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Melanie McFarland

"Barry" gets funnier as it goes darker

Bill Hader as Barry Berkman in "Barry" on HBO Merrick Morton/HBO

Bill Hader may be the objective center of "Barry," but the character that best personifies the show's blackhearted absurdity is Anthony Carrigan's Chechen mob boss NoHo Hank.

Hank may be the happiest, go-luckiest leader of killers in all of TV and film because he doesn't get his hands dirty. He's also fundamentally useless when the bullets start flying, as they did in last season's finale when an out-of-his-mind Barry stormed his new compound and wiped out nearly all of Hank's men along with the Bolivian gangsters with whom he recently formed an alliance.

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