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Binging “Barry” this week because I watched a couple of episodes a while ago and then forgot about it. I’m kind of glad I did because I didn’t know anything about it and honestly it turns into a Sopranos-style tour de force fairly quickly.
You can’t even call it a comedy really, if it’s a comedy then my theory of The Sopranos being a comedy has to hold water.
It is exceptional television though, it is equal to every other truly great show in that it enforces its rules on you and you bend to them because the quality is so thickly portioned across the table.
The drama is actually better than the comedy, the comedy is purely a relief by season 3.
So much fucked up stuff happens. It’s very well put together. Also the action scenes can be great, that whole Taekwondo episode was just magic.
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