The chase scene was hilarious, and every time I have visited CA - especially LA, I still can't believe that is legal and always wonder how many grease spots per year are made of motorcyclists by a car that changes lanes unexpectedly

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The chase scene was hilarious, and every time I have visited CA - especially LA, I still can't believe that is legal and always wonder how many grease spots per year are made of motorcyclists by a car that changes lanes unexpectedly

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Trying to hand off that M60 and causing the guy chasing Barry to wreck was gold.

Just spent a month in LA for work and stayed at the Hilton on Canoga Ave in Woodland Hills. Watching Barry last night and he was riding that dirt bike right down Canoga toward the Hilton and the Blue Cross buildings. Even looked like all the same tents were along the sidewalks as when I was there.

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Quad Dog said:

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Vanessa Bayer comes in and knocks out a great few minutes that easily could have been an SNL sketch.

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However if it had been an SNL sketch, it would have ran for 3 more minutes until all the humor was gone.

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From the linked article

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The Wrap: And then of course Sally is meeting on a new project at Banshee. And the way that scene plays out, Vanessa Bayer is the absolute perfect person to play that scene.

Hader: Yeah. Morgan Dawn Cherry is her name.

The Wrap: How do you even write that? How does that scene get written and then how did you go about directing the actresses? Because it's incredibly funny.

Hader: Well, you write it with sound effects. And then we all got with Vanessa and I should say, that scene was cut in half, because it was very evident in the first cut that a little went a long way

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RikkiTikkaTagem said:

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PatAg said:

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Quad Dog said:

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Vanessa Bayer comes in and knocks out a great few minutes that easily could have been an SNL sketch.

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However if it had been an SNL sketch, it would have ran for 3 more minutes until all the humor was gone.

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From the linked article

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The Wrap: And then of course Sally is meeting on a new project at Banshee. And the way that scene plays out, Vanessa Bayer is the absolute perfect person to play that scene.

Hader: Yeah. Morgan Dawn Cherry is her name.

The Wrap: How do you even write that? How does that scene get written and then how did you go about directing the actresses? Because it's incredibly funny.

Hader: Well, you write it with sound effects. And then we all got with Vanessa and I should say, that scene was cut in half, because it was very evident in the first cut that a little went a long way

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Nice
I also heard Bill say they actually just dubbed her voice onto the agents voice, instead of it being them both doing a really similar "yeah!"
Genius decision

The Ringer/Fennessey interviews with Hader each week are gold. I've never heard a filmmaker go so in detail on the process, decisions, what they changed/reshot, etc. It's so good.

Brian Earl Spilner said:

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I feel like it was trying too hard to be quirky. Sadly I've felt that more and more this season.

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I definitely feel like this show tries in a lot of ways, but 'too hard to be quirky' or any offshoot of that has never crossed my mind.

NoHo Hank is a central character. This show is trying as hard as possible to be quirky. The whole thing has been insane from the beginning. But it works.

I have been critical of the show from time to time, but best episode of the series for me, and just genius in so many ways.

The Stephen Root arc was awesome. He was dead, then a changed man with that heart to heart convo with the guy,and then back to himself in 30 minutes, with the perfect "is this heaven? No it's Iowa" type scene.

The beignet exposition was genius.

The chase scene with all the gags they threw in it, like him holding the bag the whole time. Some random dude shooting it out with the bicycle guy. The rifle handoff. The postman just standing there as a dead dude was through his windshield.

And then a great ending.

The show finally found a perfect balance (for me anyway) of subtle humor and irony against the farcical craziness.

9.5 on IMDb right now, deserves it.

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Brian Earl Spilner said:

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I feel like it was trying too hard to be quirky. Sadly I've felt that more and more this season.

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I definitely feel like this show tries in a lot of ways, but 'too hard to be quirky' or any offshoot of that has never crossed my mind.

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I think, to some extent, I must just click with Hader's sense of humor to an extent that I am just blind to some of it feeling like too much to others.

I lost it at "Handoff!"

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9.5 on IMDb right now, deserves it.

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Man it's all about that Rotty T's score

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oragator said:

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9.5 on IMDb right now, deserves it.

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Man it's all about that Rotty T's score

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It's all about taste clusters. We're you not paying attention

I finally realized that the older BanShe exec is Elizabeth Perkins.

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I finally realized that the older BanShe exec is Elizabeth Perkins.

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Yep. When i was 14 and she was in Big, I wanted to touch her boobs like Tom Hanks. Now that I'm 48 and she's who knows how old, I still kind of want to touch her boobs like Tom Hanks

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The Stephen Root arc was awesome. He was dead, then a changed man with that heart to heart convo with the guy,and then back to himself in 30 minutes, with the perfect "is this heaven? No it's Iowa" type scene.

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That's twice now that he was in another location or culture, wanted to give everything up to stay in that place and then was pulled back as soon as he learned something new about Barry. I love it, it reminds me of those friends of mine who go on a vacation and just immediately start talking about wanting to move to that place. "We looked at some listings online, and it's doable." Every. Time.

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oragator said:

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The Stephen Root arc was awesome. He was dead, then a changed man with that heart to heart convo with the guy,and then back to himself in 30 minutes, with the perfect "is this heaven? No it's Iowa" type scene.

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That's twice now that he was in another location or culture, wanted to give everything up to stay in that place and then was pulled back as soon as he learned something new about Barry. I love it, it reminds me of those friends of mine who go on a vacation and just immediately start talking about wanting to move to that place. "We looked at some listings online, and it's doable." Every. Time.

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Or the fact that the other location, this time, was on the other side of a hill, lol.

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BowSowy said:

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oragator said:

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The Stephen Root arc was awesome. He was dead, then a changed man with that heart to heart convo with the guy,and then back to himself in 30 minutes, with the perfect "is this heaven? No it's Iowa" type scene.

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That's twice now that he was in another location or culture, wanted to give everything up to stay in that place and then was pulled back as soon as he learned something new about Barry. I love it, it reminds me of those friends of mine who go on a vacation and just immediately start talking about wanting to move to that place. "We looked at some listings online, and it's doable." Every. Time.

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Or the fact that the other location, this time, was on the other side of a hill, lol.

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Yep, that was a great moment. I also loved how they had the guy who found him be some mysterious guy in a cowboy hat, and even went back to that when Fuches was in bed. Then revealed that it was just some random guy.

There was a lot to love in this episode. I think my favorite was NoHo Hank with the beignet guy. They spent all of the episode with the beignet guy giving all kids of advice to the characters. When he tried to bring NoHo Hank in on the franchise, Hank just awkwardly peaced out lol

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DannyDuberstein said:

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The chase scene was hilarious, and every time I have visited CA - especially LA, I still can't believe that is legal and always wonder how many grease spots per year are made of motorcyclists by a car that changes lanes unexpectedly

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Trying to hand off that M60 and causing the guy chasing Barry to wreck was gold.

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Bill Hader describing it is perhaps even funnier. I was crying reading some of this.

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And then he does the hand-off.
(Laughs) So Anthony [Molinari], the guy who plays that character, is one of the nicest human beings on the planet. He's a stunt man. He is in "Everything Everywhere All at Once" as the guy whose head turns to glitter. And he's in "ronny/lily" as the guy at the grocery store stocking chips and then Ronny ends up headbutting him (laughs). So Wade Allen, our stunt coordinator, had him come back, and he is a beautiful human being. And it's so funny that he is playing one of the worst people on earth.
But we did a lot of different alts instead of "hand off." One time he just made a noise when he held the gun out. Or one time I think he yelled, "Here!" And then he said, "Yo hand-off." He just did it once. That's the one time he did it. We started laughing so hard. And then the other guy goes, "What?" They'd never worked this out. This is not a thing that they've worked out, ever talked about once. And it's funny, as initially written, he did hand-off the gun. And the guy was shooting with the gun on the motorcycle. Then when we were doing the previs, I saw that, and I said hey, you know what would be funnier? Is if he just fully misses it and he crashes. And that shot when he crashes is very much inspired by "Pee-wee's Big Adventure" when the Hell Angels put him on the motorcycle and Pee-wee goes off in the distance and he just runs through that sign (laughs). That was the idea, that guy crashes.
I like how the shot lingers, you're not going to cut to the crash or cut to Barry.
(Laughs) It's just like, "How dumb are you that you thought that was gonna work?" And Clay, the guy who did that stunt, he owns the bike ranch where they're at in Episode 5 where Fuches approaches them and you see them all flying all over the place. That's his facility. And he did that stunt and it was pretty amazing.
Then it goes to the used car lot, and you have the used car salesman who's so funny.
That guy's a wonderful. He was very sweet and incredibly funny.
I like how he says, "Not today."
Yeah suggesting that this might have happened before. He sees someone on a motorcycle on top of his car lot and just, "Not today, no fking way."

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The Variety article helped Albert locate Barry and basically link him to the killing of the detective. Knowing this show, his motivation for finding Barry may not be to capture/kill him, he might not even be an FBI agent

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I think we know for sure Albert did NOT know it was Barry who was the killer when he first started the case-

sunday night you can see how he says "that seems like an ex military guy" as he was putting together the pieces

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Sally Is starting to take a backseat as a supporting character and I'm not mad about it.

The FBI/former marine bud back in to town, Hank and Cristobal, and Fuchs taking down Barry are Better stories that her crap show.

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Fuchs being a morbidly obese elderly guy in his 60s...

shot in the chest by a large caliber bullet from 3 feet away.

patched up by spanish farmers and ready to rock and roll in a few days.

I caught that on Sunday. That scene was part of a reshoot, and sort of falls out of order with what he mentions in the previous episode. They discuss it in the article I posted earlier

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We danced around having that scene someplace else. The scene where he says, "There is no way that Fuches could have taken out a whole monastery, whoever did this was trained." That was always a moment that we had in one area and then we pushed and we moved it to another area. Initially it was in Episode 5 when he comes in and says, "This guy isn't the Raven." We initially had it there, and then it we kept cutting it and said, "It belongs at the top of six." And so that's what makes him go to Sharon's house. So that scene at Sharon's house, that's not the original context. The original context and the way that scene is shot is he's visiting her because it's his friend's widow.

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Brian Earl Spilner said:

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Mitch the beignet guy was hilarious too

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Not sure he warranted that much screen time

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that character was a brilliant Greek chorus to a multitude of stories in the Barryverse that are all interesting in their own way, some we probably won't get to hear about.

The noho Hank interaction with him was super great. I think I commented how Hank was way overused in the season so far, but this episode was just enough to be brilliant.

Finished season 1 last night and watched first two episodes of season 2 tonight. Soon I will catch up to this thread.

What an episode.

-The chase scene was incredible.
-Funch at the ranch with the background score every time he was there like he was a change man.
-That ending
-Mitch. We must try his beignets and get some advice. Cracked up every time the episode went back to his store.

The last few episodes has really picked up and been great with all the people looking to get vengeance on Barry.

Was anyone else expecting Hank's rescuer to be called Latino Billy Bob Thornton? The resemblance was uncanny but they never touched it.

The episode ending was definitely unexpected. I was expecting a meeting with the FBI agent. How soon will Barry catch on that Fuches is sending Barry's past after him? I really want the next episode to drop now so I can see how he gets out of this one.

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mike_ags_fan12 said:

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Sally Is starting to take a backseat as a supporting character and I'm not mad about it.

The FBI/former marine bud back in to town, Hank and Cristobal, and Fuchs taking down Barry are Better stories that her crap show.

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Fuchs being a morbidly obese elderly guy in his 60s...

shot in the chest by a large caliber bullet from 3 feet away.

patched up by spanish farmers and ready to rock and roll in a few days.

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Surviving the shot to the chest is more believable than the hot Latino daughter interested in him!

Welcome back

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LMCane said:

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mike_ags_fan12 said:

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Sally Is starting to take a backseat as a supporting character and I'm not mad about it.

The FBI/former marine bud back in to town, Hank and Cristobal, and Fuchs taking down Barry are Better stories that her crap show.

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Fuchs being a morbidly obese elderly guy in his 60s...

shot in the chest by a large caliber bullet from 3 feet away.

patched up by spanish farmers and ready to rock and roll in a few days.

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Surviving the shot to the chest is more believable than the hot Latino daughter interested in him!

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What do you people call water?

Is tonight the season finale? The other two seasons had just 8 episodes each.

Episode 7 is tonight. Season finale is next week.

No hype tweets yet? Tonight's episode gonna suck.

Brian Earl Spilner said:

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No hype tweets yet? Tonight's episode gonna suck.

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Aggie baseball, NBA finals, Barry ... gotta make some decisions tonight.