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 Barry is HBO's new half-hour show created by Alec Berg (Silicon Valley, Curb Your Enthusiasm) and Bill Hader (The Angry Birds Movie), starring Hader himself, Stephen Root, Sarah Goldberg, and Henry Winkler. Hader plays the titular Barry, an Iraq war veteran who has been given a new post-deployment purpose (killing people for the mob) by his father's friend Fuches (Stephen Root). After being assigned a new target in Los Angeles, Barry accidentally stumbles into Gene Cousineau's (Henry Winkler) acting class for novice thespians and decides he wants to become an actor. Fuches pushes back on his desire to stop being a hitman, leading to the core premise: Barry trying to balance being both a hitman and an actor, while falling in love with his classmate Sally (Sarah Goldberg). Trailers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b09aJdWqVp4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b09aJdWqVp4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgA3_ARt174 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgA3_ARt174 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-4JRHO6xP0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-4JRHO6xP0 Barry airs Sundays at 10:30 ET on HBO. The first two episodes have aired as of this post. El Jeffe fucked around with this message at 02:37 on Apr 3, 2018 |
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I don’t have a lot of deep thoughts on this show yet, but I’ve really enjoyed the first two episodes and have been waiting for this thread for a week. I hope NoHo Hank makes it through the whole season!
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Apr 3, 2018 05:17
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Rugikiki posted:I don’t have a lot of deep thoughts on this show yet, but I’ve really enjoyed the first two episodes and have been waiting for this thread for a week. I hope NoHo Hank makes it through the whole season! NoHo Hank is the best part of the show so far imo. But good god the teeth filing 
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Apr 3, 2018 05:40
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What's in the ape pit? APES.
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Apr 9, 2018 04:51
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I really appreciate the tone they strike w Barry. Emphasizing his skill without making it cool, and making it a relatively somber affair post-kill. It’s great that Bill doesn’t have to do wacky guy at all, and he makes a great foil for everyone around him. They nail how malleable he is to the events around him, and show off the insanity that exists in our own lives.
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Apr 10, 2018 03:55
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Dude, thanks. Wouldn't know this existed without this thread. I guess it now makes sense why Hader hosted SNL a couple weeks ago, but I din't think he promoted this during the show, at all. I love me some Bill Hader. ...Henry Winkler is good, too. Can't wait to check this out 
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Apr 10, 2018 04:18
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Yeah, when he's confronted by that guy's dad and he's just utterly dumbfounded and confused it comes across really strongly. Like he's been given this idea that he's just been taking out faceless baddies who have no connections in life, but they're always people and no one is in a vacuum. It's just that Barry has never really had to deal with the after effects of what he does, and now he's getting knee deep into people's lives (or the superficial levels of Hollywood acting life) and he's engrossed while also needing to come to terms with the effects of his actions. I think there's an even greater humor and darkness to that memorial because it's just a bunch of actors trying to get seen at a car crash and then legit emotion comes up from the father, and it comes across as such a blow to Barry. It's a really great scene. edit: No tienes que hacer esto...indeed. discworld is all I read fucked around with this message at 06:20 on Apr 10, 2018 |
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Apr 10, 2018 05:46
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holy gently caress this show is good NoHo Hank is the best, but Barry is pretty good too.
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Apr 10, 2018 09:28
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discworld is all I read posted:Yeah, when he's confronted by that guy's dad and he's just utterly dumbfounded and confused it comes across really strongly. Like he's been given this idea that he's just been taking out faceless baddies who have no connections in life, but they're always people and no one is in a vacuum. It's just that Barry has never really had to deal with the after effects of what he does, and now he's getting knee deep into people's lives (or the superficial levels of Hollywood acting life) and he's engrossed while also needing to come to terms with the effects of his actions. I thought Paco’s daughter was gonna be in play. Barry enters the window in what’s clearly a little girl’s room, so I thought it would come up while he was strangling Paco. Maybe next episode or later in the season. Also, I know it’s only a few seconds so it might not be an actual song... but what’s the song that the opening title uses?
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Apr 10, 2018 12:00
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I hope at some point someone makes a passing insult that he looks like dwight schrute because just look at the guy.
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Apr 10, 2018 12:16
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Boywhiz88 posted:Also, I know it’s only a few seconds so it might not be an actual song... but what’s the song that the opening title uses? Charles Bradley - Change for the World
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Apr 10, 2018 20:51
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The pilot seemed to have a slightly less funny tone to it, but the bald antagonist really brought a lot of humour to the last two episodes. If it keeps up it'll be great. Although I already want way less of the annoying actress girl.
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Apr 10, 2018 23:01
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The hamfisted romantic B-plot is by far the weakest part of the show. It's perfectly strong without it.
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Apr 11, 2018 00:33
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bill hader is no john cusack
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Apr 12, 2018 21:30
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Weakest episode so far and I think that's largely due to the lack of Zsasz
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Apr 16, 2018 07:41
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I actually loved this one. Winkler cracked me up, and Barry's awful monologue and subsequent breakthrough were great too. It did sort of feel like a different show without any hitman stuff, but looks like that's not going to last very long.
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Apr 17, 2018 17:27
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Show is really good so far - especially loving the meta jokes/commentary pieces thrown in.. Bill Hader is also great as a hitman, and reminds me of the parts of Dexter I enjoyed.
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Apr 18, 2018 20:47
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El Jeffe posted:I actually loved this one. Winkler cracked me up, and Barry's awful monologue and subsequent breakthrough were great too. They had hitman stuff. Barry tried and failed to get out of the business, and the FBI unlocked the dashcam. The show would lose too much if it lost that element. Like if Dexter had gone straight after he acquired a human family.
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Apr 18, 2018 21:11
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i like the police techies and the ukranian programmer they brought in to unlock the camera. The shows strength thus far, for me personally, is having haders deadfish awkward social personality clash with him as a stone cold operator. His frustration at being forced to do something he doesnt wanna do despite being so good at it was great fodder in eps 1 to 3
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Apr 18, 2018 21:42
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Propaganda Machine posted:They had hitman stuff. Barry tried and failed to get out of the business, and the FBI unlocked the dashcam. The show would lose too much if it lost that element. Like if Dexter had gone straight after he acquired a human family. Should've been more clear, I meant Barry himself acting as a hitman like in the previous episodes.
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Apr 18, 2018 23:19
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All we've seen Barry do, short of the cold open, is question himself, avoid a hit, and then take out the Russians in dramatically compellingly obtuse self defense. They've established that it's not going to be a show of the-mark-of-the-week. Any hit is going to be a plot point, and you just know the FBI investigation is going to go tits up for Barry by the end of the season. They're lulling the audience into a false sense of security if anything.
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Apr 19, 2018 00:29
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My one wish is that NoHo Hank survives because he's the best.
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Apr 19, 2018 07:56
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Vanderdeath posted:My one wish is that NoHo Hank survives because he's the best. https://streamable.com/bgfwz
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Apr 19, 2018 22:01
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I really connected w Barry this episode. I’ve hugely misunderstood relationships, felt empty inside, unfulfilled, etc. When the last episode ends on that scene of him walking through the grocery store, at peace, and in love. It’s really relatable, and very bittersweet.
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Apr 20, 2018 23:38
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uh hey barry... when we gonna kill those guys... bye
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Apr 23, 2018 06:26
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I kinda wonder if they're ever going to touch on Barry's childhood at all, cause it's hard to pass off that this social awkwardness is just from the military, right? His interactions with Sally just comes across as his first date ever and he just lost his virginity or something. I mean I get writing the character to be naive and socially awkward or stunted, but it seems a bit hyperbolic without more justification or background. Also still continuing to enjoy the vapidness that the entire acting class has behind it, especially that one part where the British actress was like "I took a quiz to see if I lived in a bubble and it turns out I do" or when they were being questioned and that one guy was ready to just turn and assume that other guy was a murderer with no real reasoning behind it.
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Apr 23, 2018 06:36
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I couldn't get through episode 4, literally anything else was distracting me and winning. I guess the show just isn't for me- but I'm also not sure it's any good. I have struggled to find much humor in the show- but the drama isn't compelling enough to keep me interested either. I love it any time that Henry Winkler is on screen, he's by far the best part of the show. Maybe if I was watching this show with my wife or friends I could find some humor in it- but I also find that I'm really over cringe humor. I just don't find it entertaining to cringe my way through a 30 minute show. Oh look, Barry doesn't know how to take a hint to leave. Oh look, a cop is crying in the pictures because he's getting divorced. Oh, and just to give this particular joke a mean streak- all of his coworkers had a bet on how long his marriage would last. I have preciously little time for entertainment, and while I'm not necessarily looking for Friends, I can't justify spending my time watching through my fingers. I love Bill Hader, and I want to see him get more work- but if this show is going to be successful it's going to need a Parks and Rec season 3 kind of turn around.
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I did like the suggestion that Barry does have some legitimate potential as an actor. The way he changes when he's around his military friend suggests that he's capable of shaping the way he acts to the people he's around. But then you go back to the way he melted when performing that Glenngarry monologue -- not just terrible line readings that span off into different directions with every single line, but also the way he played the character like the character genuinely cared about the people around him. He's a people pleaser. I'm not sure I can buy how naive Barry is though. How could an ex-marine be such a sheltered boy scout? It's like he's an actual child. Is it a compartmentalisation thing? Does he separate his identity that starkly in order to protect himself from confronting the grisly and messy nature of his work? Huh, maybe I solved my own problem. SpitztheGreat posted:I couldn't get through episode 4, literally anything else was distracting me and winning. I guess the show just isn't for me- but I'm also not sure it's any good. I have struggled to find much humor in the show- but the drama isn't compelling enough to keep me interested either. I love it any time that Henry Winkler is on screen, he's by far the best part of the show. I suspect this show isn't for you, maybe? It's one of those black comedies where everyone is held at a distance by their uglier qualities, but still close enough so that their suffering has bite. It sounds kind of the opposite of the thing you're looking for right now.
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Apr 23, 2018 09:07
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This show is mostly for gearheads
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Apr 23, 2018 09:39
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I feel like we could lose the acting class and love interest and focus more on The black comedy hitman stuff and it would still be a complete show. The acting class stuff is just suffocating the hitman stuff, which is where most of the humor is at right now.
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Apr 23, 2018 14:23
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NoHo Hank best Hank
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Apr 23, 2018 19:02
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Laserface posted:I feel like we could lose the acting class and love interest and focus more on The black comedy hitman stuff and it would still be a complete show. The acting class stuff is just suffocating the hitman stuff, which is where most of the humor is at right now. Yea, I do not like the acting class stuff as much. It was good for the character development for the first few episodes but I'm a bit over it now. It should be more of a "cover" thing that Barry's using to kill time and blend in in L.A with rather than something he's fighting to do. I love the Chechen mob and Monroe (Root) and I really hope that season 2 focuses much more on that kind of stuff. It's fun watching Hader switch from "decent guy who doesn't have much experience socializing" to "very capable killing machine" but the acting class stuff really distracts from what the show should be. Also I really, really hope the show doesn't do the whole 'Silicon Valley' thing where every character sabotages everything around them because I'm really getting sick of the "perpetual fuckup" kind of humor there. Let the characters and their world grow and mature some.
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Apr 23, 2018 23:09
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Liked that even with suppressors their guns were proper loud
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Apr 23, 2018 23:42
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Milo and POTUS posted:Liked that even with suppressors their guns were proper loud Yea I loved that. I really like how fast and lethal the violence is in this, it really doesn't glamorize how brutal and quick gunfights are.
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Apr 23, 2018 23:47
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Tumble posted:Yea, I do not like the acting class stuff as much. It was good for the character development for the first few episodes but I'm a bit over it now. It should be more of a "cover" thing that Barry's using to kill time and blend in in L.A with rather than something he's fighting to do. I don't get you. Barry's thespian desires are a fundamental part of the show's premise. It's not a show about a killer guy who also acts, it's a show about a killer guy who wants to act but is loving terrible at it. If you downplay the acting classes then you're making a completely different show.
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Apr 24, 2018 01:33
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Lord Sexatron posted:NoHo Hank best Hank Is this a real sticker set for iMessage or made for the show?
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Open Source Idiom posted:I don't get you. Barry's thespian desires are a fundamental part of the show's premise. It's not a show about a killer guy who also acts, it's a show about a killer guy who wants to act but is loving terrible at it. If you downplay the acting classes then you're making a completely different show.  It's the core conflict of the show and its source of tension.Lord Sexatron posted:NoHo Hank best Hank This part made me laugh so hard.
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Apr 24, 2018 01:53
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The acting class was really good this episode I thought. Winkler is clearly great, and them all telling Barry what a horrible person he is without realizing it was classic. I think episodes 1-3 and 5 were all solid A+. What held back Episode 4 was the lack of chechan mob antics. If they aren't gonna have a "hit" or some kind of brutal action sequence to help whiplash the mood of the cringy socialization stuff they need to have some mob antics. Just have noho hank drop by and chat up Barry. the introduction of taylor to the barry/fuchs dynamic should offer more of that needed contrast as well.
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Apr 24, 2018 01:58
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discworld is all I read posted:I kinda wonder if they're ever going to touch on Barry's childhood at all, cause it's hard to pass off that this social awkwardness is just from the military, right? His interactions with Sally just comes across as his first date ever and he just lost his virginity or something. I mean I get writing the character to be naive and socially awkward or stunted, but it seems a bit hyperbolic without more justification or background. I've been viewing Barry as a Dexter-style sociopath, it's not that he's naive or inexperienced about relationships (although that's probably the case too), rather he just doesn't understand them at all and is just trying to imitate (or act!!) what he thinks is normal behavior.
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Barry, its Tracy. Lets fuckin do this thing, man. Kill people. gently caress yeah. Later.
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