way to go, banana-heels!

Barry Berkman + Monroe Fuches in Barry (2018-2023)

BARRY SEASON 4· episode titles

Barry 4.07 “a nice meal”

just wanna leave all responsibilities behind and eat fresh fruits and pastries by the ocean and feel the sun on my skin right now

The way Sally sort of got a happy ending on the surface but is clearly very much Not Well

The way John exists as an emotional support for his mother and might never truly unpack any of his trauma because he's living in denial of what his father did and possibly what his mother did as well

The way Gene got his revenge on Barry but because of that spent the rest of his life in prison and with his reputation forever destroyed and nobody to worship him

The way Fuches accepted his own heartlessness and because he's a cockroach will probably die at age 102, but will live out every single one of those years completely devoid of love

The way Hank only ever wanted to be safe but his story ended with him dead and holding the hand of the love of his life whose death Hank helped bring about

The way Barry was finally going to turn himself in and maybe take his first steps toward redemption but then he fucking died

Bonus: the way Jim Moss's greatest desire was justice for his daughter and ended up getting it completely wrong, and he'll never know the real truth

out of all the outcomes i imagined sally to have, her canon ending is 100% the best option and definitely a win, but i also like how it was bittersweet and a realistic show of how people live with their trauma.

because she’s gene. but an even more tragic version because instead of teaching up-and-coming actors in sunny hollywood, she’s teaching a bunch of impressionable kids in snowy suburbia. but she's also not like gene, who was willing to take a gun and shoot it with purpose towards his sons. she stays off the stage, in the darkness, just like her son who watches and tells her she did a good job.

she gets her “flowers” and it’s a single bouquet that will never be anything more, but it's given to her by the kids who obviously are grateful for her guidance.

she can’t date anymore because every man she’s ever dated has scarred and brutalized her in more ways than one, but she can firmly say "no" and reject any advances without fearing any harsh retaliation.

all she has is her son from a man who murdered so many. she told her son the truth once but continues to live in a lie where his father is honored as a hero. she doesn’t want her son to see the movie about their past lives even though it’s based off the lie she keeps on pretending is real. but even if she's driving in the dark to an empty home, there are glimmers of light that shine across her face, and that alone is enough to make her smile.

BARRY

4x08 - “Wow”

BARRY 4x08 — wow

Hank's passivity (inability to acknowledge his part in Cristobal's death because he didnt literally pull the trigger) being the thing that kills him while Sally's passivity (running from her abusive husbands in the middle of the night) saves her

Hank wanting to be safe and dying 8 years too late in the cold metal arms that represent the man he loved vs Sally wanting to be safe and rejecting a man with full confidence and a successful career

Sally admitting her flaws and being redeemed vs Hank's refusal and death

Hank understanding Sally and Barry and telling her he wishes her the best and meaning it, but still saying "it's not for me to decide" when the time comes

Sally apologizing to her son in her last moments and Hank lying and laying in front of his monument to his biggest regret in his

Barry 4.08 “wow”

barry got away with all of it buried with full honours martyred forever because that is what america has always done it has honoured its murderers it has raised them and dropped them onto foreign soil it has fed them with weaponry it has blinded them to the guts on the floor it has loved them and painted their image on its walls and its screens in brilliant dolbyvision. every square inch of this world is a shrine to violence

BARRY - 4.08 - wow

absolutely love it when people are like why do you like this fictional character so much look at all their bad qualities. my brothersister in christ their bad qualities are why i like them

"what do you see in them" only the very worst. i hope this helps

the fact that i’m not on a balcony in italy watching the sun set eating fresh fruit with my lover is offensive

me being strangled by someone who rightfully wants me dead: lmaooo i can't believe how bad u wanna fuck me