I felt like the final season was an occurrence of them writing themselves into a corner, with respect to the narrative. Its hard to convey these darker meanings narratively.

Whoa! Gene didn't kill his son. He shot him, but he didn't kill him.

@@cade377 This video was released right after the episode in question came out. At that point, it looked like he had shot and killed him. Mea culpa for sure, but it looked like that had happened during the time.

Ngl I was genuinely surprised how funny ep 6 was. The Bill Burr cameo was so frigging funny

@@criticalcoffee “well that’s a sign” and grabs gun😂😂😂

@@everettenjeze6276 Oh and Fuches getting out of jail. So, so, so funny. I absolutely love Stephen Root. I've watched that sequence like three times already.

@@criticalcoffee “the raven”😂

@@criticalcoffee As a listener to Burr's actual podcast, it was great to hear his fake one. I could feel his smirk throughout the unhinged rant, and loved how Barry was like, "bingo," finding a shred of validation. I do agree that the show has slowly shifted its balance away from comedy, but the dramatic and horrific moments always feel earned, so I have no complaints. Many recent episodes feel like distilled anxiety, which is a triumph in itself. It's amazing that what started as a quirky dark comedy could pivot to now making me feel like I can't breathe for half an hour.

I miss the intro so bad

I miss it :(

I really hope that it’ll play for the Final episode of Barry just for old times sake

@@alejandrogonzalez9840 Pretty sure this Sunday is the final episode. We'll see!

@@sgt.pepper5794 I think this season will be 10 episodes

I know this has been a popular "monkey's paw" perspective on the subreddit, but I gotta say that it's not actually what Sally "wants" is it? Like the show hasn't made a point to show that she wants to portray Waitress #2 every day of her life. Season 3 Sally's want is to be loved by her peers. (e.g. the Joplin red carpet / speech). After killing someone I think her want becomes to feel safe with someone, which Barry fulfills. Anyway, thanks for watching!

she wants fame and acknowledgement, glory, prestige, popularity

@@criticalcoffee Bill Hader confirms that this is what she wanted in the Ringer podcast season 4 episode 4.

"What if we show these guys, these characters--what if we show them getting what they wanted. What if we show putting on playing--'cause the acting the idea went away but this idea of *playing a part to be able to live with yourself* and try to get a version of what you want, you know? And can they hold onto that was an idea that we had." This refers to both Barry and Sally I think. My interpretation is that Sally gets what she wants by feeling safe with Barry. I think there's a shift in her "want" from the point where she kills someone and in the moment where she chooses to leave LA. As Hader mentions in the same pod: her leaving LA is her saying good bye to acting. edit* also should specify that I'm not disagreeing with you. Hader does confirm this, I was mistaken in assuming that her "want" would be the same that it was during S3.

I would also say that she also wants love and adoration. Which is what a husband and son are supposed to give to their wife/mother.

It’s like equal parts hilarious and horrifying

“We can replace her dog with a slightly different dog” had me on the floor dying

The surrealism gives the show it's own voice, I'm here for it 100%

They can try and scold us all they want but I personally will never ever feel bad for enjoying the suffering of fictional characters lol

I dunno, there's plenty of moments where real consequences happened. The first major hint was Chris' death in Season 1.

S3 Fuches is so frigging funny. He gets the chance to live a peaceful life TWICE and young hot women FOR SOME REASON just want him, and still he can't give up the revenge.

I love how it's sort of the opposite of Barry: where the universe seems to be bending over backwards to try and give Fuches a second chance, it does the exact opposite for Barry, constantly bringing all of the shit he did back to haunt him.

​@@criticalcoffeeThis show sucks ass. The characters are inconsistent, and the story spins its wheels to stretch the time That's why characters can't make up their minds and they literally repeat character arcs. At one point fuches is dying, and some cowboys find him. By the end of the very same day, fuches gunshot heals, the guy that found him is offering him his daughter, and fuches steals his truck and heads to kill barry. This is literally the second time fuches works on a ranch and decides to live peacefully without Barry, but then randomly decides to leave to kill him Fuches followed tired tracks from the road into the woods near genes house, and found genes gfs body. The cops couldn't find tire tracks or a fucking car when using hundreds of people and dogs to search but fuches can alone??? How are the tire tracks in the woods 2 years later??? This show is lazy and sucks.

I can’t wait to see how it plays out.

oh wow

As someone who followed from the beginning i really think its starting to get its due traction, anyone who cares about tv is at least aware of it and if there were a 5th season i think it would do well a la breaking bad in its final seasons

@@MrStupididy cuz HBO finally started a big marketing push, seen a lot of photos from their accounts with it side by side with Succession

I watched the pilot and did not like how quickly the frames change. There’s a cut like every 7 seconds. And then you have the acting and this weird indescribable comedy style. It’s very hard to watch because of how cringey everything is. Maybe I should give it another go because it’s not fair to judge an entire series off one episode but based on the pilot i believe it will all be irritating to watch

@@pissedpajamas5718 its very specific stylistically but its also a dense dark comedy with thick plot that takes place in 27 minute episodes across 8 episodes a season. i love it. I can understand not loving it but its not a huge commitment to tty half the season(2 hours)

@@pissedpajamas5718 yeah dud give it another chance, i would personally place that show head to head with breaking bad, and as barry becomes darker, its performances keep evolving till emmy award level. Psd: sorry for my s*tty english :s

The dead guy in the acting class, the dead guy on the plane, Barry walking into the darkness. It's not horror but it is for sure using tropes from horror. It's almost like Hader is practicing or something ;)

@@criticalcoffee the sand scene was nightmare fuel as well. I would love a psychological horror directed by Hader I feel like he would kill it

@@tanneraitken3768 I think with the right subject matter and the right material, he has a real chance to appear as the next Jordan Peele. Both have backgrounds in comedy at least. Although I don't know what is a topic that Hader could tackle like Peele has with Get Out, Us and Nope.

Have a feeling Hank will b the only one left

Mr Robot is a very good comp! another show that honestly deserved more attention. I think (personally) that it peaked with S3 but I think it was never bad. Should write an essay about that show tbh

it already is

Thank you so much for the kind words!

Thank you for watching and subbing!

Thank you for the kind words and for watching!

Thank you so much for watching!

Where were they in the dream sequence?

@@pineapple9875 It's in the beginning of the eighth (?) episode when Barry wakes up in the hospital.

if you're right, i'll need to kill Dylan. jk. that theory is really nice dude, even it being a sad ending it would be a very interesting one. Hats off to Bill for this one.

@@criticalcoffeedefinitelt didnt predict Jim Moss abducting Barry, but half the theory is still holding. It seems like things wont blow up over Couseneau because Gene doesnt want to make the movie so he doesnt have to die, and it looks like Sallys darkness has come back to bite her, she has compromised the sons safety, and it seems like Barry is going to have to make the hard decision I feared. That is, unless he finds some way out through this Jim Moss situation

Dude you are 100% right. Wtf. After that 6th episode it looks like Sally is going insane and she is gonna try to unalive their son.

Didn't honestly pick up on this, but it's interesting!

Yea, I believe The Sopranos used the same color grading technique. The later seasons had a much more darker color palette than the first few seasons, in order to signify looming dread.

Ngl I read this in NoHo Hank's voice

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Haven't seen that one! Is it worth a watch?

@@criticalcoffee YES. I completely forgot about that show until that line made me think of it. It's foundational. So far ahead of it's time.

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Thank you for watching!!

Thank you for watching!!

Succession is a weird one as the first season seemed to be a comedy lampooning the ultra rich and ultra powerful, but with seasons 2 and 3 kinda became this examination of how seeking more power corrupts the main characters. Season 4 is still a comedy but, with the latest episode, it's very difficult to laugh at it at times. It's like Jesse Armstrong is showing the audience that these people shouldn't have been laughed at but taken seriously this entire time. Especially Roman feels like that with the latest episode. (Side plug, I have a Succession essay also on the channel if you want to check it out).

@@criticalcoffee I don’t have a capability to edit videos (🥲) but if I could, I would like to make a video essay about how many successful and critically acclaimed dramas love to justify abusers with the underlying pro-establishment sentiments. For example, Better Call Saul’s ending kinda justified Chuck’s abusive behaviors towards Jimmy with the conclusion that “Chuck is right. Jimmy should never have been a lawyer in the first place.” and even Jimmy knows it by showing his greatest regret was that he didn’t make up with Chuck or reaching out to Chuck more (even though in the first 3 seasons, it’s always Jimmy who did the reaching out and Chuck just denied him every step of the way). Or Succession, with how things are falling apart for the siblings, people are now glorifying Logan as a great leader who knows best and how he’s totally right that these kids “are not serious people”. Both shows also tell us that this is how the system works. Nothing will change. The system in Better Call Saul is still marginalizing ex convicts and making them unable to redeem themselves in the society which will cause them to relapse into their criminal lifestyles to survive. It also blames Mike as the cause of whole problem instead of considering that even without Mike, the police corruption is still there and it needs change. Nope, just one bad guy who’s to blame and once he’s gone, everything will fix itself. Speaking of the police, the DEA in the show is still as incompetent as ever and the show never criticizes how the system of the DEA that doesn’t allow the officers to show weakness caused Hank to make so many rash actions to get things done which eventually caused his death. I don’t know. I just hate how these great shows love to have a moral of the story of “The abusers are right because those who got abused ended up being evil/ incompetent as they predicted anyway”.

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@@criticalcoffee don’t mention it !

The Airplane dream is straight up from a horror film

(by the way, what a beautiful profile you have. IASIP is my favorite show of all time)

Thank you so much for the kind words!

@@criticalcoffee Thank you for the amazing video! Could feel the passion! I need to look through more of your vids tbh.

This is a very interesting prediction. What halts me a bit is how Hader talks about Barry as a character on the Prestige TV Podcast. He _really_ doesn't like Barry. So that would kinda mean that Barry is never going to change. However, I do find that with episode 6, there are some shades of that happening. There has to be some sort of moral reckoning for Barry and his misdeeds throughout the show. How that's going to be handled is still up in the air. I hope it's not a Breaking Bad style thing where he 180s in the final moments and finds redemption in his death or something like that. I hope it's something a bit more interesting than that. Thank you for watching and for the insightful comment!

@@criticalcoffee True and after all, it still feels like a comedy at the end of the day, maybe the ending is the absolute worst scenario for everyone (or just Barry) in the most hilarious way possible. KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK MAN

Also forgot to mention, it’s interesting you brought up Walter because I feel someone like Vince Gilligan would also really not like Walter, and the similarities between how Walter justifies his many murders throughout breaking bad, and how Barry justifies (or tries to justify) his murders. Especially in the sixth episode where he tries to find any sort of wiggle room in his Christian beliefs for the murder he attempts to commit on Gene. Also I find it interesting that after Barry’s two father figures betrayed him, it seems his new role model in God. Which might actually be his worst parental figure yet if you think about it. Also also, I really have to rewatch the show to be sure, but Barry always felt to me like he’s never had an original thought in his head, and that mentally he NEEDS something or someone guiding him an any way shape or form. Watching Barry listen to those podcasts didn’t feel like he was just seeking justification, but that he was literally filling those thoughts into his head as his own. It’s a little freaky if you see it that way. So sorry for ranting, it’s SUPER fun talking and debating about this highly underrated show Damnit, forgot about his daydreams so I guess he has had some original thoughts

thanks for watching! Don't honestly know enough about Christianity to write that, hopefully someone will cover that topic!

thank you so much!

Without talented *FAIRLY COMPENSATED* screenwriters this channel is dead. Can't believe how greedy the studios are.

The original title of this video was Barry: A Descent into Darkness!

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Thanks for watching!

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People barely have the attention span for 25 minutes. Unfortunately some stuff just has to be cut out. Agreed completely though, it's frigging horrifying.

I was put off by it at first but have grown to appreciate it more. Episode 6, however, isn't as heavy as the previous episodes (excluding Sally's plot).

@@criticalcoffee I disagree what Barry and sally are doing to their son is beyond cruel, I’m kind of hoping that all of this is just some kind of nightmare that he’s conjuring up in his head

Huh. How did you come to the conclusion that it's midwestern? Not trying to defend it being "the south" at all btw, I've never been to the US so I wouldn't know. The fifth episode was shot in LA at least.

So how do you feel about the ending?

*Oh Wow*

That makes sense! Barry is bizarrely good at killing. Nobody on the show can do what he does, as well as he does.

Currently writing the next video!

Yup definitely got that wrong

The Cousineau part I get. I was working off the first five episodes. Episode 4 shows that Cousineau's son is shot and episode 5 shows that Cousineau has left the country for 8 years. No surprise that I came to the conclusion that he was escaping the law. People on the subreddit were already developing theories that Cousineau would pin this on Barry. I'm not a writer on the show. I don't have screeners. There's no way I could have anticipated that the show would zag there. But the NoHo Hank thing? He absolutely put Cristobal in a situation in which he would be killed. No he didn't *literally pull the trigger* but he is ABSOLUTELY complicit in this killing.

@@criticalcoffee There is room for argument. How I saw it, was that No Ho's boss Andrei( by the way... nobody seemed to notice that No Ho Hank's boss was played by Micheal Ironside) was giving Cristobal one last chance to be part of the family. But you could see Batir shaking his head to Andrei as they are talking to No Ho. In my mind, No Ho had asked for one last chance, and right up until the last second he still thought he could save Cristobal, but when Cristobal said "It's over."... Hank resolved to Cristobal's fate, but it still doesn't mean he killed him. If you watch carefully, as No Ho enters the house, he looks up to his right without lifting his head. He's looking at Cristobal's killer... probably on the roof of the garage. So, he knew as he entered the house, that Cristobal was already dead. You have no argument from me on that point... but I don't think he wanted it.

@@wowwhywow Yeah Hank definitely thought that he could talk Cristobal into giving their relationship one more chance even after Hank betrayed Cristobal completely. He doesn't want this. BUT he is still the one who had the gangsters killed in the sand silo. HE KNEW that if Cristobal walked out of the house, the chechens' wouldn't allow for him to live. He knew all of these things and still he betrayed Cristobal. Just because he feels remorse over the event doesn't mean that he didn't kill Cristobal (more accurately, cause Cristobal's death).

@@criticalcoffee I'll agree that he caused Cristobal's death.

I hope Anthony Carrigan gets his flowers. In fact, the entire cast has been stellar this season. Stephen Root especially. It's just unfortunate that it is also the year of Succession and I think they're gonna gobble up all the wins.

Good interpretation!