If “ronny/lily” doesn’t get every Emmy it’s sure to be nominated for, I’ll be extremely surprised.
This show keeps going from strength to strength. Before the second season began I heard Hader saying it’s very dark, and that can mean a variety of things…so I was wondering if I’d still love it. Definitely still do.
Absolutely brilliant show.
That was one of the funniest things I’ve seen a long time.
I kept wondering why Ronny looked so familiar. The actor (Daniel Bernhardt) is probably best known as Agent Johnson (hmm, upgrades) from The Matrix Reloaded.
This is one of only two shows that I watch weekly. I enjoy it so much that I have accidentally invented reverse binging, or maybe anti-binging, to enhance my enjoyment.
When I sat down to watch the second episode of this season, the little potted summary of the previous episode made me realise that my memory of it was fairly vague. So I watched episode 1 before watching episode 2. And I have followed this practice every week since. The re-watch gives a whole different perspective partly from having seen Inside The Episode the week before. If I had my way it would be the law that every TV show have a segment, just as brief and informative, after the credits.
I couldn’t imagine going back to “normal” watching, it would stunt my watching pleasure.
I saw that immediately after The Long Night episode of Game of Thrones and it was weirdly a release from the tension while also being tense in a different way.
Wow, that feral mongoose Lily is one crazy bad ass kid!
I really like Sally, but I don’t think she’s shallow, exactly. A little self absorbed, but very sweet. She reminds me a lot of a former girlfriend, so I guess I have a soft spot for the character.
But for pure laughs on this show, it’s NoHo Hank.
Laughable—and lucky. (In the season two finale.)
I have no idea how accurate Anthony Carrigan’s Chechen accent is, but I do always “hear” the name of the show in his voice—BAH-ree!
Yeah, a good example was that fantastic monologue in the season finale during which she wondered aloud “am I the voice of a movement?”
I think she might be just a bit better than that, as we’ve seen demonstrated in the past couple episodes. This was an interesting conclusion to her profile in Vanity Fair:
:smack:
My wife and I started watching this show a few weeks ago and we just watched “Ronny/Lily” last night, which was in my opinion one of the ten or twenty greatest episodes of television ever created. I was crying with laughter.
I just love this show. I’ve never seen anything like it. It’s funny but serious, ridiculous but dark. The main character is sympathetic and objectively evil. Bill Hader, a comedian, is the straight man and delivers a performance I never in ten billion years would have thought him capable of. Henry Winkler is a scream. Stephen Root and Sarah Goldberg are just perfect. Good Lord, what a show.
I saw that episode of Barry, ronny/lily, when it first aired on April 28, immediately after the third episode of the final season of Game of Thrones. That was a particularly tense episode of Game of Thrones, so watching Barry was great as a kind of tension reliever. (It was tense in its own way, but also very weird and hilarious.)
I should add that I do a near-perfect Hank impression and can crack my wife up saying “Baaaaarry?” God, what a show. Anthony Carrigan is a scream. He must think he’s died and gone to actor heaven playing that role.
The scenes with the actors are wonderful, too; it’s both absurd and yet realistic. (My wife, with no dramatic training at all, struggles to believe the shit they do is realistic. I keep assuring her it is.) I find it endlessly impressive how the real life actors, playing fake actors, can shift from appearing shitty to being amazing - Sarah Goldberg is particularly adept at this.
Something I noticed early on is that Bill Hader clearly had a very good instructor teach him how to handle weapons. He looks like a professional soldier.
Ooooh, top 20? I’m not sure. It certainly would make that list for the last decade.
Top 50 of all time? Maybe.
It was certainly great and will probably be the best episode of TV I saw this year.
Yes, the cast deserves enormous credit for this hard-to-pull-off achievement. It’s sort of like a skilled singer trying to sound tone-deaf—very easy to overdo the effort, or otherwise be unconvincing.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Carrigan was cast in the upcoming Bill & Ted film, which will star Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter as older versions of their characters from the earlier films. If you remember, William Sadler played Death in the second film, so the article speculates that Carrigan might be playing Death Jr here.
I don’t get that at all. Of all the characters in the world these people have had close contact with, it’s bad actors. They’ve probably had bad actor roomates, coworkers or friends their entire career. I get the juxtaposition you guys are seeing but playing a bad actor is probably a million times easier than playing someone with autism or something.
Eta: they are doing a good job though! I love the show. I just don’t think playing a bad actor is a particularly incredible feat.
Just finished bingeing this in like two days, amazing show. One question though, how did the chechen pin get on the crime scene?
Barry tossed it in there when he got to the scene. (He’d been given it as a mark of honor, earlier, by Hank, as I recall.)
Then why was he so worried?