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Since its first episode, Barry has balanced incredible humor, violence, and pathos with exceptional aplomb. It takes a universal quandary — the struggle between who we are and who we wish to be — and takes it to absurdist levels in Barry’s (Bill Hader) personal life. An am-dram actor who is also a contract killer could easily be a recurring sketch or even just a film idea, but the way the series smartly explores (in increasingly intricate ways) how that all connects to layers of selfhood and perception is never short of astonishing. A big reason behind that is the …