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HBOIt’s bold to say that Barry (Bill Hader) has only just started spiraling out of control, when all four seasons have been a slow and steady descent into chaos for the lead character. But now he’s really in a crisis. Locked away in jail, Barry has struck a deal with the feds: If he reveals what he knows about NoHo Hank (Anthony Carrigan) and the Chechens, they’ll free him and keep him safe in the Witness Protection Program.
Fuches (Stephen Root), his on-again-off-again ally, has revealed Barry’s hand to Hank. (That they’re screening Rain Man in the jail teases where Fuches stands on Barry: Fuches is the Tom Cruise to Barry’s Dustin Hoffman. Fuches is the lead character. He just needs to take control of his own life.) In return, Hank hires “El Toro” to kill Barry in prison.
We’ve been hearing about El Toro for the past two episodes of Barry, but at the beginning of this episode, we finally meet him. It’s Academy Award-winning director Guillermo del Toro! There’s a bit of banter with El Toro—I like to think that in his contract, Guillermo del Toro only agreed to the part if there was a bit of classic Barry wisecracking involved—before Hank officially hires him to kill Barry.
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