Barry
Chapter Two: Use It
TV Flash files “Chapter Two: Use It” as hour 2 of 32 in the TV Flash guide — Barry (2018–2023) on HBO, season 1, episode 2, aired 2018-04-01, 30 min.
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How this hour is filed
This leaf is S01E02: listed hour 2 of 32 in the Barry guide, hour 2 of 8 in season 1. It aired 2018-04-01 (30 min). The listed hour before it is “Chapter One: Make Your Mark” (S01E01). Next is “Chapter Three: Make The Unsafe Choice” (S01E03).
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
In the wake of some shocking news, Gene encourages his class to channel their feelings into their work. Meanwhile, resolved to quit his job and put the past behind him, Barry tries not to get pulled back in by Fuches and the Chechens; and Sally tries to crack the nut that is Barry.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Chapter Two: Use It sit in the Barry guide?
S01E02 is listed hour 2 of 32 — hour 2 of 8 in season 1, season 1 episode 2.
When did Barry S01E02 air?
Chapter Two: Use It aired 2018-04-01 and is listed at 30 minutes.
Comedy or crime drama?
Dark comedy until it isn't. Acting-class farce and hitman dread share the half-hour. If you need the bit to stay cute, Hader will not oblige.
In the series
Why this series still plays
A hitman enrolls in acting class and Bill Hader makes the joke get colder every season. Henry Winkler's Gene is pathetic mentorship as tragedy; NoHo Hank is the golden retriever of organized crime. Dark comedy that earns its dread, then refuses to let the bit stay cute.
HBO did not hide a hitman half-hour on a quiet Friday. **2018** put Bill Hader's Barry Berkman on the Sunday ledger as a depressed contract killer who enrolls in acting class, and the joke was already colder than the logline. Alec Berg and Hader cut class scenes with gunfights: Sarah Goldberg's Sally, Stephen Root's Fuches, Anthony Carrigan's NoHo Hank as the golden retriever of organized crime. Henry Winkler reinvented a beloved star as pathetic mentor Gene Cousineau — tragedy in a scene-study note, not a cameo…
Filed against
- Bill Hader as Barry Berkman
Bill Hader’s Barry Berkman enrolled a hitman in acting class and made the joke colder every season — Gene as pathetic mentorship, NoHo Hank as organized crime’s golden retriever, dark comedy that earns its dread then refuses to let the…
- Henry Winkler as Gene Cousineau
Henry Winkler’s Arthur Fonzarelli was the guest greaser who stole Happy Days — leather jacket, malt-shop lighting, and a 1950s memory ABC bottled on purpose. Fonzie fever, spinoff politics, and the shark entered the language. On TV Flash…
- Sarah Goldberg as Sally Reed
Sarah Goldberg's Sally Reed made Barry's acting-class joke get colder every season — Bill Hader's hitman in class, Henry Winkler's Gene as pathetic mentorship, NoHo Hank as the golden retriever of organized crime. Dark comedy that earns…
- Stephen Root as Monroe Fuches
Stephen Root’s Jimmy James bankrolled NewsRadio’s dead-air jazz — Phil Hartman’s velvet, overlapping bits, a station that would rather be weird than warm — then walked Barry’s acting-class dread as the joke got colder. 1990s workplace…
- Anthony Carrigan as NoHo Hank
Anthony Carrigan’s NoHo Hank was Barry’s golden retriever of organized crime — a hitman in acting class, Bill Hader making the joke colder every season, Henry Winkler’s Gene as pathetic mentorship. Dark comedy that earns its dread. TV…