In reality, he was an irredeemable killer who destroyed the lives of the people close to him. By the end of the show’s series finale, “wow” - directed by Hader, as many of the best Barry episodes were - Barry’s complicated delusion as the guy he told himself he always was, a man upholding justice who somehow found himself in impossible situations that he had to shoot his way out of, becomes upsettingly realized. In spite of the wake of bodies he’d left from his time in the Marines at Korengal as a small-time hitman-for-hire in Cleveland and in LA where he caught the acting bug he was constantly trying to outrun his past and turn over a new leaf, starting now. Throughout the entire four-season run of HBO’s Barry, Bill Hader’s Barry Berkman continuously tried to convince himself and those around him that he was actually a good guy.
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