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Re: TV: HBO: Barry

Posted: Mon May 08, 2023 12:10 am
by VinylGuy
I hope it was a scene like the one in the beach from last season

something like that

Re: TV: HBO: Barry

Posted: Mon May 08, 2023 12:15 am
by tragabigzanda
Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

Re: TV: HBO: Barry

Posted: Mon May 08, 2023 12:16 am
by tragabigzanda
Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

Re: TV: HBO: Barry

Posted: Mon May 08, 2023 12:16 am
by Mecca
tragabigzanda wrote:Flash-forward tonight? Is Barry in witness protection? Any guesses?
Since meeting Sally, Barry has been having visions of his future with her

Re: TV: HBO: Barry

Posted: Mon May 08, 2023 3:24 am
by tragabigzanda
Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

Re: TV: HBO: Barry

Posted: Mon May 08, 2023 4:15 am
by Mecca
tragabigzanda wrote:Called it :bammer:
I thought of you while watching. I give you credit even though it isn’t directly on the mark

Re: TV: HBO: Barry

Posted: Mon May 08, 2023 1:40 pm
by spike
Who has a house in the middle of miles of dirt with nothing around it? Is that how it is in the dust bowl?

Re: TV: HBO: Barry

Posted: Mon May 08, 2023 1:51 pm
by dad
pretty sure Bevel had a Nebraska plate on his car, but Hader could've just as easily picked somewhere in Northern Oklahoma for their residence. flat ass land for miles.

Re: TV: HBO: Barry

Posted: Mon May 08, 2023 6:17 pm
by Mecca
spike wrote:Who has a house in the middle of miles of dirt with nothing around it? Is that how it is in the dust bowl?
It’s gotta be some farmland in the off-season. Still weird to not have a driveway though.

Re: TV: HBO: Barry

Posted: Fri May 12, 2023 1:41 am
by VinylGuy
i still dont know how i feel about the time jump. Feels like cheap.

Re: TV: HBO: Barry

Posted: Fri May 12, 2023 1:57 am
by tragabigzanda
Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

Re: TV: HBO: Barry

Posted: Fri May 12, 2023 2:04 am
by Malloy
completely unmoored from settled thinking on this show. some days, i think it's incredible. others, i think it's so uneven. i dunno.

Re: TV: HBO: Barry

Posted: Fri May 12, 2023 2:10 am
by tragabigzanda
Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

Re: TV: HBO: Barry

Posted: Fri May 12, 2023 2:32 am
by VinylGuy
tragabigzanda wrote:I’m into it. Hader said the minute he started exploring what happened after Barry broke out of prison he got bored, and was like “I just done care.” But he was super interested in what would happen if every character got what they wanted.
well, but scratching what he was building because it sucked doesnt mean the time jump is not cheap. It might be a good resolution, but so far feels kinda lazy.

Re: TV: HBO: Barry

Posted: Fri May 12, 2023 2:44 am
by Malloy
tragabigzanda wrote:
Malloy wrote:completely unmoored from settled thinking on this show. some days, i think it's incredible. others, i think it's so uneven. i dunno.
I feel like the hardest part was the abrupt turn to darker territory in S3. Now that it’s settled in, it’s working for me.
often my problems are at the level of plot. too often i find the motivations for the plot to be incredibly flimsy. but it's a black comedy that's increasingly disinterested in realism. that's getting more surreal all the time. why am i hung up on this?

ive groused about the comedy this season, but right now i actually like the idea of the comedy not landing quite like it used to. this is what I was getting at in my previous post: not knowing what to make of this season. this sentence is so pretentious and deserving of ridicule, but ill write it anyway. there's a part of me that loves the idea of a black comedy committing to it's morbid aspects, such that it can't really sustain the comedy: a comedy that can no longer be itself.

Re: TV: HBO: Barry

Posted: Fri May 12, 2023 2:54 am
by tragabigzanda
Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

Re: TV: HBO: Barry

Posted: Fri May 12, 2023 12:54 pm
by VinylGuy
yeah, im loving all those sort of fucked up situations.

Re: TV: HBO: Barry

Posted: Mon May 15, 2023 2:44 am
by Malloy
dang

Re: TV: HBO: Barry

Posted: Mon May 15, 2023 2:45 am
by Mecca
Episode felt way too short

Re: TV: HBO: Barry

Posted: Mon May 15, 2023 3:45 am
by Malloy
just looked at writing credits for the season. no more alec berg. think that accounts for the degree of change in tone of the show?