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

Barry finds Ronny, Loach’s ex-wife’s stoner lover, at his house and tries to negotiate a peaceful deal in which he does not have to kill anyone. However, while Ronny is packing to leave, Barry discovers he is a Taekwondo master, and the two battle until Ronny passes out from a busted windpipe. Ronny’s daughter Lily, also proficient in Taekwondo, comes home and viciously attacks Barry before fleeing. Barry urges Fuches to drive him to a hospital to treat the stab wound Lily had inflicted on his back, but Fuches instead takes him to a drugstore and stitches Barry up himself, albeit poorly. Fuches, furious that Barry left Lily alive, drives around the neighbourhood looking for her, but Barry refuses to kill her once they find her. Fuches attempts to kill her himself, but concludes that she cannot be human after seeing her climb a tree and sit perched for hours on top of a roof. That night, Lily has still not descended from the roof and Fuches is getting impatient. Barry, who has been drifting in and out of consciousness throughout the day, awakens and immediately rips his stitches, causing Fuches to pour superglue in his wound. While this is happening, Lily sneaks into the backseat of the car and bites Fuches in the cheek. Fuches, unable to fight her off because he has glued his hands to the steering wheel, is forced to let her take a chunk out of his cheek and run off. Barry and Fuches return to the drugstore, where Barry finds Ronny alive and ready to attack again. Loach arrives and shoots Ronny, but Ronny kills him effortlessly before more police officers arrive and kill Ronny, giving Barry a chance to flee. As Barry approaches Fuches’s car, he contemplates the nature of their relationship.

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Production & Filming Details

• Director(s): Bill Hader.
• Writer(s): Alec Berg and Bill Hader.
• Release Date: 28 April 2019.
• Running time: 26-35 minutes (per episode).
• Rating: TV-MA.
• Country: US.
• Language: English.

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