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Consequences Drive The Story
- Bill Hader states the season always aimed to have Barry caught rather than killed because consequences fit the story's honesty.
- Arrest preserves storytelling potential and avoids an unnecessarily final ending.
Humanity Returns At The Worst Time
- Hader frames Barry regaining humanity just before arrest as tragically comic and inevitable.
- The show uses that regained humanity to emphasize Barry's cyclical self-sabotage.
One Look Sold The Moment
- Hader describes directing Henry Winkler to simply stare at Barry in a closeup filmed on a longer lens.
- That single intense look, shot differently than the season's usual wide lenses, sold Cousineau's realization.