History Series / Barry

* TooDumbToLive: The bikers gunning for Barry seem to be almost suicidely ignorant of basic physics. One of them tries to block the street with his bike despite the fact that a speeding car will always win that showdown. Another one tries to hand off a machine gun to a compatriot speeding by which naturally results with inertia wrestling the gun from their hands and the biker losing control and crashing.

* UncomfortableElevatorMoment: As uncomfortable as it gets in "candy asses", and done deliberately by Sally, who stops the elevator to scream "YOU ENTITLED FUCKING CUNT!" at Natalie, after finding out that Natalie basically stole Sally's idea and has her own show.

** Sally, when the biker knocks out Barry and tries to strangle her to death. At first she resists, then fakes weakness to make him drop his guard. [[spoiler: Then she stabs him so hard in the throat that the blade pierces his eyeball, and proceeds to savagely beat him to death with a baseball bat, which horrifies even Barry when he comes around and sees it.]] Afterwards, she's so shaken by what she's done that she's a mute and traumatised shell of herself, but it was still an impressive job by an actress with zero experience of actual fighting.

* JerkassHasAPoint: Sally goes full Cousineau on the tall, blond, beautiful Kristen in her acting class, observing that Kristen is so beautiful that she doesn't feel the need to make an effort, and that's why her acting is so terrible. Upset and humiliated, Kristen gives an unexpectedly excellent line reading, and Sally tells the class that that's what they'll be doing in the class. However, the other students hate her approach and consider it abusive, and when Sally returns to the class after a break, she is stunned to see that they've all quit--'''except''' Kristen, who ruefully admits to Sally that Sally is the only teacher ever to get anything out of her. Sally becomes Kristen's mentor. [[spoiler: After the time skip we see that Kristen has gone on to become a star.]]

** Allison Jones, legendary casting director (she cast ''Series/TheOfficeUS'', ''Series/ParksAndRecreation'' and ''Series/BrooklynNineNine'', among others) plays herself in the same episode.

** In "The Audition," Sally delivers a lengthy monologue in which she veers wildly between insecurity, excitement, envy, and support.

* ArtisticLicenseReligion: The Chechen gangsters have Christian tattoos, most notably the Virgin Mary one on Hank's chest. This would make sense if they were from most regions of Russia, but Chechnya is about 99% Muslim.

The show debuted in March 2018 with a format of eight episodes that run for roughly a half hour. Its fourth and final season aired in 2023.

** In season 3, Fuches elects to [[spoiler:pose as a private eye and approach the families of Barry's victims, pointing to him as their killer and noting how the police won't catch him, all in the hopes that it will create vigilantes who'll kill Barry. As its shown, making ordinary people into murderers is not exactly a straight process. The widow and son of the hotel man are clearly nervous wrecks who have no idea what they're doing, the mother ultimately shooting her son by accident. Chris's wife Sharon lures Barry to her house for dinner where she poison's him, which is a slow and unpleasant enough of a process that she runs away, a very sick Barry managing to walk out of her house and get medical help eventually. Ryan's father is severely depressed in his grief over his child, even when having Barry at his mercy he states that he just wants to see his son again, ultimately turning his gun on himself. Taylor's sister Traci and her biker gang are the exception, being dedicated criminals already possessing firearms. In contrast, Janice Moss's father Jim is a much more suspicious of Fuches's story and skilled enough of a manipulator that it's very easy for him to trick Fuches into police custody.]]

Creator/StephenRoot plays Fuches, Barry's shady "uncle" and his handler in criminal affairs, who is none too thrilled about Barry pursuing a new career and continually drags Barry into crime against his wishes. Creator/HenryWinkler plays Gene Cousineau, the teacher of Barry's acting class and his mentor. Sarah Goldberg plays Sally Reed, a member of the class and a struggling actress who becomes Barry's love interest.

** In season 3, Fuches elects to [[spoiler:pose as a private eye and approach the families of Barry's victims, pointing to him as their killer and noting how the police won't catch him, all in the hopes that it will create vigilantes who'll kill Barry. As its shown, making ordinary people into murderers is not exactly a straight process. The widow and son of the hotel man are clearly nervous wrecks who have no idea what they're doing, the mother ultimately shooting her son by accident. Ryan's father is severely depressed in his grief over his child, even when having Barry at his mercy he states that he just wants to see his son again, ultimately turning his gun on himself. Taylor's sister Traci and her biker gang are the exception, being dedicated criminals already possessing firearms. In contrast, Janice Moss's father Jim is a much more suspicious of Fuches's story and skilled enough of a manipulator that it's very easy for him to trick Fuches into police custody.]]

* KillerFinale: [[spoiler:Barry and Noho Hank]] both die in the GrandFinalr.

** In season 3, Fuches elects to [[spoiler:pose as a private eye and approach the families of Barry's victims, pointing to him as their killer and noting how the police won't catch him, all in the hopes that it will create vigilantes who'll kill Barry. As its shown, making ordinary people into murderers is not exactly a straight process. The widow and son of the hotel man are clearly nervous wrecks who have no idea what they're doing, the mother ultimately shooting her son by accident. Ryan's father is severely depressed in his grief over his child, even when having Barry at his mercy he states that he just wants to see his son again, ultimately turning his gun on himself. Taylor's sister Traci and her biker gang are the exception, being dedicated criminals already possessing firearms. In contrast, Janet Moss's father Jim is a much more suspicious of Fuches's story and skilled enough of a manipulator that it's very easy for him to trick Fuches into police custody.]]

** In season 3, Fuches elects to [[spoiler:pose as a private eye and approach the families of Barry's victims, pointing to him as their killer and noting how the police won't catch him, all in the hopes that it will create vigilantes who'll kill Barry. As its shown, making ordinary people into murderers is not exactly a straight process. The widow and son of the hotel man are clearly nervous wrecks who have no idea what they're doing, the mother ultimately shooting her son by accident. Ryan's father is severely depressed in his grief over his child, even when having Barry at his mercy he states that he just wants to see his son again, ultimately turning his gun on himself. Taylor's sister Traci and her biker gang are the exception, being dedicated criminals already possessing firearms. In contrast, Janet's father Jim is a much more suspicious of Fuches's story and skilled enough of a manipulator that it's very easy for him to trick Fuches into police custody.]]

** In season 3, Fuches elects to [[spoiler:pose as a private eye and approach the families of Barry's victims, pointing to him as their killer and noting how the police won't catch him, all in the hopes that it will create vigilantes who'll kill Barry. As its shown, making ordinary people into murderers is not exactly a straight process. The widow and son of the hotel man are clearly nervous wrecks who have no idea what they're doing, the mother ultimately shooting her son by accident. Ryan's father is severely depressed in his grief over his child, even when having Barry at his mercy he states that he just wants to see his son again, ultimately turning his gun on himself. In contrast, Janet's father Jim is a much more suspicious of Fuches's story and skilled enough of a manipulator that it's very easy for him to trick Fuches into police custody.]]