What an amazing episode, I love how Barry realizes and accepts that he’s a terrible person (saying he needs to turn himself in) but gets cut down a second later. If he had realized this any sooner he could’ve changed but by then it was far too late.
At the same time, it kinda proves Barry's point about having a higher purpose. As soon as he admits fault his life is ended. Such a deep, amazing show. Definitely will be rewatching.
John didn’t really live in denial because he never got the full context of what Barry did. All he knows is that Barry used to killed a lot of people as a soldier and after retiring from the force (as Sally told him) but never got into specific about who are his victims and once he knew it was Janice, it was in the context said by the press and the film that Barry was a victim who got manipulated by his evil teacher Gene to get rid of Janice’s body. So in the end, John isn’t really in denial of his father’s actions. In fact, John is proud of what he knows about his dad because it (falsely) confirmed that all those bullshits Barry had been telling him about how he’s such a great hero turned out to be true.
I think it also portrays that Sally never chose to tell John the truth. Like all teenagers he is curious about his other parent and find his own version of truth.
While being held captive by Hank and his gang, Sally tells John that her and Barry were fugitives from the law and that Barry murdered a bunch of people and she had murdered someone as well.
The attack on the house was definitely in Sally's head. If they were actual assassins they would've finished the job, the hitman all in black behind her was about her demons following her. Also, one of them shouts a line like "he's not breathing" about the son, that was her guilt about drugging him just so she could take a nap.
Also the repeated "what did you do to my eye?" - she's re-living the stabbing, it's the same audio from the guy she attacked. Also the fact that an actual truck smashes through her house and the entire thing seems to tilt sideways and throw her back, even though a truck slamming through her house wouldn't have tilted the house, it would have just plowed right through. And after all that her kid is still sound asleep. It was a complete hallucination and nervous breakdown.
Yeah it was just weird that when John woke up and saw Sally sitting there crying, the house was still a wreck. In that moment they should have shown the house looking normal, to show that it was just Sally dealing with the guilt of killing the biker; which ironically she never admits to, even though she tries to convince Barry to turn himself in, saying that’s the only way that you can be forgiven. She is honestly the worst person in the show.
18:03 Happier, simpler but will never reach to her full potential, unable to start romantic relationship with anyone ever again and still needs to seek validation from John because she didn’t trust that her audience actually loves her work (and also is still a pos who only cares about herself instead of saying I love you back to her son). Happy but not that happy.
I liked this show for so many reasons. 1 was how they showed the light and funny side of organized crime. Nobody is a savage 24 hours a day. They have funny light moments 🙌🏽🫡😂😂
I guess if Barry had claimed to Janice that the he didn’t kill Ryan Madison and it was in fact the Chechens all the carnage that took place afterwards would have never happened.
Hank did kind of admit it but he immediately called off Fuches' deal, perhaps because he doesn't want to be seen as weak or because being "someone else" spares him the pain and guilt. Fuches realized Hank was serious and that's when he opens fire. But not really to kill Hank, rather to create an opening for him to save Barry's kid
I think there is much more to say about those who finally reveal and accept what they are, those who accept who people think they are(Cousineau), and those who think they are one kind of person (Fuchs has no heart), but actually deceive themselves (he shows he does have a heart in saving Barry's son). There is also a ton of symbolism around the Purgatory images at the beach and religious symbolism too. Barry likes to clothe himself in God, "religion," and the Bible to pretend he is doing what God bids, and yet, his actions speak louder than his words (and delusion about being Christian to make himself feel better about his murderous ways). Perhaps this is a commentary on America's Christian Nationalism? Who knows? Certainly, Noho Hank has some of that delusion, not about the love of God, but about his supposed love for Cristobal. Aaaaaaanyway, does anyone have any ideas about what Hank saw before he died?He looked as if he were seeing something or someone terrifying. It wasn't just a simple death scene. Noho Hank is a terrific actor. Loved the show so much. I am glad it ended before the writer's strike.
I think noho hank was looking towards cristobal one way or another. I think its meant to be up to interpretation but i think either: he’s hallucinating similar to barry was when he was poisoned and is seeing cristobal looking at him, judging him. Or in a simpler sense its the statue itself, he looks toward the hand of the man he loved and realizes with dawning horror how/where/when he went wrong. Somethin along those lines is my guess
I thought he was making that expression simply because he realized “oh fuck, I’m really dying… 😮” and could feel the life draining out of him and grabbed Cristobal’s hand on his way out.
@@FurbyCentipede thank you lol. Especially cause he said the real reason he gave up his love was to protect his own safety. We know our dude valued his own life above all else, so I really saw that as, yes him regretting the whole situation with Cris, but also an "omg, this is really it" kind of moment as well.... The NoHo Hank actor was so phenomenal in this role!!! So many levels 😩🙌
@@amandafranklin2901 yeah and goin with that hank survived soooooo much stuff that he had the best worst luck, so that look also doubling as “oh shit its for real this time” works too
Man, why did they have to ruin a great show. I feel like really good shows just completely shit the bed once they get to the end of the line. A lot of it didn't make sense.
3:15 I love that shot. The play on the Bolivians being tiny is just hilarious hahah. 17:57 And the headline implies Gene's son is hungry for the lying and fame too. Lying that he found out about drug money so his dad shot him, haha. Quote unquote.
I think that’s where Hank and Cristobal differed. Cristobal didn’t just appreciate the individual, he cherished them. To have his men put down without any consideration was unforgivable in his eyes
The literal only thing I had a problem with in the finale was Barry’s death like ik he was gonna die but I was expecting it to be more impactful idk me and grandma watched the show together and even she hates the damn ending
Yeee I don’t know how I feel about the sudden bullet to the head. I guess they didn’t want to do the obvious thing and have him go down in a climactic shoot out
@@DS3Enjoyerwell it was the only way they could kill barry, it needs to be immediate and unsuspecting or else barry just kills couseneu instead if he knew he was trying to kill him.
Absolutely loved the show but hated the ending. As realistic as it was, it was so unsatisfying. All the best characters got the worst endings and all the worst characters ended up perfectly fine. So frustrating.
He was deeply mentally and emotionally unstable, and made a lot of really terrible decisions for the sake of saving his own life. He killed his friend Chris just to protect himself. He killed basically anyone who discovered his secret, threatened the children of his friends and basically ruined the lives of everyone he came in contact with lol he was not a good person, I think that’s kind of the point of the show. To make you fall in love with a morally dark gray character.
Loved Barry great show. But my one gripe is how they clearly changed writers on Noho Hank, completely assassinating his character (pardon the pun). He started as a very eccentric Eastern European, a clear individual type of man who did not understand American culutre or fasion or manorisms, made all the stranger by his alopecia. But in the final seasons, hes just flamboyantly gay. And before you ask, whats wrong with that? Id just like to say that there is nothing wrong with being gay. For Hank, in earlier seasons, his homosexuality was one of many many traits which created an interesting indivudal. In the final season its his only characteristic. Poor Hank got gay Flanderized.
@@yaboityler2617 I dunno I kinda of disagree with you on that, I think noho was one of the only characters that didn't really alter much during the series. But I understand your point
Noooo. That co-worker she had was, lol. That younger chick that was in the new Texas Chainsaw was the most annoying ever. I suppose she wasn’t a big part of the show though lol
Sally is quite possibly the worst TV character ever, Season 4 was an absolute joke of a mess, and the ending was atrocious. Why can’t shows great shows ever write a good final season/ending???
Can someone help me on something with this - I started watching barry after catching some clips of it online, but the beginning of the show seems SO UNIQUELY TERRIBLE. It feels like lazy / bad writing, i genuinely think, after the first 3 episodes, this is the WORST tv series i've ever watched, and can't bring myself to continue. But i hear such good things about it online??? Why? What makes this show so good? When does it start getting good? It feels like a low budget Dexter knockoff.
You just don’t have good taste, simple as that. And why are you asking this on a video recap of the entire series? Just watch the first season, and if you can’t get into it, you’re probably just not bright enough to wrap your head around the dark humor and depth of the story.
What an amazing episode, I love how Barry realizes and accepts that he’s a terrible person (saying he needs to turn himself in) but gets cut down a second later. If he had realized this any sooner he could’ve changed but by then it was far too late.
At the same time, it kinda proves Barry's point about having a higher purpose. As soon as he admits fault his life is ended. Such a deep, amazing show. Definitely will be rewatching.
Wow
That's the whole show. "If only I knew, than it could have been different" that's the entire point of the show
John didn’t really live in denial because he never got the full context of what Barry did.
All he knows is that Barry used to killed a lot of people as a soldier and after retiring from the force (as Sally told him) but never got into specific about who are his victims and once he knew it was Janice, it was in the context said by the press and the film that Barry was a victim who got manipulated by his evil teacher Gene to get rid of Janice’s body.
So in the end, John isn’t really in denial of his father’s actions. In fact, John is proud of what he knows about his dad because it (falsely) confirmed that all those bullshits Barry had been telling him about how he’s such a great hero turned out to be true.
I think it also portrays that Sally never chose to tell John the truth. Like all teenagers he is curious about his other parent and find his own version of truth.
While being held captive by Hank and his gang, Sally tells John that her and Barry were fugitives from the law and that Barry murdered a bunch of people and she had murdered someone as well.
The attack on the house was definitely in Sally's head. If they were actual assassins they would've finished the job, the hitman all in black behind her was about her demons following her. Also, one of them shouts a line like "he's not breathing" about the son, that was her guilt about drugging him just so she could take a nap.
Also the repeated "what did you do to my eye?" - she's re-living the stabbing, it's the same audio from the guy she attacked. Also the fact that an actual truck smashes through her house and the entire thing seems to tilt sideways and throw her back, even though a truck slamming through her house wouldn't have tilted the house, it would have just plowed right through. And after all that her kid is still sound asleep. It was a complete hallucination and nervous breakdown.
Yeah it was just weird that when John woke up and saw Sally sitting there crying, the house was still a wreck. In that moment they should have shown the house looking normal, to show that it was just Sally dealing with the guilt of killing the biker; which ironically she never admits to, even though she tries to convince Barry to turn himself in, saying that’s the only way that you can be forgiven. She is honestly the worst person in the show.
I don’t even know what to watch now. Such a good show.
Very splendid recap. It all came together so well
Amazing how this went from a comedy/drama to Breaking Bad
18:03 Happier, simpler but will never reach to her full potential, unable to start romantic relationship with anyone ever again and still needs to seek validation from John because she didn’t trust that her audience actually loves her work (and also is still a pos who only cares about herself instead of saying I love you back to her son).
Happy but not that happy.
I love that she has a bad life now
I was also appalled that she wouldn’t say I love you back! Ugh
Poor kid. Her toxicity will only worsen with time.
@@Xavieus her life is fucking great, 90% of sally's problems are caused by herself, the other 10 is the abusive people in her life
She’s legit the worst person in the entire show.
Splendid recap! Great timing!
"oh wow"
I liked how Hank and Fukes both knew how fucked up they both were. That dialogue was pretty heavy
Boy that escalated quickly
16:58 think u mixed up hank and cristobals name lmao great video nonetheless rip Barry block
It would be a disservice to think you can grasp what this show is and the nuances it provides just by watching a RUclips recap video
I still don't know how I feel about this season. I think the time jump should have come later and added 2 episodes
Watching again 🤭🤭🤭 I really like this guy
I usually watch The Man of Recaps for stuff like this but I’m gonna give ya a listen
Why wasn't Albert in Season 4? He was announced as part of the cast.
I really like the character so much potential.
I can't help feeling a little bad for Gene. I wonder what will happen to Feach. Very good ending.
Just couldn't put a cap on that narcissism
You think the ending was good? Lol I thought it was awful. They spent two episodes trying to fit a bunch of square blocks into round holes.
@robweiderman4514 Nowadays were starved for anything half way mediocre.
Thanks bro
I liked this show for so many reasons. 1 was how they showed the light and funny side of organized crime. Nobody is a savage 24 hours a day. They have funny light moments 🙌🏽🫡😂😂
Luv the show. But was Very disappointed by the finale.
Same. Final season in general was pretty bad.
@@robbaholicwhy do you think the final season was bad?
Bill from King of the Hill became part of being a Hitman?
I thought the kid they had was a dream lol
14:04 is it weird that I wanna see a spinoff about that superhero film?
Oh, wow.
I guess if Barry had claimed to Janice that the he didn’t kill Ryan Madison and it was in fact the Chechens all the carnage that took place afterwards would have never happened.
All this happened in 4 episodes - wow 😮
17:13 he did admit it but fuches didn’t hold his side of the bargain
Hank did kind of admit it but he immediately called off Fuches' deal, perhaps because he doesn't want to be seen as weak or because being "someone else" spares him the pain and guilt. Fuches realized Hank was serious and that's when he opens fire. But not really to kill Hank, rather to create an opening for him to save Barry's kid
I think there is much more to say about those who finally reveal and accept what they are, those who accept who people think they are(Cousineau), and those who think they are one kind of person (Fuchs has no heart), but actually deceive themselves (he shows he does have a heart in saving Barry's son). There is also a ton of symbolism around the Purgatory images at the beach and religious symbolism too. Barry likes to clothe himself in God, "religion," and the Bible to pretend he is doing what God bids, and yet, his actions speak louder than his words (and delusion about being Christian to make himself feel better about his murderous ways). Perhaps this is a commentary on America's Christian Nationalism? Who knows? Certainly, Noho Hank has some of that delusion, not about the love of God, but about his supposed love for Cristobal. Aaaaaaanyway, does anyone have any ideas about what Hank saw before he died?He looked as if he were seeing something or someone terrifying. It wasn't just a simple death scene. Noho Hank is a terrific actor. Loved the show so much. I am glad it ended before the writer's strike.
I think noho hank was looking towards cristobal one way or another. I think its meant to be up to interpretation but i think either: he’s hallucinating similar to barry was when he was poisoned and is seeing cristobal looking at him, judging him. Or in a simpler sense its the statue itself, he looks toward the hand of the man he loved and realizes with dawning horror how/where/when he went wrong. Somethin along those lines is my guess
I thought he was making that expression simply because he realized “oh fuck, I’m really dying… 😮” and could feel the life draining out of him and grabbed Cristobal’s hand on his way out.
@@amandafranklin2901 thats also a very fair interpretation lmao and pretty fitting
@@FurbyCentipede thank you lol. Especially cause he said the real reason he gave up his love was to protect his own safety. We know our dude valued his own life above all else, so I really saw that as, yes him regretting the whole situation with Cris, but also an "omg, this is really it" kind of moment as well.... The NoHo Hank actor was so phenomenal in this role!!! So many levels 😩🙌
@@amandafranklin2901 yeah and goin with that hank survived soooooo much stuff that he had the best worst luck, so that look also doubling as “oh shit its for real this time” works too
Jeez what a shit ending. All would have been fine if Gene let him turn himself in.
the finale was fire
Can you do counterpart?
16:58 I though Cristobal was dead?
Man, why did they have to ruin a great show. I feel like really good shows just completely shit the bed once they get to the end of the line. A lot of it didn't make sense.
A lot of trying to fit square blocks into round holes. Terrible finale, and very scattered and messy season 4.
Oh wow
3:15 I love that shot. The play on the Bolivians being tiny is just hilarious hahah. 17:57 And the headline implies Gene's son is hungry for the lying and fame too. Lying that he found out about drug money so his dad shot him, haha. Quote unquote.
can someone explain why the fuchs guy wants hank to admit it so bad, like it doesn't really matter if he does or not
Fuches came to terms with his nature in prison, and he wanted Hank to do the same and admit who he really was
Oh Wow
How do we know it was a panther? I’ve also heard bear and lion.
I always thought it was a tiger lol
The perfect ending, it Cristobal didn't freak out over a few losers getting killed i'm sure everything would be different
I think that’s where Hank and Cristobal differed. Cristobal didn’t just appreciate the individual, he cherished them. To have his men put down without any consideration was unforgivable in his eyes
The literal only thing I had a problem with in the finale was Barry’s death like ik he was gonna die but I was expecting it to be more impactful idk me and grandma watched the show together and even she hates the damn ending
Yeee I don’t know how I feel about the sudden bullet to the head. I guess they didn’t want to do the obvious thing and have him go down in a climactic shoot out
Yeah that was shit. So anticlimactic
@@DS3Enjoyerwell it was the only way they could kill barry, it needs to be immediate and unsuspecting or else barry just kills couseneu instead if he knew he was trying to kill him.
Absolutely loved the show but hated the ending. As realistic as it was, it was so unsatisfying. All the best characters got the worst endings and all the worst characters ended up perfectly fine. So frustrating.
Barry Berkman was a good father. A good husband. A good friend. We need more people in our lives like Barry.
He was deeply mentally and emotionally unstable, and made a lot of really terrible decisions for the sake of saving his own life. He killed his friend Chris just to protect himself. He killed basically anyone who discovered his secret, threatened the children of his friends and basically ruined the lives of everyone he came in contact with lol he was not a good person, I think that’s kind of the point of the show. To make you fall in love with a morally dark gray character.
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Loved Barry great show. But my one gripe is how they clearly changed writers on Noho Hank, completely assassinating his character (pardon the pun). He started as a very eccentric Eastern European, a clear individual type of man who did not understand American culutre or fasion or manorisms, made all the stranger by his alopecia. But in the final seasons, hes just flamboyantly gay.
And before you ask, whats wrong with that? Id just like to say that there is nothing wrong with being gay. For Hank, in earlier seasons, his homosexuality was one of many many traits which created an interesting indivudal. In the final season its his only characteristic. Poor Hank got gay Flanderized.
Honestly I thought he was kinda flamboyantly gay the whole series
@zangrat he was flamboyant but as I said it wasn't his only character trait
@@yaboityler2617 I dunno I kinda of disagree with you on that, I think noho was one of the only characters that didn't really alter much during the series. But I understand your point
the girlfriend was the worst part of the show.
Noooo. That co-worker she had was, lol.
That younger chick that was in the new Texas Chainsaw was the most annoying ever. I suppose she wasn’t a big part of the show though lol
Barry's last season sucks, it’s 💩
Agreed. It was deeply disappointed.
Lots of unnecessary and questionable editorializing.
Season 4 was a letdown. Final episode was good that’s it.
Sally is quite possibly the worst TV character ever, Season 4 was an absolute joke of a mess, and the ending was atrocious.
Why can’t shows great shows ever write a good final season/ending???
the ending of this show was ass i can’t lie i had high expectations but this shi was disappointing
Can someone help me on something with this - I started watching barry after catching some clips of it online, but the beginning of the show seems SO UNIQUELY TERRIBLE. It feels like lazy / bad writing, i genuinely think, after the first 3 episodes, this is the WORST tv series i've ever watched, and can't bring myself to continue. But i hear such good things about it online??? Why? What makes this show so good? When does it start getting good? It feels like a low budget Dexter knockoff.
You just don’t have good taste, simple as that. And why are you asking this on a video recap of the entire series? Just watch the first season, and if you can’t get into it, you’re probably just not bright enough to wrap your head around the dark humor and depth of the story.
What are you asking for help for? Just watch the show or don't watch it no one is gonna make it enjoyable for you