“This is not a good guy/bad guy story. It goes much deeper than that.” Gene’s description of Barry’s story is so on the nose for Barry I half expected a chipper Ron Howard to chime in with “Hey, that’s the […]
Barry S4E7: a nice meal
Barry S4E6: the wizard
Last week ended with a long-haired, bearded Gene Cousineau demanding to talk to the person who runs Warner Brothers. They’re making a movie about Barry, and as far as Gene’s concerned, it’s his story to tell. So now Barry’s trying […]
Barry S4E5: tricky legacies
So that final scene at the end of last week wasn’t a fantasy sequence. We’re now years into the future, and Barry and Sally are living in an isolated house in the middle of nowhere, with their socially maladjusted son […]
Barry S4E4: it takes a psycho
We open on the prison guards beating Fuches, and the warden demanding to know what he knows about the assassination attempt on Barry. But while he did know Hank planned a hit on Barry, and made a frantic last-minute attempt […]
Barry S4E3: you’re charming
Are we as bad as our worst moment? That’s one of Barry’s central questions, except that question is constantly undermined because whatever these characters’ worst moments might be, they still keep having more bad ones. Barry’s still dreaming of a […]
Barry S4E2: bestest place on the Earth
Everyone just wants someone they can trust. That’s true in real life, obviously, but doubly so on Barry, where everyone has betrayed everyone, and everyone is desperate to have just one person they can turn to for support. Sally found […]
Barry S4E1: yikes
The editorial staff of The Onion are a famously secretive bunch. They do not publish their names, they do not accept submissions, and they rarely give interviews or appear in public. But years ago, they did pull back the curtain […]