A Contract Killer Walks Into An Acting Class, On HBO's 'Barry'
Bill Hader stars as a depressed hit man who wants a fresh start in acting but can't seem to get one. And the HBO comedy-drama asks questions most antihero shows won't.
Barry (Bill Hader) is a hit man, but what he really loves is community theater.
That setup, which opens the new HBO dark comedy Barry, is very nearly a television cliche in the age of the sympathetic mafia family and the meth-dealing high-school science teacher. The fact that Hader and his co-creator Alec Berg (who also makes Silicon Valley) have made something so vexing, so weird and funny and achingly sad, is a pleasant surprise, to say the least.
Barry really is a hit man. He comes to Los Angeles from Cleveland to killa hit man, a killer, and then gradually closing them off.
