[HBO] Barry
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Re: [HBO] Barry
A+ finale for me and a perfect end to the series, imho. Still amazed at how much they were consistently able to pack into a ~30 minute episode.
Maybe next year, maybe no go
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Perfect ending.
When I realized that Fuchs had covered the boy with his body I got a little teary.
That series was just fantastic.
When I realized that Fuchs had covered the boy with his body I got a little teary.
That series was just fantastic.
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Good lord, I just started watching this, and it's keeping me up WAY past my bedtime, watching "just one more little episode".
The casting is...mind blowingly good. Someone upthread mentioned that NoHo Hank deserves his own show...completely agree. As much screen time as he's already gotten, it doesn't feel like enough. Also, why no eyebrows?!? Did I nod off in his origin story?
Recent SMALL scene that was SO damn well done: Fuches is at the doctor's office I think, and he's on the phone...doctor writes something on a pad, in doctor scratch, and Fuchs squints at it...and just his expression after he says "THAT'S what that says?!?" is priceless.
Also love the Rip Torn reference somewhere in there (they look almost identical!).
Henry Winkler, as always, is amazing. I might have to nominate him for "national treasure" status. America needs a UK version of knighting. Winkler should get that, whatever we decide that will be. Maybe a trophy shaped like a gun or something.
The casting is...mind blowingly good. Someone upthread mentioned that NoHo Hank deserves his own show...completely agree. As much screen time as he's already gotten, it doesn't feel like enough. Also, why no eyebrows?!? Did I nod off in his origin story?
Recent SMALL scene that was SO damn well done: Fuches is at the doctor's office I think, and he's on the phone...doctor writes something on a pad, in doctor scratch, and Fuchs squints at it...and just his expression after he says "THAT'S what that says?!?" is priceless.
Also love the Rip Torn reference somewhere in there (they look almost identical!).
Henry Winkler, as always, is amazing. I might have to nominate him for "national treasure" status. America needs a UK version of knighting. Winkler should get that, whatever we decide that will be. Maybe a trophy shaped like a gun or something.
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Re: [HBO] Barry
Carpet_pissr wrote: ↑Tue Oct 03, 2023 1:19 pm Also, why no eyebrows?!? Did I nod off in his origin story?
Since childhood, Carrigan has had alopecia areata, an autoimmune disease that causes hair loss. He had mild symptoms growing up with only small, manageable bald spots, but he started losing more hair in his 20s and has spoken of wearing makeup and artificial eyebrows while filming The Forgotten. He is now known for his complete lack of hair, eyebrows, and eyelashes, and has incorporated this into his career, often being typecast as a television villain.
He won. Period.
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That's so awesome! But I don't think I've seen him in anything else...now I will start looking.hepcat wrote: ↑Tue Oct 03, 2023 1:42 pmCarpet_pissr wrote: ↑Tue Oct 03, 2023 1:19 pm Also, why no eyebrows?!? Did I nod off in his origin story?
Since childhood, Carrigan has had alopecia areata, an autoimmune disease that causes hair loss. He had mild symptoms growing up with only small, manageable bald spots, but he started losing more hair in his 20s and has spoken of wearing makeup and artificial eyebrows while filming The Forgotten. He is now known for his complete lack of hair, eyebrows, and eyelashes, and has incorporated this into his career, often being typecast as a television villain.
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Re: [HBO] Barry
That's Henry Winkler, Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire.Carpet_pissr wrote: ↑Tue Oct 03, 2023 1:19 pm Henry Winkler, as always, is amazing. I might have to nominate him for "national treasure" status. America needs a UK version of knighting.
It's almost as if people are the problem.
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Re: [HBO] Barry
He was Victor Zsasz in Gotham, The Mist in the Flash on CW and he was in Bill and Ted Face the Music. He's one of those character actors you call when you want someone who can be scary, funny, serious, or whatever. He really is a fantastic actor. Up there with Garrett Dillahunt, in my opinion.Carpet_pissr wrote: ↑Tue Oct 03, 2023 1:54 pmThat's so awesome! But I don't think I've seen him in anything else...now I will start looking.hepcat wrote: ↑Tue Oct 03, 2023 1:42 pmCarpet_pissr wrote: ↑Tue Oct 03, 2023 1:19 pm Also, why no eyebrows?!? Did I nod off in his origin story?
Since childhood, Carrigan has had alopecia areata, an autoimmune disease that causes hair loss. He had mild symptoms growing up with only small, manageable bald spots, but he started losing more hair in his 20s and has spoken of wearing makeup and artificial eyebrows while filming The Forgotten. He is now known for his complete lack of hair, eyebrows, and eyelashes, and has incorporated this into his career, often being typecast as a television villain.
He won. Period.
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Re: [HBO] Barry
There are so many damn hilarious lines in this, I might have to re-watch this whole thing with my wife. Just chock full of SUPER tight lines.
Just today: Fuches to Hank: "HAVE YOU EVER BEEN CALLED BOO HOO THE FOOL BEFORE?
Hank: uhhh, no, I don't think so?
Fell into a bit of an internet wormhole, and found this! What the hell?!?!
"Boo Boo The Fool is a reference to the character Boo-Boo Bear from the television series Yogi Bear. It became a popular term in black communities as slang for "idiot" or "stupid person" before becoming the target of image macros in the mid-2010s."
Also, I have to praise the AMAZING sound design on this show. They use the rear left and right, and far field panning to an extent which I very rarely hear. And maybe never in whatever we call this thing...dramedy?
And the emotional rollercoaster whiplashes the viewer back and forth so much between hilarious lines and then straight off the cliff into some serious psychotic, scary violence, then right back laughing again, I feel like I'm getting a psyche workout. Thank the gods that these episodes are short! Not sure I could handle too much Barry at once.
Final thing...the space that the creators or whoever designed into this series is just amazing...someone mentioned the Coen brothers upthread...absolutely! They aren't afraid to let uncomfortable silence, or simply nothing happening...happen...for a looong time, and it works! It's so rare these days that it really stands out (but not in an obvious way...it's very organic I think).
Just a fucking amazing show, and it keeps getting better. I sure hope the final season lives up to what they have been building so far, wow.
I also can't wait to see what else Bill Hader is capable of creating next, if this is his first effort! Damn.
Edit: just finished it...wow.
Just today: Fuches to Hank: "HAVE YOU EVER BEEN CALLED BOO HOO THE FOOL BEFORE?
Hank: uhhh, no, I don't think so?
Fell into a bit of an internet wormhole, and found this! What the hell?!?!
"Boo Boo The Fool is a reference to the character Boo-Boo Bear from the television series Yogi Bear. It became a popular term in black communities as slang for "idiot" or "stupid person" before becoming the target of image macros in the mid-2010s."
Also, I have to praise the AMAZING sound design on this show. They use the rear left and right, and far field panning to an extent which I very rarely hear. And maybe never in whatever we call this thing...dramedy?
And the emotional rollercoaster whiplashes the viewer back and forth so much between hilarious lines and then straight off the cliff into some serious psychotic, scary violence, then right back laughing again, I feel like I'm getting a psyche workout. Thank the gods that these episodes are short! Not sure I could handle too much Barry at once.
Final thing...the space that the creators or whoever designed into this series is just amazing...someone mentioned the Coen brothers upthread...absolutely! They aren't afraid to let uncomfortable silence, or simply nothing happening...happen...for a looong time, and it works! It's so rare these days that it really stands out (but not in an obvious way...it's very organic I think).
Just a fucking amazing show, and it keeps getting better. I sure hope the final season lives up to what they have been building so far, wow.
I also can't wait to see what else Bill Hader is capable of creating next, if this is his first effort! Damn.
Edit: just finished it...wow.
Spoiler: