Barry - The HBO hitman show

[TheHarbinger]

There are tons of possibilities, but none of them make them Barry. Remember when Prison Break stopped being about breaking out of prison?

Yes but that assumes that Barry is a real person. I am under the impression that this movie is like The Matrix or Total Recall. Where the character exists in a different world inside of the actual real world. The different world in Barry being his own mind after he is put into a psyche ward following a life sentence.

 

[Titos]

I started watching a few weeks ago and just finished season 3. Season 3 was a big let down for me. The stuff with Barry and Cousineau was good but there was so much boring shit with Sally, and the ending was really fucking dumb.

I don't even know how they do a season 4 without some really dumb asspulls, turning every character into a full blown retard, or devolving into Dexter-tier stupidity.

The motorcycle chase and tiger/bear thing with Hank was kino though.

 

[I don't swear]

Season 4 starts April 16th, looking to be the last season.

 

[pork and beans]

im months late but i started the final season and the first 3 or 4 episodes were literally perfect and then everything goes to shit IMO.

Spoiler: huge plot spoiler

doing a time skip was the worst thing they could do. not everybody can be better call saul. i wanted it to be anything other than a time skip. it felt like suuuch a cop out. i was even willing to chalk it up as a hallucination by barry since hes daydreamed of being a dad like a million times throughout the show.

it was such a bummer i stopped watching after episode 5. i have yet to finish it. does it get better? what did you guys think?

 

[Autistic Monkey]

im months late but i started the final season and the first 3 or 4 episodes were literally perfect and then everything goes to shit IMO.

Spoiler: huge plot spoiler

doing a time skip was the worst thing they could do. not everybody can be better call saul. i wanted it to be anything other than a time skip. it felt like suuuch a cop out. i was even willing to chalk it up as a hallucination by barry since hes daydreamed of being a dad like a million times throughout the show.

it was such a bummer i stopped watching after episode 5. i have yet to finish it. does it get better? what did you guys think?

I think the last episodes had some good moments, but were kind of boring. Though I did like the ending. I feel like its worth to watch it for the ending, but people had a very mixed reaction to it. So it can be a massive disappointment for you.

 

[pork and beans]

I think the last episodes had some good moments, but were kind of boring. Though I did like the ending.

I finally watched the entire final season with a friend last week and it was ok. The timeskip wasn't such a bummer on a rewatch and the rest of the show was ok. Thats really all the praise I can give. I liked what they did with Fuches and that they basically turned Noho Hank into Gustavo Fring. I enjoyed the epilogue with Sally.

I can't say I liked it but it was better than I expected and watching it didn't feel like time wasted so i'll take what I can get. They should've tried to be less like Breaking Bad IMO but

Spoiler: barry spoiler

killing Barry was the right choice. With characters like him the fun is in watching him dig himself deeper into a hole but eventually he has to come up and that's less interesting no matter what.

 

[Internet War Criminal]

I know the whole ending is supposed to be SuBvErTiNg ExPeCtAtIoNs and all that, but I thought it really worked considering the way the show was structured and those last moments with the kids were funny/touching.

I still think that this show jumped the shark with the Season 3 ending but at least it didn’t go full Atlanta.

 

[I don't swear]

I know the whole ending is supposed to be SuBvErTiNg ExPeCtAtIoNs and all that, but I thought it really worked considering the way the show was structured and those last moments with the kids were funny/touching.

I still think that this show jumped the shark with the Season 3 ending but at least it didn’t go full Atlanta.

What happened with Atlanta?

 

[TVB]

What happened with Atlanta?

It ended last year

@Stab You in the Back unironically kys you leftist consoomer nigger

 

[Internet War Criminal]

What happened with Atlanta?

It went retardedly woke. It had an episode about how whites paid reparations to blacks and become slaves, etc...

 

[TVB]

It went retardedly woke. It had an episode about how whites paid reparations to blacks and become slaves, etc...

I honestly never watched it (and never will thank god). It looked like dogshit

 

[Internet War Criminal]

I honestly never watched it (and never will thank god). It looked like dogshit

First season was really good. Second season was….. very uneven. Some great episodes, and then some that were “experimental” and a few good but most were not. But they were very critic-friendly.

Then he filmed season 3 and 4 back to back and by that point he had a successful music career and getting high the smell of his own fart and convinced he was an artistic genius and Season 3 fucking blew I dropped out after a few.

 

[TVB]

First season was really good. Second season was….. very uneven. Some great episodes, and then some that were “experimental” and a few good but most were not. But they were very critic-friendly.

Then he filmed season 3 and 4 back to back and by that point he had a successful music career and getting high the smell of his own fart and convinced he was an artistic genius and Season 3 fucking blew I dropped out after a few.

I hate when a show had only one great season but the rest became total trash in a horrible nosedive

 

[Internet War Criminal]

This is the posterchild for that shit

 

[The Blue Morpho]

Season 3 was shit but somehow I got through it. I couldn't get past the timeskip in Season 4.

The writing got so bad and preachy and up its own ass. I got the impression that the whole timeskip thing was the writers insinuating only a psycho like Barry would want to raise a family in some hodunk place like the Dakotas or wherever complete with homeschooling. It was so fucking mean-spirited I couldn't finish it.

I hate the fact that the majority of media products are made from a decidedly Californian perspective.

Shame too because S1 was fantastic and I even thought S2 was pretty good.

 

[DeadwastePrime]

time for a necro posting. i watched this series earlier in the year as a recommendation to which i watched it to a point where i ended up bingeing the last two seasons in a day (its 8 hours of content, i could do that easy) and i thought the entire thing was fucking great. this is extremely well written and well acted. i viewed it as mostly a drama, but certain comedic moments did make me chuckle (ronny/lily is the best episode for this reason)
i would totally recommend watching this series

 

[Oilspill Battery]

I didn't like the timeskip at first, but it grew on me by the finalle, the way everything came toogether in a neat way that made an ending that would have otherwise been too saccarine pretty good. It does feel like we could have gotten an entire extra season, but considering how many shows shit the bed nowadays, barry's ending is pretty good because you're not left feeling like the entire thing was a colossally pointless waste of time.

Yeah I guess it is subverting expectations to have an ending that doesn't make you feel like the writers hate you.

The writing got so bad and preachy and up its own ass. I got the impression that the whole timeskip thing was the writers insinuating only a psycho like Barry would want to raise a family in some hodunk place like the Dakotas or wherever complete with homeschooling. It was so fucking mean-spirited I couldn't finish it.

You're completely paranoid, the entire series is set up to make barry as sympathetic as possible.

Barry's religiocity is never played as a joke even once in the entire season, he's holding onto it for moral guidance and its clearly the one thing preventing him from actually going in guns blazing and executing everyone.

The whole point is that he escaped a life of violence and is only so obsessive over it because he doesn't want his son to fall into it. Overcorrecting a little? Yes, but its not presented as a silly thing.

He's prepared to go in and sacrifice himself to save his son and asks god to give his son a long and happy life before he goes in ready to die. It came as across as very genuine to me, especially considering that his prayer WAS granted. He got redeemed, everyone views him as a hero, his son looks up to him, and one of the only two lines his son has post timeskip is that he doesn't drink alcohol.

If you think the writers are calling him a psycho compare christianity as presented here to christianity as presented in every single other show to come out the past 20 years and find a more positive one.