It’s been 35 months since Barry was last on the air, but it only takes about 28 minutes to reassert itself as one of the best shows on television. When we last saw the title character, he’d just ...

In a weekend dominated by Top Gun: Maverick, it’s Barry that feels the need, the need for speed (on a motorbike). After the bikers break into Barry’s house (where Nick and Jermaine are recording the ...

There’s a certain frenetic rhythm we expect when crime and comedy collide. A normal person, placed in an abnormal situation that may or may not be of their own making, works themselves into such a ...

Barry is one of the most dynamic comedies that have been released on HBO, giving fans more than enough silly and ridiculous humor to keep them laughing in every episode. Alongside the ridiculousness ...

Barry took its main characters through a very complicated journey, establishing twists and turns at every corner, without letting audiences know what would be coming next. With its fourth season, the ...

The rise of “peak TV,” or whatever you want to call the leap in quality of mostly dramatic series, largely coincided with the rise of the antihero. Tony Soprano, Walter White, any number of characters ...

I've never seen violence like the violence on Barry. HBO's hitman comedy is a legitimate thrillfest, and the new season (debuting Sunday) has three of the best action scenes I've ever seen. But part ...

“Barry” knew what it was taking away when it stopped using its theme music. It’s only a six-second snippet of a Charles Bradley song, but it does so much to set up the heightened, jokey edge to ...

Early into the fourth and final season of Barry, Bill Hader's titular hitman pleads with his acting teacher-turned-executioner (in a sense), Gene Cousineau (Henry Winkler). "Are you mad at me?" Barry ...