tricky legacies

What happened to the character we loved? What went wrong? Why all this happens to smart funny traumatized ex-marine, who receives a gun via FedEx and fight tequando champion with his bare hands? This couldn't be real to Barry. Hader creates a mess, all went crazy serious with no bloody humor. No jokes, no laughs, nothing to watch and nobody to care about. All he does is a slow painful (for us, viewers) murder of a great and complex character with no mercy to him and to us. Like the last season of Game of Thrones, only slow-paced and without walking dead and flying from nowhere dragons.

What a waste!

Innovative. Tense. Smart. Funny.

None of these apply to this episode.

This show speeds along and hits beats and makes sure to involve you in the world. I have never been so disappointed in a show taking such a left turn and it's a real left turn... not a bad dream sequence.

There are so many obstacles that would have been great to pursue, the prison break, etc

pedalling backstory To see what happened to Hank or Fuchs- is poor storytelling and this show has never been a bad story.

Original story. Original characters. Layers of world building lost. I feel like all the air has been let out of the balloon.

Cross fingers that I'm surprised by next episode. Here's hoping.

I truly love the show that is Barry. But this... this episode.... Is not Barry.

This is some sort of 'future' episode. It shows the life of Barry after the last episode, only 8 years later. The problem is that the whole time, as the audience, you are always thinking this gonna be a mock life, a 'what if', or even a fantasy. You feel this way the entire episode because of one thing. The episode is horrible. It is literally about him becoming a terrible father and no spoilers, but if you think there will be a story, a resolution, absolutely anything interesting. You will be mistaken.

I'm serious when I say this is a waste of time. Because even the color code, the slow dialogue, the emptiness.... It is what this episode is. Just a waste.

2/10.

I get the direction they've decided to go for the show and for the most part I understand it and have been OK with it. This episode though was just too hard to watch. I felt so bad for the poor kid, especially all the hypocrisy and the fact that he has no idea about who and what his parents really are. The scene in the bathroom between Sally and the creepy guy at work almost made me turn it off. I guess I'll watch until the end of the series since I think it only has like 2 of 3 episodes left but I kind of wish there was more comedic relief like in the first couple seasons. It's just gotten so intense and dark that it's becoming too much.

I love this show...

But it's it just me or was this episode just weird?

It's the end of the series, wrapping up loose ends would be the typical, but this was just so disjointed. It was literally so all over the place.

Guess that's to be expected when you try to pack in approximately 8 years in 35 minutes. The whole episode felt rushed and short sighted.

I mean, if you had that kind of focus and attention drawn to you in A country, why wouldn't you first and foremost just leave and go to another country?