Bill Hader's Barry is stuck in prison and hungry for revenge in final season teaser
"A very clear ending presented itself," Hader said of the decision to make the show's fourth season its last
Well, folks, Barry has officially reached that sad time in the life of any great show—when it must bow out with (fingers crossed) a little more dignity than its titular assassin has afforded to his many, many victims. While we will certainly miss Bill Hader’s weird, wonderful tragicomedy, there is some light at the end of the tunnel: in the words of The A.V. Club’s Christina Izzo, four seasons is definitely the sweet spot for prestige TV, and Bill Hader seems to agree.
In a recent interview with Variety, Hader revealed that as he and co-creator Alec Berg were writing the fourth season “a very clear ending presented itself”–one they were so sure of that they actually went back and rewrote the excellent third season (which hadn’t begun filming yet) to get there.
That ending (and hopefully many more of our burning questions) will be revealed in the upcoming season, which premieres April 16 on HBO. In the meantime, the powers that be have gifted us a short teaser to whet our appetites in advance of what we assume will be a run chock full of blood, violence, HBO continuing to dunk on itself, and hopefully a big house in the country with no more pain EVER for Hank and Cristobal.