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Jun. 17th, 2023 05:14 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lakeeffectgirlI watched all of the final season of Barry with my dad this afternoon, and oh no, I still want to cry about NoHo Hank and Cristobal!
I specifically did not read any spoilers, and waited to read any reviews until we could watch it all - this show, at least, is one where you basically know the whole time that it will likely end with Barry dead, so while that's usually a finale device I hate, this time it was entirely expected. Barry was never going to turn himself in, because he never stopped believing that he could somehow be absolved of all the terrible things he'd done. There was a brief moment where I thought, if Barry does turn himself in, that will be him finally accepting the person he is - but instead he went to Gene's, and Gene shoots him. I did not expect Gene to end up in prison because the cops think him accepting the money from Barry in an earlier season meant he killed Janice, but really: this was a show where nothing good was going to happen to anyone. I definitely didn't think Fuches would make it out alive, but making it out alive does feel like a very Fuches thing to happen, and having him save Barry and Sally's son was maybe Fuches realizing/accepting what he did to Barry.
I struggled a bit with Barry and Sally finding religion, but that is a me personally thing - it was in keeping with Barry always looking for something that will absolve him of what he did - and the bit where he listens to a bunch of podcasts until he finds one that says killing isn't always a sin was a great illustration of that whole arc, so I see what they were trying to do.
Reviews seem to indicate that the time jump was a divisive plot device, but I felt like it made sense so that everyone's storylines could come to an end pretty much at the same time: you need it for Fuches to serve his prison term and get out, and for Barry and Sally's son to be old enough to understand what his parents did.
NoHo Hank's death scene made me cry - Anthony Carrigan was perhaps the best actor this entire season - and while I knew there was probably no way he and Cristobal would make it out alive, I was still distraught over that whole storyline. DEEP BREATHS, LAKE, DON'T CRY AGAIN.
And now I've crossed that and Ted Lasso off my list just in time for Dead Reckoning press to start!
I specifically did not read any spoilers, and waited to read any reviews until we could watch it all - this show, at least, is one where you basically know the whole time that it will likely end with Barry dead, so while that's usually a finale device I hate, this time it was entirely expected. Barry was never going to turn himself in, because he never stopped believing that he could somehow be absolved of all the terrible things he'd done. There was a brief moment where I thought, if Barry does turn himself in, that will be him finally accepting the person he is - but instead he went to Gene's, and Gene shoots him. I did not expect Gene to end up in prison because the cops think him accepting the money from Barry in an earlier season meant he killed Janice, but really: this was a show where nothing good was going to happen to anyone. I definitely didn't think Fuches would make it out alive, but making it out alive does feel like a very Fuches thing to happen, and having him save Barry and Sally's son was maybe Fuches realizing/accepting what he did to Barry.
I struggled a bit with Barry and Sally finding religion, but that is a me personally thing - it was in keeping with Barry always looking for something that will absolve him of what he did - and the bit where he listens to a bunch of podcasts until he finds one that says killing isn't always a sin was a great illustration of that whole arc, so I see what they were trying to do.
Reviews seem to indicate that the time jump was a divisive plot device, but I felt like it made sense so that everyone's storylines could come to an end pretty much at the same time: you need it for Fuches to serve his prison term and get out, and for Barry and Sally's son to be old enough to understand what his parents did.
NoHo Hank's death scene made me cry - Anthony Carrigan was perhaps the best actor this entire season - and while I knew there was probably no way he and Cristobal would make it out alive, I was still distraught over that whole storyline. DEEP BREATHS, LAKE, DON'T CRY AGAIN.
And now I've crossed that and Ted Lasso off my list just in time for Dead Reckoning press to start!
