On one hand, this is probably the closest thing to an apology or an attempt to make amends that Beatrice makes.
On the other however, it’s such a disastrous, half hearted, emotionally damaging and lacking of accountability attempt that I don’t know if it should even count as an apology.
It’s not even a “I’m sorry, I feel bad for what I did to you” like Bojack did with Herb. Of course, a mere apology after decades of abuse wouldn’t have entitled Beatrice to Bojack’s forgiveness, just like decades of abandonment wouldn’t entitle Bojack to forgiveness from Herb after his apology.
But still, what Beatrice does here is not even that. It’s less than an apology, it’s sort of a “I’m sorry you feel that way” kind of statement, putting the blame on the other person for being hurt for your own actions.
I’d like to think that reading her son’s book in which he expresses what a shitty and miserable excuse of a mother she was, Beatrice felt some sort of cushioned, muffled wave of remorse (I know expecting true guilt from someone like her is too much to ask) which motivated her to even call Bojack in the first place.
But this call also reinforces an incredibly toxic, depressing and self defeating mindset Bojack already had and from which he would greatly struggle to get rid of until the finale: That he is poison, a piece of shit, always was and always would be.
So yeah… Fuck Beatrice. She didn’t deserve what Joseph did to her, but Bojack didn’t deserve anything of what she did to him. She’s probably rotting in the same hell Butterscotch and Joseph are. Let’s hope that the poison of those three people isn’t strong enough to drag Bojack with them.
On one hand, this is probably the closest thing to an apology or an attempt to make amends that Beatrice makes.
On the other however, it’s such a disastrous, half hearted, emotionally damaging and lacking of accountability attempt that I don’t know if it should even count as an apology.
It’s not even a “I’m sorry, I feel bad for what I did to you” like Bojack did with Herb. Of course, a mere apology after decades of abuse wouldn’t have entitled Beatrice to Bojack’s forgiveness, just like decades of abandonment wouldn’t entitle Bojack to forgiveness from Herb after his apology.
But still, what Beatrice does here is not even that. It’s less than an apology, it’s sort of a “I’m sorry you feel that way” kind of statement, putting the blame on the other person for being hurt for your own actions.
I’d like to think that reading her son’s book in which he expresses what a shitty and miserable excuse of a mother she was, Beatrice felt some sort of cushioned, muffled wave of remorse (I know expecting true guilt from someone like her is too much to ask) which motivated her to even call Bojack in the first place.
But this call also reinforces an incredibly toxic, depressing and self defeating mindset Bojack already had and from which he would greatly struggle to get rid of until the finale: That he is poison, a piece of shit, always was and always would be.
So yeah… Fuck Beatrice. She didn’t deserve what Joseph did to her, but Bojack didn’t deserve anything of what she did to him. She’s probably rotting in the same hell Butterscotch and Joseph are. Let’s hope that the poison of those three people isn’t strong enough to drag Bojack with them.