Barry (3×06) 710N Review

For our review of the last episode of Barry, click here.

On paper, Barry is a comedy series but in reality, it is so much more as it balances so many genres and tones beautifully. Once again, this latest episode was no different. However, this one got incredibly tense after a slower start as it got the other characters out of the way as it laid the groundwork for what would come by the end and that definitely did not disappoint. The season had been building up to something and this episode truly saw the early stages of that as things got rough for Barry. Though it was inevitable in the end, how it played out perhaps took an uncharacteristic turn and it’s not over here. Hader has consistently proved his prowess writing and directing while also starring. This episode should be up there in terms of those three.

As part of his revenge plot this season, Fuches has been recruiting for his offensive against Barry. The motorcycle gang, however, appeared to have had enough with him as their leader shot him and left him for dead. Most viewers know better to think that this was the end of him. Found and rehabilitated, his saviors were merely a means for him to escape and continue with his master plan.

Sally got offered a job by the same streaming service that canceled her show to help elevate the show that essentially replaced hers. 

Cousineau’s agent Tom Posorro (Fred Melamed) got him more work leading acting classes for a streaming service and theaters which he saw as a means to make it up to Annie by offering her a bigger piece of the project. Whether or not she accepts remains to be seen.

The police continued catching up while Nguyen was seemingly putting the pieces together faster, leaning towards Barry. Looking to get closer to him, he agreed to attend a dinner with some of their fellow marine buddies run by Chris’ wife Sharron. 

A running gag involving the breakout character of the season, a small bakery shop owner named Mitch, had characters come to him for advice while ordering his beignets. He always knew what to say as his chill demeanor and personality made him so approachable. This relationship even extended to his other customers. 

Following Barry’s encounter with Mitch to bring a bag of beignets to the dinner party, things got tense with a few flashes of humor as he was pursued by the same motorcycle gang. The sheer scale and the camerawork over the course of the ensuing sequence were phenomenal as it saw Barry used his skills to stay alive. Nevertheless, he was still focused on getting to the party on time.  

Seemingly besting the motorcycle gang, it was Sharron who got the upper hand as a Kenneth Goulet business card (Fuches’ alias) revealed her to be another operative. The episode ended with Barry’s discovery that she had poisoned him.

Now how is Barry going to get out of this one?

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Keith Noakes

The EIC of the coincidentally-named keithlovesmovies.com. A Canadian who prefers to get out of the cold and into the warmth of a movie theatre.