Barry Season 3 Episode 5 Review
Warning: This review contains spoilers for season 3, episode 5 of Barry.
Bill Hader’s genre-bending HBO hit Barry has charged into the second half of its third season with “crazytimesh*tshow,” directed by series co-creator Alec Berg and written by Emily Heller. The episode follows on from last week’s bombshell twist of Sally finally seeing Barry’s true colors and breaking up with him. Barry moves back in with his actor friends, who have since turned his bedroom into an “audition room” with a tiny space on the floor where he can sleep. This is Barry’s first taste of his post-breakup rock bottom, but it’s about to get a whole lot worse. Fuches is still impersonating a P.I. and telling the grieving families of Barry’s targets where they can find him, and there’s a hilariously anticlimactic payoff to last week’s cliffhanger of a widow and her son arming themselves to kill him.
With “crazytimesh*tshow,” Barry is back to combining deadpan laughs and intense thrills after a couple of episodes that were heavy on humor but light on action. This episode has both an explosive police raid involving a heroin-covered squad car and a Chechen suicide bomber, and some hysterical dialogue about a streaming algorithm that determines “taste clusters” with ridiculous factors like whether or not a character eats dessert in the season premiere.
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