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Originally Posted by duncan_idaho
So, I’ve binged Barry over the past few weeks. Wrapped up last night.
Loved the whole thing, because I thought early on “Oh, this is Barry’s version of the song Hook.”
I think the plan the whole way was to draw people in and then make subtle jabs at the anti-hero thing.
Stephen Root is pretty underrated. Fiches, man, what a character.
There were some tough moments for me (seeing how John was raised brought up some traumatic memories), but all in all a really fun ride.
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They weren't really that subtle...
And again, maybe I'm just jaded by listening to Hader talk about the character, but the feeling I got was the first season was the tone the initially wanted, then the audience reaction to Barry was so strong that Hader recoiled from it. He seemed to think that it would be easier to turn audiences on Barry (I think the Chris Incident was where he expected everything to fall into place) and when it didn't work out that way, he just kept getting darker and darker. He was just rolling up bigger newspapers every week to whack the viewer on the nose with.
I kinda wish I could 'unhear' Hader's take on the characters because in the end, it made every decision he made about as subtle as a sledgehammer for me.