Introduction

Barry is an American dark comedy-crime television series created by Alec Berg and Bill Hader that premiered on HBO on 25 March 2018.

Hader stars as Barry Berkman, a former US Marine and a hitman, from Cleveland who travels to Los Angeles to kill someone but finds himself joining an acting class taught by Gene Cousineau (Henry Winkler), where he meets aspiring actress Sally Reed (Sarah Goldberg) and begins to question his path in life as he deals with his criminal associates such as Monroe Fuches (Stephen Root) and NoHo Hank (Anthony Carrigan).

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Outline

Sally has decided to tell the story of the night she left her abusive ex-husband, Sam, but is unable to confront the fact that she never stood up to him. Unwilling to come across as weak, she writes a version of the story that paints her in a stronger light. Hank attempts to kill Barry after finding out about the failed hit on Esther. However, his sniper misses several times and is shot in the shoulder by Barry, who is furious that they attacked his apartment while Sally was there. Hank, terrified of being sent back to Chechnya, urges Barry to just kill him. However, Barry offers instead to train the Chechen men so that Hank can take down the Burmese himself and return to his partnership with Cristobal while Barry’s debt to Hank is paid. Barry decides to tell a different story about the war, in which he saved his friend Albert while serving in Korengal. However, he struggles with painting himself in a positive light, and laments the fact that he has no one to talk about his experiences with. Barry is once again approached by Fuches, but this time he welcomes him and asks for advice about how to tell the Korengal story. Fuches advises him against it, and the two have an emotional reconnection while an increasingly frustrated Loach looks on. At the acting class, Barry expresses reluctance at having to choke Sally while playing the role of her ex-husband. Sally and Gene berate him to try and get him in the right headspace, but Barry storms out. Sally follows and tries to reason with him, but quickly shuts down when she realises her ex-husband Sam has shown up in L.A.

Barry Series

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Production & Filming Details

• Director(s): Minkie Spiro.
• Writer(s): Jason Kim.
• Release Date: 14 April 2019.
• Running time: 26-35 minutes (per episode).
• Rating: TV-MA.
• Country: US.
• Language: English.

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