Might be that the series has been on hiatus since 2019 due to COVID, but there were quite a couple of things I forgot and had to look up, which wasn't the case with other shows like Russian Doll or say Atlanta. Anyways, what about this season? Was it any good? I could see people picking the season finale as one of the best episodes of the year but I found the seventh one to be amazing and show what Barry is good at doing. Sure, it's a series about a hitman who wants to be an actor but the show doesn't feel like it has embraced too much of its lighter side as often as it believes itself to. For example, we know things are going to get darker in Breaking Bad however we never really forget Walt is a drug kingpin in the works, Barry, on the other hand, doesn't really demonstrate that he's turning into an actor. Anyways, everyone deserves some awards attention, particularly Henry Winkler and Sarah Goldberg, who both turned in some amazing turns. Hader's great, always has been, but as a showrunner, I feel like he and Alec Berg seem to be using the Breaking Bad/Better Call Saul technique of doing now and solve later, this works great for the Albequerque universe, but not so much here since S1 ends on a cliffhanger that really destroys one great character arc and 2 goes into some lazy tropes. Although this does fix some of that, it ends with me wondering if they even have a series after this. Barry is arrested? And considering S4 wasn't labelled as to its last, I'm gonna be surprised to see what this show will look like next year. Anyways, some amazing moments but Barry is awful and I can't say he's like other anti-heroes, I seem to find him repulsive and that goes for the other characters on this show like Jean and Sally as his enablers. If I pick newer shows over this at the end of the year, its because I believe TV needs to be a place where you tune in for someone you want to see every week, I can't say that's the case here or at least not for a good portion of its run.
