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The HBO series Barry ended on Sunday and for its first three seasons the dark comedy

sustained a delicate total balance. Bill Hader played a hitman-turned-actor

and the show's sharp take on Hollywood and the self-delusion of actors was funny, but it never

let us forget that Barry was a violent sociopath.

Barry's fourth and final season made choices so big, so surprising, and so

emotionally brutal that suddenly everything that came before it

looked almost light and frothy.

And that finale, oof, I'm Aisha Harris.

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