Reviews - Barry

“Telling the truth is the right thing to do, right?”

Barry generally tends to let its Hollywood satire exist in the margins. Its main comedic targets are actorly…

For the first hour of David Lynch’s Mulholland Dr., Betty Elms, played by Naomi Watts, is naiveté incarnate. An…

The first thing you notice is the title card, which appears without a cold open or accompanying fanfare. Then, it’s…

“I pray that human beings can change their nature. Because if we can’t, then you and I are in deep trouble.”—Gene…

Personally speaking, reactive performances are generally much more interesting to watch than traditionally active…

“Am I evil?” Barry quietly asks Hank. “Am I, like, an evil person?”

When Barry’s first season ended last May, a common refrain from critics was that it functioned perfectly well as a…

“Starting…now!”

After Chris emphatically tells Barry that he wants to come clean to the cops about murdering a Bolivian gang member…

When Barry chose not to kill Taylor after their stash house raid, and subsequently tried to fold him into Fuches’…

When Lady Macbeth somnambulantly monologues about the imaginary bloodstains that cover her hands in Act V Scene 1 of …

For the past three episodes, Barry has tried to run from his past, but, predictably, his past keeps catching up to…

Barry moves between many different modes—existential hitman profile, showbiz comedy, whimsical mafia farce, low-key…

When Gene Cousineau informs his acting class about Ryan Madison’s gruesome death, they first mourn, and then they…

In just about every professional field, passion exists in spades, but talent is hard to come by. Putting aside the…

On the surface, the premise of Bill Hader’s new dark comedy, Barry, seems like it could have been pieced together…