"Barry" Season 4 & Final Trailer (HBO)
Earlier this month, Barry creator and co-star Bill Hader was a guest on Conan O'Brien's podcast about a conversation he had with Larry David. "I saw Larry and he said, 'I watched Barry. That's it, right?'" said Haider, mimicking the New York accent and loud voice of the "Relax" and "Seinfeld" man. "I said, 'No, we've got a whole new season,' and he said, 'Why?' I said, 'Well, I think there's another story to tell.' And he says, 'But it's over.' Larry David's words echoed the feeling that gripped me throughout watching the final season of "Barry," whose final episode premiered Monday on Yes, Hot and Cellcom TV, adjacent to the United States.A large part of the DNA of "Barry," a series about an assassin who wants to become an actor but finds it difficult to shake off his inherent tendencies, is its built-in satire on the dream industry.
All the characters in it live in the film and their hopes seem to be based entirely on things they saw in the cinema. And the series most of the time flows with them, allows them.
Sally (Sarah Goldberg) created an alternate reality for herself from the falsehoods she told about herself and herself. Gene Cosino's (Henry Winkler) self-concept as a superstar actor defined his character and ego. Noho Hank (Anthony Kerrigan) has built his entire personality and career on how gangsters are supposed to behave. Fawkes (Stephen Roth), Barry's handler who was furthest from Hollywood fantasies, nevertheless succumbs to them: in the previous season, he finds himself caught up in a delusional and deliberately ridiculous side plot in the California deserts, a peaceful life on a farm with a loving woman and her family who dined with him after he was shot. In the final season, he even insisted on wearing the tough "Raven" façade until they were inseparable. Barry himself (played by Haider) has devoted himself to the Hollywood dream in every possible way, including this season, with the false quiet life he established for himself with Sally and their son together.
So the finale, and especially its final minutes, is perfect in this respect. From here on out, spoilers for the finale of "Barry": The Hollywood lie is hurled at us in all its intensity and poverty. In the clutches of this machine, Barry Berkman's story is transformed into a cliché-laden biographical film so aptly called "The Masquerade," based on fundamentally factual misconceptions. While we've seen satires like this before, it's a mockery of how Hollywood adapts original stories into a battered stanch that has almost nothing to do with the truth, and as a film expert, Haider is undoubtedly familiar with them (in fact, the end of his series brings to mind the closing minutes of Robert Altman's "The Player"). Still, this lockdown is perfect for a series like "Barry." Perpetuates the lie that was the guiding light of its heroes.
Virtuoso acting. Sarah Goldberg, "Barry" (Photo: HBO)
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series The fourth season as a whole was the epitome of the talents behind and in front of the camera. It perfected three elements of Haider: his love of cinema and encyclopedic knowledge, the skill he acquired after three years as Barry creator and occasional director, and his ambition. This merger lifted the visuals, which have already improved over the years, to heights that you simply don't see on TV. The last season was cinematic, spectacular, full of surprises and brilliance, and often gave the feeling that it was being wasted on too small screens.
At the same time, the cast of the series continued to demonstrate that it is one of the most amazing on television. You still can't stop admiring Haider's dramatic skills. Winkler and Roth may have given their life roles here. Anthony Kerrigan is an unbelievable discovery - first as the funniest thing in the series and finally also as a very moving dramatic actor. And Sarah Goldberg, well, she's indescribable. Her character went through almost everything, and Goldberg's portrayal of Sally's lack of self-awareness, her grim past, and later her suffocating future, was virtuoso and astonishing. Comedy, drama, good acting of bad acting, existential despair - she makes it all seem easy.
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Perhaps the role of his life, despite the Ponz. Henry Winkler, "Barry" (Photo: HBO)
An unbelievable discovery. Anthony Kerrigan, "Barry" (Photo: HBO)
From its earliest days, "Barry" didn't cut corners or make assumptions about its characters or story (OK, Jim Moss' negligence at the end is the exception). When something had to happen because that's what made sense to happen, that's where the script took it. It began at the end of the perfect first season, when Barry had to murder his best friend from the Marine Corps so he wouldn't go to the police, and then also when he murdered Detective Janice Moss when she realized he was the killer she was looking for. In the third season, the circle closes when Barry is captured by Jim (Robert Wisdom), the late detective's father. These deaths accompanied the series from then until its end, leaning over the heroes' shoulders and weighing on their souls. That's what made "Barry" so good.
Beyond Barry's capture, the other stories also seemed to end up at the end of the third season. Jean Cosino, who was Janice's boyfriend, helped fool Barry and lead him into the trap, while it seems that he himself is finally acknowledging the career mistakes he has made over the years. Foxx is also captured by Jim. Sally — a former victim of violence from her boyfriend — achieved success in the third season in Hollywood with her own series that was canceled within a day, then became a pariah following a well-documented tantrum, managed to kill an intruder who attacked her in her home and left town. Noho Hank managed to escape from the Bolivian basement where he was imprisoned, and save his partner Cristobal (Michael Irby) from the torture of bitterness.
Everything seemed complete and finished, and maybe it only took a few more minutes, maximum another chapter, to tie up more thematic edges of the kind we got in the last chapter. Barry who acknowledges his mistakes, Sally who deals with her field in the small circle in which she lives, and another statement, a signature, about Hollywood. But Haider and his co-creator, Alec Berg ("Silicon Valley"), insisted there was another story, and that insistence produced a kind of tedious epilogue.
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Feedback. Bill Hader, "Barry" (Photo: HBO)
The last season just felt forced. She delved into the ideas we already knew and gave the feeling that its main purpose was to serve as a playground for Haider's feedback. The surrealism of "Barry", which has intensified since the second season, conquered every good plot this time. It became delusional to the point of exhaustion, blurring between dream and reality without really being justified. Surrealism went hand in hand with the darkness that took over the series as it progressed – and rightly so, given its premise – so it was evident that it was meant to serve as a sort of compensation. But what began with the funny and bizarre "Ronnie/Lily" from the second season, with the girl who wreaked havoc on Barry and Poyokes and persecuted them, has partly become the seal of the series into a war of attrition.
Meanwhile, there were very few funny moments to take comfort in in the final season. When they were, the vast majority were mean to the point that sometimes the show seems to hate its characters. The final episode took it to the other extreme, and luckily so, but it doesn't alleviate what came before either. Thank goodness Fred Armisen, at least he can always be counted on to deliver.
The title of the worst episode of the final season, the one that takes place entirely in the desert after the time jump, is "Problematic Legacy." Barry struggles with how to instill in his son the knowledge and meaning that will make him a good person, and as usual does so superficially and cosmetically. It's tempting to apply the episode title to what the final season did, but that's not really true. Unlike its heroes, Barry's greatest virtue has always been the fact that she knows exactly what it is and sticks to it. Even if, as we've seen this year, sometimes it does a little too much. Nonetheless, as an overall work, "Barry" will go down in the annals as brilliant, uncompromising and loaded with talent. The final season maximum will be remembered as a thorn in Elia.
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