Barry has become a subtle satire on the lust for fame

Slate

Bill Hader's HBO comedy is a bit too realistic for those who've been in an acting class. "Six episodes into its eight-episode first season," says Willa Paskin, "it’s become clear that Barry is a show of surprising depth and subtlety, equally adept at broad humor about Bitmoji-loving gangsters and deadpan jokes about the Gersh Agency. In particular, its depiction of the classes its titular contract killer takes feels mortifyingly familiar, a specific and ever-so-slightly exaggerated version of the real, desperate thing."