This post contains spoilers for the Barry series finale, “Wow.” “Denial, it’s tough.” This line by Monroe Fuches is perhaps the most important sentiment expressed at any point during these four seasons of Barry. The series began as a Hollywood satire, illustrating the thin line that exists between killing on …
Read More »Sarah Goldberg's 'Barry' Exit Interview: Sally's Finale Secrets and More
Week after week, in frantic monologue after frantic monologue, Sarah Goldberg delivered one of the greatest performances on TV in recent memory as Barry‘s self-obsessed actress Sally Reed, whose intensity occasionally unnerved even Bill Hader‘s titular hitman character. She scored an Emmy nomination for her performance in Season One —for …
Read More »'Barry' Plots Endgame With Most Action-Packed Episode of the Season
This post contains spoilers for this week’s episode of Barry, “A Nice Meal.” “A Nice Meal,” the penultimate installment of Barry, opens with Barry hallucinating after an undetermined amount of time spent wearing the sensory deprivation goggles Jim Moss has placed over his eyes. There is darkness, then a glimpse …
Read More »'Barry' Recap: Is This the End of the Line for Barry Berkman?
This post contains spoilers for this week’s episode of Barry, “The Wizard.” Barry spends a good chunk of “The Wizard” listening to different religious podcasts, pastor-shopping for a man of the cloth who will tell him it’s acceptable to murder Gene Cousineau. Eventually, he finds one — voiced, naturally, by …
Read More »'Barry' Jumps Forward in Time and Becomes a Huge Bummer
This post contains spoilers for this week’s episode of Barry, “Tricky Legacies.” Last week’s “It Takes a Psycho” ended on a startling transition. One moment, we were seeing Sally deciding to run away with Barry; in the next, we were in a desolate Midwestern location where an older Barry and …
Read More »'Barry' Recap: A Tragic Death Shakes Up Bill Hader's Dark Satire
This post contains spoilers for this week’s episode of Barry, “It Takes a Psycho.” Where’s Barry Berkman? This was the question asked by the warden at the end of last week’s episode, and it’s the one everyone wants an answer to throughout “It Takes a Psycho.” This may extend to …
Read More »'Barry' Season 4 Finds Its Funny Thanks to an SNLer and a Legendary Director
This post contains spoilers for this week’s episode of Barry, “You’re Charming.” Among the more frequent objections I’ve heard about Barry since Season One is that the show has grown so dark that it no longer feels like a comedy most of the time. It’s an understandable concern. Heck, I …
Read More »'Barry' Season 4 Premiere Takes No Prisoners — Except Bill Hader
THIS POST CONTAINS spoilers for this week’s episodes of Barry, “Yikes” and “Bestest Place on the Earth.” Late in “Yikes,” Barry’s Season Four premiere, Barry admits that Fuches was right all along about Barry taking Gene Cousineau’s acting class. “If I hadn’t have tried to understand myself, we wouldn’t be …
Read More »'Barry' Goes Out on Its Own Terms in Deliciously Dark Season 4
Early in the new season of Barry, the show’s title character is told that while he has done bad things, “I’m sure you’re not a bad guy.” This is among the most clichéd sentiments of a 21st century television littered with stories of monstrous actions committed by seemingly less-than-monstrous individuals. …
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