# Barry Season 4 HBO. Open spoilers
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/barry-season-4-hbo-open-spoilers/982831
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Tags:** tv-shows-scripted, hbomax-wb-dc
**Created:** [April 18, 2023, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/barry-season-4-hbo-open-spoilers/982831 "2023-04-18T01:12:50Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@DSeid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSeid)
#### Post date: [April 18, 2023, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/barry-season-4-hbo-open-spoilers/982831/1 "2023-04-18T01:12:50Z")
Following up on [last season’s thread](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/barry-season-3-hbo/965384), first two eps dropped.
I could have lived with it ending with the end of last season, but so fat so good.
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### Author:  [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)
#### Post date: [April 18, 2023, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/barry-season-4-hbo-open-spoilers/982831/2 "2023-04-18T01:44:43Z")
Something I’ve been wondering about; NoHo Hank’s name. Is it ever explained? Is NoHo a nickname? Or does it mean something in Chechen society?
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### Author:  [@SwissMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SwissMan)
#### Post date: [April 18, 2023, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/barry-season-4-hbo-open-spoilers/982831/3 "2023-04-18T03:45:36Z")
“NoHo” is supposed to be short for North Hollywood. I remember a dream sequence that Hank had in an earlier episode where he imagined himself on a panel discussion show and his name was given on the chyron as “North Hollywood Henry.”
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### Author:  [@ISiddiqui](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ISiddiqui)
#### Post date: [April 18, 2023, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/barry-season-4-hbo-open-spoilers/982831/4 "2023-04-18T13:31:14Z")
It’s interesting Barry is turning on the Chechens. I guess he thinks he has a shot with Sally after that conversation, but that’s a bad goal.
Of course, if folks storm into the prison with guns trying to kill Barry, well then you end up putting guns in the vicinity of Barry and we know he can destroy an entire gang by himself when he wants to.
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### Author:  [@DSeid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSeid)
#### Post date: [April 18, 2023, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/barry-season-4-hbo-open-spoilers/982831/5 "2023-04-18T13:56:44Z")
He is desperate to feel loved and has a hierarchy. Romantic above father figure.
Trying to kill Barry never goes well.
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### Author:  [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)
#### Post date: [April 18, 2023, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/barry-season-4-hbo-open-spoilers/982831/6 "2023-04-18T17:03:02Z")
Dang. Sally’s mother is _cold._ I’m not surprised she has so many issues.
Gene is doing himself no favors with his little one man show for the Vanity Fair writer. If his little stunt (and how I laughed when he screwed up creating his little message trail – precious few laughs in these eps) manages to get Barry off, Jim Moss will destroy Gene.
Fuches has been grooming Barry since childhood???
This show breaks my heart.
ETA: NoHo as said above is an abbreviation for North Hollywood. The Chechens lived in the Valley. I’m guessing Hank’s Chechen name is a form of Henry.
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### Author:  [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)
#### Post date: [April 24, 2023, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/barry-season-4-hbo-open-spoilers/982831/7 "2023-04-24T02:12:08Z")
I’ve only watched the first two episodes so far. My God, this show is marvelous.
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### Author:  [@ISiddiqui](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ISiddiqui)
#### Post date: [April 24, 2023, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/barry-season-4-hbo-open-spoilers/982831/8 "2023-04-24T03:07:54Z")
> [@ISiddiqui](#):
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> Of course, if folks storm into the prison with guns trying to kill Barry, well then you end up putting guns in the vicinity of Barry and we know he can destroy an entire gang by himself when he wants to.
So… yeah…
Though this time they did it for him (mostly).
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### Author:  [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)
#### Post date: [April 24, 2023, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/barry-season-4-hbo-open-spoilers/982831/9 "2023-04-24T22:53:46Z")
This the most coherent we’ve seen Barry all season…when he realizes they’ve come to kill him, and his training kicks.
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### Author:  [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)
#### Post date: [April 26, 2023, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/barry-season-4-hbo-open-spoilers/982831/10 "2023-04-26T00:03:21Z")
Barry isn’t really good at anything except killing. He’s the semi-comedic Will Munny.
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### Author:  [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)
#### Post date: [April 26, 2023, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/barry-season-4-hbo-open-spoilers/982831/11 "2023-04-26T05:10:09Z")
Ah, I had to google. I still haven’t seen _The Unforgiven._
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### Author:  [@SwissMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SwissMan)
#### Post date: [May 1, 2023, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/barry-season-4-hbo-open-spoilers/982831/12 "2023-05-01T02:46:06Z")
Well, there was a LOT going on in that episode! It looks like we may have a time jump going into next week, if that final scene is any indication.
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### Author:  [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)
#### Post date: [May 1, 2023, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/barry-season-4-hbo-open-spoilers/982831/13 "2023-05-01T02:54:31Z")
I was thinking that was a dream sequence. And there were a couple of cut-to-black scenes there, including the one in the silo.
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### Author:  [@ISiddiqui](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ISiddiqui)
#### Post date: [May 1, 2023, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/barry-season-4-hbo-open-spoilers/982831/14 "2023-05-01T03:31:30Z")
That was an incredible episode. What struck me most was NoHo Hank pleading with Cristobal not to go, because he knew what would happen. I did think Barry’s “Really” right before the last scene was pretty funny though.
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### Author:  [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)
#### Post date: [May 1, 2023, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/barry-season-4-hbo-open-spoilers/982831/15 "2023-05-01T17:54:50Z")
I liked it when the bad actress’s agent recognized Sally, but called her “Entitled Vagina Woman,” instead of the c-word version. I think Sally is finally realizing she’s never going to make it in the Industry.
I loved how we didn’t even see Barry until the very end, but his presence was felt in every scene.
Someone I know listened to a podcast where Hader and Berg were really cagey about whether they were fantasy sequences or flash forwards.
Man, Anthony Carrigan is killing it (and others) this season.
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### Author:  [@Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eyebrows_0f_Doom)
#### Post date: [May 8, 2023, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/barry-season-4-hbo-open-spoilers/982831/16 "2023-05-08T03:21:35Z")
Well tonight’s episode was the worst of the entire series and I have no idea why they decided to go this route. None of it makes any sense with what we’ve seen previously. With only 3 episodes to go this was an utter waste.
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### Author:  [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)
#### Post date: [May 9, 2023, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/barry-season-4-hbo-open-spoilers/982831/17 "2023-05-09T00:48:12Z")
Excellent sound design in the parking lot scene and on the closing credits with the low subwoofer notes creating a really ominous feeling.
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### Author:  [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)
#### Post date: [May 9, 2023, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/barry-season-4-hbo-open-spoilers/982831/18 "2023-05-09T00:52:13Z")
My wife made the observation that the show is taking itself too seriously, and I think that sums it up.
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### Author:  [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)
#### Post date: [May 9, 2023, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/barry-season-4-hbo-open-spoilers/982831/19 "2023-05-09T01:55:11Z")
> [@Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](#):
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> and I have no idea why they decided to go this route.
I’m going to trust that they’re going somewhere with this, until proven otherwise.
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### Author:  [@storyteller0910](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/storyteller0910)
#### Post date: [May 9, 2023, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/barry-season-4-hbo-open-spoilers/982831/20 "2023-05-09T02:21:58Z")
I’ve been surprised by the generally negative reactions. I liked it. Not, like, the best episode they’ve done or anything but I enjoyed the big swing.
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