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 Post subject: Re: TV: HBO: Barry
PostPosted: Wed April 27, 2022 8:19 pm 
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Man, I cannot remember what happened between Barry and Sally last season, but her dynamic seems like she hates him and has something over his head?

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her former abusive boyfriend returned to her life. Barry almost killed him but then decided not to. Sally turned their experience into a short play; Barry played her boyfriend. She staged a showing and networked to get some agents to attend in hopes of landing a deal. At the last minute, she reworked the pivotal scene of her play to make it more of a woman’s empowerment narrative rather than tell her truth (that she stayed with a serial abuser for a long time). She got a lot of attention for her “bravery” and “honesty.” Barry also skipped an important audition to help her with her play.

We don’t know exactly what’s happened in the interim, but at face value she now has a starring role on her own network tv show while Barry sinks into a depression. She’s basically using him as an emotional crutch, and I suspect she’ll try to move on once some successful hollywood type shows an interest in her.


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 Post subject: Re: TV: HBO: Barry
PostPosted: Wed April 27, 2022 8:35 pm 
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i love how awful Sally is. She is the worst person and the main guy is a killer!

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 Post subject: Re: TV: HBO: Barry
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ep 2 wasnt that good...not feeling this season so far.

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 Post subject: Re: TV: HBO: Barry
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It’s dark, and the setup between Barry and Gene is weird. I don’t see how they’ll stretch that for eight eps and have it feel believable.


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Yeah, this season feels off so far.


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I dunno, I loved Barry’s scene where he lost it.


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I think Hader was top notch in this episode.


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 Post subject: Re: TV: HBO: Barry
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i mean it had its moments, but overall the whole barry-gene stuff is not funny and feels desperate. The ending of the episode too.

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maybe hader & berg don’t have it anymore. happens to everyone

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 Post subject: Re: TV: HBO: Barry
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It's been 2 episodes...


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 Post subject: Re: TV: HBO: Barry
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It’s dark, and the setup between Barry and Gene is weird. I don’t see how they’ll stretch that for eight eps and have it feel believable.

The only thing I could see making some sort of sense is Gene gets into a pickle — does something really awful — and Barry saved him somehow. Then they have a bond forged in villainy.


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 Post subject: Re: TV: HBO: Barry
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It’s dark, and the setup between Barry and Gene is weird. I don’t see how they’ll stretch that for eight eps and have it feel believable.

The only thing I could see making some sort of sense is Gene gets into a pickle — does something really awful — and Barry saved him somehow. Then they have a bond forged in villainy.

They're going to great lengths to have a bunch of casting directors say that Gene is a scumbag, when we've spent the past two seasons seeing only how adored he is by his students. $100 says he gets #MeTood for some past impropriety, and Barry offs the accuser.


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 Post subject: Re: TV: HBO: Barry
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Well, that got interesting again. It hasn’t been a light start to the season but it’s about to get even darker. That panther story was most likely foreshadowing.
Once again Fuchs is shown looking devilish, in red light to end the episode. He obviously didn’t pick up on the story’s moral. That phone scene with him and Barry was fantastic.
I’m curious where the Cousineau plot line goes. Barry so wants him to be a mentor figure, a replacement of Fuchs. Another mention of Cousineau being a jerk and having a bit of temper in the past.
The junket scene was a nice little bit of Hollywood in joke; how boring and tedious those press interviews are. Sally’s co-star again mentions how uncomfortable she is around Barry.
Apparently this episode had lots of reworking and reshoots.


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 Post subject: Re: TV: HBO: Barry
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tragabigzanda wrote:
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It’s dark, and the setup between Barry and Gene is weird. I don’t see how they’ll stretch that for eight eps and have it feel believable.

The only thing I could see making some sort of sense is Gene gets into a pickle — does something really awful — and Barry saved him somehow. Then they have a bond forged in villainy.

They're going to great lengths to have a bunch of casting directors say that Gene is a scumbag, when we've spent the past two seasons seeing only how adored he is by his students. $100 says he gets #MeTood for some past impropriety, and Barry offs the accuser.


Haven't seen tonight's episode yet, but they've also gone to great lengths to show that Gene's students are a bunch of absolute loser moronsz generally fresh from Kansas or whatever, who are routinely getting scammed by Gene (ie today's class is cancelled but no refunds), taking a class in Gene's theater decorated with posters of Gene. So it kinda already scans that Gene is a bit of a scumbag

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 Post subject: Re: TV: HBO: Barry
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Yeah this season still feels a little off track.


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 Post subject: Re: TV: HBO: Barry
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I’m also underwhelmed by this show now. At least Gene seems to have snapped out of his funk; no more close up shots of Winkler staring blankly please.


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 Post subject: Re: TV: HBO: Barry
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The biggest problem is how totally oblivious Barry seems to be:

1. Doesn’t realize he looks like a monster after screaming at his gf on set
2. Doesn’t realize his whole plan with Gene is bound to fail
3. Doesn’t see the irony in the line reading with Gene, nor sense Gene’s discomfort
4. Doesn’t seem to think Fuches is a problem anymore

It’s like he became a moron during Covid. It just doesn’t track.


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 Post subject: Re: TV: HBO: Barry
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tragabigzanda wrote:
The biggest problem is how totally oblivious Barry seems to be:

1. Doesn’t realize he looks like a monster after screaming at his gf on set
2. Doesn’t realize his whole plan with Gene is bound to fail
3. Doesn’t see the irony in the line reading with Gene, nor sense Gene’s discomfort
4. Doesn’t seem to think Fuches is a problem anymore

It’s like he became a moron during Covid. It just doesn’t track.

agree with all of this. Barry is basically a machine, and he doesn't know how to be anything more than that.

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