The epic series finale of Barry is aptly titled “wow.”
Just wow—all lowercase.
This echoes our thoughts while watching the final moments of Barry (Bill Hader) and the group of people he’s screwed up for life,
hough it’s also a harrowing quote from the episode as well.
There is no other word in the English language, in fact, that more perfectly encapsulates the finale of Barry better than this three letter palindrome. Wow.
I bring up the idea of a palindrome because, although we’ve seen the linear story of Barry from
the first season to this final fourth installment, the HBO series turns itself backwards in this final episode.
Barry has always been the murderer carrying out kills in this darkly comedic tale of a man trying to
turn his life around with a new creative passion
The “wow” has been reversed to throw another character under the bus.