her to the hospital.
people get declared dead on arrival all the time, which is different than “dying at the hospital.” that would likely be public information, too.
I feel like the show’s creators are too thoughtful to just mix that up.
Some EMTs can declare death officially and some can’t, depends on the jurisdiction. It’s wild but there must be official, bureaucratic legal type reasons for that. Or a mix of legal and medical reasons
there is definitely a lot of ambiguity but as someone who’s overdosed before there is a limbo-like stage some people go into. once when I was on the verge of something very bad, I could hear the people around me but genuinely couldn’t make myself move. she could have been completely dead or something like that
That’s interesting, didn’t know that. I was going off of Biscuit saying “You delayed to call the paramedics that could’ve saved her life” to mean that there was a chance for her