In the "Star Trek: Strange New Worlds" episode "Under the Cloak of War", a Klingon ambassador named Dak'Rah (Robert Wisdom) comes to visit the U.S.S. Enterprise on a diplomatic mission. "Strange New Worlds" takes place immediately after the Klingon War, and several of the ship's crew remember the conflict vividly, expressing prejudice and consternation to see a Klingon on board. Captain Pike (Anson Mount) reminds his officers to keep an open mind, but Dr. M'Benga (Babs Olusanmokun) cannot.
Through flashbacks, audiences learn the horrible wartime conditions that both Dr. M'Benga and Nurse Chapel (Jess Bush) served under, and they were bleak. There weren't enough medical supplies to go around, and Dr. M'Benga had taken to storing injured soldiers inside a transporter pattern buffer, hoping to rematerialize them when more could be done. He also secretly develops a rare and dangerous steroid called Protocol 12 which temporarily increases strength and...
Through flashbacks, audiences learn the horrible wartime conditions that both Dr. M'Benga and Nurse Chapel (Jess Bush) served under, and they were bleak. There weren't enough medical supplies to go around, and Dr. M'Benga had taken to storing injured soldiers inside a transporter pattern buffer, hoping to rematerialize them when more could be done. He also secretly develops a rare and dangerous steroid called Protocol 12 which temporarily increases strength and...
- 4/15/2024
- by Witney Seibold
- Slash Film
Exclusive: The Prime Video sequel series The Terminal List: Dark Wolf has added three recurring stars to its freshman season: Robert Wisdom (Barry), Shiraz Tzarfati (Theodsia) and Rona-Lee Shim’on (Fauda). They join the previously announced cast: Taylor Kitsch, Tom Hopper, Chris Pratt and Dar Salim.
Co-created by The Terminal List author Jack Carr and Season 1 creator-showrunner David Digilio, the prequel, set five years before the mothership series The Terminal List, is an elevated espionage thriller that takes viewers on Ben Edwards’ (Taylor Kitsch) journey from Navy Seal to CIA paramilitary operator, exploring the darker side of warfare and the human cost that comes with it.
Wisdom will play ‘Jed Haverford,’ a CIA spymaster with a storied career behind him and one final mission ahead of him. The leader of a covert Sanction Unit working in Europe, Haverford helps oversee Ben’s transformation from Special Operator to CIA Contractor. Shim’on will play ‘Eliza Perash,...
Co-created by The Terminal List author Jack Carr and Season 1 creator-showrunner David Digilio, the prequel, set five years before the mothership series The Terminal List, is an elevated espionage thriller that takes viewers on Ben Edwards’ (Taylor Kitsch) journey from Navy Seal to CIA paramilitary operator, exploring the darker side of warfare and the human cost that comes with it.
Wisdom will play ‘Jed Haverford,’ a CIA spymaster with a storied career behind him and one final mission ahead of him. The leader of a covert Sanction Unit working in Europe, Haverford helps oversee Ben’s transformation from Special Operator to CIA Contractor. Shim’on will play ‘Eliza Perash,...
- 3/26/2024
- by Rosy Cordero
- Deadline Film + TV
Actor Idris Elba got one of his breakthrough roles starring in the critically acclaimed HBO series The Wire. But Elba was once under the impression that he’d last on the show a bit longer than he did.
How Idris Elba reacted to his character’s ending Idris Elba | Samir Hussein/WireImage
Initially, Elba owed a lot of his success to his character on The Wire. Back then, fans knew the actor as Stringer Bell, who had a mind for how business worked in the drug business. Stringer Bell seemed like a character who’d stick around for the long haul. But the character served his purpose pretty early on the show.
Elba didn’t get the news until he was handed the script for the episode. Speaking on What Now? with Trevor Noah, he even panicked a little bit.
“I didn’t know my character was gonna die until we got the episode…...
How Idris Elba reacted to his character’s ending Idris Elba | Samir Hussein/WireImage
Initially, Elba owed a lot of his success to his character on The Wire. Back then, fans knew the actor as Stringer Bell, who had a mind for how business worked in the drug business. Stringer Bell seemed like a character who’d stick around for the long haul. But the character served his purpose pretty early on the show.
Elba didn’t get the news until he was handed the script for the episode. Speaking on What Now? with Trevor Noah, he even panicked a little bit.
“I didn’t know my character was gonna die until we got the episode…...
- 3/3/2024
- by Antonio Stallings
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
In the 24th weekly installment of the Deadline Strike Talk Podcast, host Billy Ray doesn’t seem too shaken by the surprise breakoff of talks between the studios and SAG-AFTRA.
Even though CAA chief Bryan Lourd stated publicly there is a wide gap between the streamers and actors over residuals, Ray believes a deal could be had by the end of next week. The pressure is high, as crew members stretch further without a paycheck, and the streamers find themselves the focus over issues like viewer transparency and what that should mean in the area of residuals and health benefits for actors.
This week, Ray takes a look at the actor’s life with three veterans who each trod a hard road to get to a position of prominence: Ashley Nicole Black, Clark Gregg, and Robert Wisdom. They discuss the ongoing strike, the importance of continued solidarity and the essential next steps for performers to protect their work.
Ray’s intro deals with Jackie Robinson and former Dodgers Gm Branch Rickey and how the historic shattering of baseball’s color line came two years in the making and involved a key person who’d grown up in the segregated South and had to be swung over to the right side of history in order for the audacious move to succeed. Luck is opportunity meeting preparation, Ray says. He believes that the planning that went into the current painful labor stoppage will change the business long term, for the better, and make it possible for the next Ashley Nicole Black, Clark Gregg and Robert Wisdom to thrive in an art form that pours of billions in revenues, and ought to provide for health benefits and a cushion against lean times like the ones we are all dealing with right now.
Listen here:...
Even though CAA chief Bryan Lourd stated publicly there is a wide gap between the streamers and actors over residuals, Ray believes a deal could be had by the end of next week. The pressure is high, as crew members stretch further without a paycheck, and the streamers find themselves the focus over issues like viewer transparency and what that should mean in the area of residuals and health benefits for actors.
This week, Ray takes a look at the actor’s life with three veterans who each trod a hard road to get to a position of prominence: Ashley Nicole Black, Clark Gregg, and Robert Wisdom. They discuss the ongoing strike, the importance of continued solidarity and the essential next steps for performers to protect their work.
Ray’s intro deals with Jackie Robinson and former Dodgers Gm Branch Rickey and how the historic shattering of baseball’s color line came two years in the making and involved a key person who’d grown up in the segregated South and had to be swung over to the right side of history in order for the audacious move to succeed. Luck is opportunity meeting preparation, Ray says. He believes that the planning that went into the current painful labor stoppage will change the business long term, for the better, and make it possible for the next Ashley Nicole Black, Clark Gregg and Robert Wisdom to thrive in an art form that pours of billions in revenues, and ought to provide for health benefits and a cushion against lean times like the ones we are all dealing with right now.
Listen here:...
- 10/13/2023
- by The Deadline Team
- Deadline Film + TV
The latest episode of "Star Trek: Strange New Worlds," called "Under the Cloak of War," is all about unresolved trauma, violence, and wrath. In the episode, Dr. M'Benga (Babs Olusanmokun) and Nurse Chapel (Jess Bush) recall the all-too-recent Klingon War and the horrible things they had to do during it. The two were both stationed at a remote outpost that was under constant bombardment. They regularly received injured soldiers to treat, but had no resources to treat them. Dr. M'Benga had taken to storing injured people inside a transporter buffer for extended periods, hoping to beam them out and treat them when the situation wasn't so dire. Before long, both he and Chapel realize that's not entirely practical.
The flashbacks are paired with a story of a visiting Klingon defector named Dak'Rah (Robert Wisdom). It seems that Dak'Rah led a brutal campaign at the very site where M'Benga and Chapel were stationed,...
The flashbacks are paired with a story of a visiting Klingon defector named Dak'Rah (Robert Wisdom). It seems that Dak'Rah led a brutal campaign at the very site where M'Benga and Chapel were stationed,...
- 7/27/2023
- by Witney Seibold
- Slash Film
This Star Trek: Strange New Worlds article contains spoilers.
During the era of The Original Series and all the classic films, the Klingons were very often the default adversaries of Starfleet and the United Federation of Planets. But interestingly, other than for a hot second in Deep Space Nine in the ’90s, we’d never really inhabited an era of Star Trek in which an active shooting war with the Klingons was happening. In 2017, Discovery season 1 changed all that, but even then, the crew of that titular ship skipped over a big part of the war, all because of time travel and alternate universe shenanigans.
So, now, with an extended flashback to the Klingon War in “Under the Cloak of War,” Strange New Worlds is finally throwing light into the darkest days of the Federation, and along the way, connecting to canon and easter eggs from across the entire franchise.
During the era of The Original Series and all the classic films, the Klingons were very often the default adversaries of Starfleet and the United Federation of Planets. But interestingly, other than for a hot second in Deep Space Nine in the ’90s, we’d never really inhabited an era of Star Trek in which an active shooting war with the Klingons was happening. In 2017, Discovery season 1 changed all that, but even then, the crew of that titular ship skipped over a big part of the war, all because of time travel and alternate universe shenanigans.
So, now, with an extended flashback to the Klingon War in “Under the Cloak of War,” Strange New Worlds is finally throwing light into the darkest days of the Federation, and along the way, connecting to canon and easter eggs from across the entire franchise.
- 7/27/2023
- by John Saavedra
- Den of Geek
In the newest episode of "Star Trek: Strange New Worlds," called "Under the Cloak of War," several members of the Enterprise crew get to openly discuss the consequences of war, and ponder their deep-seated battlefield trauma from the recent Klingon conflict. "Star Trek" has long been a franchise that advocates pacifism, and sees war as -- just like in the real world -- humankind's ultimate failing. "Cloak" sees soldiers as either brainwashed into mindless, suicidal sacrifice for ideals that don't even exist, or as suffering murderers who are constantly living on the brink of madness and violence. It also sees few avenues for healing; once war trauma has taken hold, no act of justice is sufficient to cleanse one's soul. Everyone gets out stained.
"Strange New Worlds" has been, up until now, a mostly light, often whimsical show about warm, welcoming people. Occasionally, the characters will be stranded in a...
"Strange New Worlds" has been, up until now, a mostly light, often whimsical show about warm, welcoming people. Occasionally, the characters will be stranded in a...
- 7/27/2023
- by Witney Seibold
- Slash Film
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Bringing pitch-black comedy, tight drama, and Emmy-winning performances, Barry is a series unlike any other. Now, after a widely-acclaimed four seasons, the show has aired its final episode on Max.
“While it will be sad to not experience the incredible creative highs of Barry after this spring, it’s hard to feel too disappointed about a great show leaving on its own terms,” writes Rolling Stone‘s Alan Sepinwall...
Bringing pitch-black comedy, tight drama, and Emmy-winning performances, Barry is a series unlike any other. Now, after a widely-acclaimed four seasons, the show has aired its final episode on Max.
“While it will be sad to not experience the incredible creative highs of Barry after this spring, it’s hard to feel too disappointed about a great show leaving on its own terms,” writes Rolling Stone‘s Alan Sepinwall...
- 5/30/2023
- by Oscar Hartzog and John Lonsdale
- Rollingstone.com
With the end of Barry comes goodbyes to some very complicated, messy, messed-up characters — which is why we love them! And that’s also why TV Insider, when chatting with the cast ahead of the Season 4 premiere, took the opportunity to get their takes on those they spent years playing. “The fact that we get to change almost completely as a character from the start of this series to the end, the last four shows of the series, what a blessing for a character actor to be able to use those tools to do that,” Stephen Root shared. So to that end, what advice would the characters in Season 4 give themselves back in Season 1? “‘Don’t take an acting class,'” Bill Hader said with a laugh. “‘Turn yourself in.’ I don’t know. He would have to be more self-aware, actually, to say that.” Robert Wisdom and Sarah Goldberg...
- 5/29/2023
- TV Insider
Ok, everyone, let's breathe. For some, there may be more no more compelling show on TV right now than the other big HBO series that wrapped up tonight, "Succession." But for many of us, the show in question is "Barry," the hybrid of dark comedy and suspense thriller that has leaned quite heavily on the latter part of that hybrid in its fourth and final season. Said season has now come to a close, and so now we're left with the pieces of what "Barry" left behind.
In full transparency, I went into "wow," the finale of "Barry" with two questions on my mind: would Barry (Bill Hader) die, and would his son John (Zachary Golinger) survive? The previous episode gave us quite the cliffhanger: Barry had escaped the makeshift prison in the garage of Jim Moss (Robert Wisdom) to find that NoHo Hank (Anthony Carrigan) had abducted Sally (Sarah Goldberg...
In full transparency, I went into "wow," the finale of "Barry" with two questions on my mind: would Barry (Bill Hader) die, and would his son John (Zachary Golinger) survive? The previous episode gave us quite the cliffhanger: Barry had escaped the makeshift prison in the garage of Jim Moss (Robert Wisdom) to find that NoHo Hank (Anthony Carrigan) had abducted Sally (Sarah Goldberg...
- 5/29/2023
- by Josh Spiegel
- Slash Film
At the end of Barry’s penultimate episode, no one is safe. Sally (Sarah Goldberg) and her son John (Zachary Golinger) are being held at gunpoint by NoHo Hank (Anthony Carrigan), who’s put a target on his own back after attempting to blow up Monroe Fuches (Stephen Root) and his men, who themselves are still in danger. Barry (Bill Hader), who is in Los Angeles for the sole purpose of killing Gene Cousineau (Henry Winkler), just narrowly escaped a grizzly, tortuous death by the hand of Jim Moss (Robert Wisdom). And then of course there are the countless innocent bystanders who at any moment could get wrapped up in a number of impending violent acts.
- 5/27/2023
- by Brianna Wellen
- Primetimer
This post contains spoilers for "Barry" season 4, episode 7, "a nice meal".
Jim Moss's daughter, Janice, a police detective who was romantically linked to acting teacher Gene Cousineau, was murdered at the end of "Barry" season 1. Ever since Jim's entrance into the narrative, he's been laser-focused on getting justice for Janice, and actor Robert Wisdom brings an icy determination to his portrayal of the role which strikes fear into the hearts of anyone trying to hide secrets from Jim.
Wisdom, who famously played Bunny Colvin on "The Wire," is an industry veteran, having popped up in movies like "Face/Off," "Mighty Joe Young," and "Ray" as well as shows like Damon Lindelof's "Watchmen" and the under-seen Apple TV+ prison drama "Black Bird." But his role on "Barry" may be his scariest yet, and in season 4, his devotion to his daughter's memory tips further into obsession. I had the pleasure of speaking...
Jim Moss's daughter, Janice, a police detective who was romantically linked to acting teacher Gene Cousineau, was murdered at the end of "Barry" season 1. Ever since Jim's entrance into the narrative, he's been laser-focused on getting justice for Janice, and actor Robert Wisdom brings an icy determination to his portrayal of the role which strikes fear into the hearts of anyone trying to hide secrets from Jim.
Wisdom, who famously played Bunny Colvin on "The Wire," is an industry veteran, having popped up in movies like "Face/Off," "Mighty Joe Young," and "Ray" as well as shows like Damon Lindelof's "Watchmen" and the under-seen Apple TV+ prison drama "Black Bird." But his role on "Barry" may be his scariest yet, and in season 4, his devotion to his daughter's memory tips further into obsession. I had the pleasure of speaking...
- 5/22/2023
- by Ben Pearson
- Slash Film
This post contains spoilers for the latest episode of "Barry."
For years now, the narrative around "Barry" has been clear; the show is getting darker by the episode. Bill Hader and Alec Berg's HBO series has always pushed the limits of viewers' tolerance for grim twists of fate, and it bulldozed over those limits with the fantastic, endlessly bleak third season. If this trajectory held, it would mean that with just one episode to go, the final season of "Barry" should be at near-unbearable levels of tension. Instead, the penultimate episode delivered a surprise that, unlike most of the twists in the show, won't leave us with a massive sense of existential dread: it was very, very funny.
Don't get me wrong: "Barry" has been funny even in its darkest hours. Last season punctuated its most hopeless moments with clever bits about lesbians with too many dogs, and a...
For years now, the narrative around "Barry" has been clear; the show is getting darker by the episode. Bill Hader and Alec Berg's HBO series has always pushed the limits of viewers' tolerance for grim twists of fate, and it bulldozed over those limits with the fantastic, endlessly bleak third season. If this trajectory held, it would mean that with just one episode to go, the final season of "Barry" should be at near-unbearable levels of tension. Instead, the penultimate episode delivered a surprise that, unlike most of the twists in the show, won't leave us with a massive sense of existential dread: it was very, very funny.
Don't get me wrong: "Barry" has been funny even in its darkest hours. Last season punctuated its most hopeless moments with clever bits about lesbians with too many dogs, and a...
- 5/22/2023
- by Valerie Ettenhofer
- Slash Film
It’s clear by this point in the run of “Barry” that the show is no longer about whether or not its title character (series co-creator Bill Hader) is a redeemable human being; as Hader puts it, despite all of his lying and killing, “he doesn’t understand what he did wrong.” Instead, as the fourth and final season comes to a close, the more morally gray supporting characters are beginning to see the consequences of their own failings — ones they can’t blame Barry for.
Played by Henry Winkler, Gene Cousineau emerges from Episode 5’s time jump with a mission to do the right thing. He comes out of hiding after hearing that Warner Bros. is working on a movie about Barry’s murder of Cousineau’s girlfriend, detective Janice Moss (Paula Newsome). Enraged by the exploitation of Janice’s death, Cousineau begins to protest the film, but the...
Played by Henry Winkler, Gene Cousineau emerges from Episode 5’s time jump with a mission to do the right thing. He comes out of hiding after hearing that Warner Bros. is working on a movie about Barry’s murder of Cousineau’s girlfriend, detective Janice Moss (Paula Newsome). Enraged by the exploitation of Janice’s death, Cousineau begins to protest the film, but the...
- 5/22/2023
- by Selome Hailu
- Variety Film + TV
[Warning: The below contains Major spoilers for Barry Season 4 Episode 7 “A Nice Meal.”] Barry’s (Bill Hader) fear is coming true at the end of the penultimate episode of the HBO dark comedy. “A Nice Meal” begins with Barry in Jim’s (Robert Wisdom) garage, praying to God to watch over his son, and Jim telling him he knows where he’s going after he dies, no matter how much he may have repented. Jim leaves when he hears about the $250,000 Barry gave Gene (Henry Winkler). “The interesting idea for me was that in Episode 7, Barry’s caught and he kind of retreats and like Jim says, ‘You’re a man of God now, which is bulls**t.’ He’s kind of calling him on it,” Hader told TV Insider before the writers strike. “Barry apologizes to Cousineau in this kind of delirium. He thinks he’s going to die, and so he’s trying to repent for these things. ...
- 5/22/2023
- TV Insider
Hard though it may be to believe, there are just two episodes left in the HBO series "Barry," which used to lean more heavily on the comic side of things even amidst its dark setup. Now, though, it's pretty much all in on darkness. And with "a nice meal," the title belies a similar sense of grimness. Last week left off on quite the cliffhanger: Barry Berkman (Bill Hader) had come very close to his mission of returning to Los Angeles and killing his old acting teacher Gene Cousineau (Henry Winkler) for potentially consulting on a biopic of his life, before being captured by Jim Moss (Robert Wisdom) and brought to his garage, where we know weaker men have barely withstood the terror of this grieving father/ex-cop. Oh, and Sally (Sarah Goldberg) is being beset upon by a mix of hallucinations and angry ex-co-workers as she fails to tend...
- 5/22/2023
- by Josh Spiegel
- Slash Film
Chicago Med fans, we’ve got a fresh off the press preview for the new Season 8 Episode 22 episode titled Does One Door Close and Another One Open?!
Find out everything you need to know about the Does One Door Close and Another One Open? episode of Chicago Med, including a full preview, videos, release date, cast information and how to watch!
Chicago Med Does One Door Close and Another One Open? Season 8 Episode 22 Preview
In the season finale, shocking information threatens the future of Jack Dayton’s (Robert Wisdom) surgery and the innovative Or 2.0. For those who haven’t been following along, Or 2.0 is the cutting-edge operating room that has been making waves at Chicago Med with its advanced technology and revolutionary surgical techniques. Will this unforeseen revelation put a halt to the progress the team has been making?
Meanwhile, Dr. Dean Archer (Steven Weber), never one to play by the rules,...
Find out everything you need to know about the Does One Door Close and Another One Open? episode of Chicago Med, including a full preview, videos, release date, cast information and how to watch!
Chicago Med Does One Door Close and Another One Open? Season 8 Episode 22 Preview
In the season finale, shocking information threatens the future of Jack Dayton’s (Robert Wisdom) surgery and the innovative Or 2.0. For those who haven’t been following along, Or 2.0 is the cutting-edge operating room that has been making waves at Chicago Med with its advanced technology and revolutionary surgical techniques. Will this unforeseen revelation put a halt to the progress the team has been making?
Meanwhile, Dr. Dean Archer (Steven Weber), never one to play by the rules,...
- 5/17/2023
- by News
- TV Regular
[Warning: The below contains Major spoilers for Barry Season 4 Episode 6, “The Wizard.”] Barry (Bill Hader), after the post-time jump in the final season of the dark comedy, has returned to Los Angeles with a plan: kill Gene (Henry Winkler) after getting word of the movie being made about him with his former acting teacher consulting. After listening to podcasts about whether or not murder is Ok and buying a gun, Barry does end the episode approaching Gene’s open front door. But then someone puts a bag over his head … and he comes to, in front of Jim (Robert Wisdom), whose daughter he killed. So what’s coming for Barry, not that he’s in that garage? “I get to make a nine-course meal out of this. He’s in the garage, and we know what that means, and I don’t know whether I want to do it through his mind or through his body,” Wisdom tells TV Insider.
- 5/15/2023
- TV Insider
... Well then! If you've just watched tonight's episode of HBO's "Barry," entitled "it takes a psycho", then you know that for a show that is rarely screwing around, this episode really and truly did not screw around. If you haven't watched, just be warned (even more than usual) that surprises are plenty this week, so spoilers ahoy.
As you'll likely recall, last week's installment wrapped with Barry Berkman (Bill Hader) escaping prison thanks to a botched hit job (involving a hitman/podcaster played by Fred Armisen). So it's no surprise that this week starts in prison, as the grumpy warden (Richard Riehle) instigates a beatdown of Barry's old friend Monroe Fuches (Stephen Root), presuming the latter let the would-be assassins inside. Though Fuches did know about the attempt on Barry's life and tried to warn the now-infuriated guards, he of course has no idea where Barry might be at the moment.
As you'll likely recall, last week's installment wrapped with Barry Berkman (Bill Hader) escaping prison thanks to a botched hit job (involving a hitman/podcaster played by Fred Armisen). So it's no surprise that this week starts in prison, as the grumpy warden (Richard Riehle) instigates a beatdown of Barry's old friend Monroe Fuches (Stephen Root), presuming the latter let the would-be assassins inside. Though Fuches did know about the attempt on Barry's life and tried to warn the now-infuriated guards, he of course has no idea where Barry might be at the moment.
- 5/1/2023
- by Josh Spiegel
- Slash Film
This post contains spoilers for the third episode of "Barry" season 4.
There's nothing worse than a friend breakup. Okay, theoretically, I suppose ending up in a prison standoff when your FBI meeting is interrupted by two inept assassins who die horribly in front of you is worse than a friend breakup -- but only by a smidge. The most painful-looking part of the latest episode of "Barry" wasn't Fred Armisen's hit man blowing his own hand off or Jim Moss (Robert Wisdom) torturing a Vanity Fair reporter, but a bitter phone call between NoHo Hank (Anthony Carrigan) and Barry (Bill Hader) that takes place before the real action ramps up.
The call comes as a surprise for Hank, as the Chechen mobster put a hit out on his former ally that was meant to be executed that day. Hank pauses a long time before accepting the charges, and when...
There's nothing worse than a friend breakup. Okay, theoretically, I suppose ending up in a prison standoff when your FBI meeting is interrupted by two inept assassins who die horribly in front of you is worse than a friend breakup -- but only by a smidge. The most painful-looking part of the latest episode of "Barry" wasn't Fred Armisen's hit man blowing his own hand off or Jim Moss (Robert Wisdom) torturing a Vanity Fair reporter, but a bitter phone call between NoHo Hank (Anthony Carrigan) and Barry (Bill Hader) that takes place before the real action ramps up.
The call comes as a surprise for Hank, as the Chechen mobster put a hit out on his former ally that was meant to be executed that day. Hank pauses a long time before accepting the charges, and when...
- 4/24/2023
- by Valerie Ettenhofer
- Slash Film
This post contains spoilers for this week’s episode of Barry, “You’re Charming.”
Among the more frequent objections I’ve heard about Barry since Season One is that the show has grown so dark that it no longer feels like a comedy most of the time. It’s an understandable concern. Heck, I expressed it myself during Season Two (though I feel the more recent years have been better balanced). As great as the show has become at drama, action, suspense, and horror, you can’t blame anyone for...
Among the more frequent objections I’ve heard about Barry since Season One is that the show has grown so dark that it no longer feels like a comedy most of the time. It’s an understandable concern. Heck, I expressed it myself during Season Two (though I feel the more recent years have been better balanced). As great as the show has become at drama, action, suspense, and horror, you can’t blame anyone for...
- 4/24/2023
- by Alan Sepinwall
- Rollingstone.com
Bill Hader is many things, especially a cinephile. When you watch "Barry," it's obvious that his influences lie in the films of the Coen Brothers, among others, but he's done videos for the Criterion Channel and spoken at length about the films and filmmakers he loves before. The third episode of the final season of "Barry," titled "you're charming," wastes little time at all — there's no cold open before the title card, and within a minute of the episode beginning, I think we can safely say we've learned a filmmaker Bill Hader must like an awful lot.
That, of course, would be Oscar-winning director Guillermo del Toro, who appears here as, simply, Toro. If you were paying attention during last week's two-part premiere, you know that NoHo Hank (Anthony Carrigan) contacted someone named Toro to see if Barry Berkman could be broken out of prison. Now, we know that Hank...
That, of course, would be Oscar-winning director Guillermo del Toro, who appears here as, simply, Toro. If you were paying attention during last week's two-part premiere, you know that NoHo Hank (Anthony Carrigan) contacted someone named Toro to see if Barry Berkman could be broken out of prison. Now, we know that Hank...
- 4/24/2023
- by Josh Spiegel
- Slash Film
Here’s a look at this week’s biggest premieres, parties and openings in Los Angeles and New York, including red carpets for Ghosted, Barry, White House Plumbers and a roundup of Coachella highlights.
Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret premiere
Stars Rachel McAdams and Abby Ryder Fortson walked the carpet alongside Judy Blume and writer-director Kelly Fremon Craig at the film’s L.A. premiere on Saturday.
Abby Ryder Fortson, Judy Blume and Rachel McAdams Amy Brooks, Julie Ansell, Judy Blume, Kelly Fremon Craig, James L. Brooks, Abby Ryder Fortson and Rachel McAdams
Barry premiere
Bill Hader unveiled the fourth and final season of his HBO series on Sunday in L.A., joined by costars Henry Winkler, Anthony Carrigan, Sarah Goldberg and Stephen Root.
Henry Winkler and Bill Hader Stephen Root, Michael Irby, Robert Wisdom, Bill Hader, HBO’s Amy Gravitt, Anthony Carrigan, Sarah Goldberg and Henry Winkler...
Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret premiere
Stars Rachel McAdams and Abby Ryder Fortson walked the carpet alongside Judy Blume and writer-director Kelly Fremon Craig at the film’s L.A. premiere on Saturday.
Abby Ryder Fortson, Judy Blume and Rachel McAdams Amy Brooks, Julie Ansell, Judy Blume, Kelly Fremon Craig, James L. Brooks, Abby Ryder Fortson and Rachel McAdams
Barry premiere
Bill Hader unveiled the fourth and final season of his HBO series on Sunday in L.A., joined by costars Henry Winkler, Anthony Carrigan, Sarah Goldberg and Stephen Root.
Henry Winkler and Bill Hader Stephen Root, Michael Irby, Robert Wisdom, Bill Hader, HBO’s Amy Gravitt, Anthony Carrigan, Sarah Goldberg and Henry Winkler...
- 4/21/2023
- by Kirsten Chuba
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
We don't have to wonder if Barry will be cancelled or renewed for a fifth season since it's already been announced that the HBO series ends with the current fourth season. However, reboots and spin-offs are very popular these days. Could some characters return someday in a fifth season of Barry or perhaps their own show? Stay tuned.
A dark comedy crime series, the Barry TV show stars Bill Hader, Stephen Root; Sarah Goldberg; Anthony Carrigan; Henry Winkler; and Robert Wisdom, with Michael Irby, Fred Melamed, Andrew Leeds, Patrick Fischler, and Jessy Hodges in recurring roles. The story begins as former Marine Barry Berkman (Hader), a Cleveland hitman travels to Los Angeles to kill someone. He joins an acting class taught by self-obsessed Gene Cousineau (Winkler). There, Barry meets aspiring actress Sally Reed (Goldberg) and falls in love with the craft and wants to change...
A dark comedy crime series, the Barry TV show stars Bill Hader, Stephen Root; Sarah Goldberg; Anthony Carrigan; Henry Winkler; and Robert Wisdom, with Michael Irby, Fred Melamed, Andrew Leeds, Patrick Fischler, and Jessy Hodges in recurring roles. The story begins as former Marine Barry Berkman (Hader), a Cleveland hitman travels to Los Angeles to kill someone. He joins an acting class taught by self-obsessed Gene Cousineau (Winkler). There, Barry meets aspiring actress Sally Reed (Goldberg) and falls in love with the craft and wants to change...
- 4/18/2023
- by TVSeriesFinale.com
- TVSeriesFinale.com
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With all he's done, can this hitman find a happy ending? Has the Barry TV show been cancelled or renewed for a fifth season on HBO? The television vulture is watching all the latest cancellation and renewal news, so this page is the place to track the status of Barry, season five. Bookmark it, or subscribe for the latest updates. Remember, the television vulture is watching your shows. Are you?
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A dark comedy series airing on the HBO cable channel, the Barry TV show stars Bill Hader, Stephen Root; Sarah Goldberg; Anthony Carrigan; Henry Winkler; and Robert Wisdom, with Michael Irby, Fred Melamed, Andrew Leeds, Patrick Fischler, and Jessy Hodges in recurring roles. The story begins as former Marine Barry Berkman (Hader), a Cleveland hitman, travels to Los Angeles to kill someone. He joins an...
With all he's done, can this hitman find a happy ending? Has the Barry TV show been cancelled or renewed for a fifth season on HBO? The television vulture is watching all the latest cancellation and renewal news, so this page is the place to track the status of Barry, season five. Bookmark it, or subscribe for the latest updates. Remember, the television vulture is watching your shows. Are you?
What's This TV Show About?
A dark comedy series airing on the HBO cable channel, the Barry TV show stars Bill Hader, Stephen Root; Sarah Goldberg; Anthony Carrigan; Henry Winkler; and Robert Wisdom, with Michael Irby, Fred Melamed, Andrew Leeds, Patrick Fischler, and Jessy Hodges in recurring roles. The story begins as former Marine Barry Berkman (Hader), a Cleveland hitman, travels to Los Angeles to kill someone. He joins an...
- 4/18/2023
- by TVSeriesFinale.com
- TVSeriesFinale.com
For the second week in a row, “Succession” reached its biggest audience yet.
The HBO drama reached 2.6 million viewers on Sunday night, when the fourth episode of its fourth and final season debuted. That’s an improvement of 4% from Episode 3, which featured a major character death and brought in a then-series high of 2.5 million viewers.
Immediately afterwards, HBO and HBO Max premiered the fourth and final season of “Barry” with two episodes. The first episode was watched by 710,000 viewers — the most the series has seen since the finale of Season 2, which benefited from airing directly after an episode of “Game of Thrones,” HBO’s most watched show ever. Episode 2 dropped by 23% to bring in 550,000 viewers.
Provided by Warner Bros. Discovery, these figures represent a combination of third-party data from Nielsen regarding viewership of both shows on HBO’s cable channel and Wbd’s own data regarding streams on HBO Max.
The HBO drama reached 2.6 million viewers on Sunday night, when the fourth episode of its fourth and final season debuted. That’s an improvement of 4% from Episode 3, which featured a major character death and brought in a then-series high of 2.5 million viewers.
Immediately afterwards, HBO and HBO Max premiered the fourth and final season of “Barry” with two episodes. The first episode was watched by 710,000 viewers — the most the series has seen since the finale of Season 2, which benefited from airing directly after an episode of “Game of Thrones,” HBO’s most watched show ever. Episode 2 dropped by 23% to bring in 550,000 viewers.
Provided by Warner Bros. Discovery, these figures represent a combination of third-party data from Nielsen regarding viewership of both shows on HBO’s cable channel and Wbd’s own data regarding streams on HBO Max.
- 4/17/2023
- by Selome Hailu
- Variety Film + TV
This article contains mild spoilers for "Barry" season 4.Through the first two episodes of "Barry" season 4 (read /Film's review), Barry Berkman (Bill Hader) is getting adjusted to life behind bars after his acting teacher and mentor, Gene Cousineau (Henry Winkler), helped capture him to avenge his girlfriend, Detective Janice Moss (Paula Newsome). After getting confirmation from Cousineau that he worked with Janice's father, Jim Moss (Robert Wisdom), to arrest him, Barry is understandably shattered. Betrayed, he phones his ex-girlfriend Sally (Sarah Goldberg) who promptly tells him to never contact her again.
It's a devastating blow for Barry who is still coming to terms with the fact that becoming an actor didn't quell his desire to kill. In fact, unlocking his emotions only exacerbated the problem. Acting was supposed to be his creative outlet, but instead, moonlighting as an assassin was still his true, dark calling.
Without Sally, Barry immediately...
It's a devastating blow for Barry who is still coming to terms with the fact that becoming an actor didn't quell his desire to kill. In fact, unlocking his emotions only exacerbated the problem. Acting was supposed to be his creative outlet, but instead, moonlighting as an assassin was still his true, dark calling.
Without Sally, Barry immediately...
- 4/17/2023
- by Drew Tinnin
- Slash Film
Actions have consequences in the fourth season of the Barry TV show on HBO. As we all know, Nielsen ratings typically play a big role in determining whether a TV show like Barry is cancelled or renewed for season five. Unfortunately, most of us do not live in Nielsen households. Because many viewers feel frustrated when their viewing habits and opinions aren't considered, we invite you to rate all of the fourth season episodes of Barry here.
An HBO dark comedy crime series, the Barry TV show stars Bill Hader, Stephen Root; Sarah Goldberg; Anthony Carrigan; Henry Winkler; and Robert Wisdom, with Michael Irby, Fred Melamed, Andrew Leeds, Patrick Fischler, and Jessy Hodges in recurring roles. The story begins as former Marine Barry Berkman (Hader), a Cleveland hitman, travels to Los...
An HBO dark comedy crime series, the Barry TV show stars Bill Hader, Stephen Root; Sarah Goldberg; Anthony Carrigan; Henry Winkler; and Robert Wisdom, with Michael Irby, Fred Melamed, Andrew Leeds, Patrick Fischler, and Jessy Hodges in recurring roles. The story begins as former Marine Barry Berkman (Hader), a Cleveland hitman, travels to Los...
- 4/17/2023
- by TVSeriesFinale.com
- TVSeriesFinale.com
With Barry‘s fourth and final season now in the can and starting to roll out on HBO, Bill Hader has his sights set on the next goal: directing a movie.
“I would do a feature, for sure. [Barry writer and co-executive producer] Duffy Boudreau and I have written something, but there’s also things that I’ve done, there’s two other ideas that I’m knocking around,” Hader, who directed all eight episodes of Barry this season, told The Hollywood Reporter at the season four premiere on Sunday. “I’m just looking forward to taking a little vacation and then kind of being in sponge mode — read, watch some stuff. I haven’t had the space in my head to do it. We did seasons three and four back-to-back so it’s pretty wild.”
Asked if he would want to direct a movie that he’d also star in, Hader added, “I don’t know,...
“I would do a feature, for sure. [Barry writer and co-executive producer] Duffy Boudreau and I have written something, but there’s also things that I’ve done, there’s two other ideas that I’m knocking around,” Hader, who directed all eight episodes of Barry this season, told The Hollywood Reporter at the season four premiere on Sunday. “I’m just looking forward to taking a little vacation and then kind of being in sponge mode — read, watch some stuff. I haven’t had the space in my head to do it. We did seasons three and four back-to-back so it’s pretty wild.”
Asked if he would want to direct a movie that he’d also star in, Hader added, “I don’t know,...
- 4/17/2023
- by Kirsten Chuba
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
This post contains spoilers for "Barry" season 4, episode 1, "yikes," and episode 2, "bestest place on the earth."
One of the most important relationships in "Barry" is between the eponymous hitman turned actor (Bill Hader) and his handler/honorary uncle, Monroe Fuches (Stephen Root). Fuches is the one who turned Barry into a hitman (he was already a killer from his military service in Afghanistan). So when Barry wants to try a new vocation and join the acting class of Gene Cousineau (Henry Winkler), Fuches objects, knowing that spells the end of his gravy train. Their partnership falls apart over season 1, and they've now tried to kill each other multiple times.
Season 3 of "Barry" ended with a sense of comeuppance. After entrapment by Cousineau, Barry was finally arrested for killing Detective Janice Moss (Paula Newsome) — Cousineau's girlfriend — back in the season 1 finale. Fuches was arrested too, courtesy of Janice's father Jim...
One of the most important relationships in "Barry" is between the eponymous hitman turned actor (Bill Hader) and his handler/honorary uncle, Monroe Fuches (Stephen Root). Fuches is the one who turned Barry into a hitman (he was already a killer from his military service in Afghanistan). So when Barry wants to try a new vocation and join the acting class of Gene Cousineau (Henry Winkler), Fuches objects, knowing that spells the end of his gravy train. Their partnership falls apart over season 1, and they've now tried to kill each other multiple times.
Season 3 of "Barry" ended with a sense of comeuppance. After entrapment by Cousineau, Barry was finally arrested for killing Detective Janice Moss (Paula Newsome) — Cousineau's girlfriend — back in the season 1 finale. Fuches was arrested too, courtesy of Janice's father Jim...
- 4/17/2023
- by Devin Meenan
- Slash Film
This post contains spoilers for the two-episode season 4 premiere of "Barry."
When "Barry" ended last season, it was with all the pitch-black drama of a series like "Breaking Bad" or "The Wire." The season finale featured a brutal, lengthy scene that saw Sally (Sarah Goldberg) beat a man to death after he tried to choke her, and a few scenes later, Barry (Bill Hader) was arrested in an LAPD sting orchestrated by the man he looks to as a hero. With Barry headed behind bars and his double life as an actor and assassin no longer hanging in the balance, one had to ask: how will this show ever be funny again?
The answer, it turns out, is by letting its comedy evolve alongside its subject matter. In its early seasons, "Barry" mined comedy from the desperation of Hollywood, cracking jokes about no-talent dreamers and washed-up B-listers. As Barry and...
When "Barry" ended last season, it was with all the pitch-black drama of a series like "Breaking Bad" or "The Wire." The season finale featured a brutal, lengthy scene that saw Sally (Sarah Goldberg) beat a man to death after he tried to choke her, and a few scenes later, Barry (Bill Hader) was arrested in an LAPD sting orchestrated by the man he looks to as a hero. With Barry headed behind bars and his double life as an actor and assassin no longer hanging in the balance, one had to ask: how will this show ever be funny again?
The answer, it turns out, is by letting its comedy evolve alongside its subject matter. In its early seasons, "Barry" mined comedy from the desperation of Hollywood, cracking jokes about no-talent dreamers and washed-up B-listers. As Barry and...
- 4/17/2023
- by Valerie Ettenhofer
- Slash Film
Spoilers follow.
Fame is a funny thing. Of course, on the HBO series "Barry," fame is a terrifyingly dangerous thing. "Barry" begins its fourth and final season with a two-episode premiere, exploring the darkest possible version of what fame can bring. The hitman-turned-wannabe actor is only ever a halfway-decent actor when he's channeling the immense rage that fuels him, and he's constantly lured back into the hitman lifestyle. But it took three seasons for that lifestyle to catch up with him in tangible ways. Last season wrapped with a shocker, in which Barry was arrested by the Los Angeles Police Department thanks to a sting operation led by Jim Moss (Robert Wisdom), the intense father of the late Detective Janice Moss (Paula Newsome), who Barry killed at the end of the first season. Jim only got his man thanks to Barry's surrogate father figure and acting teacher Gene Cousineau (Henry Winkler...
Fame is a funny thing. Of course, on the HBO series "Barry," fame is a terrifyingly dangerous thing. "Barry" begins its fourth and final season with a two-episode premiere, exploring the darkest possible version of what fame can bring. The hitman-turned-wannabe actor is only ever a halfway-decent actor when he's channeling the immense rage that fuels him, and he's constantly lured back into the hitman lifestyle. But it took three seasons for that lifestyle to catch up with him in tangible ways. Last season wrapped with a shocker, in which Barry was arrested by the Los Angeles Police Department thanks to a sting operation led by Jim Moss (Robert Wisdom), the intense father of the late Detective Janice Moss (Paula Newsome), who Barry killed at the end of the first season. Jim only got his man thanks to Barry's surrogate father figure and acting teacher Gene Cousineau (Henry Winkler...
- 4/17/2023
- by Josh Spiegel
- Slash Film
[This story contains spoilers for the first two episodes of Barry season four.]
Justice just wasn’t enough for Gene Cousineau.
In the season three finale of Barry, Henry Winkler’s character and Jim Moss (Robert Wisdom) had Barry Berkman (Bill Hader) dead to rights for the attempted murder of Moss, as well as his previous murder of Moss’ daughter and Gene’s girlfriend, Janice (Paula Newsome). However, in the two-episode premiere of Barry’s fourth and final season, Gene has potentially put the case in jeopardy by delivering a one-man show to Vanity Fair journalist Lon Oneil (Patrick Fischler) about his entire history with his murderous acting student, something he and Moss explicitly agreed not to do.
Prior to his one-man show, Gene had already made the news for his brave efforts that helped catch Barry, and he went on to receive a hero’s welcome from the live-studio audience during a taping of his show, MasterClass. He even got to gloat...
Justice just wasn’t enough for Gene Cousineau.
In the season three finale of Barry, Henry Winkler’s character and Jim Moss (Robert Wisdom) had Barry Berkman (Bill Hader) dead to rights for the attempted murder of Moss, as well as his previous murder of Moss’ daughter and Gene’s girlfriend, Janice (Paula Newsome). However, in the two-episode premiere of Barry’s fourth and final season, Gene has potentially put the case in jeopardy by delivering a one-man show to Vanity Fair journalist Lon Oneil (Patrick Fischler) about his entire history with his murderous acting student, something he and Moss explicitly agreed not to do.
Prior to his one-man show, Gene had already made the news for his brave efforts that helped catch Barry, and he went on to receive a hero’s welcome from the live-studio audience during a taping of his show, MasterClass. He even got to gloat...
- 4/17/2023
- by Brian Davids
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
When “Barry” began, it was the punchline to a simple setup: a hitman walks into an acting class, then kills in every sense of the term. Co-creator and star Bill Hader was best known for his sketch comedy work on “Saturday Night Live,” while his partner Alec Berg had done stints on “Silicon Valley” and “Curb Your Enthusiasm.” At least to start, “Barry” largely built on those backgrounds, mining humor from its characters’ self-delusion. Hader’s title character wants to express himself, but also hide his true nature; his classmates and teacher all firmly believe they’re undiscovered stars. Even violent criminals like chipper Chechen NoHo Hank (Anthony Carrigan) were largely comic creations.
But over three seasons, “Barry” has followed the its premise to increasingly darker depths. As Barry Berkman’s body count continues to climb, his goal of redemption grows ever more unattainable. It’s also undesirable — for an...
But over three seasons, “Barry” has followed the its premise to increasingly darker depths. As Barry Berkman’s body count continues to climb, his goal of redemption grows ever more unattainable. It’s also undesirable — for an...
- 4/13/2023
- by Alison Herman
- Variety Film + TV
Plot: Cousineau is hailed as a hero as Barry’s arrest has shocking consequences. It’s all been leading up to this – the explosive and hilarious final chapter of Barry.
Review: I knew Barry was a great television from the first season. I also had no idea how Bill Hader could sustain the story for over one season. At the end of the third season, the series could have ended with a satisfying finale before it was revealed that it would return for one more run. Now, as the fourth and final season is set to debut, the whole story told over thirty-two episodes comes into focus and cement that Barry is one of the best television series of all time. Featuring the expected great performances from Bill Hader and Henry Winkler, the final season of Barry also elevates Sarah Goldberg and Anthony Carrigan to some of the best work they have done.
Review: I knew Barry was a great television from the first season. I also had no idea how Bill Hader could sustain the story for over one season. At the end of the third season, the series could have ended with a satisfying finale before it was revealed that it would return for one more run. Now, as the fourth and final season is set to debut, the whole story told over thirty-two episodes comes into focus and cement that Barry is one of the best television series of all time. Featuring the expected great performances from Bill Hader and Henry Winkler, the final season of Barry also elevates Sarah Goldberg and Anthony Carrigan to some of the best work they have done.
- 4/11/2023
- by Alex Maidy
- JoBlo.com
Has there ever really been a show like "Barry"? On paper, "Barry" is a half-hour comedy about a hitman who gets bit by the acting bug. Sounds fun, right? Wrong. Well, sort of. Despite its comedic setup, it's probably not even fair to call "Barry" a comedy anymore. Alec Berg and Bill Hader's series started off somewhat light (or as light as a show with frequent murders could be) before descending into a remarkable, almost suffocating darkness. As "Barry" enters its fourth and final season, things have grown increasingly bleak. And if the bleakness doesn't get you, the feverish levels of anxiety will do the trick.
And yet, despite all this, "Barry" is funny. But it's also so much more than the comedy it began as. It's a show about horribly flawed individuals navigating an increasingly dangerous world. When this final season goes for comedy, it's very funny. But...
And yet, despite all this, "Barry" is funny. But it's also so much more than the comedy it began as. It's a show about horribly flawed individuals navigating an increasingly dangerous world. When this final season goes for comedy, it's very funny. But...
- 4/11/2023
- by Chris Evangelista
- Slash Film
Late in the final season of “Barry,” a character says, “This is not a good guy/bad guy story. It goes way deeper than that — so much deeper.” Never mind that this man is talking about an unproduced film script. Bill Hader and Alec Berg’s black comedy is as deep as it is dark. There are shades of gray aplenty, but the lines are so sharply etched, morality often plays second fiddle to motivation. The people in “Barry” want, and what they want is often just out of reach (as tends to be the case in TV shows). Some crave fame or acclaim, like the needy actors Gene (Henry Winkler) and Sally (Sarah Goldberg), while others seek riches, like the self-centered handler Fuches (Stephen Root), or merriment, like the cheery Chechen oddball Hank (Anthony Carrigan). Circumstances can be their own impediment — Hank, for instance, often sees his mob responsibilities...
- 4/11/2023
- by Ben Travers
- Indiewire
Emphasis is on the dark as “Barry,” Bill Hader and Alec Berg’s dark comedy about a hapless hit man with Hollywood dreams, begins its fourth and final season. It takes a while for the comedy to catch up, but rest assured that the show’s trademark blend of absurd brutality and hilarious human frailty is re-established by the second episode, which premieres along with the season opener on HBO Sunday, April 16.
This makes sense since Hader’s Barry Berkman was arrested at the end of Season 3 and is entering prison at the start of this eight-chapter run. After some weak humor with a starstruck guard, the story zeroes in on Barry’s pain. It’s emotional at first as he realizes his beloved acting teacher, Gene Cousineau (Henry Winkler), conspired with the intimidating Jim Moss (Robert Wisdom) to set him up. Barry did, after all, murder the former’s girlfriend/latter’s daughter,...
This makes sense since Hader’s Barry Berkman was arrested at the end of Season 3 and is entering prison at the start of this eight-chapter run. After some weak humor with a starstruck guard, the story zeroes in on Barry’s pain. It’s emotional at first as he realizes his beloved acting teacher, Gene Cousineau (Henry Winkler), conspired with the intimidating Jim Moss (Robert Wisdom) to set him up. Barry did, after all, murder the former’s girlfriend/latter’s daughter,...
- 4/11/2023
- by Bob Strauss
- The Wrap
Early in the new season of Barry, the show’s title character is told that while he has done bad things, “I’m sure you’re not a bad guy.” This is among the most clichéd sentiments of a 21st century television littered with stories of monstrous actions committed by seemingly less-than-monstrous individuals.
Barry has never been exactly that. Despite sharing DNA with the Walter Whites of the TV world, the series has felt wholly original from the jump, even as it’s evolved from Hollywood satire into something much darker and deeper.
Barry has never been exactly that. Despite sharing DNA with the Walter Whites of the TV world, the series has felt wholly original from the jump, even as it’s evolved from Hollywood satire into something much darker and deeper.
- 4/11/2023
- by Alan Sepinwall
- Rollingstone.com
HBO has released the official trailer and key art for the fourth and final season of the Emmy® winning dark comedy series Barry, starring and directed by Emmy® and DGA-winner Bill Hader. The eight-episode season debuts with two new episodes Sunday, April 16 (10:00-11:00 p.m. Et/Pt) on HBO and will be available to stream on HBO Max. A new episode will debut every following Sunday, leading up to the series finale on May 28. Hader and Alec Berg are the series co-creators and executive producers. Season 4 logline: Cousineau (Henry Winkler) is hailed as a hero as Barry’s (Bill Hader) arrest has shocking consequences. It’s all been leading up to this – the explosive and hilarious final chapter of Barry. Barry Season 4 cast: The Emmy® nominated and winning cast regulars include Stephen Root as Monroe Fuches; Sarah Goldberg as Sally Reed; Anthony Carrigan as Noho Hank; Emmy...
- 3/30/2023
- by Thomas Miller
- Seat42F
The curtain is closing on Barry, HBO‘s dark comedy series about a hit man from the Midwest who moves to Los Angeles and falls in love with the stage. HBO released its Barry Season 4 trailer on Wednesday, featuring Bill Hader’s irredeemable character losing his grip and creating chaos, even behind bars. The Emmy-winning series returns with the first of eight episodes on April 16, 2023, on HBO, with new episodes every Sunday until the May 28 series finale.
Here’s the official logline for Barry Season 4:
Cousineau (Henry Winkler) is hailed as a hero as Barry’s (Bill Hader) arrest has shocking consequences. It’s all been leading up to this – Barry’s explosive and hilarious final chapter.
That description isn’t much to go on. HBO may be trying not to spoil the events, but still, talk about crumbs. In HBO’s Barry Season 4 trailer, Barry (Bill Hader) is...
Here’s the official logline for Barry Season 4:
Cousineau (Henry Winkler) is hailed as a hero as Barry’s (Bill Hader) arrest has shocking consequences. It’s all been leading up to this – Barry’s explosive and hilarious final chapter.
That description isn’t much to go on. HBO may be trying not to spoil the events, but still, talk about crumbs. In HBO’s Barry Season 4 trailer, Barry (Bill Hader) is...
- 3/29/2023
- by Steve Seigh
- JoBlo.com
Timber Timbre’s haunting record “Run From Me” looms throughout the Season 4 trailer for the HBO series Barry. “You better run for your life,” an eerie voice croons as viewers reconnect with a bloodied and bruised Barry Berkman (Bill Hader) searching for redemption while in prison. He can feel himself running out of time as the series winds down, concluding for good with the forthcoming set of episodes premiering on April 16.
“I’m really sorry,” Barry says in the trailer to no one in particular. “I didn’t think it would end up like this.
“I’m really sorry,” Barry says in the trailer to no one in particular. “I didn’t think it would end up like this.
- 3/29/2023
- by Larisha Paul
- Rollingstone.com
A new, full-length trailer for “Barry” Season 4 has arrived, offering a closer look at what to expect from the final eight episodes of the Emmy-winning half-hour series. Hader’s Barry is in jail following the Season 3 finale’s big sting operation, and we get glimpses of how those around Barry – Sally (Sarah Goldberg), Gene (Henry Winkler), Fuches (Stephen Root) and Hank (Anthony Carrigan) – are dealing with this new development.
“The guy I was dating in LA killed my acting teacher’s girlfriend,” Sally is heard saying in the trailer, followed by, “I think I might be in a lot of trouble.”
Barry is in jail, seen really laying it on himself as he deals with the consequences of his actions. Fuches is also in jail, and it appears as though he’s in the same prison as Barry.
Hader directed all eight episodes of this final season after making his...
“The guy I was dating in LA killed my acting teacher’s girlfriend,” Sally is heard saying in the trailer, followed by, “I think I might be in a lot of trouble.”
Barry is in jail, seen really laying it on himself as he deals with the consequences of his actions. Fuches is also in jail, and it appears as though he’s in the same prison as Barry.
Hader directed all eight episodes of this final season after making his...
- 3/29/2023
- by Adam Chitwood
- The Wrap
The official trailer for the fourth and final season of HBO’s Barry shows Bill Hader’s hitman in prison and seeking redemption while those he left behind struggle with the impact of his murderous past.
The Emmy-winning comedy debuts the first two of its eight final episodes Sunday, April 16. “It’s been an amazing journey making this show, and it’s bittersweet that the story has come to its natural conclusion,” Hader said in a statement.
“After three masterful seasons of Barry, we are eager for viewers to see the powerful, complex and hilarious conclusion to Barry Berkman’s story,” adds Amy Gravitt, executive vp HBO & HBO Max comedy programming.
The logline for season four reveals almost nothing about the season’s story: “Cousineau (Henry Winkler) is hailed as a hero as Barry’s arrest has shocking consequences.”
The show’s first three seasons received 44 Emmy nominations and nine wins,...
The Emmy-winning comedy debuts the first two of its eight final episodes Sunday, April 16. “It’s been an amazing journey making this show, and it’s bittersweet that the story has come to its natural conclusion,” Hader said in a statement.
“After three masterful seasons of Barry, we are eager for viewers to see the powerful, complex and hilarious conclusion to Barry Berkman’s story,” adds Amy Gravitt, executive vp HBO & HBO Max comedy programming.
The logline for season four reveals almost nothing about the season’s story: “Cousineau (Henry Winkler) is hailed as a hero as Barry’s arrest has shocking consequences.”
The show’s first three seasons received 44 Emmy nominations and nine wins,...
- 3/29/2023
- by James Hibberd
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Is Barry Berkman irredeemable? That’s the question at the center of the just-released full-length trailer for the fourth and final season of HBO’s Barry.
Premiering Sunday, April 16, the dark comedy’s eight-episode farewell run finds Bill Hader’s newly-incarcerated hitman-slash-thespian unpacking his existential crisis behind bars and, by the looks of the official poster (see below), contemplating a prison break.
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In addition to Hader, who also directed all eight episodes,...
Premiering Sunday, April 16, the dark comedy’s eight-episode farewell run finds Bill Hader’s newly-incarcerated hitman-slash-thespian unpacking his existential crisis behind bars and, by the looks of the official poster (see below), contemplating a prison break.
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In addition to Hader, who also directed all eight episodes,...
- 3/29/2023
- by Michael Ausiello
- TVLine.com
The Emmy® winning dark comedy series Barry, starring and directed by Emmy® and DGA-winner Bill Hader, returns for its fourth and final eight-episode season with two new episodes Sunday, April 16 (10:00-11:00 p.m. Et/Pt) on HBO and will be available to stream on HBO Max. A new episode will debut every following Sunday, leading up to the series finale on May 28. Hader and Alec Berg are the series co-creators and executive producers.
Barry
Bill Hader, star, co-creator, writer, director and executive producer quote: “It’s been an amazing journey making this show, and it’s bittersweet that the story has come to its natural conclusion.”
Amy Gravitt, Executive Vice President, HBO and HBO Max Comedy Programming quote: “After three masterful seasons of Barry, we are eager for viewers to see the powerful, complex and hilarious conclusion to Barry Berkman’s story. It has been a pleasure...
Barry
Bill Hader, star, co-creator, writer, director and executive producer quote: “It’s been an amazing journey making this show, and it’s bittersweet that the story has come to its natural conclusion.”
Amy Gravitt, Executive Vice President, HBO and HBO Max Comedy Programming quote: “After three masterful seasons of Barry, we are eager for viewers to see the powerful, complex and hilarious conclusion to Barry Berkman’s story. It has been a pleasure...
- 3/7/2023
- by TV Shows Martin Cid Magazine
- Martin Cid - TV
Now in prison, Barry Berkman is plotting his next move. “So help me God, if I get out of here, I’m coming for you,” Bill Hader’s character in the HBO series Barry spits into the phone, bloodied and bruised in the first trailer for the show’s upcoming fourth season. Whatever loose ends he has to tie up better be handled soon because, after the eight-episode season premieres on April 16, the series will have reached the end of the line.
“There are still so many questions with the other characters,...
“There are still so many questions with the other characters,...
- 3/7/2023
- by Larisha Paul
- Rollingstone.com
Season three of HBO’s critically acclaimed, Emmy Award-winning Barry ended with Barry Berkman (Bill Hader) under arrest. The teaser trailer for season four confirms that while Barry is, in fact, behind bars, he remains at the heart of the story.
Dropping the teaser trailer, HBO announced an April 16, 2023 premiere date. The network also announced season four will be the show’s final season, which means only eight new episodes remain to wrap up Barry’s story.
Season four’s first two episodes arrive on April 16th, with new episodes premiering on Sundays at 10pm Et/Pt. The series finale will air on May 28th.
“It’s been an amazing journey making this show, and it’s bittersweet that the story has come to its natural conclusion,” said three-time Emmy Award-winner Bill Hader.
Bill Hader and Alec Berg created and serve as executive producers. Hader directed all eight season four episodes.
Dropping the teaser trailer, HBO announced an April 16, 2023 premiere date. The network also announced season four will be the show’s final season, which means only eight new episodes remain to wrap up Barry’s story.
Season four’s first two episodes arrive on April 16th, with new episodes premiering on Sundays at 10pm Et/Pt. The series finale will air on May 28th.
“It’s been an amazing journey making this show, and it’s bittersweet that the story has come to its natural conclusion,” said three-time Emmy Award-winner Bill Hader.
Bill Hader and Alec Berg created and serve as executive producers. Hader directed all eight season four episodes.
- 3/7/2023
- by Rebecca Murray
- Showbiz Junkies
“Barry” is the latest critically acclaimed, Emmy-winning series to say those four little words: “Fourth and final season.” HBO’s dark comedy will end after its upcoming season, co-creator Bill Hader announced Tuesday in an interview with Variety. The news was accompanied by a premiere date – which comes surprisingly soon – and a teaser trailer.
The trailer picks up where Season 3 left off, with aspiring actor/professional hitman Barry Berkman (Hader) in prison after being lured into a trap by his acting teacher and mentor Gene Cousineau (Henry Winkler). In the teaser, Barry makes phone calls and sees visions of the people important to him. In one call, he breaks down as he tells someone he loves them. In what could be the same call or a different one, Gene says to him, “Hey Barry, I got you.” And in the last one at the end of the teaser, he growls “So help me God,...
The trailer picks up where Season 3 left off, with aspiring actor/professional hitman Barry Berkman (Hader) in prison after being lured into a trap by his acting teacher and mentor Gene Cousineau (Henry Winkler). In the teaser, Barry makes phone calls and sees visions of the people important to him. In one call, he breaks down as he tells someone he loves them. In what could be the same call or a different one, Gene says to him, “Hey Barry, I got you.” And in the last one at the end of the teaser, he growls “So help me God,...
- 3/7/2023
- by Liam Mathews
- Gold Derby
Hey there movie lovers! Today we’re going to take a look at the one and only, Selma Blair. This talented actress has been gracing our screens for decades, and we’re going to take a deep dive into her filmography. Selma has been in a number of films that have left a lasting impression on audiences, and we can’t wait to share those with you. From her best to her worst, we’ve got you covered. So, whether you’re a long-time fan or just discovering her work, this Selma Blair movies list is the perfect place to start.
Ready to see which films made our Selma Blair movies list for the best and which ones made the worst? Well, buckle up and get ready to be entertained, as we take a look at 10 films that define Selma Blair’s career.
1. “Cruel Intentions” (1999)
“Cruel Intentions” is a dark...
Ready to see which films made our Selma Blair movies list for the best and which ones made the worst? Well, buckle up and get ready to be entertained, as we take a look at 10 films that define Selma Blair’s career.
1. “Cruel Intentions” (1999)
“Cruel Intentions” is a dark...
- 2/10/2023
- by Dee Gambit
- buddytv.com
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