^^^^^^^I woulda sworn this was hiro murai directing; hader pulled off something spectacular here. Coen-esque!
― i believe that (s)he is sincere (forksclovetofu), Monday, 29 April 2019 05:12 (four years ago) link
looking forward to catching up since I’m only just finishing with season 1 but that Glengarry scene killed me.
― omar little, Monday, 29 April 2019 06:00 (four years ago) link
yeah this season has been wild !
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Monday, 29 April 2019 13:58 (four years ago) link
This was nice mini-movie, definitely felt like a Coen Bros/Rube Goldberg device to let Barry get away with murder. That little girl!
― change display name (Jordan), Monday, 29 April 2019 14:22 (four years ago) link
I hadn't realised there was a second series, mainly because the end of the first was a perfectly satisfactory conclusion, so this is a nice surprise to have to catch up on. (See also Hank Azaria's 'Brockmire'.)
― Elitist cheese photos (aldo), Monday, 29 April 2019 14:31 (four years ago) link
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/28/arts/television/barry-bill-hader-season-2-episode-5.html
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, 29 April 2019 17:32 (four years ago) link
There will be some people who will dig this, and there will be some people who are like: “What’s going on with the acting class? I don’t care about any of this.” You can’t please everybody.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, 29 April 2019 17:35 (four years ago) link
(brockmire is also having a very good third season; the linda lavin episode was aces)
watched it again just now. so great. (so excited to catch up on brockmire!)
― maura, Monday, 29 April 2019 18:05 (four years ago) link
That just blew the monumentally hyped TV show that airs before it out of the water.
totally. that was wild.
― ryan, Monday, 29 April 2019 18:15 (four years ago) link
Have to wonder if they staggered the season starts just to do that!
― ryan, Monday, 29 April 2019 18:16 (four years ago) link
i loved this so much...i don't even think it was that much of a tonal shift in the series that people like alan sepinwall keep saying it was. it was just a brilliant and hilarious little short film
― mourning joe (voodoo chili), Monday, 29 April 2019 18:45 (four years ago) link
Also loved the wordless shots of Stephen Root in malevolent devil mode.
― change display name (Jordan), Monday, 29 April 2019 18:52 (four years ago) link
when he yelled "what are you??"--that was the hardest i've laughed at anything on tv this year.
― mourning joe (voodoo chili), Monday, 29 April 2019 18:57 (four years ago) link
Please bring back feral mongoose girl for more - so entertaining. The little 'eep' on the last hedgerow leap had me laughing so hard.
― BlackIronPrison, Monday, 29 April 2019 19:00 (four years ago) link
The whole since in the house with Ronny felt very Tarantino to me
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Monday, 29 April 2019 20:11 (four years ago) link
Kill Bill vibes for sure
― change display name (Jordan), Monday, 29 April 2019 20:20 (four years ago) link
I’m caught up except for the most recent ep which isn’t out yet here and just came here to say I’m new to this idea of there being a person called bill hader who is actually dexter Michael Shannon. And apparently this is normal, everyone is just letting that go by
― milkshake chuk (wins), Monday, 29 April 2019 21:53 (four years ago) link
honestly hoping the little girl never recurs, Pine Barrens-style
― Simon H., Monday, 29 April 2019 23:31 (four years ago) link
lmao just read the interview and got to Hader explicitly referencing it!
― Simon H., Monday, 29 April 2019 23:33 (four years ago) link
Nice clickbait:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xZFQjeZwaw
― DJI, Friday, 3 May 2019 00:20 (four years ago) link
I love this character.
https://thumbs.gfycat.com/PinkPoshBlueshark-size_restricted.gif
― earlnash, Friday, 3 May 2019 00:29 (four years ago) link
the lightswitch with him from fawning sycophant to psychopath is always so clean
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 3 May 2019 03:36 (four years ago) link
the scene with winkler breaking down "swim instructors" is probably the best highlight of the show since the glengarry scene.
― Hakim Bae's TMZ (s.clover), Tuesday, 14 May 2019 21:36 (four years ago) link
i strongly agree
― i got bag sauce in my bag (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 14 May 2019 21:50 (four years ago) link
"You say the title of the movie...they can't possibly cut that!"
― change display name (Jordan), Tuesday, 14 May 2019 21:50 (four years ago) link
i enjoyed season 1, but season 2 of this has been another level. hard to know if there's a jam band solo effect, though, where it's made better by the long slog of the preceding game of thrones.
― i got bag sauce in my bag (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 14 May 2019 21:53 (four years ago) link
I don't watch GoT, and Barry has been figuratively killing it these season (I was going to say literally too, but has he actually killed anyone this season? No, right?).
― change display name (Jordan), Tuesday, 14 May 2019 22:08 (four years ago) link
Y’know I hadn’t noticed but I guess you’re right! Set a lotta people down that road tho
― i believe that (s)he is sincere (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 14 May 2019 22:25 (four years ago) link
Yeah there have been some dei ex machina to swoop in and do the deed.
― change display name (Jordan), Tuesday, 14 May 2019 22:33 (four years ago) link
He's a good person now.
― DJI, Tuesday, 14 May 2019 22:49 (four years ago) link
Is he 6’2”?
― i got bag sauce in my bag (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 14 May 2019 22:49 (four years ago) link
google sez more like 6'0.5"
― Simon H., Tuesday, 14 May 2019 22:50 (four years ago) link
was making a joke about it only mattering that he's 6'2" for swim instructors
― i got bag sauce in my bag (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 14 May 2019 22:52 (four years ago) link
but also, i didn't think he was much over 6 ft while watching. so thank you for confirming.
― i got bag sauce in my bag (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 14 May 2019 22:54 (four years ago) link
next week’s the finale already
― maura, Wednesday, 15 May 2019 00:41 (four years ago) link
good season, not sure it's appreciably better than the first on the whole just yet; still feel it's a bit too self-satisfied for my liking
― Simon H., Wednesday, 15 May 2019 00:43 (four years ago) link
SPOILERS
man that finale was brutal and I have no idea how to feel about it.
― but I can't let Trae do it I got Huerter on my mind (Spottie), Tuesday, 21 May 2019 06:37 (four years ago) link
back into the darkness he goes
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 21 May 2019 06:38 (four years ago) link
We've got HBO for a couple of months and I'm catching up on things -- hooooly shit that "ronny/lily" episode.
― I am curious (george) (slight return) (WmC), Tuesday, 18 June 2019 19:13 (four years ago) link
Barry has been figuratively killing it these season (I was going to say literally too, but has he actually killed anyone this season? No, right?).
Just caught up with the finale and LOL at this comment.
― zama roma ding dong (Eric H.), Tuesday, 18 June 2019 19:46 (four years ago) link
haha
― change display name (Jordan), Tuesday, 18 June 2019 19:57 (four years ago) link
I understand that, but "as much middle ground as possible" turns out to be too much: as a hitman he's pulling John Wick moves, and as an actor he's like an alien who came to earth having never seen movies, or TV, or very much human behavior before.
― JRN, Friday, April 13, 2018 3:59 AM bookmarkflaglink
Lol if you've never attended amateur theatre auditions, they come far, far worse than Barry circa S1.
Just finished S1. A bit aggrieved by the finale but i will continue
― Fuck Trump, cops, and the CBP (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 2 July 2019 16:55 (four years ago) link
From that article linked above about the infamous S2E5:
“We might have jumped the shark,” Hader said
...sez the guy whose co-star is Henry Winkler.
― epistantophus, Wednesday, 1 January 2020 23:58 (four years ago) link
Also there is a great little piece of understated physical comedy in S1 when Fuches goes to sit backwards on a chair to give Barry some coaching and he can’t because the chair has arms so he has to turn it around.
― epistantophus, Thursday, 2 January 2020 00:32 (four years ago) link
Forgive the thread spam, but I wanted to note that this show's 2019 season is nominated in the 2019 ILX TV poll:
ILX's Best Television of 2019 Poll / VOTING AND CAMPAIGNING THREAD / Voting Ends January 31
If you like this show and you'd like to see it have a good showing in the poll (running in February) all you need to do is submit a ballot including it and your other favorites (4 minimum, 25 maximum, organized by your favorite to least favorite) to forksclovetofu at gmail by end of day today. It'll take five minutes; get to it!
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 31 January 2020 14:26 (four years ago) link
Is this back next week?
― kinder, Saturday, 16 April 2022 21:10 (one year ago) link
Yephttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yx6AS0zzfGM
― DJI, Saturday, 16 April 2022 22:40 (one year ago) link
Back Sunday!
Assume this is on weekly? (which would give me a chance to rewatch season 2)
― groovypanda, Friday, 22 April 2022 14:10 (one year ago) link
oh my god lol this show has become so deeply unpleasant
― Stevie D(eux), Tuesday, 24 May 2022 01:47 (one year ago) link
Wait what was the 501 joke
― Random Restaurateur (Jordan), Tuesday, 23 May 2023 12:05 (ten months ago) link
Hank's comment after '500 confirmed kills' when the assassins were being introduced.
― MaresNest, Tuesday, 23 May 2023 12:40 (ten months ago) link
the only joke I liked in this episode was hank saying "why do I keep opening these boxes?"
― dan selzer, Tuesday, 23 May 2023 13:48 (ten months ago) link
yeah didn't love this ep, felt a little too all over the place. i appreciate them getting away from the nonstop bleak by bringing back some of the humor that used to be a more significant ingredient, but tonally this one just felt all over the map
― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Tuesday, 23 May 2023 13:50 (ten months ago) link
Oh, right. Yeah the jokes were mostly Hank-based as usual and felt a little rote, but I'm looking forward to the finale. Lol @ Daniel Day Lewis + Mark Wahlberg though.
I do love seeing Stephen Root in his gang boss incarnation, and the phone call bit between him & Hank.
― Random Restaurateur (Jordan), Tuesday, 23 May 2023 14:27 (ten months ago) link
barry finale beat succession at its own game.
― Western® with Bacon Flavor, Monday, 29 May 2023 06:41 (nine months ago) link
Fucking hell, bleak
― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Monday, 29 May 2023 11:56 (nine months ago) link
Oh man.
― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Monday, 29 May 2023 18:30 (nine months ago) link
I found this very unsatisfying but I can’t really say why.
― ian, Monday, 29 May 2023 21:50 (nine months ago) link
I found it unsatisfying yet also much of it was inevitable and was very “Barry.”
― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Monday, 29 May 2023 21:53 (nine months ago) link
Appreciated this take, which made me appreciate how the redemption of Barry could only be fake redemption. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/28/arts/television/barry-finale.html
― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Tuesday, 30 May 2023 03:49 (nine months ago) link
I wasn't feeling this season much apart from a few Hank scenes. The writers were certainly trying some new ideas but most of it left me cold
― Vinnie, Wednesday, 31 May 2023 15:57 (nine months ago) link