‘Barry’: Sarah Goldberg on Why Sally’s Unresolved #MeToo Moment Feels True to Life

Barry” is a story filled with payback.

Rival mafia gangs order retaliatory hits as payback for dwindling numbers.

Even Barry’s (Bill Hader) decision to stick with his acting class is, on some level, a way to get back at Fuches (Stephen Root), his manipulative handler.A character who doesn’t get that same sense of revenge is Sally (Sarah Goldberg), one of Barry’s classmates.

In last week’s episode, a meeting with her potential agent goes from hopeful to predatory when he tells Sally, “I get to this point with a lot of my prospective clients where I have a decision to make: Do I wanna sign them or do I wanna fuck them?” The jarring comment hangs in the air as Sally, unsure of how to respond, pauses, then fumbles until the agent tries to play it off as joke.“What I thought was so brilliant about

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