I thought the first couple seasons were just OK but since Hader took over as director it's been more about destabilizing stylistic flourishes + absurd tangents than just an antihero plot or whatever and that's been much more enjoyable for me
Very funny to see it being accused of being marine/army apologia. Barry is presented as a deluded, self-regarding, spineless and intellectually stunted psychopath who frequently lies about himself and his military service, and in a recent episode literally toggles between Christian podcasts until he finds the one that excuses murder so he can feel OK about killing someone.
It consistently portrays cops as bumbling violent idiots. It's good at that.
Very funny to see it being accused of being marine/army apologia
is someone doing that?? jfc and I had my media literacy questioned today 🙄
some hexbears genuinely seem to consume media mainly via wikipedia synopses
It's consistently funny, well directed and full of wonderful performances. The final season has fewer jokes overall but still gets at least one laugh out of me per episode.
I think Hader has real talent and I look forward to what he does next.
I'm not a fan of the current season so far, didn't like
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the time skip, and just... direction all that went? my partner and I literally spent that whole episode not sure if it was really happening or just in Barry's fucking head or something.
The bit where they introduce the time jump and
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Their kid opens up the fridge and there's only beer, white wine and a donut
Really convinced me that it was a fantasy, but it turns out
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They're just shitty at being parents
Really wry though. Like last episode, buying the gun and then walking through the toy department.
The bus driving through the frame so that the stop sign on the side passes directly in front of his face but he's decided the open door is his sign so he can't even see 'stop' :chefs-kiss:
my favorite show is about this phenomenon of people who don't understand how to engage with media when the main character is a severely broken person with the ability to almost imitate a regular human and the story illustrates how their trauma and mechanisms for coping expand outward from them, negatively impacting the characters of their world creating more traumas and mechanisms, and on and on.
it starts off salient and then the fandom within the series turns against the fandom of the series, becoming a meta-textual analysis of media consumption as self-understanding and all critical analysis of the show becomes extremely polarizing to fans and hate-watchers alike.
at least, that's what i have gleaned from an argument i have been having with someone on the wikipedia talk page for the show. honestly, i have not seen a single episode of my favorite show.
I can't believe nobody else has mentioned how STEPHEN ROOT is in it aside from the quoted synopsis. He's such a great actor, and I'm always glad to see him or hear his voice in anything
i'm going to assume it's a fictionalized comedic account of Obama's life instead of looking up what this show is about
A hit man from the Midwest moves to Los Angeles and gets caught up in the city's theatre arts scene.
i looked it up
it's fucking hilarious watching some of the same people accusing me of being incapable of processing media above a child's level because I disagree with the notion that the goblins in goblin slayer are a racist caricature (as opposed to the goblins in Harry Potter, which absolutely are)
literally those same people coming into this thread
talking about how Barry is like some pro vet thing, or is about Barry "having a sad" and being redeemed :morshupls: :freeze-gamer: :lea-why: (emojis for authenticity)
just lol talk about fucking media illiteracy, calling Barry COPAGANDA :data-laughing: just WHEW
if people are going to call me illiterate vis a vis media consumption only to go on to display an even worse level of media illiteracy I am absolutely going to have an obnoxious victory lap about it
ulysses what are we doing, do you really want to have this back and forth tonight? I don't, but we're both those people that always have to hit reply
he's a mass murderering psychopath but more importantly he's cringe af
Depressed hit man who wants to find love
I mean it's actually "depressed hit man who wants to make it as an Actor" which is a pretty unique and funny premise. And he doesn't make it, and the "love" he finds is a toxic relationship with another broken person.
yet another “murderfucking main character that has a lot of glorified screen time and le epic lines actually has a sad” show
sorry sport, your options are this or ted lassoo
that's why i only watch one piece, the only valid leftist form of entertainment besides the chinese marx and engels anime
it's insanely long partly because the manga has been going on for so goddamn long, but partly because the first 4-7 minutes of every episode is theme and recap. finding the title card is a bit of an art form.
on the other hand, for a quasi-NEET with too much time, it is genuinely a rich piece of world-building with openly materialist cause and effect and an embrace of organized leftist action. the part i'm on currently is about an organized coalition of former slaves fighting to overthrow their government and free all the slaves. (the coalition of former slaves got reparations for a former enslavement of a few hundred years with what totals 800 years of basically full welfare, very based idea really.)
but you're not wrong. it's also objectively a maximalist form of story telling. the last 500+ episodes have taken place over the course of an in-universe month.
Okay you gone too far this time. Barry is a good show. Way better than 99% of the garbage slop out there.
Sometimes you just gotta let people enjoy things.
To me your original comment did not seem like a joke. Just seemed like your reaction to the summary
Try to make your jokes funny in future, so we can tell they are jokes.
telling my grandchildren that Garfield is the best movie of all time after watching the part with him and Odie dancing in the trailer
oh don't get me wrong, i love that movie. we watched it in the tube and it was a lot of fun
And ending with James Brown It Feels Good. :chefs-kiss:
i just think it's a bit much to comment on something you have literally no opinion on besides plot synopses. i'm not saying it's the best show ever but it is definitely not what you described
i honestly don't care if you watch it or not, i'm not hurt, bill hader will also be fine. it's just weird that you were the first post on here talking about something you know next to nothing about. 2 people have said something, that is hardly a dogpile and it's weird to assume a victim role after you made a public post on a website
Then why is this comment chain still going on? i was referring to you watching the show or not, i am definitely annoyed by the post you made but not enough to hurt me
your remark was hardly silly, it was a value judgment based off of one paragraph that was completely off-base. when people said you were wrong you made an edit and talked about dogpiling. to me that seems like you were defensive about it. if it was a joke i would recommend workshopping it
i laughed so hard, funniest joke to come out of Barry yet
Its just the common typical US soldier vet good and relatable bullshit. In fact, literally every US show has to have at least one person in either the main or secondary role be a US vet, this is a rule, if the show doesnt have it then the government doesn't allow it to release. There are so many shows that have filmed pilots or entire seasons that we will never be able to see because the government banned them for not including a troop.
what's good or relatable about him being a broken sociopath
Barry is as relatable and good as Walter White lol
And the only time he's shown in uniform he's having a psychotic break and murdering an innocent civilian in their home. If anything his civilian reception is just condescending, with the Vanity Fair article treating him like a sad lil baby.
Yeah like he's only ever positively received when he lies his ass off about his discharge, and I feel like there's meant to be a noticeable jarring disconnect between the way he's received for killing "a [SLUR]" (probably just some dude walking!) and when he reveals the reason for his discharge. Like I took it as a condemnation of both the military, the bloodthirsty and racist American public (I mean all he had to do was say "some [SLUR] was coming over a ridge" or whatever and he's "a hero") and contrasting the exuberant praise he got for the former with the "jesus christ you basically killed a guy and got away with it, you can't ever tell anyone" reaction he got when he revealed the latter was meant to underscore all that
i dunno, tbh I never watched it but that was the idea I got from ppl talking about it
