This episode starts pretty slowly, and by slow I mean by Barry's standards of insanity happening on the screen. But the second half is pretty crazy and brings back the Barry craziness we've seen in the previous seasons.
And just because something crazy isn't happening every second, doesn't mean it's bad or it lacked entertainment. Barry listening to pastor podcasts to find a loophole in the religion to justify what he's about to do is really funny and one of the funniest parts of the season. When he goes to buy a gun and then turns back and there are just a bunch of giant bear dolls and kids' toys, it's just so genius and funny and shows that the creators really do think of everything and know how to pack so much in just 30 minutes and do visual storytelling and social commentary without overtly telling you or shoving it in your face.
As much as it's a relatively calmer and quieter episode, the last scene with Sally is just insane and shocking and the ending of the episode is a hell of a cliffhanger for the show. And that Sally scene once again shows how good of production team and the practical effects this show has and how real they make these scenes look. So kudos to the people behind all the practical effects of this show as a whole.
The story of this "8 Years Later" has been going decently so far and it's good to see other characters and what they've been doing these past couple of years, and they start a plotline for them now and it's interesting to see what it's gonna lead to in the next two final episodes.
Though this season has been great so far, I think now it's safe to say that season 3 of Barry was the best season of the show and I don't think this season is gonna beat it. I think I gave 5 episodes of season 3 a 10/10 and that season had banger after banger and the season was on a roll after episode 5 and it was just an amazing season of TV. But so far, I think only two episodes of this season have been deserving of a 10/10, and only if we're being really generous.
Not to say this season has been bad or anything, it's been great and most episodes have been a 9/10 so far. But I think they spoiled us with crazier and crazier episodes in season 3 back to back and topping the insanity of the previous episode, that kinda made you wonder how season 4 was going to top it, and so far, I feel like season 4 hasn't been as consistent and insane as season 3.
Anyway, this episode was pretty good and it's interesting to see where they're gonna go with the second plotline they established in this episode. The cliffhanger is great and something I didn't think would happen, but probably a lot of us wanted to see it in the last season's finale. But the fact that this cliffhanger happens in this episode and not the penultimate tells me that something extraordinarily goofy is gonna happen as usual to help Barry get out of the situation again. Unless the finale of the show isn't what we think it could be and they surprise us with another Barryless episode as a finale or something like the previous episode. Nonetheless, excited to see how they're gonna wrap up the story.
And just because something crazy isn't happening every second, doesn't mean it's bad or it lacked entertainment. Barry listening to pastor podcasts to find a loophole in the religion to justify what he's about to do is really funny and one of the funniest parts of the season. When he goes to buy a gun and then turns back and there are just a bunch of giant bear dolls and kids' toys, it's just so genius and funny and shows that the creators really do think of everything and know how to pack so much in just 30 minutes and do visual storytelling and social commentary without overtly telling you or shoving it in your face.
As much as it's a relatively calmer and quieter episode, the last scene with Sally is just insane and shocking and the ending of the episode is a hell of a cliffhanger for the show. And that Sally scene once again shows how good of production team and the practical effects this show has and how real they make these scenes look. So kudos to the people behind all the practical effects of this show as a whole.
The story of this "8 Years Later" has been going decently so far and it's good to see other characters and what they've been doing these past couple of years, and they start a plotline for them now and it's interesting to see what it's gonna lead to in the next two final episodes.
Though this season has been great so far, I think now it's safe to say that season 3 of Barry was the best season of the show and I don't think this season is gonna beat it. I think I gave 5 episodes of season 3 a 10/10 and that season had banger after banger and the season was on a roll after episode 5 and it was just an amazing season of TV. But so far, I think only two episodes of this season have been deserving of a 10/10, and only if we're being really generous.
Not to say this season has been bad or anything, it's been great and most episodes have been a 9/10 so far. But I think they spoiled us with crazier and crazier episodes in season 3 back to back and topping the insanity of the previous episode, that kinda made you wonder how season 4 was going to top it, and so far, I feel like season 4 hasn't been as consistent and insane as season 3.
Anyway, this episode was pretty good and it's interesting to see where they're gonna go with the second plotline they established in this episode. The cliffhanger is great and something I didn't think would happen, but probably a lot of us wanted to see it in the last season's finale. But the fact that this cliffhanger happens in this episode and not the penultimate tells me that something extraordinarily goofy is gonna happen as usual to help Barry get out of the situation again. Unless the finale of the show isn't what we think it could be and they surprise us with another Barryless episode as a finale or something like the previous episode. Nonetheless, excited to see how they're gonna wrap up the story.
