Utterly singular, consistently excellent, capable of anything it puts its mind to, this comedy-drama is one of the best things ever televised. Don’t let it end without giving it a try
or five years now, Barry has not only been one of the very best things on television, but one of the most criminally overlooked. To some extent, this makes perfect sense. It has a bland, terrible, functionally useless title that gives nothing of itself to prospective viewers. What’s more, it has a premise – a comedy about a hitman who decides to become an actor – that sounds like the stuff of the hackiest sitcom imaginable.
One of the joys of Barry has been to watch the evolution of its co-creator and star, Bill Hader, in real time. When the show started, he was still best known for his silly Saturday Night Live sketches, and the public found it hard to believe that he was capable of more than that. Indeed, Hader himself has hinted that Barry is basically an allegory for his time at SNL. Over the years, however, Hader’s confidence in both himself and the show has grown exponentially.
That said, Barry is far from a one-man show. Hader has surrounded himself with an unbelievable cast of varying experience and given them the material of their lives.won an Emmy for his role as the selfish, conceited acting coach Gene Cousineau, not least because it plays at cross purposes to his reputation as the nicest man in Hollywood.
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