Barry's Season 4 Dark Turn Has Fans on Edge of Their Seats
Don't worry, the comedy is still there, but it just got ten times darker.
When Barry was in pre-production and the news broke that Bill Hader, formerly of SNL fame, was developing his own TV series, no one expected it to be as dark as it turned out to be.
Barry has never tried to be something it is not and has never hidden its dark humor. In the beginning, it was this mix of violence, dark humor, and raw emotion that drew audiences to the show.
Now, three years later, with season 4 finally back on air, people are starting to wonder: is there anything comedic even left?
Each season of Barry got darker and darker, and Bill Hader doesn't deny that was the plan from the beginning.
He remembers when the show first started airing and a lot of reviews were saying how dark, psychological, and bloody it was. Back then, he thought, no one could see how much darker it would get in the future.
The HBO show will end this year after season 4, and both Bill Hader, who plays Barry and also portrays the main character of the same name, and Sarah Goldberg, who plays Sally, agree that the show has become too big to fit into one genre category.
It covers so many deep issues, has so much drama, and the characters are forced to go through so much trauma that Barry can hardly fit into any box.
"The tone is so unique. It kind of lives in its own genre, in a way… Some episodes feel more like a thriller, some feel more like a straight drama, some feel more like a straight comedy," Goldberg said to TVLine.
Hader agrees, unwilling to settle on a genre. Like everything else in life, Barry is too complex to call anything but its own story.
The only thing that could technically keep Barry tied to comedy is the 30-minute episode length, but that is barely enough to justify the title.
If you are interested to see how Barry's story will unfold in season 4, be sure to tune in to HBO every Sunday.
Source: TVLine