巴瑞第二季

我想大概是那种真实感太强烈。那种幽默中透着诡异的感觉，反而突出了这种真实感，而巴瑞的人设注定是一个走向黑暗的结局，那些幽默点变成了戏剧性的悲凉。

想夸这剧的优点在于人物角色的塑造，barry,sally gene, fuches, noho，基本上笑点集中在noho身上，因为他真的好可爱。

barry在对待父亲角色上很难抗拒，这点在退役后被fuches带着杀人和接受gene指导演戏变成倾诉心事都能体现，另外他擅长杀人不代表他缺少人性，因为杀人技能被认可从而被集体接纳这恰恰说明他的人性，反社会人格并不在乎被接纳。

I'm sorry, can we stop for a second? I just, I feel like I need to say something, Barry.

[Barry: okay.]

This piece that I'm doing for class, is exactly what I should be doing.

[Barry: yeah I know it's great, what you're doing is…]

I'm terrified, okay? Because my piece is real. It's not a character, it's me. Raw, unapologetic truth with a capital T. All caps, actually, I'm thinking like a writer now.

I mean this was stuff I couldn't even talk about without lying, and here I am about just stripped naked in front of a bunch of strangers and share something I am massively ashamed of. Not literally, I don't believe in nudity, unless it drives the story forward.

I am afraid they're gonna judge me and I'm afraid that Sam is gonna find out and do something crazy, but I have to do this. It's my story to tell. But then so many other women have the same story. What, am I the spokesperson for them now? Could I be the face of the movement? I mean, what if I get it wrong? I resent the fact that Nick can get up there and talk about his stomach condition and it's not like he has to be the poster boy for bulimia but I get up there whatever I say it's like… "what are we saying about women?" … I mean, this is just MY STORY. "But what if you get it wrong, Sally?" "I don't know, you can't get it wrong Sally." "But you cannot tell either Sally, because it's who you are." Which makes the thing that my agent sent me on today so fucking insulting. 'Payback Ladies'? It's just another shit male idea of what strong women are. Oh oh ohh grab a gun and in some stilettos and it's gonna god damn blowout, and look how strong you are now! Sally! It's bullshit! Which by the way so is this, this is quite possibly the worst thing I've ever read, but you wanna know the worst part? You wanna know what's really driving me fucking crazy? I'm so jealous that you're reading for this, I've never had a director session for a feature, which is the same thing as a movie, P.S.. And I have been doing this for way longer, and I think you'd agree that I am way better. I… MADE YOU. And I'm actually represented by Gersh--well at least I was, I don't even know whether they rep me anymore after what I said in there today but still at least I held my ground because I am an artist, okay, an artist… and this is not fucking arts! But then, I mean, to be honest of course I am so happy for you! I mean, of course I want you to get this part and I want to be the one to help you learn your lines and fix your inflections but I need you to know that if you do get it, it's gonna make me like, like a hundred times more insane. Okay? … [Gasp.] Continue!

I'm okay with the fact that Sally doesn't really love Barry, not even a bit. She just feeds off Barry's indecisiveness and uses him as a bandage to cover her wound from both Sam and every other embodiment of "toxic musculanity" in her life; her intention for Barry is the same as what she said about Emma Stone's agent, that she wanted him to be her agent so that she could dump him when she got big. And I love the writing of Sally's character so much just because of that. She and Barry never really had a benign relationship, so what's the point of resenting her for being a bitch to him? Sally aspires for ascending. Barry takes pains in order for descending from a god-like place (which he was himself both unaware of and didn't know how to utilize) to the every-person mundaneness that Sally would give anything to leave behind.

Bill Hader is an instantaneously likeable person; the creator's monster, Barry Berkman, however, is not. The real touchstone of Barry's character is his absolute lack of character despite of him having the most sensational events of life. Even his dreams are so itchingly dull and devoid of intellectual self-reflection that it makes him pitiful to watch. To me, that's what makes Barry Berkman as should-be-just-another-male-leading-role in today's show industry utterly fanscinating; once they gave him a sharp character as if he were some kind of Macbethian anti-hero, all the magic would be lost. Indeed, the Barry/Macbeth parallel was drawn in Season One, but it was done so unpretentiously that it added almost nothing to our protagonist's personality; rather, it only spoke of the similarity between his real life tragics and the theatrical tragedy. That Barry had to go through partially what Macbeth did does not readily make him a Macbeth-like character. He is more ambivalent and less archetypical than that. He is the one left-out possibility of being a murderer that hasn't been discussed and tried out exhaustively up till now in the movie industry because of its unexcitedness. Sally, uncaring and narcissistic as she is, has no reason to see through the hollowness of his personality and learn that her boyfriend has been going through some shitty, incubating tormants and plights. (Actually there is more reason for her not to see that since her ignorance is a part of the comedy.) The transcendence from absurdity to ridicule is totally sensible to me, and it's so funny the moment you realize that how unrelatable yet sympathetic Barry's character is whereas how relatable yet obnoxious Sally's character is and that they are placed in a distanced, intimate relationship, struggling to move in two opposite directions while being stuck together in one storyline.

Barry is the freaking monster, who, I'm gonna say that again, could have been a god as he used to took lives without reason, mercy or regret but he chose to descend down towards the earth. Instead of turning into a human, he was forced by his humanity to become a monster. Sally is the most of the human race, who have been dreamt of ascending up towards the sky for tens of thousands of years. But they will never make it, neither will she--their monstrous cruelty keeps them safely tied to the ground while mutilating each other as human members. How can I help but name calling Barry and Sally as two ungrateful pieces of shit? As in the end they are both about just being the same person in different positions and over different time frames, I guess the joke is on me.

Bill Hader曾在访谈节目中提到过他非常喜欢的一部剧：Snapped。通常是讲女人如何杀死自己丈夫的，他提到剧里一个片段：一个男人打了911说，那什么，我老婆射了我一枪，不过我把枪拿走了，我没事了，我们都没事了。警方说：那你们家有没有第二把枪？然后男人说：嗯，没有吧，我感觉应该没有……不对，我们有……然后电话挂断了。Bill Hader说虽然这男人被谋杀了，但他在地球的最后一刻是“comedy gold”。

看到这段访问大概能了解为什么这部剧集的幽默感往往带着诡异，而当镜头聚焦人物通常是边缘人物，这种聚焦显得犀利却又不乏悲悯。

Barry—被需要VS被接纳

Barry其实并不只是在杀手和演员两种职业之间做选择，而是在被需要和被接纳两种状态中做选择。

Barry在写自己的故事剧本时，他形容第一次杀人的感受：“有史以来第一次有了目标感，团队感。”而绝非他的演艺班同学想象的杀人后的彷徨失措。回忆中，所有战友围着他欢呼，Barry说这是他人生最棒的一天，觉得棒当然不是因为杀人，而是他这么些年来第一次感到被需要。

老江湖Fuches看到了Barry的这种技能可为他所用，开启了Barry退役的杀手生涯，Barry会接受这样的安排，需要谋生是一点，还有一点Barry并不愿意承认的是， Fuches在很长一段时间对Barry是父亲一样的存在。

遇到表演训练班的同学之后，与其说Barry被表演这个行业吸引，不如说他厌倦了这种基于被需要而存在的关系，身处这群渴望成名的无名演员中，Barry感到了被接纳。在一次深度的自我挖掘中，Barry向班主任Gene敞开心扉，聊起了他曾在战场试图救人最后演变成滥杀无辜的惨剧，Gene震惊后安慰他：你固然做了可怕的事，但这并不能完全定义你。

Barry在那一刻哭得像个孩子，之后又开心得像个孩子，急不可耐地跑去向Fuches诉说：我不用被我做过的糟糕的事所定义，我可以主宰这些事。是的，确实有那么一刻，Barry在fucked-up的人生看到了微光。

只是这种微光注定难以持久，同学们和Gene对Barry的接纳是有限的，是基于对一位从战场上退役后普通老兵的接纳，而非对于一边杀人一边演戏的双面Barry的接纳，这种有限的接纳将会在Barry真实身份曝光后荡然无存——Gene在第二季结尾已然得知Janice死亡的真相，同时Barry因为愤恨Fuches的作为而失控开启了一场屠戮，如旧日重演，只是杀伤力破坏力指数倍升级。这意味着Barry不断试图逃离，却始终被他自己困在原地。

Sally—强大VS真实

Sally这个人物在第二季里慢慢立了起来，因为她对于过去对于自己的那种纠结：到底要展现给观众强大的/幻想中的自己，还是真实的/脆弱不堪的自己。

毫无疑问她在上一段婚姻中是家暴受害者，可她潜意识里为自己感到羞愧，羞愧自己一直默默忍受，羞愧自己逃离时也没有反抗。

这种羞愧让她在之后的岁月面对这段回忆时，开始了自我保护的幻想：幻想自己反抗前夫的虐待，幻想自己主动地强硬地结束了这段关系。

她在Barry的鼓励下愿意演出故事的另一个版本，一个混乱、脆弱又真实的版本，一个没有对着前夫大吼我要离开你，而是前夫道歉后她回应我爱你的版本。在Barry的托戏下，这个版本得到同学和Gene的好评。

但当经纪人要把这一幕搬到更大的舞台，面对更多更专业的观众时，Sally再度惊慌失措，她并没有做好准备在这么多人面前自我暴露，不自觉地退回了初始状态，她改变了真实故事的走向，演出了自己从没有在前任面前说出的独立宣言，但这个宣言应该在她心里酝酿太久，未经彩排也一气呵成。

有趣的是，这种表达赢得了所有人的认可与拥戴，大概是现实生活中无能为力的时刻太多，人们才那么渴望在戏剧中看到令人振奋的反抗。

其实，Barry说得很对，Sally最终离开了前夫才是最重要的。离开这段婚姻她后能够在L.A.自力更生，并且并没有对新的亲密关系产生不适，足以说明她的复原能力。可能是希望与过去的自己彻底划清界限，她在两季尤其第二季表现出来的女性意非常强烈，比如虽然想要在演艺圈立足但拒绝与前经纪人发生工作以外的关系；比如她拒绝了著名制作人的“复仇黄片”；比如她在第七集的那段焦灼的独白。Sally始终对过去不够强大的自己耿耿于怀，可是没有被创伤击溃或被捷径诱惑，执着地想要等来一个自己真正喜欢作品的Sally，已经拥有了她所渴求的那种强大。

巴瑞在刚开始说他没有人可以说以前的事

他在化妆间对莎莉说的那些说的那些话 少有的温柔真诚 对她也是对他自己

老师是真的爱钱哈哈哈哈哈哈 也很善良

莎莉的角色我很矛盾 她真的很努力尽量不去靠别人 但偶尔我又觉得她很婊 演员演得真好啊 泳池那段很真实 bill说派那段把我笑死了哈哈哈哈哈哈哈

两位“父亲”对戏 老师说他真的很为巴瑞骄傲时 哇哦 演得好好啊两位 剧情好屌

期待第三季

第一季前几集好看在于每个角色的行为与身份的矛盾碰撞，从而塑造出对立的幽默感；另一条线通过戏剧的穿插来表现人物内心深处的情感发展。两条线并行一方面轻松幽默另一方面又不失戏剧表现的情感张力。整体都非常学院派，让人欲罢不能。

到第一季最后两集，迫于制造高潮及矛盾将剧情引向激烈的暴力冲突已经失色不少。而第二季一开始就把第一季这种通过身份和行为错位的幽默感丢掉了，变成了单纯的杀手游戏，杀手游戏又因为没有足够宏大的背景而变得寡淡无味，这部剧基本上废了。

其实应该是从第一季第六集就废了；剧情方向发展错误。如果杀车臣老大的人不是barry，而是由阴差阳错的车臣对手进行，或许后面还有的看；而为第二季留引子的杀警察则将这部剧导向了万劫不复。

第一季的精彩是源于角色的内部矛盾。杀手vs演员。无情vs有情。真诚爱（女主）vs（女主）对他的利用。大家对巴瑞的陌生到熟悉。各种演员对戏剧的诠释等等。所以有趣，剧情也在解决和平衡这些矛盾。

但是看到第一季结尾我开始担心又期待，巴瑞开始有一段稳定的感情，似乎摆脱了杀手身份，虽然被珍妮丝发现了他，但是也在清晨无人的时候解决了。巴瑞开始有心，并且全身心认真对待演戏。

以下有第二季剧透

以下有第二季剧透

以下有第二季剧透

第二季第一集开始，杀手们开始蠢蠢欲动找上巴瑞。杀手经纪人也和警察线出现交集。珍妮丝的失踪也导致演员这条线走的紧绷，巴瑞的一根筋的无情投入到演戏中，开始变得不再那么呆萌有趣。怎么延续下去～第一集没有给我答案。反而让我感受到某种要崩不崩的状态