![]() ![]() On his way to the corporate HQ to save Sally and John, Barry makes a pit stop at a Wal-Mart coded store (for the second time this season) to buy guns, a dark take on how easy it is to acquire firearms in the United States. The company was a thin ruse that started forming giant cracks the second Fuches got out of prison. ![]() That the building was full of huge glass windows was likely no mistake. Hank built the whole Nohobal enterprise to hide his culpability by honoring Cristobal’s dream of a sand empire, he tricked himself into thinking he could exonerate his actions to a dead man and himself so his own well-being wouldn't crumble. Killer Barry to actor Barry Fuches to criminal mastermind The Raven narcissistic pain-in-the ass actor Gene Cousineau (Henry Winkler) to teacher and mentor from struggling actor Sally Reed (Sarah Goldberg) to disgraced showrunner to anything that doesn’t make her feel deep shame.Īt the end of that faceoff, Fuches, as it’s revealed when the shooting is over, leaps on top of John to protect him from the hail of bullets, and Noho Hank dies at the foot of Cristobal’s bronze statue, ending the torment of his guilt over but never able to admit the role he played in sending the love of his life to his death by choosing safety over love. Their whole exchange - about denial, safety, and the acceptance of true selves - speaks directly to the themes of the entire series, full of people running away from or trying (often futilely) to reinvent themselves by wearing different masks. ![]() A tense hostage negotiation, with masterful performances from Carrigan and Root, fails, ending in a mutually assured bloodbath between the Chechyens and the Raven’s crews. The episode begins with the standoff between Noho Hank (Anthony Carrigan) and Monroe Fuches (Steven Root) in the foyer of Nohobal. It was a remarkably bleak conclusion, a real one-two punch of marathon TV-watching immediately following Succession’s mega-sized rollercoaster of a finale. In reality, he was an irredeemable killer who destroyed the lives of the people close to him. By the end of the show’s series finale, “wow” - directed by Hader, as many of the best Barry episodes were - Barry’s complicated delusion as the guy he told himself he always was, a man upholding justice who somehow found himself in impossible situations that he had to shoot his way out of, becomes upsettingly realized. In spite of the wake of bodies he’d left from his time in the Marines at Korengal as a small-time hitman-for-hire in Cleveland and in LA where he caught the acting bug he was constantly trying to outrun his past and turn over a new leaf, starting now. Throughout the entire four-season run of HBO’s Barry, Bill Hader’s Barry Berkman continuously tried to convince himself and those around him that he was actually a good guy. ![]()
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