![]() Pure fear comes into play when Gene wakes up to the shadow of a tall man in the porch light. This was where he killed Janice, and the paranoia that he could do the same to Gene is all too real. Then again, Barry would know to look here when he didn’t find Gene at home. Both seem to understand they’re in danger and at least Gene has somewhere to hide away: his cottage at Big Bear Lake, a remote place without internet where he won’t be able to blab to the press. Using Barry’s logic, Gene and Hank both make sense as targets: the former tricked him into getting arrested and has been telling Barry’s story as his own, while the latter put a hit on Barry’s life, like, yesterday. Who will he go after first? That’s the terrifying question that keeps this episode going. For most of the run time, we’re left to panic alongside Hank and Gene - and to feel a little bit of dread every time Sally ignores a phone call. It comes down to a smart trick: Barry doesn’t appear in the episode until the final scene. It helps that while a lot is happening everywhere, a simple structure makes this work well as a suspenseful, self-contained episode. And yet … it’s hard to argue with the result when the lurching is as thrilling and devastating as this. All of that is truer than ever in “It Takes a Psycho,” an episode that lurches forward in every storyline, racing ahead to a truly wild conclusion. ![]() While Bill Hader’s proclivity for tight, ruthlessly efficient storytelling is mostly an asset on this show, sometimes his more ambitious character arcs could use a little more time to percolate. If season four of Barry has one issue so far, it’s just how much is crammed into each episode.
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