It’s a guy disgusted with himself.HADER: Yeah, and he’s also trying to kill the guy. The best case scenario is that Barry snapped as a means of punishing himself for Janice’s death; he felt so guilty about what happened to her, he went after the man threatening the love of her life in an unplanned, suicidal rampage. 5. Rate. Rate. It was always like, is he going to kill Sally? How do you show he’s short-circuiting? Rate. Spoilers ahead for the Season 2 finale of Barry.Barry Berkman has been in his share of tight spots, and thus far, he's managed to wriggle out. Rate. The Barry Season 2 finale constantly revolved around the truth and the actions that characters take to either reveal or protect their secrets. And they went, “Yeah, we’re done.” It was like, “Holy shit!” (laughs) Oh my God, it was only 14 months of constant work.HADER: Yeah, it’s like the saddest moment. That Barry Block is dying and Barry Berkman is taking over.Emmy Nominations 2020: ‘Watchmen’ Dominates with More Nominations Than Any Other ShowHADER: This Monday was officially, like, I’m off the clock.
They moved me out of my office on Monday. He can’t kill Gene… can he?But back to Barry: All of these closed doors bottled him up, and Barry finally exploded in Episode 8. 7.
In Episode 5, the story lends itself to being cinematic.
7 Apr. Rate. We just had that, there was no reason for him to be there and then once we figured out the Fuches of it all, it was like, “Oh, Fuches should go to the monastery!” Barry finds out Fuches is there and he’s trying to kill Fuches, which makes him less of a monster. He doesn’t drink all, he’s an alcoholic, and he hasn’t drank all season and then he finally goes on a bender in the last ten minutes of the show.
Fuches is right about him. The worst thing he’s ever done isn’t killing an innocent man out of misplaced vengeance, but killing a police detective out of self-preservation. At his feet, he sees the man he trained; the man who thanked Barry for giving him purpose; the man who lowered his gun and smiled when Barry walked into the room; the man who Barry shot without a second thought but is now sending him reeling, back into the darkness.Anthony Carrigan in “Barry” 9. And he wants to kill him not because of what he did to Cousineau, not only because of that but I think on some level it’s like, fuck you for being right about me.Initially, he just went to the monastery and just started killing people. So we had the idea, he’s going to kill Mayrbek, let’s go back in Episode 4 and set that up, so that’s why he yelled at Mayrbek and says, “Kill, kill, you gotta have that written on your forehead,” or whatever it is. It’s like he’s there for a reason. Somehow, it worked — or didn’t, depending on if you believe Barry wanted to die — and he’s left with the wreckage now. S2, Ep2.
10. I don’t know, but he’s definitely hyped up in a place.
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Rate. Rate. He doesn’t like the truth of who he is. With Episode 8, it’s harder to figure out what’s interesting coverage and what tells the story the best without getting in the way and all that. That’s the kind of feeling you get, you’re walking backstage, everybody else has already done their thing, they’re all hanging out, they’re all relaxing, having fun, and now it’s your time to go out there and do it and it’s nerve wracking.HADER: You just try to find these little moments that help it, you know? That was this Monday. And then he descends back into darkness.HADER: We tried to get that he was going to kill Sally, and he is no different than Sam was kind of the idea that we were playing with in that moment. He killed that Chechen but he also killed the kind of younger version of himself. Bill Hader goes deep on the 'Barry' Season 2 finale ending, what it means for the characters, why Fuches was right, Sally's story, the 'SNL' shot, and more.
When he’s denied that release — by Sally, who flipped the script on Barry when she flipped the table before he could — bad things happen. He needs to keep going, and Season 2 proved it’s well worth our time to go with him.Why? So that was on Monday [May 6th]. It was a lot. Well what if he blows out the lights and the lights are short-circuiting around him and it gives you this feeling that he’s blinking off?
And this episode was really hard to direct because you had to tie up all these storylines but then you’re also really in the characters’ heads. And then he finally settled on like, “Well I’ll play Sam in Sally’s scene and not do my own truth exercise.” And then we said his truth has to come out, and so we have to have his performance in the scene somehow. I still think Stephen Root, them not being able to hear him when he’s trying to talk to Cristobal and then when they make up when Cristobal and Hank meet up and you kind of fully just get it, like yeah they’re in love with each other.HADER: That was definitely inspired by my anxiety of going on and just my own stage fright that I have. Will he have any other choice?