>Gets a successful book series to write
>Complains because it's not "what she wanted"
>Won't stop throwing a hissy fit
What's her deal? Just because she wrote children's fiction doesn't mean her career is on a permanent fix, Richard Donner directed The Omen and that didn't stop him from doing Superman
Gets a successful book series to write
Blake Lewis
Michael Nguyen
She'd spent most of her life thinking that her trauma is what gave her worth as a writer and wanted to express it through a memoir. Her not being able to express her trauma through writing and finding out that her comparatively safe, child-friendly scripts were way better made her come to terms with the fact that her trauma had no benefit at all and her shitty childhood was just a shitty childhood. It's in the title of the episode.
Joseph Barnes
She's a writer.
Do you know how many writers think they're failures? Just because they didn't have a book out by nineteen on the basis that Mary Shelly wrote and publishes Frankenstein before she had even hit her twenties? All artists impose weird restrictions on themselves, before they've even begun.
Brandon Wright
There's not enough lewd art of fat Diane.
John Howard
>What's her deal?
she suffers from clinical depression
Lucas Lewis
Aspiring writer here. Can confirm this exactly.
Brandon Hughes
>come to terms with the fact that her trauma had no benefit at all and her shitty childhood was just a shitty childhood.
Damn.
Brayden Taylor
She's not happy because she knows the truth about herself. Deep down she knows no matter whether she's trying to save the world or search for personal fulfillment, she's devalued the people closest to her, the people she's had the most impact on. It's why she was writing "I'm terrible" over and over again instead of her book. It's why on the roof, she was torn between believing it's not her job to save BoJack and thinking maybe it's everybody's job to save each other, and this was her point of greatest visible consternation.
She betrayed BoJack's trust early in their relationship by writing a book that wasn't what they agreed upon, and then when he got angry about this, she did it again by leaking it to Buzzfeed, and she was basically rewarded for this. Later, after attempting to save the world by documenting humanitarian efforts, she found herself unable to go through with it, so she lapsed into an unhealthy codependent binge with BoJack while lying to her husband about where she was, because she couldn't deal with her own moral failings. Later, after that relationship didn't work out, she slept with her ex again, who was already in a relationship with a new girlfriend. When she got a glimpse of what Bojack might have done in New Mexico, she vindictively, unprofessionally, and in the wake of being mad at BoJack for messing up her therapist/patient relationship, added details of this real event to the script she was working on to confront him, further damaging her friend and coworker's already frayed perception of reality. At every turn, while she spends her life trying to do some big important world-changing work, she hurts the people she has a most direct effect on, so it's good that her "happy ending" is doing some successful but ultimately fluffy work, while simply being good to one guy and his son. The only dent in her conclusion is her knowledge of her relationships in her "LA years".
Levi Baker
what did the letter said? will penny's story never be brought up? were the rwporters just alled it a day?
Connor Torres
This. I think a lot of us like to think our shitty pasts make us interesting but sometimes a shitty past is just a shitty past and you gotta move on and not let it define you.