Barry Season 4 Episode 6 the wizard
Lock the door.
Intuitively, “Barry” is in a darker place. Getting there has been a slow-motion process over the show’s whole run, even if it’s intensified in Season 4. Seemingly chipper characters have seen the edges of their personality corroded away. Loved ones have been murdered in matter-of-fact manners. The giant nihilistic cloud that started brewing with the central “Barry” premise — a hired killer confronted with the idea that there might be more to life than ending it — has pretty much engulfed everyone.
This week’s “The Wizard” adds another crushing prospect: In this world, the only cure for wanting revenge is death. Whether by their proximity to Barry (Bill Hader) or some unscratchable itch inside them, each person has something they want to make up for or someone they hold responsible for a simmering grudge. In Season 4, trying to outrun that feeling hasn’t worked. Ignoring it hasn’t worked, either. So now, as the show heads into its literal final hour, our central characters are starting to face the finality of those decisions head-on, by choice or by force.
Let’s start here with Fuches (Stephen Root), who emerges from prison with a very distinct time jump makeover. Hardened by betrayal and serving as an inside man for the new criminal kings of LA, he’s a phoenix and a Raven all at once. Plus, he now knows exactly what he wants. That’s true of the barista who he locks eyes with over his first cup of coffee on the outside, just as it’s clear in the demands he makes of Hank (Anthony Carrigan). Fuches enjoys his fine dining and scenic canyon views, all while planning how to settle scores with Barry for leaving him without an exit plan. (To top it off, his chosen Black Sabbath theme song blasting from the speakers of his convertible gives the episode its title. For a brief moment, Fuches really is the star of the show.)
Barry, meanwhile, has taken it upon himself to not only deliver his own simmering payback but feel justified in doing so. His trip back to LA sees him morality shopping via a handful of podcasts that outline different interpretations of church doctrine. By the time he lands on “hockey goon Father Stu by way of Bill Burr,” it goes beyond soul-searching into what’s clearly a desperate bid for permission.
Barry
Season Number: 4
Episode Number: 6
Episode Title: the wizard
Air Date: May 14, 2023
Language: English
Subtitle Language: English
Source: Barry.S04E06.1080p.WEB.H264-CAKES
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