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“Telling the truth is the right thing to do, right?”
Reviews - Barry
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Barry generally tends to let its Hollywood satire exist in the margins. Its main comedic targets are actorly…
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For the first hour of David Lynch’s Mulholland Dr., Betty Elms, played by Naomi Watts, is naiveté incarnate. An…
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The first thing you notice is the title card, which appears without a cold open or accompanying fanfare. Then, it’s…
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“I pray that human beings can change their nature. Because if we can’t, then you and I are in deep trouble.”—Gene…
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Personally speaking, reactive performances are generally much more interesting to watch than traditionally active…
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“Am I evil?” Barry quietly asks Hank. “Am I, like, an evil person?”
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When Barry’s first season ended last May, a common refrain from critics was that it functioned perfectly well as a…
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“Starting…now!”
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After Chris emphatically tells Barry that he wants to come clean to the cops about murdering a Bolivian gang member…
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When Barry chose not to kill Taylor after their stash house raid, and subsequently tried to fold him into Fuches’…
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When Lady Macbeth somnambulantly monologues about the imaginary bloodstains that cover her hands in Act V Scene 1 of …
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For the past three episodes, Barry has tried to run from his past, but, predictably, his past keeps catching up to…
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Barry moves between many different modes—existential hitman profile, showbiz comedy, whimsical mafia farce, low-key…
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When Gene Cousineau informs his acting class about Ryan Madison’s gruesome death, they first mourn, and then they…
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In just about every professional field, passion exists in spades, but talent is hard to come by. Putting aside the…
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On the surface, the premise of Bill Hader’s new dark comedy, Barry, seems like it could have been pieced together…