REVIEW: ‘Barry’ Goes Out on Its Own Terms in Deliciously Dark Season 4 Bill Hader and Alec Berg’s dark HBO comedy continues to serve up its unique cocktail of thrills and laughs in its fourth and final season. Story:
The new season opens shortly after the events of last year’s finale. Barry is in jail, incarcerated alongside Fuches, who previously was blamed for many of Barry’s crimes. Sally has flown home to Joplin, still traumatized and scared after beating to death a man who was trying to kill Barry. Gene Cousineau is being feted as a hero, while NoHo Hank and his lover Cristobal are seeking some downtime after the trauma both suffered in Cristobal’s native Bolivia.
Beyond the world knowing who and what Barry Berkman is, the season’s biggest change is how easily and forcefully Barry is able to access and express his own feelings. In previous years, he had to be nudged by Gene or Sally into exploring his inner self, and even then he only sometimes understood those emotions. Here, with nothing to hide, no one to support him, and knowledge of how many people want to destroy him, he is a tormented, and often furious person.
There’s one episode, set largely away from Los Angeles, that doesn’t quite work. It’s necessary for the plot of the season, but drags in a way that so many recent cable and streaming departure episodes do not. Beyond that, though, it’s a season that feels both surprising and inevitable. Multiple chickens come home to roost, but almost never in the way you assume they will. It’s much heavier than the show was when it started, but it still manages to be a comedy a good chunk of the time.
This is a reminder from your friendly neighborhood TV critic: an episode that breaks the format of a show in some way, and/or is especially distinctive, isautomatically a bottle episode. A bottle episode is specifically one that takes place entirely on pre-existing sets, featuring few, if any, guest stars in an attempt to save money.
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