Chapter One: Make Your Mark
- Episode aired Mar 25, 2018
- TV-MA
- 33m
A disillusioned hit man wants to start a new life after following his quarry to an acting class.A disillusioned hit man wants to start a new life after following his quarry to an acting class.A disillusioned hit man wants to start a new life after following his quarry to an acting class.
- Sasha Smith
- (as Kirby Howell-Baptiste)
- Dead Lawyer
- (uncredited)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaThe acting class goes for drinks at Residuals, which is a real bar in Studio City. It takes its name from the residual payments that union actors receive when their work is broadcast on TV. These payments are sometimes quite small, so the bar allows actors to exchange any residual check of one dollar or less for a drink. There is a shot in the episode of several residual checks pinned up behind the bar.
- GoofsThe shadow box showing Barry's Marine Corps memorabilia has his rack of ribbons upside down, with the Purple Heart and Silver Star ribbons at the bottom and campaign ribbons at the top. No Marine (indeed, no one who ever served in uniform) would make this mistake.
- Quotes
Barry Berkman: You wanna know what I'm good at? I'm good at killing people. You know, when I got back from Afghanistan I, ah, was really depressed. You know, like I didn't leave my house for months, and, ah, this friend of my dad's, he's, uh he's like an uncle to me. He, uh, he helped me out and he gave me a purpose. He told me that, that what I was good at over there could be useful here and, uh, it's a job. You know. All right the money's good, and, uh, these people I take out, like they're they're bad people, you know, like they're pieces of shit. Um... But lately, you know, I've like, I'm not sleeping and, ah, that depressed feeling's back, you know. Like, like I know there's more to me than that. Maybe, I don't know, maybe there's not. Maybe this is all I'm good at.
- ConnectionsFeatured in The 70th Primetime Emmy Awards (2018)
- SoundtracksChange for the World
(uncredited)
Written by Charles Bradley, Menahan Street Band, Thomas Brenneck, Leon Michels, Nick Movshon, and Homer Steinweiss
Performed by Charles Bradley
(Title Theme)
As for that plot, I must see further episodes to fully develop my thoughts on this one. Nevertheless, the plot of this episode is well-delivered; the decision to dump the viewer into the story with no context whatsoever creates an intrigue, and the decision to have the protagonist explain the context of his life current with a monologue occurs naturally.
Hopefully, this show delivers on its potential.
- calzonesylvia
- May 21, 2022
Details
- Runtime33 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 16:9 HD