‘Barry’ Finale: Sarah Goldberg Talks Fate Of HBO Series’ Characters As A “Bleak But Humorous Commentary On Where We Are” As A Society & An Upcoming Role On ‘Industry’
29.05.2023 - 04:15
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SPOILER ALERT: The following story contains details from the series finale of HBO‘s Barry.
“Wow.”
Not only is this the title of the Barry series finale, written and directed by co-creator and star, Bill Hader. It’s also, naturally, the sentiment with which we, as an audience, are left.
By the end of the episode, Hader’s hitman-turned-actor is dead, even if he was about to turn himself in to the police, shot in the chest and head by his one-time acting teacher Gene Cousineau (Henry Winkler). Also dead is NoHo Hank (Anthony Carrigan), who’s shot after a stand-off with Fuches (Stephen Root).
Barry’s acting-class love Sally (Sarah Goldberg) and son John (Zachary Golinger) survive the shoutout at NoHo Hank’s offices, where they were being held captive, after Sally admits to John that both she and Barry are murderers, with Fuches disappearing into the wind. We then move forward in time and find an older John (Jaeden Martell) taking in a school play directed by his mother, who now works as a teacher in a snowy town that isn’t identified by name. After the play ends, she’s asked out by new teacher Robert but quickly rejects him and gets on her way, leaving John to go stay the night at a friend’s. And it’s there that John works up the courage to watch The Mask Collector, a film that casts Cousineau as the villain in Barry’s story, as society now believes him to be, explaining that Cousineau is serving life in prison for murder, and that his father was laid to rest in Arlington National Cemetery with full honors.
Speaking with Deadline ahead of the airing of tonight’s finale was Goldberg, who in 2019 scored her first Emmy nomination for her breakout role as Sally. Here, the actress gives her take on the fate of Barry, Sally