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movie files ellie back again breaking down this third season episode three of barry titled ben
middleton an episode in which we see barry and gene telling the truth to one another we see
sally trying to be authentic and fuchs he wants his vengeance we're discussing that and so much
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your thoughts on this fascinating character study that we're getting between the parallels
of what's going on with barry and jean sally and katie and their whole tv show and how that all
ties to fugues and just this abusive relationships that these characters are going through let's
discuss pros cons thoughts theories and everything in between in the comments below so listen we got
a lot to break down full spoilers ahead we opened the episode with gene getting his makeup done with
barry next to him in their trailer and we hear and i think it's not a coincidence that as the
show has went on and we all look at gene it's such a nice guy a guy to just kind of miss the
opportunities but we're also learning more about his past in the last few seasons number one leo
he had a son and also in this season gene was an a-hole when he was younger which again speaks to
duality these characters they are always putting on their actors right they're always acting they
want to be the best versions of themselves as barry points out a little bit later but we hear
another story about gene being an a-hole to a pa throwing coffee in his face i think some of that
stuff might catch up to gene in regards to his redemption story in this particular season but
it's in this moment that he is given lines in the series and he's barry's like uh tell him thank you
again pushing that abusive narrative like be happy for what you got before i take it away from you
and we have so much to connect to in this episode in this review paralleling the abusive stories and
we'll get to that a little bit later but switching over to hank and his crew finding out that the
left that was messed behind was a missed hit and they are now blaming crystal ball or i should say
batara is bringing uh crystal ball and we're gonna talk about him in noho hank i don't know if it's
looking good for our guy noho hank but at this point we see that hank wants to activate his patsy
which we transition over to fuchs who's being called at this point and we see that he's really
liking this lifestyle it's almost kind of biblical like he's on this farm with goats and you know
god is the shepherd all this stuff very kind and you hear the music too being kind of
religious like type of undertone in the scene there but he's happy with his life for now and he
is going to take on vengeance a little bit later but he has his you know his nice little girlfriend
now he got his you know his goats on this farm he doesn't want any part of this life but
he's gonna get wrapped right back into it in just a little bit but let's transition and talk about
the authenticity or maybe lack of authenticity that's going on with sally in this episode we see
that she's prepping for an interview for her show and we can see her insecurities are coming up and
what i like about and this is what i love about barry the closer these characters are getting to
what they've been chasing for their whole life more so sally and gene because they've been
trying to be actors their whole life and of course barry is this is a hobby now that he really wants
to be an actor but just focusing on gene and sally notice how the closer they're getting to
that goal of becoming the famous person they've been wanting to be the superstar this megastar
the less they've become of themselves they're losing themselves and we're seeing this in the
scene that she's being interviewed by all these people which by the way the whole who do you
want to be the next spider-man uh ben middleson which isn't too far off sally because he was in
uh far from home so there are some connected tissues there but yeah he wouldn't be a good
casting for uh spider-man but more importantly in this scene like i said just looking at her
realizing man that window of opportunity of telling my truth has become very small and
she's now putting on this front she's now being someone she doesn't want to be which just again
speaks so interesting to me with this show that was the goal but what do you have to do to get
that goal you're losing who you want to be so i find that to be so interesting and at the same
time very funny again the ben middleton stuff was very funny but let me know again just how you all
are enjoying that narrative in regards to the chase to fame the chase to being who you want
to be the best version of yourself and how that's changing our characters right in front of our eyes
let's discuss that in the comment section getting back into the episode we see jean is broken barry
is running his lines with gene and this is where he asks barry did she suffer and we see barry
which oh my goodness bill hader and just the chemistry which you know too are so fantastic but
bill hader no words i was so smart of them to not put words in because again it's a truth he doesn't
want to face he's just like no he shakes his head as they get more into the conversation barry tells
him about feuds being a family friend as gene realizes that the monologue that barry read
to him in season one all was true in the night that he brought it up at the end of season one
was what got janus killed and he's putting that pressure on himself he's putting that blame on
himself and it's just again just pay attention to barry anderson and notice what he's doing again
he's no more human because listen to these lines here as we transition over to barry telling him
that she was good at her job and it was just an unfortunate situation like barry it's not like
you hit the man's car you killed his girlfriend in this moment and getting back into it gene taught
him to be the best version of himself as barry thanks him and their relationship is beneficial to
one another like hey you scratch my back i scratch yours i kill your girlfriend and i give you a job
and we see barry tell him you're welcome man bill hader is so fantastic in this role and just paying
playing off against uh you know what we getting with gene their relationship and dynamic i find
it so interesting that one of the main plots in this season has been sally in her show which is a
basically a mother trying to get her daughter out of an abusive relationship
how the parallels between seeing barry being that abuser and gene being abusive and just trying to
you're welcome take from what i've given you it is just so interesting so
matter how they're playing into all that and again barry where's the human where are you
bear i mean when we first met him he was killing people uh for sleeping with people's wives so
was he ever human that is the question but i love that scene let me know your thoughts on all that
getting back into the conversation crystal ball tries to get fernando to back off
which surprisingly it actually works fernando believes crystal ball about cutting their losses
short and there's nothing here with the chechens but they want to have one more lunch before they
leave and it was just so interesting this episode to see crystal ball trying to back
off his you know bolivians and seeing hank trying to at the same time but eventually
unfortunately they're going to cross paths as we get into the next section of the moment here
meanwhile we see hank breaking down once he hears that there's a homemade bomb right in front of him
he tells them that fernando is behind it all and that crystal ball is simply a nobody
but we see that it doesn't work unfortunately for hank he's not able to persuade batara and getting
his you know chechens group to take out fernando he's like i don't care drop off that bomb and he's
like um i know someone that might be crazy enough to do that we know who that crazy individual is
as we get the call i've got a job for you looking for someone crazy we see hank messages barry that
he's got a job and right now we know barry is in a much different position where back in episode
one he was desperate he didn't have any purpose but now he has his goal of getting gene to be
the star he wants to be so he tells him no i don't want this he gets a call thinking it's hank but um
no it's it's another person in your past barry it is no other than fuchs giving him a call as we see
fuchs apologizes for ruining barry's life but in return hey barry you got something say to me like
maybe apologizing for shooting at me and trying to kill me again notice the behavior notice how
fuchs is just so self-centered and just wants the apology for himself but doesn't realize all the
stuff he's under bury oh boy who is looking like fuchs it's barry he is taking on again
learning those patterns not only from killing and the hiring and the hitman job but also
the personality traits the narcissism personality traits that fuse has it has now transitioned
over to barry it isn't so interesting that the fuchs berry relationship now you can parallel
that to barry and jean a lot of parallels and i'm loving it but getting back into the conversation
fuchs is of course lying about he's dying and he wants the sorries from barry but he's got nothing
barry tells him that him and gene are fine they're working together as we know that he's lying again
this is another thing that barry's learned with hughes lie just lie about things that aren't true
we know their relationship between him and gene aren't going good but barry wants fuchs to believe
that as we get into the conversation again as they get into a yelling match which leads to few
throwing his phone away and again i just want you to realize how similar fuchs berry to now barry
and jean it's all there and again the writing and the paralleling and the nature of the meta nature
going on this show right now is fantastic which actually brings me into my next breakdown here
which katie learns about perry as natalie tells katie that barry is harmless we see him doing this
type of behavior of yelling all the time katie there's nothing to be afraid of barry's a cool
guy he's gonna be okay and sally's well-being she's okay this is part of their relationship
and it's just so interesting these are all the signs of like abusive behavior by the way
i like this katy character katie's character so far because she's an outside perspective right
she's someone who hasn't been there since season one she doesn't know that yes in season one barry
came appeared to be a nice guy you know seems to be a good boyfriend for sally minus him being a
hit man but all the signs are there that he's a good guy and yes he's went to war ptsd he has
these outbursts sometimes but at the core he's a good guy no katie doesn't see that she sees what
barry's actually going through right now in his current situation when she looks like an a-hole
he looks like a jerk he looks like an abuser and she's seeing those flaws in our character and i
like that we get that perspective from someone from the outside being implemented in the show
and it goes back to what i mentioned last week in regards to i believe her character is going to
want to look out for sally and she's going to see something and she's going to end up
probably getting killed by barry it might not work out that way but it's starting to look
that way or she's going to have people press on barry get a pi or someone looking in on barry
there's going to be more to that katy perry katy perry to the kd character as the weeks
go on but again i just really like how we get that new set of eyes on the on the character in
regards to her perception her views her point of view of barry i find that to be very interesting
and also not to even leave out just the parallels of how the show that her and sally are doing
sally being the mom her being abuser but then in reality in the context of the show
sally's the abuser and katie's the one trying to get her well she hasn't explicitly said you
need to get out of a relationship but i can see katie being the one saying hey
all the stuff in the show you're living that in real life like you need to get out of this
relationship so i'm really at first i thought that the katy character might have been kind of
elsie fisher or cameo what not but she's starting to be a little bit more pivotal to the plot which
i'm really enjoying let me know your thoughts on all that there as we get back into the episode
i'm truly sorry love how the show is just so meta again as barry and jean are working on the show
and we see in the show that they're working on again it's just meta on top of meta the character
that barry is playing is responsible for the death of jean's character's wife dying by giving them
like unauthorized medicine but again thinking about in their real circumstance barry killed
his girlfriend again it's just like this show's writing is just so great i love that parallel
there but getting back into it as barry reads his lines we see gene breaks out of character
slaps barry and tells him to stay the f away from his family he walks offset and as he's doing so
like he's feeling like okay yeah i took charge but like oh man the threat that barry made to my
my family last week he's running towards them to probably get them protection so we'll see if barry
will keep that promise and hurting leo and leo's son he's not human he might make that call let me
know your predictions on that getting back and wrapping it all up i'm in as we see barry calls
back hank and lets him know that he will take the job back to being lifeless back to being cold back
to being the killer that he was when we opened this particular season he wants that blood he
wants his vengeance we're speaking of vengeance we go back to batara who's questioning decision and
he's starting to see the cracks in hank's story regarding bringing barry back on also the whole
crystal ball thing going on and we see him look at him and uh that's not good for our boy noho hank
oh boy what's gonna happen he's gonna need barry to not only take off the uh uh fernando but he's
gonna have to watch out for batara i'm loving how this stuff is shaping up but let's wrap up
the episode here as we see fuchs in his new romance who questions his vengeance on barry
she tells him a very interesting story about a man who killed a farmer and took their land
and it's a story about forgiveness that was offered to those lost souls and most of the souls
chose violence except for one and the one the moral of the story the ones the souls that took
vengeance end up going to a for satan part like a cold part like cold hearted darkness in the seas
and then the one uh soul that said that they they forgave the farmer that killed them they went to
heaven but you know fuchs doesn't get the moral of the story he's like tell me more about the
vengeance side of it and i love the frame of the shot when we see the red against his face
and you know for film fans and tv fans normally when you see red it symbolizes danger alert coming
soon which means that vengeance is coming for barry in the form of fuchs what a great way to end
the episode and just looking at all the different tables being turned now hank's in trouble gene his
family's in trouble based on barry but very little does he know he's in trouble because
he got fugues coming his way so every one of our characters has it come in their way and even sally
in a certain sense not to the life of a life or death situation but for the fact that she's
not living her most authentic life and her truths are chasing her because she's starting to realize
this fame is taking away who i want to be as an individual can i find the balance maybe not
and again katie she's looking out for barry too so there's so much stuff being laid on the line i'm
loving the pacing i'm loving the storytelling i'm loving the character developments and also diving
deeper into the psyche of these characters who want to be actors and want to play the
best versions of themselves but their troops are starting to come up so love this episode i really
can't wait to see what's coming next but i want to know more importantly what are your blackheads
what are your barrymores thinking out there let me know your pros your cons your thoughts your
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