‘Barry’ has become a totally new series after a drastic facelift at the end of its last season on HBO Max

I already warned you. You should be watching ‘Barry’. And if you didn’t listen to me, You still have time to immerse yourself in one of the most unpredictable and fittest series on the streaming television scene. So unpredictable that, just 4 chapters before reaching its conclusion in its fourth and final season, It has become a whole new series..

The end of the episode 4×04 of ‘Barry’ completely changes the rules of the game

The fourth season of the award-winning HBO Max series introduced us to a Barry Berkman (Bill Hader) alone, abandoned, betrayed and sunk. Although he is a hitman capable of cold-bloodedly killing people with whom he has shared years of life, deep down he has feelings for him. And boy does he have them. Locked up in jail after his best friend (at least in his mind) and mentor, Gene Cousineau (Henry Winkler), turned him in, Barry dreams of redemption for his sins..

But everything changes in the fourth episode of the season, ‘Among psychopaths…’ (It takes a psycho), when a failed attempt on Barry’s life in prison orchestrated by the very same Guillermo de Toro (in a cameo that blew our minds) makes our favorite serial killer escape out of prison and goes to meet the love of his life, Sally (Sarah Goldberg). Sally, against all odds, agrees to run away with him, and then one of the craziest twists we’ve seen in a series recently occurs.

We jump back in time 8 years, and we see how Barry and Sally have married and live in an isolated house in the middle of the field. Oh, and they have a son. THAT? I haven’t remembered such a crazy thing since we first saw Jack and Kate off the island in ‘Lost’.

What has ‘Barry’ become after the time jump of his last season?

— Spoilers for episode 4×06 of ‘Barry’ —

As of today, two episodes have passed since the timeskip, and there are two more to go. the fourth season of the series (whose chapters have been directed entirely by Hader himself) comes to an end, and with it the story of Barry Berkman.

Now Barry is a family man. who strives to instill good values ​​in his son and spends the day praying and looking for historical data on his laptop. Sally, on the other hand, is having a hard time. She works as a waitress, wearing a wig so she won’t be recognized, at a roadhouse where she is harassed by a co-worker. She drowns her sorrows in alcohol and has an almost non-existent relationship with her son, who has a clear preference for her parent.

Barry has done his best to remain low profile and remain completely anonymous., and even resorts to somewhat “controversial” tactics so that his son does not associate with the children of the place. When the kid shows an interest in baseball, Barry shows him videos of people breaking their necks and dying while playing the game. Sometimes a father has to do what he has to do.

However, this apparent tranquility is threatened by several impact news. Warner plans to do a biopic, and Cousineau has reappeared after spending 8 years in unknown whereabouts to prevent it from happening. Fuchs (Stephen Root) is released from prison as The Raven and Hank (Anthony Carrigan) appropriated the idea of ​​his late partner Christopher (Michael Irby) and is now a construction business magnate.

All ready for the end of ‘Barry’: Who will die?

Suddenly, after a lapse of 8 years, all the protagonists of the story return in one way or another for a final showdown.. And when we say everyone, it means everyone, including the real architect of Barry’s arrest, a man who has dedicated his life to seeking justice and who, failing to find it, could now seek revenge… Jim Moss, the agent’s father police officer (Cousineau’s partner) that Barry had to kill at the end of the first season to protect his secret identity.

The last two episodes of ‘Barry’ are presented as a final battle in which everyone has a lot to lose and little to gain. The question is not who will die, but whether anyone will be left alive.