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BARRY
April 22, 2018  | By David Bianculli

HBO, 10:30 p.m. ET

 

This comedy gets more comically complex every week, with increasing levels of power struggles, people adopting roles, and the two lives of Bill Hader’s Barry – hit man and struggling Los Angeles actor – finding more and more ways to intersect. Barry has showcased Hader beautifully, but the show is generous to his co-stars as well. Last week, a scene in which Barry’s acting teacher, played by Henry Winkler, meets Paula Newsome’s Detective Moss for dinner at an upscale restaurant was a delicious little chunk of television. Moss was all business, searching for information about a murder victim, but Winkler’s Gene Cousineau slipped on a seductive persona – playing the part of a confident man intent on charming Moss – and it worked. And in so doing, Winkler appeared to be having such a great time acting, and an even greater time playing an acting teacher who was acting to get through a bit of real life.

 
 
 
 
 
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