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00:00After four seasons of hitting marks, saying lines, and, oh yeah, killing people,
00:06Barry's harrowing final season proved that the series was always more than a dark comedy
00:11or a spot-on satire of the ultra-violent and often absurd-feeling entertainment industry.
00:17They don't want honest. They want entertainment.
00:20It was a bleak, genre-defying story that was ultimately about how the stories we tell ourselves matter.
00:27Slick Hollywood formulaic fantasies may not be as harmless as we assume.
00:31The lies we feed ourselves to survive may lead us down darker paths than we thought possible.
00:37And when it seems like we're trapped without hope, the truth really can set us free.
00:42Spoilers from here on out.
00:43In the series finale, Kusino kills Barry with a shocking yet humorously anticlimactic shot to the head.
00:49And the episode's title is taken from Barry's last words.
00:53Oh, wow.
00:53Before the screen cuts to black.
00:55Just like that, Barry's gone.
00:57All the questions of his redeeming himself and his sudden decision to turn himself in,
01:02never getting a chance to come to fruition.
01:04Meanwhile, Hank is gunned down by Fuchs and his men.
01:07Fuchs spares Barry and his son, and a future Sally finds peace alongside a teenage John,
01:13taking on Kusino's mantle to become the drama teacher.
01:16In the end, Barry's biopic does get made, but with a full Hollywood action movie treatment,
01:22distorting all that we've seen into a glib fantasy, while revealing an unsettling turn of real-life events.
01:28Gene has been cast as the uber-villain and is now serving a life sentence, while Barry is remembered as a hero.
01:35Now, that's the narrative his son is going to internalize, too.
01:39Which is what Barry wanted.
01:40Here's our take on how Barry's shocking final moments add up to a profound moral code surrounding the simultaneous danger and importance of stories and legacies,
01:51the destructive desire for revenge, and the only path to redemption available to us.
01:56This is an opportunity to do the right thing.
02:00Whether people are dead or alive, their legacies last.
02:07This is something Hollywood knows all too well.
02:10But often the focus in entertainment is on just making a name, without getting too deep about the purpose of fame.
02:17You say, oh we're just a bunch of swim instructors, that's the title, they can't cut that!
02:25In the end, for Barry and Hank, the concept and fear of what their legacies will be is, ironically, what drives both men to their respective fates.
02:35Lord, I'm gonna die tonight.
02:36Hank's attempt to emotionally distance himself from his role in Cristobal's murder has left him unable to confront his true darkness.
02:44He was the love of my life.
02:46And by building Nohobal off of the business Cristobal wanted for the two of them,
02:51he attempts to rebuild a legacy that allows him to forget the evils of his past.
02:56But Fuchs' re-emergence digs up this dark past he fought so hard to Barry.
03:01Buddy, buddy, buddy, everybody knows you had him killed, right?
03:07Just saying, why don't you accept it?
03:10Hank's entire life, post-Time Jump, is built upon the foundations of a lie.
03:15And his insecurities surrounding his capabilities as a crime boss.
03:20So when Fuchs challenges Hank's attempt to rewrite his legacy, the series places his fate in his own hands.
03:27All you have to do is admit that you killed Cristobal.
03:32When he refuses to acknowledge this evil,
03:35You are a f***ing liar.
03:37He is ultimately punished and forced to die in the wreckage of his false legacy, holding Cristobal's cold metal hand.
03:45The key line Fuchs delivers in this scene describes both himself and Hank, but also, of course, Barry,
03:51and the whole reason he was driven to acting in the first place.
03:54There's some days you don't think you deserve to live.
04:00And the only thing that'll make you forget is my being someone else.
04:06Meanwhile, through the masked collector, we get to glimpse Barry's highly warped legacy after his death.
04:12The decision to falsely valorize Barry and incriminate Gene comments on Hollywood's tendency to look for simple heroes and villains.
04:20You owe me.
04:22I took you in and helped you become human again.
04:24To fit complicated life into slick, ever-repeating plot formulas.
04:28And ultimately, not to challenge the prevailing narratives of the status quo.
04:33It's here that the show completes its commentary on Hollywood, and how this industry of fantasy and entertainment caters to, feeds, and provides
04:42the self-serving narratives, and often even the lies, that we want to believe in.
04:47As Escapist Magazine writes,
04:49In the end, Barry is not in control of his own story.
04:52Because here, it shifts from the lies that people like Barry tell themselves, to the lies that society itself tells about them.
05:00Barry's four seasons have repeatedly grappled for the search for truth in drama versus the easy, feel-good, fake version that tends to be the commercially lucrative crowd-pleaser.
05:11Payback, ladies? It's just another shit male idea of what strong women are.
05:15Like when Sally got a big break by telling the strong woman fights back version of her experiences with domestic abuse, instead of owning the messier reality.
05:24And after Barry itself has sought to examine the difficult truths about its main characters, in its final moments, it compares this with the Hollywood version.
05:33While Barry may seem at first like a funny play on all Hollywood silliness, its interest into the stories we tell ourselves goes much deeper.
05:41I didn't feel like I deserved a good life.
05:43All the characters, like all of us, are guided in their life paths and choices by the narratives in their minds.
05:49And more often than not, these narratives are suspect, self-serving, self-centered, and full of all kinds of fakeness and lies.
05:58For years, Fuchs controlled Barry through stories, which is why Barry seeks out a new mentor, Gene, to provide him with new stories or story-making tools.
06:07And it's even a fake story that triggers Gene to lose it and murder Barry, according to actor Henry Winkler.
06:13He told USA Today, all these people making up this story, and there's no way to turn it back around to the truth.
06:19He's close to insanity instantly.
06:21The finale also raises the question of whether any heroic legacy can ever really be deserved.
06:27Because the motivation of being seen and appreciated, even by God, inherently corrupts the good thing we attempt to do.
06:35After Fuchs' action, Barry believes he's been redeemed.
06:38Honey, I've been redeemed.
06:41But Sally knows better.
06:44The only way to be redeemed is by taking responsibility for what you did, by turning yourself in.
06:50Barry turns down this idea.
06:51We'll get out of L.A., regroup.
06:54We'll figure out the next chapter of our lives.
06:57Until he learns of Kousineau's dilemma.
06:59And Barry does feel moved to take responsibility for his sins to exonerate his innocent teacher.
07:05This is an opportunity to do the right thing.
07:09I'm going to turn myself on.
07:11While Hank refuses to confront his inner evil, in the end, Barry makes the surprising choice to own up to his mistakes.
07:18At least it seems like that's what he's about to do.
07:20But as he's only alive for a few seconds after that, there's no follow-through or catharsis to his last-minute change of heart.
07:27It would be a stretch to say he got any sort of redemption.
07:29Moreover, from what we've heard of Barry grappling with this question earlier, it's clear Barry views turning himself in as a chance to service his own narrative by being redeemed in God's eyes.
07:40And that by doing this, all my sins will be washed away, and I will be redeemed in your eyes.
07:45And I will be able to sit next to you in my rightful place in the kingdom of heaven for all of eternity. Amen.
07:48While Sally and Fuchs are both right that the only true redemption attainable to us is taking accountability for our sins,
07:56importantly in this process, there's a need to de-center oneself in the narrative, and think about how we're affecting others.
08:03IndieWire's Steve Green writes that the finale carries out the Barry idea that everyone in this sordid web got tangled up by putting themselves at the center of their own story.
08:13Oh, well, I guess everyone's a hero of their own story, right?
08:17And even that Gene's final fate might be interpreted as a retribution for his excessive need for fame.
08:23While Barry's life ends before he gets to become that real-life hero, if he ever would have,
08:29ironically, his post-mortem legacy reflects how he wanted to be remembered by John.
08:34Don't call me Marine. A lot of people only call me a hero.
08:38Despite Barry's attempts to completely shield John from his true identity as a child,
08:43John does have their traumatic, full knowledge of who his father is, thanks to his mother's honesty with him.
08:49We're fugitives.
08:51Because he was a soldier?
08:52No.
08:55Because he was a murderer.
08:57But in this final scene, it's as if we see all this truth potentially being reshaped into a new story.
09:03Sometimes being a good soldier means not taking orders.
09:06And as John breaks into a moved, bittersweet smile while the biopic's post-crypt
09:11details Barry's burial honors, it's implied that John does see his father as a hero now.
09:17This kind of narrative, Barry believes, will be a model for his son on how to live a pious life,
09:22untouched by the violence of his own.
09:25Please give me the strength to sacrifice myself, so my son can live a long and pious life.
09:30Yet, isn't that pretty suspect?
09:33After all, wasn't it the same kind of easy, over-simplistic narrative that led Barry to become a soldier in the first place,
09:40without thinking too much about it?
09:41And kill a lot of people before understanding why or what that would do to his psyche?
09:46It makes sense that Barry, who's hooked on telling himself nice-sounding fictions about himself,
09:52was drawn to Hollywood.
09:53And if John takes this silly little biopic as guidance for how to live his life,
09:58that will ultimately lead him straight back to the violence and lies that have dogged Barry's life.
10:03Well, what do you want me to do? Go to John Wick Assassin Hotel with Help Wanted Sign?
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11:30One of the final season's themes is that revenge is futile and near pointless,
11:38while the way forward is scrutinizing personal reflection.
11:42This is reflected in the dichotomy between Gene's decision to kill Barry and Fuke's choice to let both Barry and John walk free.
11:49In the beginning, Gene was Barry's light mentor.
11:53Sure, he was driven by vanity and chasing the spotlight,
11:56but he did want to help his acting student slash shunned figure find the truth on stage.
12:01Fuke's, of course, was Barry's dark mentor,
12:03having exploited and manipulated Barry into becoming a terrible killing machine.
12:07Over the course of the season, though, we see Gene transform into a hollow shell of himself,
12:13while Fuke's metamorphoses into a toughened but self-aware crime leader.
12:18Denial. It's tough.
12:21I used to think I was a soldier,
12:24ignoring the fact that I never fought in a battle in my whole life.
12:29Fuke's has switched his allegiance to Barry countless times throughout the series,
12:33but their final encounter carries a significant weight.
12:36Fuke's confrontation with Hank reveals that he no longer views himself as a life-saving mentor,
12:41instead seeing himself for the true evil he possesses.
12:44I was a poser,
12:46and I fancied myself a mentor,
12:50fostering other men's natural abilities.
12:54Fuke shields John from the violence around him,
12:57choosing to end the cycle he began with Barry when Barry was a child,
13:01and passes the boy off to Barry without a word.
13:03Fuke's is still very far from a hero,
13:06but his willingness to accept his true, heartless self lets him walk away.
13:10Finally, drop the bullshit and just accept it who I am.
13:20Man with no heart.
13:21And he gets at least a moment of redemption when he attempts in a small way to make up for all he did to his former soldier.
13:28Surprisingly, then, it's Barry's other mentor who gets violent.
13:31For Gene, revenge has become everything, and it comes with a high cost.
13:36He has lost everything, his love, his son, his career, and feels that he has nothing to lose by killing Barry.
13:43So, he finally gets what he wanted, Barry dead.
13:46But the sad irony is that his actions make Barry a martyr in the eyes of the world.
13:51It's Gene who takes the fall for Janice's murder, while Barry is remembered as a hero,
13:55even though he's the only person who could have cleared Gene.
13:59Afterwards, he sits expressionless on the couch next to Barry's dead body,
14:03void of emotion in a shot that mirrors Barry's detached killings throughout the series.
14:07Clearly, Barry's death brings him no satisfaction.
14:11While the season 3 finale portrayed Gene's revenge as a satisfying win,
14:15the events of season 4 indicated that his ego would never be satisfied
14:19unless his heroism was at the center of the narrative.
14:23And I'm going to tell it to you in the only way I know how.
14:27And it's hard to think of a punishment greater for this reputation-obsessed character
14:31than having his name so viciously smeared.
14:34As actor Henry Winkler told USA Today,
14:37Gene called himself a mask collector because he carried all these characters inside
14:42and thought he was God's gift to acting.
14:45Gene would have been crushed to see that portrayal.
14:48Meanwhile, even Jim's attempts towards revenge fail.
14:51By wrongly accusing Gene, he inadvertently sets off a domino effect
14:55that results in her story being sensationalized for a popcorn flick.
14:59And I don't want my baby girl's life turned into some bullshit entertainment.
15:02So, for those who do seek revenge,
15:05Barry paints a bleak portrait of what it really means to get what you want.
15:09While Barry gets his fake redemption and fame after death,
15:16Sally ends up living a life with a more limited level of recognition.
15:20Years later, when we catch up with Sally,
15:22she's built a life for herself and John as a high school drama teacher.
15:25Like Cousineau at the start of the show,
15:27she's a big fish in a small pond,
15:30who's nonetheless fiercely loved in her community.
15:32Sally may not be creating her own hyped TV show,
15:42but she takes her work as seriously as ever.
15:45And she takes pride in being great at what she does.
15:48The key shot we see of her in the finale
15:57is of her taking a long look at the bouquet of flowers
16:00she's received for her students' production of Our Town.
16:03The flowers, the archetypal symbol of theatrical kudos and praise,
16:07still mean a lot for her.
16:09She retains that craving for applause and validation,
16:12probably way beyond what she gets as a teacher.
16:15Still, even if there's a part of her that wants more,
16:18getting that bouquet and knowing how good of a job she did
16:21can be enough for her.
16:23When a new guy asks her out,
16:24she doesn't have to consider it or make up an excuse.
16:27Hey, do you want to go get a drink or maybe a cup of coffee or something?
16:33No.
16:35Of course, yeah.
16:37She knows what she doesn't want.
16:38She's already got what she needs,
16:40and she's contented with her life of teaching and living with her son.
16:43The fact that Sally is the only character to receive a pseudo-happy or at least a satisfying ending
16:50models a path for hope in all the bleakness we've seen.
16:54Over the course of the series, we've watched Sally yearn for success and fame at any cost.
16:59Do you think Meryl Streep and Kaley Cuoco became stars just because they're the best?
17:02No.
17:03No.
17:03It's because they wanted it the most.
17:05Lose it due to her own ego and be forced into a motherly role she never wanted.
17:09Whether thanks to her own doing or the brutal Hollywood machine,
17:13The algorithm felt it wasn't hitting the right taste clusters.
17:16Time after time, Sally has seen her dreams ripped out of her hands.
17:21Now if I could just get that to come out of that.
17:25But Sally's happier ever after is no accident.
17:29Barry's characters often have their fates in their own hands,
17:33but fumble it due to their inability to reckon with their truest selves.
17:37What distinguishes Sally, however, is her choice to be fully honest with John,
17:41and most importantly, with herself.
17:44I killed a man.
17:49I deserve whatever happens to me.
17:52This revelation lifts a weight off of Sally.
17:54After years of being a fame-obsessed performer and absent mother unhappy with her life,
18:00here she actually shows real love towards John.
18:03Her moment of reckoning is what prompts her not only to tell Barry to turn himself in,
18:08but gives her the courage to leave him in the motel.
18:11After years of being trapped in Barry's terrifying narrative,
18:15Sally's confession to John provides her with the agency she needs to get out,
18:20even if it takes being broken to her core to do it.
18:22A story that's even sadder, giving her pre-existing past with abuse.
18:27It's this ability to tell the truth that makes Sally, when she follows that urge,
18:32a sometimes great actress and dramatist.
18:35And from what we see of Sally in the later plot,
18:38she's taken pains to maintain that devotion to truth in her life.
18:41To keep centering what's real and the work,
18:44instead of what other people think about her and her creations.
18:47So, while she's not famous or doing the grandiose job she dreamed of,
18:52the reason she's contented is because she knows she's doing her craft right.
18:57It's a useful lesson to us all, because we can't control the external world,
19:01their stories, and how they perceive us.
19:04But sticking with the truth will undoubtedly direct our own lives in a healthy direction.
19:09In the end, even if John is seeing this warped narrative of Barry,
19:13he's living with Sally as his mother every day.
19:16So, that's giving him the best possible shot of taking a different road from his father.
19:21You want a drink, bro?
19:23Uh, no. Thank you. I don't drink.
19:25Throughout its four-season run, Barry has shown us how stories,
19:29whether the ones we tell ourselves or perform to others,
19:32can either propel us to do good,
19:34or lead us down a bleak path of ego-driven despair.
19:37As actors, we have to be vulnerable.
19:41I mean, we have to be the ugliest versions of ourselves.
19:45While some viewers may have wanted Barry to die in a torturous way
19:49that equaled his horrendous crimes,
19:51in the end, he dies like nearly all of his victims,
19:54quickly and with little time to have a big dramatic moment or process what was happening.
19:59In a sense, that's what the show does.
20:01Chip away at the masks these characters put on to hide from themselves.
20:05You want to be a crime lord?
20:06Now we are crime lords.
20:08No, I want it to be legitimate.
20:11But for those that can face their inhumanity head-on, like Sally,
20:15a life can exist, just not one that you see in the movies.
20:19This is not a good guy, bad guy story.
20:23It goes way deeper than that.
20:25So much deeper.
20:27That's The Take.
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