
‘Succession’ and ‘Barry’: A Tale of Two HBO Finales
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The Legacy of Barry Hader
I think one of the things that's unique about Barry and there are many things is that the shows that I want to compare it to in terms of just like singularly idiosyncratic tourist visions especially recently haven't also been narratively propulsive and finite. There was no presidential election going on in the background of season four of Barry. It spoke to themes, not contemporary events and there's a difference between those two things. And so that to me is the thing where I wonder if that actually will be a legacy and I don't know if TV can support that. Maybe it's better to take a really sharp, salable pitch and then bend your ideas around it so that you can make
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