![]() (Call it Breaking Badder.) But if there’s one aspect of Barry’s fourth season that seems truly indebted to the Breaking Bad universe, it’s how the series sets up its final stretch with a game-changing time jump.īy the fourth episode of Barry’s fourth season, “It Takes a Psycho,” Barry escapes prison after a hit against him, ordered by the eccentric, scene-stealing Chechen mobster NoHo Hank (Anthony Carrigan), backfires in spectacular fashion. It’s a show about a terrible person committing even more atrocities in the vain hope of self-improvement. In other words, Barry isn’t the inverse of Breaking Bad. More importantly, there is no moral absolution to be found in Barry: Through his own actions and how they’ve affected the people around him, Barry hasn’t become a better person he has just kept denying his own monstrous nature. There’s a lot of TV out there. We want to help: Every week, we’ll tell you the best and most urgent shows to stream so you can stay on top of the ever-expanding heap of Peak TV. It’s just clear that Hader is influenced by the auteur.) (Which is not to say that Barry should be described as Lynchian. (“On CODA, I worked with committed actors to tell a deeply personal story, and now, I’m working with models in Halloween costumes fighting over a blue glowy thing,” Heder deadpans.) In fact, as Hader has assumed greater creative control over the series, including directing every episode of the fourth and final season, Barry’s ability to switch gears between violence and banality feels more in conversation with David Lynch’s work. Barry has long embraced its own unique tone, whether it’s Barry Berkman fighting off a feral karate child or CODA director Sian Heder playing herself on the set of a Marvel-esque blockbuster in a hilarious send-up of Hollywood’s superhero-obsessed culture. To Barry’s credit, while there are some initial surface similarities with the world of Breaking Bad, the show should never be mistaken as a pure imitation of it. ![]() (He also joked about owing Breaking Bad creator Vince Gilligan a check because of how many times Barry has been cited in relation to his series.) There’s certainly some weight to this analogy as Hader explained to The Hollywood Reporter in an interview published on Sunday, he visited the Better Call Saul writers room while preparing to make Barry. What really drives the comparisons between the two shows is that the journey of Barry’s titlular character (played by cocreator Bill Hader) is essentially Walter White’s journey in Breaking Bad in reverse: a morally bankrupt figure aspiring to do something better with his life. Barry might be categorized as a comedy-a really bleak one at that-but the HBO series is often likened to an iconic prestige drama: Breaking Bad.
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