"Barry" Finale Challenges Perceptions of Change and Morality
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The final season of HBO's "Barry" merges the worlds of showbiz and violence, depicting both as sharing compromises and delusions. The show's sendups of violence and pop culture come fully together in the final season, with the violence being depicted in a surprising and funny way. The idea of what it takes to earn redemption returns ingeniously in the final run of the show, with the endgame being set off by a movie. The show ends with Barry's son sneaking to a friend's house to watch a movie that portrays Barry as a naïve victim, manipulated by a criminal mastermind, giving him a made-for-Hollywood redemption.
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