‘Barry’s’ Season 3 finale assessment: Episode 8 reignites the ‘Is that this actually a comedy?’ debate
The finale featured Barry’s girlfriend, Sally (Sarah Goldberg), saving herself from a brutal assault, stabbing her attacker earlier than pounding him to demise. The aftermath pressured a shocked Barry to intervene (he wasn’t a lot assist through the battle) as a way to get rid of the physique, telling her he was accountable, not her.
That segued to NoHo Hank (Anthony Carrigan), who escaped from a wild scene wherein he was held in a dungeon earlier than being reunited along with his boyfriend, who was being subjected to shock remedy and torture.
The closing twists got here quick and furiously, with Sally boarding a aircraft for Missouri and Barry showing at first to flee justice but once more, earlier than legislation enforcement lastly closed in on him, in what gave the impression to be a lure sprung with Cousineau’s assist. That adopted a riveting alternate between Cousineau and the daddy of his late girlfriend, Jim Moss (Robert Knowledge), which underscored simply how visceral the present will be.
By concluding with Barry in custody, the season finale seemingly closed sure doorways relating to the place the sequence goes — and the way lengthy it would moderately run — whereas throwing open some others.
“Barry” additionally served discover, if there have been any lingering doubt, that this season can be again within the awards dialog in an enormous method. And if meaning additional dialogue and even grumbling as as to if a sequence this darkish and edgy is considerably misplaced amongst extra standard comedies, not like many of the challenges that the protagonist confronted all through this season, take into account {that a} high-class downside.
