Barry, Ending Explained: Each Character’s Final Legacy

Who was the ppl trying to kill Sally?

The last great show of the Golgen era!!! Truly deserves more praise and recognition... Thanx, Girls!!!

I just finished this amazing series yesterday night , still a bit confused but NOT disappointed , last 2 seasons had me on the edge of my seat !!

It seems to me that, in the end, Sally and Barry were the ones who fared the best. Even though Barry ended up dead.

Barry gets to die redeemed. After so long in denial, he finally agrees to go to prison and accept his sins. However, he doesn't get to go because Gene murders him. He dies trying to do good and that is enough. And if you think about it, maybe that's the best thing that could have happened to him. Because he's so manipulable, it's very likely that someone would have used him again later and put him back on the road to crime. In the end he ended up repenting and leaving a good life for his son.

On the other hand, as much as many people hate Sally, I just can't. She's a character who, while she was nefarious most of the time, she had a very sad past (as did Barry), and was someone who really tried to do things differently. He was swimming against the tide in such a fake industry. And I think anyone would be annoyed that she couldn't be successful because it's not fake. I mean, she was talented, she did a great show that ended up being critically praised, but it was cancelled simply because of an algorithm. That's a huge offense to someone who's worked so hard. That's not to mention what she went through in past relationships and with her mother. In the end, I think she still ends up having a chance to redeem herself, and that's because, to be honest, one can simply never fit into a false and hypocritical system if one wants to remain sincere. Perhaps the best thing in the end is simply to be true to, let's say, the truth, even if that means being left out of everything. Maybe the years will pass and, at last, he will find peace.

Without a doubt, the one who did worst is Gene, but I think that's precisely one of the main goals of the show: to show how serious and destructible the ego is.

I think this analysis has left out a very important character in the series, a character that helps to better understand the essence of the series: Jim Moss.

He plays the role of pure justice, who does not allow himself to be manipulated by that false Hollywood narrative and who does seek to see that the wicked are punished for their actions, and unlike the other characters, he does not do it for revenge, but for justice.

I hope we will see more video analysis of Barry from The Take in the future.

Barry was so good

the ending was self explanitory...it's not a David Lynch show...duh

Unlistenable narration.

I miss the previous narrator, your voice is one tone..

Cousineau Shot his son with that gun. There is no way the police, his son, anyone in his family or Cousineau would ever keep that gun.

Jesus the ending has me in a mind blown spiral after the final bow tie to Barry’s death it all came together w the overarching narratives that come up in the plot and what it’s trying to say about entertainment, context that formulates vs the context that never came forward, and in a way history itself too. obsessions with truths and lies, all this stuff it’s just crazy to me. We really live in a world like entertainment but never really plays like it. Real life is crazy bahaha this show was awesome

I love how everyone became the worst version of themselves one way or another, especially people that strive for goodness.
In turn, the death I'm saddest about is Cristobal and the scene leading up to that.

There's no way John doesn't try to become a marine himself. By not being truthful and not being present, Barry ultimately only causes the cycle of abuse by authority figures and violence to continue through his son who seems doomed to a hero complex mixed with father issues.

I don’t have HBO- MAX yet but just discovered Barry on You- Tube. I clicked your video and listened all the way through. Video clips were interesting and some of your dialogue was interesting but 50 % was bs pseudo- intellectual stuff.

It was so crazy seeing Hank’s story, even more than Barry’s. I felt Barry loved Sally. I did, but I felt someone deeply profound about Hank and Cristobal, but I knew they were doomed from the start.

I think you're overestimating the positivity of Sally's ending. When her son says he loves her she asks if her play was good then proceeds to give the cheap bouquet more genuine affection she gives him. She didn't change, that praise through acting is still the most important thing to her and her confession to John never touches that central lie she tells herself, it does other things but not enough to get her to change, because she doesn't. If Fuches is the ideal of the finale to cut through the bull and contend with truth then she is just as much a failure as anyone else

Barry, the greatest assassin in the united states had the same fate than Stovka, the greatest assassin in Chechenia.

That John wick joke lol!!

This narrator was awful. Immediately backing out of this video.

Sally did not find 'peace.'

wow ....

Had to bail, sooooo burnt out on vocal fry

Wow...I agree with a lot of this analysis but it's so off track about Sally imho. This video portrays her as if she was just a good person and everything she ever done was because she was a victim or something. Yes she's been traumatized, but like Barry, she still made her own choices regardless. By the end, she's still a narcissist, craving for attention (she never said back ''me too'' to John's ''I love you''...instead asking if her show was good..that was the thing to notice here) and she doesn't say no to the date because she's content with her life and she's happy with what she has...it's because she's afraid to fall in love with another Barry and have her trauma back again. She doesn't know best by telling Barry to takes responsibility of his actions...she wants to leave him yes, but she never took responsibility either for the guy she killed (even if it was self defense). Also...her dreams have been taken away from her, but Sally ALWAYS been a self-centered and shitty person too to people around her. When she placed herself in front of (Kristen I think?) to show how SHE could deliver the lines instead of her to Sian Heder, it was for her own benefits, not to help the other actress as an acting coach.

I could give other examples, but what I love about Barry is the fact that everyone is pretty much grey and yes, even Sally. Imho, she has a semi-happy ending but Fuches has a better one because he fully accepted who he really was at the end and the fact the he served as a shield to protect John while the bullets were flying to then deliver the boy safe to Barry is something he would've never done in the past. She didn't face her inhumanity head on...Fuches actually did. Like I said earlier, Sally is still craving for attention so to me, the show showed that she didn't come to terms with who she really is : A narcissist first, then a mother.

My favorite arc on the show has to be Fuches. I love that he has so many chances to let Barry go and live a simple life, he continually tries to save/kill Barry.

We see Sally and Barry consumed by the darkness, but Fuches in the end chooses to run back into the darkness. He knows that’s where he thrives and and he can only be The Raven.

Also I think the "movie" at the end is a genius way to mock the people who glorify and sympathize with these anti-heros, like Walter White for example

wack

Barry, the entire series, is just a masterpiece of tight and economical storytelling. When I was watching the first season I had just moved to SoCal from Cleveland so the culture shock and humor were my main draws. As the series got darker, I began to realize how the thematic elements fell into place. Hader, and the other screenwriters, stuck the landing, hard.

anyone notice that no one ever took Mitch's advice?

This is a wonderful breakdown

I love the ending of the glorification of the military veteran and demonization of the teacher.

Great essay... but geez! Kill the lousy background music. I mean, seriously. Yuck.

Important. Ty.

*The Absurd Take.

Watch this show in your 30’s 😂. You’ll understand how ridiculous you sound.

Did anyone else notice "wow" is what Gene says to Barry the first time he acts?

Fuches is slept on, his character arc is so great!

I read the last shot of John smiling as acknowledgement of the ridiculousness of the fictionalized representation of his father and not as hero worship. Could be read either way, I suppose, but John surely remembers the events and Sally was honest with him finally about who his father was.

Just watched the series finale and I needed a debrief like this! Thank you!

There is no free will and the show exemplifies that.

Are we sure Hank wasn't just committing suicide?

Sally's tinge of self-centeredness is still there in the end. Rather than telling her son she loves him back, she's aks for the gratification of making sure she did good.

I spent several years in an abusive relationship, and I've always told people that the abuse literally becomes an addiction, with complete dependency on your abuser and even a craving for the "normalcy" of the cycles of abuse and love-bombing. Barry was the first show I've seen actually describe that accurately, and it was so cathartic to hear (and also darkly hilarious in the way Sally ultimately has to change her story into the Hollywood cliche).

Sally was such a perplexing character, because she was SO frustrating at times, but when you find out about her past, everything about her makes sense.

Because of her awful narcissistic mom, she's never had a loved one who REALLY knows her and really LIKES her, and so she's been constantly self-destructing with unreliable sources of validation (steady boyfriends and acting). It was great to see her gain enough self-awareness where she could find a simpler job that was less frustrating, and not be drawn into the easy escape of dating a man who would provide short-term relief, but probably not long-term gains.

She's still not perfect, but at least she's still around, and has a chance to keep on developing.

I'm seeing a lot of people saying Sally's ending was actually bad, and you guys saying it was happy, but I think the truth was probably in the middle.

She got the best she could've hoped for without going to jail. She's still working in her field. And while she can't trust men easily, and is still kind of dependent on her son for validation (a little unfairly), she's still alive, and still has a chance to change in the future. The ones who are dead can't do that. And as Fuches shows, sometimes, people CAN change.

is she content? she still cant tell john I love you...

Fuchs saving the kid is like Walter White saving Jesse in the last episode of breaking bad.

Sally never turned herself in he killed a guy what a b and hypocrite

"Fuches spares Barry..."
That's adorable.

Something i have not seen talked about at all is the shot of Hank walking John out of the massacre room, its as heroic a shot as this show gives you but Sally is blind and rattled from 3 grenades shouting for John. Fuches literally ignores her panicked pleas for her son to pass off John to Barry strapped with rifles 20 feet away. For people saying Sally got off easy or only mentioning her murder in self defense as her biggest trauma in the show, you are also pushing her into the background just like Fuches.