Re: TV: HBO: Barry
Posted: Mon May 08, 2023 12:10 am
I hope it was a scene like the one in the beach from last season
something like that
something like that
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.
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.
Since meeting Sally, Barry has been having visions of his future with hertragabigzanda wrote:Flash-forward tonight? Is Barry in witness protection? Any guesses?
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.
I thought of you while watching. I give you credit even though it isn’t directly on the marktragabigzanda wrote:Called it
It’s gotta be some farmland in the off-season. Still weird to not have a driveway though.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?
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.
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.
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.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.
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?tragabigzanda wrote: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.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.
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.