More about Sarah Lynn and Unreliable Narration

Not just a standard celebrity overdose.

It’s easy to return to Sarah Lynn Himmelfarb in BoJack Horseman. One could argue that just as Diane serves as a catalyst to break BoJack out of a decades-long funk, Sarah Lynn paves the way for BoJack’s eventual downfall. She was someone who gave BoJack so many chances to fix his shit and live out his dreams, even if they didn’t go the way that he expected.

There’s also a lot that we don’t know about Sarah Lynn, that we have to infer from subtext and exposition. We only have one episode that features her point of view exclusively while she’s sober. And that POV lasts until the opening credits start.

What We Know For Certain About Sarah Lynn

Sarah Lynn started acting when she was three. She states this in “That’s Too Much, Man!” Even at such a young age, she had dreams about becoming an architect, dreams that her mother shot down. Carol Himmelfarb did sexual favors for producers to get more opportunities for her daughter. Meanwhile, Sarah Lynn’s stepfather Mr. Richardson, a photographer and a bear, homeschooled her. She never went…