#barry 4x06

[dumbbitchawards]

Barry spiralling into gradually more extreme christian podcasts to try and find one that justifies his actions and cutting the last one off when it fits his narrative is so. man

[meep-meep-richie]

Bill Hader understands the assignment

[livsdumb18]

spoilers for barry 4x06

so at the end of the episode we see barry with jim moss, what if the last two episodes were a jim moss induced delusion, i mean he made the vanity fair reporter speak fucking german. barry’s had hallucinations like this before like in season 1. he’s always had a son with sally, no we’ve never seen him properly until now, but maybe after sally says let’s go, jim moss was waiting in the car outside sallys apartment maybe jim moss got ahold of him instead and when we see him outside genes house maybe that’s jim waking him up again. the last two episodes made no sense and i trust bill but i think none of it actually happened and it was actually all in his head.

[solitudeandseclusion]

me for the 95 minutes duration of succession 4x08 and barry 4x06 episodes combined:

*non-stop internal screaming in my head*

"no no no you cannot be doing this"

"wtf that is a new low even for you"

"oh you're an awful woman and i hope your kid can escape this cycle of abuse"

"stop this madness"

[bigtiddygandalf]

is barry actually gonna get the good ending??

[lousolversons]

Well, I guess everyone's a hero of their own story, right? BARRY - 2x06 / 4x06

[twobabkas]

Well, you have an empire, Mr. Fortune 500. Mr. Nice Guy. Mr. Hanging with the Mayor and Actors and Shit. Yeah, I didn't think you had it in you, but you proved me wrong.

BARRY 4x06 | the wizard

[frankburn]

BARRY

4x06 - the wizard

[e2castiel]

Barry 4x06-The Wizard

[brielarsons]

BARRY 4x06 — the wizard

[diueliz]

Barry, 4x06, "the wizard"

[dumbbitchawards]

Fuches saying Hank killed cristobal is making me violent and the fact that Hank didn't immediately kill him on sight makes him a better man than me cause it wouldve been over for that old man then and there

[meep-meep-richie]

So if Hank went along with the legit sand business immediately; Cristobal would still be alive?!

[the-irrelevant-trumpeter]

okay fuckkkk. barry 4x06 thoughts.

barry scrolling through christian podcasts until he finds one that fits his actions??? ughhhh

i'm assuming the break and entry and the house moving and all that was just sally's imagination (it felt too surreal to be reality) and in that case holyyy fuck

HANK CALLING HIS COMPANY NOHOBAL AND PAINTING THIS NARRATIVE OF THEM COFOUNDING IT AND GETTING UPSET WHEN SOMEONE REMINDS HIM THAT HE WAS THE ONE WHO KILLED CRISTOBAL???? SICK AND TWISTED AAAAA

that first shot of fuches with the slicked back hair and the tattoos had me wheezing. barry truly is a comedy /lh

cousineau having this "redemption arc" (hesitant to call it that because who knows what's gonna happen) is very interesting and i'm not sure what's going to happen with it? but it's fascinating to see how that compares to the other characters, who have all continued descending into darkness or despair.

that ending??? hello??? but on a less serious note, did jim shave barry? because i swear he had less stubble in that last moment. the image of jim carefully shaving barry (the man who killed his daughter and who he hates with a passion) while he's unconscious is sooo funny to me.

all in all very good episode, i'm so scared for the last two. how is this all gonna wrap up. what's gonna happen. aaaaaaaa.

[solitudeandseclusion]

WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU, BILL HADER???????

[nellie-elizabeth]

Barry: the wizard (4x06)

I was legit terrified that kid was dead on the couch. Yikes.

Cons:

I think Jim, Janice's father, is one of the least rounded-out characters on the show. He kind of exists to be this ultimate threat, constantly hiding in the shadows. And that's... fine, I just always like it better when Barry's own actions directly lead him into danger. And I get that that's happening here, because he murdered Jim's daughter, but I still wish there was a tad more meat to his character and his motivations. A father wanting vengeance for his murdered child makes perfect sense, but what else does he have going on?

Pros:

Everything with Sally and John home alone was... pitch perfect in how insane and scary it was. First the chilling ennui of John's sadness at being left alone with his mother, and Sally's attempts at mothering quickly pivoting into drugging her child into a stupor so as to put them both out of their misery temporarily... God, it was just awful to watch. When Sally was trying to wake him up from the couch and he wasn't moving, I was super scared he was going to die of alcohol poisoning or something. Terrifying.

And then even more terrifying, we've got the figure all in black following Sally around, locking her in  her room... I love the way they shot that, because for a split second I thought the figure had slammed the door while inside the room, trapping Sally alone with the mystery person, but then instead it was locking her in. The circumstances of what exactly happened here are completely obscure to me. As John wakes up from his deep stupor on the couch, it's to hear his mother talking on the phone to Barry, leaving a message, asking him where he is. The mysterious assailant could be anything, from a crazy hallucination of Sally's, to vengeance from the guy she choked in the bathroom at the diner, to someone from Barry's past coming to haunt them... it's really not clear, and I love how messy it is. Frankly I was just relieved Sally was unable to figure out how to load a gun properly.

Meanwhile, Barry is listening to religious podcasts about the nature of sin, literally hunting through different talks looking for a justification for committing the sin of murder. This is so twisted, I love it. He's not willing to abandon his new belief system, his new framework of goodness and morality in this world. So he has to find a way that killing Gene Cousineau fits into that framework, and he'll bend and twist and shape it however he can to make that happen. Finally he gets that justification, only to see that Gene's grandson has come home, just as Barry was about to go in and kill him talking to his son, Leo.

But something Barry doesn't know? Gene isn't here to cooperate and tell the story of what happened. He's here to kill the movie project, because he doesn't want Barry immortalized, and he doesn't want Janice's story to be treated with disrespect. He claims he's a different man than he once was, no longer the narcissist who would have loved a project that painted him as a hero. The nature of this show is that it's difficult to know how much to believe him. His apology to Leo for shooting him left something to be desired, just kind of an "aw shucks, glad you didn't die" thing, although he does say he'll be making amends for the rest of his life. It's so difficult to know how much he means what he's saying!

Barry ends the episode trying to creep into the house after Cousineau, but he gets grabbed by Jim, who has him tied down in a secure room. Dun dun dunnnn.

The last subplot is of course Noho Hank's. We see that he's formed a company called "Nohobal", and that Fuches, released from prison, is there to join as security. Hank's business has a legit pedigree to it, but he's clearly still playing dirty with the way he runs things. Fuches makes the mistake of congratulating Hank on getting rid of Cristobal, which makes Hank kill the deal and threaten to kick Fuches and his men out of their nice digs, that Hank offered to them.

This is so true to Hank's behavior over the whole course of the show, that he would keep pushing forward even after tragedy, but he would try to build a narrative in his head about how the business started, paint Cristobal as a tragic hero who was killed by Hank's enemies. Hank gets praise for the sand pit thing, and takes that praise gladly, while mythologizing Cristobal's death and painting this picture of himself as a grieving supportive partner, fulfilling his original vision. It's a lie, but a comfortable one to justify the grand life he now finds himself living.

I can't believe how insanely close to the end of this show we are now. I truly have no idea where all these characters are going to be at the end of the show. What is the ending for Barry that doesn't just continue a cycle of violence, or leave him dead? Does it exist?

8/10