Bill Hader Unpacks the Shocking Season Finale of ‘Barry’ and Giving the Characters Forgiveness
variety.comWilson Chapman editorSpoiler Alert: Do not read if you haven’t watched “starting now,” the Season 3 finale of “Barry,” now streaming on HBO Max.After three seasons of barely getting away with his many crimes, Barry Berkman (Bill Hader) has finally been caught.Season 3 of Hader and Alec Berg’s increasingly dark comedy series “Barry” ends with the title character — a reluctant hitman whose attempts to avoid the consequences of his actions have caused increasingly greater tragedies — apprehended by a SWAT team, heading to jail for the murder of detective Janice Moss (Paula Newsome).
That act, which has hung over the series since Season 1, initially seemed like it would get Barry in jail even sooner, when her boyfriend Gene Cousineau (Henry Winkler) discovered that Barry, his student, was responsible for her death.
But after intimidating Cousineau and convincing him not to tell anyone the truth, Barry doesn’t seem to have to worry about his former acting teacher anymore.
According to Hader, when the writing team began the process of mapping out the show’s third season, they had a few basic ideas for the storylines, and from the jump, they knew the season would end with Cousineau catching Barry.“Our first day of writing Season 3, we came in and said, ‘All right, here are the basic ideas,'” Hader told Variety. “And they were ‘Cousineau knows in the first episode; Barry knows that Cousineau knows; Sally [Sarah Goldberg] has her own show, and she’s gonna lose it; NoHo Hank [Anthony Carrigan] and Cristobal [Michael Irby] are gonna be a couple, Fuches [Stephen Root] has a vengeance army.
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