User Reviews

This is such a unique episode. The writers of this show really love taking risks and somehow they keep paying off. This episode starts with a flashback and then moves onto a 20 minute monologue from Will Arnett. No other actor speaks in the entire episode. Somehow Arnett carries the episode as, at a premise, this episode would seem boring. But I was hooked on every word he said. Funny, depressing and truly heartbreaking. I don't know how this show can pull this off. And neither does anyone else.

The most realest 25 minutes that you might have ever seen revolves around a horse-humanoid who rambles about his dead mom for 25 minutes. No fight, no jaw dropping drama, just..just a wounded being expressing his eternally concealed thoughts.

Beatrice has died and BoJack is looking for resolution: His eulogy quickly turns into an attempt to make sense not only of her last words but of their relationship altogether. Though the show has spent quite some time on BoJack's messed up childhood and his mother in particular it again finds new facets of the Horseman family relationships. BoJack looks back at his mother, his parent's relationship, his father's death, trying to find some kind of inisght, only to realize things will never be resolved.

Will Arnett has always impressed as BoJack but this episode might be his best performance yet. Arnett masterfully portrays BoJacks messed up state of mind: his anger and resentment for his mother, his pain and helplessness faced with the fact that his mother didn't love him, his resignation upon realizing there will never be any kind of resolution or reconciliation.

When you think that this show can't get any better, then it does.

This episode in particular brought me hope. My mother is very similar to BoJack's' and I can honestly say how refreshing it is that he's got the courage to let it out. People can be so very judgemental with those things they cannot understand. A bad mum can be so damaging...

This tv series is just amazing.

Thank you Bojack team x

The whole episode is a eulogy for his mother and it ramble for so long...

It's ambitious but it was so boring.

This marvelous episode is a huge step for the series of Bojack Horseman. Not only do we see Bojack struggle to figure out how to deliver the words right enough to express his mother's life and their relationship, but just his family in general. At his mother's funeral, we see Bojack get real with his feelings and actually finally see his mother, which is what she always wanted, as he said. But at the same time, never knowing what she, in fact, really wanted. The entire episode showcases Bojack delivering this eulogy, and it pains the audience as much as Bojack to show that there are not a lot of good things to say about Beatrice or rather her counterpart, Butterscotch, or even Bojack himself. Quite possibly one of the best episodes in the series, including Time's Arrow, which nearly directly relates to this piece, as it starts with a flawed father in the past trying to tell Bojack the truth that no one else will care for him other than himself, as well as showing Beatrice really is one of the most tragic figures in the show. Anyway, this episode is very well a piece of art and I find myself watching it multiple times in awe, in awe of the carefully hand crafted writing this show has to offer, and nearly crying at the emptiness of Bojack's feelings for his mother, as she could never love him as much as she loved Crackerjack, like Beatrice's mother made her promise. From then on, a monster was born. And even though Bojack could sympathize with Beatrice near the end of her road in Time's Arrow, the rest of her attitude towards him pales in comparison to that one little moment. The really sad part is we won't know for sure if Bojack ever really saw her, or if she did him. But something has to tell him that it's the truth, as it's the one thing he had to cling onto, even after she died. Just beautiful. This season delivered so much, and I can't help but appreciate the show's writers for delivering masterpiece upon masterpiece each year. I see you, writers. Get it?

Because that's what Bojack though Beatrice said?

Do you get it?

Do you get my joke?

Jeez, he's starting to rub off on me now...

'Free Churro' is tragicomedy shown in a way I don't think animation's been able to successfully pull off the way Bojack did with this episode right here. Never has a character expressed themselves the way Bojack does making light of the fact that both his parents are gone: he was resented by the two of them all his life and all he wanted was just a little appreciation from them, just some basic gratitude.

This episode really got to me; I know what it's like to experience resentment from your parents and how that kind of emotional rejection backfires in terrible ways in the future. But it's okay to make light of it knowing that you can move on from those troubles in the end (however long that will take). For Bojack it may be a little more difficult to resolve his lifetime of problems but he's self-aware of everything right with his life while admitting and addressing everything wrong with it. Even after all of the jokes Bojack makes of his mother Beatrice, he makes it clear that he wished she were a more caring type of woman.

If Bojack's parents were the disease, then the symptom that is his life (and inner-demons) may finally be a salvageable thing instead of a lost cause.

This episode gets a well-earned 5/5 stars.

"Bojack Horseman" isn't my favorite tv show but this episode proves that it's truly a great animated program. The funeral of Bojack's mother forces him to look at the relation he had with her. All his hopes for a better future disappeared with her death but he still has so many questions that will never be answered. Will Arnett's performance is remarkable, and the writing certainly deserved an Emmy. Even if this episode is about regrets, kindness, memories, losing someone and trying to understand our family, it left us with a smile on our face and Bojack in the wrong room.