Easily my favorite episode of the show so far, so much material from the season paid off in such ingeniously unexpected and impactful ways. As someone who has watched a family member succumb to dementia, I’ve never seen the condition portrayed through the eyes of a person with it before, and it broke my heart. The shot of Beatrice’s father standing in front of the wall of fire with the shadow of her mother behind it was so powerful, I can’t believe how much the show got me to care about this despicable woman. The ending brought me closer to tears than anything in the show so far, with Bojack building a happy scene for his mother instead of telling her off once and for all like he’d planned to. It’s also heartbreaking thematically, the way it ties Bojack and Beatrice’s traumas and toxicities together, while making the point that ultimately time does march forward, and that a person’s internal struggles and traumas are much more easily forgotten than the ways they hurt people, but their partial reconciliation at the end also shows that there is hope for some form of understanding. The whole thing was heart-wrenching, and I can’t imagine the show topping this. Just wanted to get my thoughts out, because this episode touched me so profoundly.