“Barry” ’s body count could rival that of any HBO drama, inkookang writes, but the show’s creators also continuously grappled with how any trauma could reverberate for years, spilling over into other aspects of the characters’ lives.
Early in the fourth and final season of “Barry,” the titular hit man offers his broker turned adversary, Fuches , an apology for almost everything that’s happened between them since the series première: “If I hadn’t tried to understand myself, we wouldn’t be here.” Barry’s referring to the fateful decision he made, at the start of the HBO series, to explore a career in show biz, after following a man he was supposed to kill into an acting class.
For a series that began with so many easy one-note jokes about attention-seeking narcissists, “Barry” unfurled into something of an existential epic, following its characters for a decade or more, with Barry and Gene unable to move past the gaping sense of injustice that Janice’s murder left behind. The show’s body count could rival that of any HBO drama, but Hader and Alec Berg, the show’s creators, also continuously grappled with how any trauma—such as a violent death in the family, Barry’s P.
Season 4 saw Barry—and, to a lesser extent, Gene—on what they believed to be their journeys toward redemption. But their story lines underscore two of the series’ most persistent themes: people generally prefer bullshit to facts, and conventional Hollywood narratives are especially reductive models for moral accounting . “Acting is truth,” Gene tells Barry during one of their first encounters—a brilliant line that itself is both true and patently not.
“Barry” ’s show-business and crime milieus turned out to be ideal backdrops for the series’ explorations of the inconvenience of truth. Years after Barry is arrested and imprisoned for Janice’s murder , a movie about the hit man and the case—eventually called “The Mask Collector”—is announced.
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