<em>Barry</em> Finally Gave Up Its Delusions
The finale of HBO’s hit-man-turned-actor series stripped away its characters’ fantasies of redemption, and found that they had little else left.
This story contains spoilers through the Season 4 finale of Barry.
After everything he’d somehow survived—the stash-house shoot-outs, the brushes with law enforcement, the prison beatings, the time he’d found himself tied up in a chair opposite someone who was absolutely ready to kill him—even Barry wasn’t surprised by his own death. In the series finale of , which aired tonight, the hit man turned actor turned unconvincing family man (played by Bill Hader) reacted to being shot in the chest by his former acting teacher, Gene Cousineau (Henry Winkler), with total resignation: “Oh wow,” he flatly declared, blood spreading through his shirt. The kill shot arrived a split second later, and Barry’s head snapped back from a bullet to the
