Chapter Eight: Know Your Truth
- Episode aired May 13, 2018
- TV-MA
- 38m
In the season finale, Barry vows to give up his life of crime. Elsewhere, Pazar enlists a replacement to take care of Fuches. Detective Moss closes in on an arrest that they hope will crack ... Read allIn the season finale, Barry vows to give up his life of crime. Elsewhere, Pazar enlists a replacement to take care of Fuches. Detective Moss closes in on an arrest that they hope will crack the Madison homicide case.In the season finale, Barry vows to give up his life of crime. Elsewhere, Pazar enlists a replacement to take care of Fuches. Detective Moss closes in on an arrest that they hope will crack the Madison homicide case.
- Sasha Smith
- (as Kirby Howell-Baptiste)
Storyline
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- TriviaAll entries contain spoilers
- Quotes
Barry Berkman: Janice, listen. I used to work for a man who who talked me into doing some really bad stuff. But that's not who I am, okay? I, uh, I realized what I was doing was wrong, and I, uh, I did everything I had to do to put it behind me. And I did it. It was hard, but I did it. And everything's so good right now. I'm a good person. I help people out. And if you could just walk away from this and forget about it, everybody's life will be better.
Detective Janice Moss: You know I can't do that, Barry.
Barry Berkman: Yes. No, yes, you can. Janice, you can, because we want the same thing. We- We wanna be happy. We want love. We want a life. And we're doing it, Janice. We're the same.
Detective Janice Moss: But we're not. We're not the same, Barry. 'Cause I'm a cop and you're a fucking murderer.
- ConnectionsReferences Rashomon (1950)
- SoundtracksChange for the World
Written by Charles Bradley, Thomas Brenneck, David Guy, Leon Michels, Nick Movshon, Homer Steinweiss, Nicole Wray
Performed by Charles Bradley
Formerly a US Marine, but now working as contract killer, Barry Berkman (Bill Hader) arrives in Los Angeles to execute a job for the Chechen mob. He follows his target to his acting class, and inadvertently becomes involved. Despite his poor performance, he finds in acting a satisfaction that isn't coming from other areas of his life and is smitten with fellow student Sally (Sarah Goldberg). He stays in L. A, and begins to attend the class, but his ties to the local gangsters and the bodycount from his real profession constantly threaten to expose him.
I really liked this first season of "Barry". It helps that I like shows and films about filmmaking and those, even tangential, links to other movies and TV productions is a factor I enjoyed here. They're not essential elements, though as "Barry" was, for me, a very funny black comedy, that married its great performances and occasional grim moments with some absolute belly laughs. Hader and Goldberg are both great and I really like that the show is not about a bad, or clumsy, hitman, like it might have been in lesser hands. Barry is reasonably proficient at this job, but it's his desperation to get out and make some proper connections that cause him to make several tactical errors.
The best humour comes from a triumvirate of co-stars though, I really liked Anthony Carrigan in "Gotham" where he was often sardonically funny and given the opportunity to be more traditionally funny here, he's great. Stephen Root, a comedic actor whose never got the recognition he deserves despite the career of brilliance is again...well... brilliant as Barry's handler Fuches. One perhaps stands above all though, Henry Winkler has proved a versatile comedic actor since his days on "Happy Days", but I don't think he's ever been better than he is in this as Gene Cousineau, who runs the acting class that Barry joins. So much great character work, and delivery of excellent lines ("Equal parts loud and wrong"), it very much deserved the Emmy he won.
I understand that I've timed this pretty well, as there are two more seasons to watch before the fourth and final begins this month. Can't wait.
- southdavid
- Mar 31, 2023
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- Runtime38 minutes
- Color
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- Aspect ratio
- 16:9 HD