Barry Season 4 finds its funny thanks to an SNLer and a legendary, Oscar-winning director
during Season Two . As great as the show has become at drama, action, suspense, and horror, you can’t blame anyone for feeling wistful for the sillier days when a lot of scenes were just about the overwhelming levels of superficiality and narcissism in Gene Cousineau’s acting class.
At the same time, though, it’s not like Season One exactly hid from the darkness inherent in a show about a hitman. Nor has the humor entirely gone away, even if there are stretches where it mostly exists in NoHo Hank’s corner of things. But “You’re Charming” was a potent reminder of how consistently funnycan be when it wants, even as the episode’s two centerpiece scenes involved emotional trauma and then shocking violence.
We open with Hank and Cristobal greeting Toro, a legendary facilitator of assassinations played by Oscar-winning director. He is there to help them solve their Barry problem, but for some reason, his chosen killers are the hosts of a podcast about gadgets that never work. So what is supposed to be a serious and tense conversation instead gets sidetracked by Hank objecting to various aspects of the podcast’s format, and/or the medium of podcasting in general.
Between this scene and Sally’s ex-agent telling her last week that she could have a lucrative new career in podcasting, it appears thatMeanwhile, we get various bits of delightful visual comedy courtesy of Gene’s agent Tom . Upon learning that Gene performed a one-man show about Barry Berkman for areporter, Tom does exactly what you or I might do, and immediately crashes his car.
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