[Editor’s Note: The following review contains spoilers for “Barry” Season 2, Episode 8, “berkman > block” — the Season 2 finale.]Barry Berkman isn’t blocked, he’s broken — but “Barry” is only getting better.
In the Season 2 finale of Bill Hader’s existential HBO comedy, the eponymous hitman-turned-thespian tries to plug up a release valve that’s been opened on stage and won’t stop flowing off of it.
Over the course of eight episodes, Barry spoke his truth to his acting teacher Gene Cousineau (Henry Winkler), confessing to the worst thing he’s ever done, with the intention of never repeating the same mistake again.
But in “berkman > block,” Barry did it again, with 10 times the body count.Why? The worst thing he’s ever done isn’t killing an innocent man out of misplaced vengeance, but killing a police detective out of self-preservation.
With Janet Moss (Paula Newsome) almost certainly dead and now a houseful of confirmed kills to join her,
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