The killer comedian inside Bill Hader makes 'Barry' the new HBO show to watch
by Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times
Mar 26, 2018
4 minutes
In "Barry," which premiered Sunday on HBO, Bill Hader plays Barry Berkman, a veteran of the war in Afghanistan working out of Cleveland as a freelance contract killer.
Created by Hader and Alec Berg ("Seinfeld," "Silicon Valley"), it has something in common with Danny McBride's HBO comedies "Eastbound and Down" and "Vice Principals" in how it makes a hero out of an adult in a state of sometimes dangerous arrested development. But Hader's character is more complex and less self-involved - he barely has a self, it seems at times. Half weary grown-up, half innocent child, he's shaped
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