Barry Is Back, Baby

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Voyage. Welcome to watch this tonight. I'm your host, An Bettimore.

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I'm a producer, writer of film
and television and now a podcast producer.

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And despite having every streaming service,
I never know what to watch. So

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anytime I watch something good, I
talk about it on the show. This

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way, you'll never have the same
problem I do. I watched this tonight.

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There's always something good to watch.
Let's get started. Barry is back

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Baby. Today on the show,
we are talking about Barry, which has

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returned for a fourth and final season. The first two episodes came out on

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HBO on Sunday night, so that
is what I'm gonna be talking about today.

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First, kind of an embarrassing admission, So I accidentally played for some

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reason on my HBO Max. It
was just set this way. I played

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the last episode of season three by
accident, and I'm writing notes as I'm

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watching. I'm like, Wow,
what a bold what a bold choice instead

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of doing previously on seems like they're
really, you know, reminding us of

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what happened. It took a good, I'm embarrassing to say, like a

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good five minutes. Par I was
like, all right, I think this

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is actually just the last episode of
season three. But I do think that

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the fact that I even questioned it
speaks to the show, meaning that if

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this is a normal show, I
would have realized that within twenty seconds.

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But because it's Barry, we're kind
of anything going to happen. I think

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that's why it took me that long
to realize. So it just speaks to

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the originality of the show that this
is one of those shows where anything can

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happened. Really, you know,
you think back to previous seasons. I

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mean drastic shifts in tone, crazy
action sequences, surreal stuff where you're not

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sure what's real what's not real.
So this is a unique show that you

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go into it and you don't know
what's gonna happen, and especially that's true

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of this final season. You know. One of the things that is really

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exciting to me about Barry, and
I think it is exciting about where we're

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at now, is streaming. You
know, this is something that I've always

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thought there was an opening four is
taking a show and just kind of following

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it to wherever it goes, even
if it means drastically departing from what seemed

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to be the template of the show. You know, you could have ended

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this with Barry is caught and he's
in prison and that's the end of the

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show, right, That could have
been the end. And because they're continuing,

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I have no idea where they're going, and that's exciting, you know

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that to not feel like you can
kind of predict where the show is going

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to go, it does make it
more compelling. So I think it's a

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really exciting place to be with the
show for the last season. Barry is

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one of the few shows where I
rewatch episodes. I've always felt the Barry

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gets more mileage out of a half
hour then most shows get out an hour

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because the details, the little details, are so well fought out. For

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example, in the new season,
Sally goes home and it is immediately clear

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she's not comfortable there the way her
mom treats her, and you know,

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she basically treats her like, oh, you're being so dramatic, what's the

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big deal? So your boyfriend murders
people. She goes to her old room

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and the room that she had when
she was a kid has been turned into

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her father's man cave and his heads
of deers mounted on the wall everywhere,

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and the only sign that Sally was
ever. There is a few tiny scraps

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from some kind of rainbow unicorn wall
sticker thing they weren't able to completely scratch

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out. So just in that visual
detail that really puts you in the head

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of the character of like, I
am not this is not home, I'm

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not home here. My existence has
essentially been erased. You know, there's

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barely traces that I was ever here. It's a little visual detail that in

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a bad our show would be like
five minutes of dialogue, another great little

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visual detail. So we're with NoHo, Hank and Crystal Ball and they're having

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dinner at like a Mexican restaurant.
There's like the Margarita's and somebody comes up

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to the table. He says,
can I play some music for you while

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you've dinner? And the obvious choice
would have been to do Marriatchi's or something,

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but it's not Marriatchi's. It's a
rain stick, which is such a

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weird detail. Again, I mean, this is the challenge of great writing,

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right is that you don't go with
whatever is the first thing you come

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up with, and you really sit
and think about it for a while and

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you think, what have I not
seen before. You really care about that

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detail, that little detail of what
the guy's gonna play the restaurant. It

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seems like it's not a big deal, right, but it is a big

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deal. People that are good at
this, that are like world class of

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this, which is you know,
the show Berry is all that stuff really

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matters, and you really sit and
think about it and you know, make

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sure that it's something that's special included. By the way, whoever came up

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with noh Hank's outfit, whether you
get that restaurant is incredible. I think

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I paused on it like five times. I just loved that. And then

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I think it's the end of the
first episode of season four where Barry goes

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just full unforgiven full William money.
He's got the nicest corrections officer in human

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history. It was so nice that
he probably doesn't exist anywhere in real life.

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And Barry's reaction to that guy,
he says, I'm a cop killer.

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If I saw you in the street, I'd kill you. I kill

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your wife, I kill your kids, to kill your mom, like he

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just it's just like way of money. I've killed everything that walked crawled at

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one time or another. You know, from the beginning, Barry was a

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show that tried to put us in
his head as he self rationalizes about who

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he is and the idea that he's
not really that bad of a guy.

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Right, And here we have a
scene where someone tries to tell him,

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hey, you're not that bad of
a guy. You're not The corrections officer

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says, I think you're not defined
by the worst thing you did in your

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life. And Barry's reaction is to
prove that he is that bad of a

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guy. And we're now at the
point where the audience, you know,

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very much like breaking Bad, where
as they got into the later seasons,

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you're like, this guy is just
awful. There's no two ways about it.

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This guy is a terrible, terrible
person. And that actually plays into

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what they end up doing with episode
two, which I'll sort of get to

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as I walk through it. So
episode two this arrival gang meeting, but

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it's hilariously at a David Busters.
So Christa Ball and Nojo Hank have gotten

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together some rival gangs and they have
to like talk really loud because to be

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able to be heard over the David
Busters music, and they do this thing

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with the camera where the camera is
spinning around the table, and it's it's

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kind of tracking NoHo Hank and Christa
Balls. They're talking and walking sort of

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pasting around in circles, but at
one point they like fuck it up and

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then Nojo Hank has to like run
the opposite way to make the choreography work.

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It's it's just again, it's like, this is a scene that I

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cannot tell you how many scripts I've
read that haven't scene like this, and

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it's just like interior warehouse day.
That's it. That's the difference, right,

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is you have to care enough to
take that level of attention to detail

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and that level of invention for what
is ultimately basically a scene of expositional dialogue.

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Right. Also in episode two,
one of the things that's been a

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great line of comedy throughout the whole
show has been this hilariously brutal mocking of

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actors. And you know, I'm
in Los Angeles. I know a lot

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of actors. You know, I've
been in groups where we have actors performed

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and stuff. I love actors.
I've you know, so many actors that

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I'm super super fond of. But
I think even actress would say that there

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are plenty of actors who are very
narcissistic and that can be played for comedy.

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They do that so well in the
show where Gene is like, he

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tells the Vanity Fair reporter, I
can't I don't want any more attention.

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But then he does a one man
show of his life in his life with

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Barry and he's playing both parts.
Is so funny. And then at the

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end of the episode, so this
is where they pay off kind of all

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the stuff that's been building up with
how bad Barry is and what I thought

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was so special about the show.
I am totally rooting for crystal Ball,

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No Hank, like they're honestly the
character probably the only characters that I'm like

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fully rooting for because there's such sweet
guy's just true. You can't help but

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you want to see them kind of
have their happily. Ever, after crystal

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Ball wants to know Hank to forget
about Barry, and he says he's never

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cared about you, which is true. We've seen Barry le terrible to know

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Hank. It clearly show doesn't care
about him, and no, Hank has

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been honestly pretty nice to Barry for
most of the show. And then Noah

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Hank finds out Barry is cooperating with
the FBI, and he says, we

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have to kill Bari. I love
how he says Barry Bari, and I'm

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rooting for him to do it,
honestly. Like, if if there wasn't

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any of this show that, like, you know, sort of this gonzo

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ending where Noah Hank kills Barry and
lives happily ever after with Crystal Ball,

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I would love it. Yeah,
I would totally go for it. So,

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yeah, it's such a pleasure to
have the show back. This is

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one of my favorite shows of all
time, you know, I think it's

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it's one of the rare shows again
that I've rewatched episodes a bunch of times.

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I'll probably do rewatch the whole series. It's so fun, it's so

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funny, it's so unique. It's
really it's such an accomplishment, and I

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think it will hold up and stand
the test of time. Is an all

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time great television series. So I'm
very curious to see where they're gonna go

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for the rest of the season.
You know, I think these first couple

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episodes were predictably great, and yeah, just looking forward to more. So

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if you are into Barry, I'd
love to hear your predictions for where you

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think the show is going, Like
where do you think they're gonna take this?

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Because it's gonna be over soon.
This is the last season. I'm

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so curious about where it could end, and I kind of feel like everything

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is still on the table. It
could go a million different directions and that's

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just exciting to continue to watch it
and see where they take it. So

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yeah, I'd love to hear what
you think about your predictions about you can

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see the series going. You can
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