WWAW Barry Season 3

LingerLonger

Still spreading the O&A virus
The show is obviously not real in that it takes place in the mind of Barry. Likely while he is in a mental home or a max security prison. You have to watch this show like Total Recall (the first one) or The Matrix. Everything in this show takes place in the mind of Barry AFTER he has been arrested for all of his murders. He is re-imagining his life because he has already been arrested for his various crimes. So his way of passing time in jail is to write his life's story as a movie script complete with stupid movie tropes and wacky scenes and affirmation action casting and over the top fag characters.

Barry is already in jail for life sentence at the start of the show.

Remember the ending of Eastbound and Down? How it was revealed that nothing was real and you were simply watching the Kenny Powers Movie as he was writing it on his laptop. This show will end the same way. It will end with Barry being in prison and casting his life's story as a play in prison. With him as an acting coach to a bunch of prisoners.

The stuff with the crazy karate girl? The motorcycle bad guys missing every single shot? The 'fags with hearts of gold'? Is all just mocking Hollywood. Stuff like the Chechen suicide bomber is a strong hint that this stuff is not really happening. Or the bomb app on the phone. It is meant to be a insane person, Barry, romanticizing his life while in prison for a series of violent murders.
 
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The show is obviously not real in that it takes place in the mind of Barry. Likely while he is in a mental home or a max security prison. You have to watch this show like Total Recall (the first one) or The Matrix. Everything in this show takes place in the mind of Barry AFTER he has been arrested for all of his murders. He is re-imagining his life because he has already been arrested for his various crimes. So his way of passing time in jail is to write his life's story as a movie script complete with stupid movie tropes and wacky scenes and affirmation action casting and over the top fag characters.

Barry is already in jail for life sentence at the start of the show.

Remember the ending of Eastbound and Down? How it was revealed that nothing was real and you were simply watching the Kenny Powers Movie as he was writing it on his laptop. This show will end the same way. It will end with Barry being in prison and casting his life's story as a play in prison. With him as an acting coach to a bunch of prisoners.

The stuff with the crazy karate girl? The motorcycle bad guys missing every single shot? The 'fags with hearts of gold'? Is all just mocking Hollywood. Stuff like the Chechen suicide bomber is a strong hint that this stuff is not really happening. Or the bomb app on the phone. It is meant to be a insane person, Barry, romanticizing his life while in prison for a series of violent murders.
Okay well that makes it more understandable. It doesn't mean it's not shit though.
 

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Dan doesn’t have a penis. I. Do.
The show is obviously not real in that it takes place in the mind of Barry. Likely while he is in a mental home or a max security prison. You have to watch this show like Total Recall (the first one) or The Matrix. Everything in this show takes place in the mind of Barry AFTER he has been arrested for all of his murders. He is re-imagining his life because he has already been arrested for his various crimes. So his way of passing time in jail is to write his life's story as a movie script complete with stupid movie tropes and wacky scenes and affirmation action casting and over the top fag characters.

Barry is already in jail for life sentence at the start of the show.

Remember the ending of Eastbound and Down? How it was revealed that nothing was real and you were simply watching the Kenny Powers Movie as he was writing it on his laptop. This show will end the same way. It will end with Barry being in prison and casting his life's story as a play in prison. With him as an acting coach to a bunch of prisoners.

The stuff with the crazy karate girl? The motorcycle bad guys missing every single shot? The 'fags with hearts of gold'? Is all just mocking Hollywood. Stuff like the Chechen suicide bomber is a strong hint that this stuff is not really happening. Or the bomb app on the phone. It is meant to be a insane person, Barry, romanticizing his life while in prison for a series of violent murders.
I've thought more or less the same since season 2. Barry is in a psych ward dealing with intense PTSD. Gene is his therapist, helping him cope through writing/performing out his trauma etc. The "Barry as hitman" is Barry's way of discussing and dealing with the trauma brought on by killing so many combatants and civilians while deployed to Iraq.

Barry is an unreliable narrator. In last night's episode, his former war buddy turned FBI agent referred to him as "The Human Ice Machine," suggesting that he was a cold blooded killer during his deployment. Everything we have seen from Barry's POV tells a different story; he was reluctant to kill, the civilians deaths were accidental, etc.

Iraq turned Barry into The Human Ice Machine just as Vietnam turned Private Pyle into Animal Mother.

Or not. Maybe it really is a sorta kooky, surreal show about a soldier turned hitman turned actor
 
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