Bill Hader as Barry Berkman (left) and Henry Winkler as Gene Cousineau in “Barry.” Photo: Aaron Epstein/HBOBarry Berkman is a bad person leading a terrible life. A soldier traumatized by war violence, he’s returned to the U.S. and fallen into an underworld of contract killing. Berkman’s good at it—too good, which is how he becomes the Los Angeles crime world’s preferred assassin, a job he’d like to stop but keeps doing because it’s all he truly knows.

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