
“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 […]
“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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 They do not publish their names, they do not accept submissions, and they rarely give interviews or appear in public.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 […]