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#the sally plots / film industry stuff is teetering on absurd but its satire which i think is different.
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the tension between the absurd and the real in barry is so good it makes me want to explode
#barry
#the way some things will be nonsense comedy and it doesnt Have to make sense. and then some things have to be real and you have to look at
#it and face it the blood is real except for when it isnt. theres something really coherent here im not grasping
#literally cant stop thinking about the ridiculous fuches subplots where he inexplicably gets brought back to life and given another perfect
#pastoral future. Like. does fate metaphysically exist in barry???? lol
#i mean it very much always comes back to the fact that its a tragicomedy/black comedy/dramedy/etc. that tension will ALWAYS exist
#either the blood is real or it isnt. but its masterfully woven into the themes of the fucking show because.... acting!
#sometimes the blood isnt real sometimes the real doesnt exist it’s LA its a fake place no one’s from.
#THE SHOW IS FIGHTING ITS OWN NATUREEE
#i dont know how to articulate this at all.
#literally a show set in the exact moment a joke becomes not funny anymore. how do they do it tonally it’s making me CRAZED
#alternatively the way barry never gets hit by bullets.
#the sally plots / film industry stuff is teetering on absurd but its satire which i think is different.
#like. satire is real..... it is
#the best tv shows are sentient. i shant elaborate
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