‘Succession’ and ‘Barry’: A Tale of Two HBO Finales
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The Worst Advice You Could Ever Give to Someone as Broken as Barry Berkman
There were a couple of extremely violent moments in this episode. I like the two that the evocation of violence on this show, especially over time, has gotten less and less cool. It is brutal and fast and unforgiving and unromantic; it's cinematic but not sexy. And then the conclusive moment for Barry, which is when he's shot and just says, oh, wow,. And then dies. That's it. The kind of flatness and the kind of you live, and then you die feeling that I think a lot of people don't recognize his life until it comes to an end.
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