Current Events > Barry was a great show *spoilers*

(+) Yeah! (+)

I was late with season 1 and 2...and then didn't watch season 3 and 4 until the last month. Not a terrible way to watch it as there was a pretty notable split with the show anyway.

But I was overall really happy with how it turned out. It was not afraid to change the status quo which is always risky for a show but I think it worked out well.

What I found neat was the show made me the most uncomfortable when it gave me a glimpse of what it looks like when psychopaths like Barry get their 'happy' ending. God damn that was miserable and Barry giving life to the world was more disturbing than Barry taking life.

But the actual ending itself of Hollywood glorifying Barry after his death was so god damn perfect I have to wonder if that was the plan from the start.

Got an eye on what Bill Hader does from here. His direction in his episodes had some creative stuff.

One of the best finales, the show does such a good job with such little runtime

Punished_Blinx posted...

But the actual ending itself of Hollywood glorifying Barry after his death was so god damn perfect I have to wonder if that was the plan from the start.

What I loved was the smile on his kid in the closing shot. Like, he was actually there in those moments. He KNOWS everything he watched in the movie was bullshit. But this is a series where every major character who meets Barry begins acting like someone else entirely, and then eventually becoming that. And Barry has just passed that on to him as well.

Yeah it's an interesting character study of a show. Fuches speech to Hank at the end really sums it most of it.

Nobody was honest about themselves. It was all about the perception they wanted to create and what they wanted to believe instead of actually doing the right thing or being honest about what they wanted and why they wanted it. That validation mattered more than anything else.

In a way it's a bit of a commentary about how audiences tend to idolize bad people if they can create a justification for it too. That the perception and the 'narrative' matters more than the truth and being honest about it.

The final scene being John is indeed such a great closing shot. Sally did overall seem to get her life back on track and he still seems like a good kid. But Sally still prioritizes the validation of an audience over her own son and he ends up seeking validation about his father from a shitty B-Movie.