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rank-sentimentalist · 1 month

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CUT TO: JOSH'S BULLPEN AREA - DAY

Josh and Donna pass by.

JOSH

There are some new people.

DONNA

Cabinet Affairs installed some temps so you'd have extra staff during the vetting period.

They enter JOSH'S OFFICE.

JOSH

Which is good.

DONNA

But?

JOSH

I'm not one to give fashion advice...

DONNA

No, you're not.

JOSH

But one of them...

DONNA

Sorry.

JOSH

...one of them is wearing a... a, uh... a Star Trek pin. Is today a special Star Trek holiday or something?

DONNA

How the hell would I know?

JOSH

Okay, well, then would you find out? And is it's not, you know people walk through here and it's not the most confidence-inspiring sight to see in a White House employee, so if you could ask her to...

* * * * *

JOSH

Hey, I see she's not wearing the pin anymore. Thanks.

DONNA

She's kind of worked up about it.

JOSH

Why?

DONNA

I don't know.

JOSH

All right. Hang on.

Josh walks over to where JANICE TRUMBULL is working.

JOSH

Hi. I'm Josh Lyman.

JANICE TRUMBULL

Janice Trumbull.

JOSH

Yeah, the reason why I wanted you to take off the pin is just around the White House, you understand...

JANICE

I'm appealing your request to Stacy.

JOSH

I'm sorry?

JANICE

My supervisor is Stacy.

JOSH

Right, except Stacy works for me.

JANICE

Okay, well, you got the cards but Star Trek and the entire Starfleet series is about honor and loyalty and civic duty and the fact that you don't think that those are characteristics that should be displayed inside the White House is sad. But I wouldn't expect you to understand those kinds of things. Anything else?

JOSH

No.

Josh walks away from Janice. He walks with Donna.

DONNA

See what I mean?

JOSH

Shhh, shhh, shhh.

DONNA

What?

JOSH

She is... well, one of the special people.

DONNA

Yeah.

JOSH

She's taken off the pin. We're going to let it be.

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Donna leaves and Josh watches her as she departs. He begins to walk through his bullpen when Janice speaks to him from her desk.

JANICE

I'm not obsessed, you know.

JOSH

I'm sorry?

JANICE

I'm not obsessed. I'm just a fan, and I care.

JOSH

What's your name again?

JANICE

Janice.

JOSH

I'm a fan. I'm a sports fan, I'm a music fan and I'm a Star Trek fan. All of them. But here's what I don't do. Tell me if any of this sounds familiar: "Let's list our ten favorite episodes. Let's list our least favorite episodes. Let's list our favorite galaxies. Let's make a chart to see how often our favorite galaxies appear in our favorite episodes. What Romulan would you most like to see coupled with a Cardassian and why? Let's spend a weekend talking about Romulans falling in love with Cardassians and then let's do it again." That's not being a fan. That's having a fetish. And I don't have a problem with that, except you can't bring your hobbies in to work, okay?

JANICE

Got it.

JOSH

Except on Star Trek holidays. [exits]

JANICE

There's no such thing as a Star Trek holiday.

JOSH

Well, work hard around here. We'll make one.

Josh walks off, and Janice smiles.

THE WEST WING

"ARCTIC RADAR"

4x10

TELEPLAY BY: AARON SORKIN

STORY BY: GENE SPERLING

DIRECTED BY: JOHN DAVID COLES

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#TV #The West Wing #West Wing #Arctic Radar #4x10 #Star Trek #Stark Trek holidays #Josh Lyman #Donna Moss #Janice Trumbull #Aaron Sorkin #Gene Sperling #John David Coles #except on Star Trek holidays

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kimkimberhelen · 1 year

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Jim Moss is an honorary goddess of wrath

#jim moss #barry season four #barry hbo #justice for janice moss

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madhyanas · 2 years

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the premise of barry hbo is that all the groups (the chechens, bolivians, acting class, cops, etc) have constructed this really complicated and densely interwoven narrative. and it is immediately unravelled the moment anyone actually competent enters the game

#tings #barry hbo #NOT a complaint i think it's really funny #like albert nguyen. janice moss (ish). that chechen guy who actually took things seriously. cristobal's father in law. etc

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alienejj · 2 months

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thrifted bookish finds 15.apr.24

today's book haul is made up of murder mysteries, irish fiction, contemporary fiction, historical fiction and fantasy.

The Battersea Park Road to Paradise by Isabel Losada - memoir, self help. The Appeal by Janice Hallett - murder mystery, thriller. The Man Who Died Twice by Richard Osman - murder mystery, cozy mystery. The Bookshop on the Shore by Jenny Colgan - romance, chick lit. The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon - historical fiction, dark academia. The Burning Chambers by Kate Mosse - historical fiction, dark academia. The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood - literary fiction, mystery. The Soil by Yi Kwang Su - translated lit, classic lit, Asian lit. Celtic Fairy Tales by Joseph Jacobs - myths & legends, classic lit. The Oxford Book of Ireland edited by Patricia Craig - Irish lit, anthology of short stories & poetry, classic lit. The Winter Road by Adrian Selby - epic fantasy, dark fantasy. Black Leopard, Red Wolf by Marlon James - sci fi, mythology, African lit.

taking the education of irish history and culture into my own hands. I'm still conflicted over my identity as someone with parents from two different countries and cultures while having been born and raised in a third country. time to stop wondering and get educated on the things, people and places that made me.

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bruisedconscience-reblogs · 1 year

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Bill: We wanted Cristobal to say “Hank, it’s done” because that’s what Janice Moss said to Barry.

me:

AHHHHHH

#hbo barry #barry spoilers #barry s4 #cinematic parallels #mine #bill hader #prestige tv

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mossinformed · 1 year

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Are you a fan of moss? Want to find out what Bryophytes even are? Well, here’s a link to 5 books published by the author for free, no paywall and no sign-up necessary! You can even view in the browser. And there’s cute pics :-o

“Bryophyte Ecology is an ebook comprised of 5 volumes written by Janice Glime, Professor Emerita of Biological Sciences at Michigan Technological University. Chapter coauthors include Irene Bisang, S. Robbert Gradstein, J. Lissner, W. J. Boelema, and D. H. Wagner. If you are a returning visitor, be sure to refresh your browser in case there have been recent updates.”

Want to curl up in the moss and never come out? Garden your own, make art, close a wound, or make human proteins by genetically engineering moss?

Why are bog bodies preserved so well? Sphagnum occupies 1/3 of the land on our planet, where can you see some? Mosses can be dead and alive (and another secret third thing).

What are mosses, why are they so much weirder than you thought?

Mosses, fish, frogs, slugs (and more!) and a checklist of bryophyte-dwelling salamanders just in case.

What you can do for mosses, how to curate your own archive, collect, identify and donate them to an herbarium so mosses can be protected! Seriously, you can’t get more mosscore than that.

Once I ID the specimen in this photo I’ll add the name : )

#mosscore #mosses #moss #bryophyta #bryophytes #marchantiophyta #liverwort #hornwort #botany #what is moss #moss facts #free resource #citizen science #science hobby

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naughtydogg · 26 days

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whoa i wasn’t expecting janice moss to be in an episode of the unicorn

#barry fans where yall at???#i gasped lol

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andthroughthewire · 11 months

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the barry-sally comparisions people make to jimmy and kim make me realize how many viewerd view the later as just a typical 'shitty man ruins woman's life' story. like jimmy's actions affect kim but you know what i mean

What really gets me about the comparisons is that Barry and Sally don't really have a relationship, if you know what I mean? Like sure, they're technically a couple for most of the show and eventually have a child together, but that's really it. When they first have sex and in the lead-up to that, Sally is only interested in this new guy because he thinks she's going to be a star and as far as Barry is concerned I have no reason to believe he's got much experience when it comes to romantic relationships, in fact it all comes off as very juvenile as he's instantly daydreaming about having a family with her etc. After that, there's a lot of projection going on from both sides as Sally is too self-involved to see... well, anything and Barry is more about entertaining the idea of a relationship than what he's willing to do for a relationship. The first time they really see each other ("and it's a really ugly thing that they see", as Sarah Goldberg put it) is when she kills the biker with a baseball bat and Barry tells her he loves her a couple of hours after he gets rid of the body. ...and even then, at the time she didn't know her ex-boyfriend was a hitman, Janice Moss' killer and the kind of violent guy she told herself she wouldn't get involved with after what happened with Sam.

Having said all that, Barry (the show) isn't even a love story the way Better Call Saul turned out be, I'd say it's more about fatherhood than anything else and while Barry and Sally's relationship has its role in the story it's not central to either of their character arcs in the way Hank and Cristobal's relationship is, for example. If we really want to draw comparisons, maybe let's start with that?

On the 'shitty man ruins woman's life' thing, it's disheartening in both cases because Kim and Sally have plenty of agency, for better and for worse. It would've been incredibly easy to turn Barry into a Sam 2.0 (or, in Kim's case, do the same with Glenn) but the writers of both shows are smarter than that and I appreciate it.

#ask

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berkmansimagines · 2 years

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Let It Be

Summary: Barry's daughter goes to the police station after he gets arrested.

Pairing: Barry Berkman x teen!daughter reader

You heard the news as soon as you woke up. Barry got arrested last night. He’s being charged with the murder of Janice Moss. You couldn’t believe that it actually happened, Barry will finally face some consequences for his crimes.

He’s currently at the police station, but will be transferred to jail soon. Your father going to prison means you have to go back into foster care. Just the thought terrifies you. You can’t go back to that.

You reached out to a friend whose mom, Annalise, is a lawyer and asked for some legal advice. Annalise suggested filing for emancipation, which would legally make you an adult. It’s your best chance at avoiding foster care. Annalise volunteered to take on your case pro bono and quickly drew up the paperwork.

There isn’t a lot of time. Barry is still at the police station getting questioned. Annalise stressed the importance of getting the papers signed before Barry is arraigned and gets transferred to prison. She was planning to deliver the paperwork to your father but you insisted that you should be the one to do it. This is your last opportunity to talk to him before he goes away.

Annalise drove you to the police station and convinced the police to let you see your father, explaining that he was your only living parent. You watched in awe as Annalise spoke with the police. She’s very good at her job and it gives you more confidence that she will get your emancipation granted in court.

You take one final deep breath before walking into the interrogation room. The first thing you see is Barry seated at a table.

“Hey,” you shyly wave to your father.

Barry’s jaw immediately drops when he sees you. He is in shock. You’re the last person he expected to walk through the door.

“Y/N,” Barry breathes, “What…what are you doing here?”

You sit down at the table across from Barry. You don’t want to talk about what your father is accused of. You know damn well that the cameras are on and you won’t say anything that would implicate him. You still feel weirdly obligated to protect Barry, even after everything he’s done.

“I, uh, I need you to do something for me,” you bite the bottom of your lip.

Barry gives you a confused look. You put the paperwork and a pen down on the table.

“Sign these emancipation papers,” you tell him.

Barry’s eyes widen. He’s stunned into silence, experiencing major deja vu. This moment almost mirrors the first time you met your father. You went to his doorstep, asking him to sign a permanent release of rights so you could emancipate from the foster system. That’s when Barry took you in.

You went to court with your emancipation request but Barry was granted custody of you instead. After that, you and Barry became a family. And it was good for a while, but it was never meant to last. Your father has a dark past and was battling his own personal demons. He lost that fight and even you couldn’t save him.

“Please Barry! I need to emancipate or else I go back to foster care. I can’t… I can’t go back. Please,” you try.

Barry is taken out of his thoughts, snapping back to reality. You continue making your case.

“My friend’s mom is a lawyer, she’s going to help me. She thinks I have a much better chance of getting emancipation granted this time because I’m almost eighteen and it would be easier to do that rather than re-house me in a foster home. And I have a plan now, not like before. I'm staying at Steve's until I finish off senior year.”

Barry picks up the pen, glancing down at the paperwork.

“Where do I sign?”

You let out a sigh of relief.

“There’s a sticky note on the last page,” you tell him.

Barry sifts through the paperwork, quickly reading as he goes along. He takes a deep breath when he gets to the last page. With the stroke of a pen, he’s no longer legally responsible for you. That realization hits him like a ton of bricks.

After a moment of hesitation, Barry signs the document.

“Thank you,” you breathe.

He’s doing this to protect you. At least that’s what he’s telling himself. Your father would do anything to make sure you don’t go back into foster care.

“I just want you to be safe and happy,” Barry says quietly.

“I am,” you reply, and then, “I miss you… but I’ll be okay without you.”

The color in Barry’s face drains. Being your dad was the best part of his life and now it’s all over. Your life will just go on without him.

“Despite everything, you’ll always be my father. You provided me with the first home I’ve ever had and I’ll always be grateful for that.”

Barry slowly nods. He slides the paperwork and pen back over to you. You rise to your feet.

“I should get going,” you sigh, eyeing the exit.

“I love you kid,” Barry tells you sincerely.

You’re quiet for a moment. Tears begin streaming down your face, you wipe them away.

“I love you too… Bye dad.”

#barry #barry hbo #bill hader #barry berkman #barry berkman imagine #barry berkman x reader #barry berkman x teen!daughter #bbtd

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the-one-where-casey-watches-tv · 11 months

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Barry episode 4.08 "Wow"

Bill Hader in "Wow". Image courtesy of IMDb.

There is really no better word to describe this show than unique. Which might sound like I’m sugarcoating a less than positive reception, but this time I mean unique in the very best way. I often say, in writing and in life, that it’s a good thing when there’s nothing else like you in the world. If someone’s already done what you want to do exactly the way you want to do it, then what’s left for you to do?

Barry is so itself. I generally categorize tv into either a drama or a comedy and don’t really break it down any more than that, but Barry forces the issue of nuance. It’s a true dramedy in the way it combines short form narrative with a gritty action/thriller plot to tell a story that is, at its core, a deeply ironic commentary on the entertainment industry. It’s not haha funny, but the juxtaposition of the hit man/Chechen mob world with that of Hollywood highlights the senselessness and silliness of each. And the way the series wraps up really hits the nail on the head of these comedic themes told through a dramatic lens. I said “wow” out loud as the final credits began to roll, and then couldn’t hold back a smile as I learned that was the title of the episode.

This is one of those shows that has a very different feel by the end, and I think it’s because rather than people changing, we learn with more and more certainty who they have been all along. I had a friend watch this show all the way through for the first time recently, which was a fun journey to see unfold because I’ve been watching Barry from the beginning. She fell in love with it at first but was given some pause when Barry killed Janice Moss.

It felt different from his other killings, less justifiable. I remember feeling the same way when I first saw it, but as the show progresses, we realize this event isn’t an outlier, but rather our first glimpse into who he is and always has been. So much of the show is catalyzed by Janice’s death because it isn’t a moral gray area. It was wrong. But how do people handle right and wrong and justice when a coveted acting role is on the line? Or a lot of money? Or love? Or the flex of having a boyfriend and looking like you have your life together?

After avoiding an attempt on his life and escaping from prison, some deep flash forwards in season 4 find Barry living an intensely strange and religious life in the middle of nowhere with Sally and their young son John. Their house looks like it’s in the middle of open desert, much like where a young Barry once first met Fuches. Barry and Sally’s son doesn’t even know their real names. It’s pretty bleak, but Barry seems deeply deluded while Sally and John are miserable.

At this point, we’re not even pretending that Barry is somewhat sane. In no way is he the good guy, or even the anti-hero of this story. He’s deeply childlike, his entire moral compass being driven by the father figure he’s latched on to- we’ve watched it shift from Fuches to Gene Cousineau after a phase of teen-like rebellion, and when he was rejected by both of them, we watched him spiral, absolutely lost with no sense of direction. It seems that after this he couldn’t make sense of the world without turning to the ultimate father figure- God.

The thing about God is you can put words into His mouth, and he can’t dispute them. We’ve seen his pious life with Sally and John but this episode especially had a very darkly religious underbelly as Barry returned to LA to kill Gene, listening all the while to a Christian radio station debating the ethics of murder.

When Sally and John are kidnapped by Noho Hank as a ploy to deliver Barry to Fuches (more on all of them in a minute), Fuches is deeply moved by Barry’s son. In an abrupt but sincere change of heart, he lets Barry, Sally, and John all go. In the previous episode, in one of the best depictions I’ve ever seen of a character ‘deciding’ to do something, she had tried unsuccessfully to give up Barry and turn herself in. The thought of continuing to live as they had been, with no end in sight, was unfathomable to her. That night, after escaping Noho Hank and Fuches, Sally urges Barry to turn himself in. Barry’s takeaway, though, is that he has been spared and redeemed by God. He tells Sally she must just be tired, and, in the morning, they’ll get out of LA and clear their heads.

Anthony Carrigan in "Wow". Image courtesy of IMDb.

Unsurprisingly, Barry wakes up the next morning with Sally and John nowhere to be found. In a panic, he rushes to Gene’s house, convinced they’re there. Instead, he only finds Gene’s lawyer, who also encourages Barry to turn himself in as Gene as somehow twisted himself into looking responsible for this whole thing. Barry was never going to do that, but the interaction is cut short by Gene entering the room with a gun and shooting Barry in the chest. Barry looks down at his wound, up at Gene, and says a genuinely earnest “oh wow” before Gene puts another bullet between his eyes.

One of my favorite things about Barry is the very realistic use of speed and sound. This is the kind of moment we’d expect to have a lot of buildup, a highly emotional scene, but it’s very abrupt. It all happens fast- as fast as it would in life, without ample time to reflect. And this also drives home the point that Barry is just a very tragic pawn. He was a pawn to Fuches and Hank, and even to Sally and Gene, though in their case a poorly used one that led to their downfall. He was also a pawn to the narrative, as all the thematic takeaways really have to do with everyone else and how they used Barry, rather than Barry himself.

So let’s talk about these other guys. To me, by the end, there are two important throughlines to this story, both of which involve Barry but neither of which are about him. First, there’s Gene Cousineau and his addiction to attention. When the flash forwards begin, he’s been off the grid, but he emerges when he hears that a movie is being made about Barry and his killing of Janice. Janice’s father is still intently investigating the murder and his suspicions of Gene are confirmed when Barry (in a childlike apology) inadvertently confesses to having given Gene $250,000.

Jim Moss is smart. Gene receives a call from an agent wanting to talk to Gene about someone playing him in the movie about Barry. He doesn’t want to hear it, that is until the agent admits that the actor is Daniel Day Lewis, wanting to come out of retirement to play Gene Cousineau. Gene’s tune changes on a dime. He agrees to meet with the agent, where he overindulges in his self-importance and clandestine admissions that he was like a father to Barry, that Barry is misunderstood and would have listened to anything Gene had to say. He even went so far as to try to humanize him so that Mark Wahlberg- up for the part of Barry- wouldn’t feel bad about playing a cop killer. The incident he is supposedly outraged over, that ruined his life, is actually not so bad if he’s going to be credited in its star-studded dramatization.

Charles Parnell, Robert Wisdom, and Gary Kraus in "Wow'. Image courtesy of IMDb.

Gene and the agent hurry back to the office to meet with Mark, where we learn that the ‘agent’ was an actor hired by Jim Moss, who now believes Gene to be complicit in Janice’s murder, if Barry loved him so much and was such a ‘sympathetic soul’. Gene’s dug himself a hole he can’t dig himself out of, which brings us to the moment Barry arrives at his house looking for Sally and John. Barry is the only one who could clear Gene’s name, but Gene kills him before he gets the chance.

In another decade’s long flash forward, John, now in his late teens, amicably parts ways with Sally. He goes home with a friend and steels himself to watch the movie that really did get made about Barry, Gene, and everything that happened. The movie ends with on-screen text revealing that Gene is serving life in prison for the murders of both Janice and Barry, while Barry is buried in Arlington memorial cemetery with honors.

Again, it’s not ha-ha funny, but it’s a grimly comical look at the extent to which Hollywood will twist tragedy for the spotlight, even to its own detriment. It’s a satire in which all of these bleak characters are the punchline. But what really gives this theme heart, is Noho Hank. The character who started out as the comic relief for this series ends up being the real emotional gut punch. It’s hard to sympathize with Gene, who brought all this on himself with his sleazy personality, but Hank was endearing and his love for Cristobal was real.

Hank and Cristobal were both the comedic and emotional light to this show in the last couple seasons. They were both fun and funny, and they were so entrenched in the violent realm of this story that their violence was more normalized than Barry’s- it was more reminiscent of an action comedy than a poignant ethical dilemma. You can’t help but root for them, especially as they embark on something as silly and harmless as selling sand.

But Hank didn’t want to settle for selling sand. He wanted a life with Cristobal, but he wanted that life to be an empire. So he made some plans behind Cristobal’s back, killing their partners in the sand venture and shaking hands with people Cristobal would never have agreed to. When Cristobal finds out, Hank begs him to get on board, knowing what will happen if he doesn’t. But Cristobal insists on walking out, promptly to get shot dead before he can reach his car.

Hank mourns this, but gets back to work, even partnering with Fuches to build his empire. But when Fuches toasts to Hank, and his willingness to sacrifice Cristobal to make this happen, Hank snaps. Hank refuses to admit to sacrificing Cristobal, and in fact, their deal is off for Fuches having even suggested it. The two quickly end up in a violent feud, trying to kill each other as everything else in this season progresses. Eventually, though, it’s clear that Hank is no match for Fuches, leading to his abduction of Sally and John. This was his white flag to Fuches, if he would come over to Hank’s compound he will use Barry’s family to lure Barry there and deliver him to Fuches.

This is where Fuches has his first human moment of maybe his entire life. He looks at John and admits to Hank that he is a bad person who does bad things- and he is ready to put all the weapons down if Hank will just admit the same thing. If he will say out loud that he is responsible for Cristobal’s death, they can put this all behind them. Hank and Fuches both have a small army with them, and the crowd is silent as Hank thinks and tears well up in his eyes. But he can’t do it. He can’t admit to himself what he and everyone in the room already know to be true. He opens fire, and everyone follows suit. Everyone dies, save for Fuches, Sally, and John.

Anthony Carrigan in "Wow". Image courtesy of IMDb.

Hank has his final moments sitting at the feet of a statue of Cristobal. Blood drips from his mouth as something in another plane makes him gasp and whimper in fear. His hand shoots up and grasps Cristobal’s bronze fingers. And then he dies.

I honestly don’t even have any guesses as to what he saw, but I think the takeaway is that it wasn’t good. To me, this is the real heart and heartbreak of Barry. The real consequences of denial, of being power-hungry, of refusing to take accountability. It adds stakes and emotion to Gene Cousineau’s silly little tale of the same pitfalls. I watch Gene and Sally and the whole Hollywood scene, and think “wow, entertainment really is like that. Our world today really is like that”. Then I watch the Shakespearean tragedy that is Hank’s story and think “wow that is so sad”. Together, they make Barry an on-point reflection of our society, and a cautionary tale of the consequences of all those traits. And it really just made me say wow.

Did you say wow? What do you make of Gene’s killing Barry, or of Sally letting him in to the extent that she did? Did the ending hit for you or were the flash forwards too much? Let me know!

#bill hader #barry #barry berkman #gene cousineau #henry winkler #noho hank #tv review #tv criticism #tv

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