Bill Hader Wants the ‘Barry’ Final Season to Be Darker Than Ever—Like Life

When Bill Hader left Saturday Night Live to make the TV show Barry, he had some darkness to work through. That much is clear if you’ve watched the HBO series, whose fourth and final season premieres Sunday night.

Barry is about Barry Berkman, a former Marine who suffers from depression and PTSD. Since leaving the military, he’s become a trained assassin, treating the act of killing a mark with the mundanity of an actuary filling out a spreadsheet. When stalking a target, he encounters a community of struggling actors taking a class led by Henry Winkler’s gregarious Gene Cousenau. He’s drawn to and ultimately joins them. It turns out he can’t act for shit, but Barry goes all-in on the class as his ticket out of his violent life.

Despite falling in love, finding actual success in the industry, and developing a father figure-like relationship with Gene, he can’t escape that violent past—or impulses—no matter how desperate he is to.

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