the wizard

I love this show, but the second half of season 4 has fallen off course, pretty badly. Why did Hader let it turn it into some surreal, weird, metaphorical mess? It has totally lost its identity and it makes it even worse since it's the final few episodes. It's like the writers said, "whoops, we forgot all this psychological stuff for the characters in the last 3 seasons, better try to cram it all in there, quick!" The show has always had a good blend of the unexpected and unbelievable with the realistic and relatable, but this last half of the LAST season has taken a strange turn that nobody wanted. And the ending to this episode....oof. Hopefully the writers turn it around and come up with a satisfying final two episodes because it has been a great series. Shout out to NoHo Hank for carrying this season.

This episode starts pretty slowly, and by slow I mean by Barry's standards of insanity happening on the screen. But the second half is pretty crazy and brings back the Barry craziness we've seen in the previous seasons.

And just because something crazy isn't happening every second, doesn't mean it's bad or it lacked entertainment. Barry listening to pastor podcasts to find a loophole in the religion to justify what he's about to do is really funny and one of the funniest parts of the season. When he goes to buy a gun and then turns back and there are just a bunch of giant bear dolls and kids' toys, it's just so genius and funny and shows that the creators really do think of everything and know how to pack so much in just 30 minutes and do visual storytelling and social commentary without overtly telling you or shoving it in your face.

As much as it's a relatively calmer and quieter episode, the last scene with Sally is just insane and shocking and the ending of the episode is a hell of a cliffhanger for the show. And that Sally scene once again shows how good of production team and the practical effects this show has and how real they make these scenes look. So kudos to the people behind all the practical effects of this show as a whole.

The story of this "8 Years Later" has been going decently so far and it's good to see other characters and what they've been doing these past couple of years, and they start a plotline for them now and it's interesting to see what it's gonna lead to in the next two final episodes.

Though this season has been great so far, I think now it's safe to say that season 3 of Barry was the best season of the show and I don't think this season is gonna beat it. I think I gave 5 episodes of season 3 a 10/10 and that season had banger after banger and the season was on a roll after episode 5 and it was just an amazing season of TV. But so far, I think only two episodes of this season have been deserving of a 10/10, and only if we're being really generous.

Not to say this season has been bad or anything, it's been great and most episodes have been a 9/10 so far. But I think they spoiled us with crazier and crazier episodes in season 3 back to back and topping the insanity of the previous episode, that kinda made you wonder how season 4 was going to top it, and so far, I feel like season 4 hasn't been as consistent and insane as season 3.

Anyway, this episode was pretty good and it's interesting to see where they're gonna go with the second plotline they established in this episode. The cliffhanger is great and something I didn't think would happen, but probably a lot of us wanted to see it in the last season's finale. But the fact that this cliffhanger happens in this episode and not the penultimate tells me that something extraordinarily goofy is gonna happen as usual to help Barry get out of the situation again. Unless the finale of the show isn't what we think it could be and they surprise us with another Barryless episode as a finale or something like the previous episode. Nonetheless, excited to see how they're gonna wrap up the story.

He's gone. Obviously this season should've been named Hanky or No Barry included. I guess Hader made a bet, that he could destroy perfect show and he eager to win. Humor gone, action gone, what we've got instead? Drunk Sally, Merlyn bearded Cusino with no reason to be here, veeeeery serious NoHoHank and painted Fuches as Raven. Great setup for tremendous failure. They all should've got together and drove into Barry's house.

And what was the purpose of eight years time jump? What have changed? Just saying I don't know what else they gonna do in the last episodes, but I'm happy it finally be over soon.

I had to shut off this episode and take a break from the series. Hopefully I'll make it back to finish the series, but it's just very hard to watch. Everything after the time jump is so uninteresting. Over the top and cliche, it's essentially a very generic story featuring exaggerated versions of the previous characters. On top of that, it's really hard to listen to the nauseating religious BS, and there's far too much of it. I get that they want to show he's a changed man, but there's just far too much time with podcasters and preachers droning on about religious nonsense. I'll probably finish the series eventually, but I really just wish they had ended the series after the prison.

Last episode was so boring I decided to just keep pressing my fast forward button untill something happend but as you know nothing happens in that episode untill the end. I was not confused or miss anything in this episode because I decided to just not watch the last boring 2 hour long or whatever length it was episode.

I actually do not understand what the point of the last episode was its like people just want a buildup even if the buildup is staring at dry paint for 50 minutes they call it "art" a "masterpiece" what is going on with people.

This was a really good NORMAL barry episode just like the rest of the episodes. I just really hope it was a one time thing and people stop giving actual nonsense high rating.