Barry to End with Fourth Season on HBO

HBO has set an April premiere date for the fourth and final season of Barry.

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Good news and bad news has come in for fans of Barry. On the plus side, it’s been announced that the fourth season of Barry is set to premiere on HBO on April 16, making the wait for new episodes almost over. However, it’s also been revealed that the upcoming season will serve as the last, as HBO confirmed that Barry will conclude with the end of season 4. A new trailer has been released as well which you can watch below.

“After three masterful seasons of Barry, we are eager for viewers to see the powerful, complex and hilarious conclusion to Barry Berkman’s story,” reads a statement from HBO/HBO Max’s Executive VP of Comedy, Amy Gravitt. “It has been a pleasure working with this immensely talented team including Bill Hader, Alec Berg, Aida Rodgers and the entire exceptional cast and crew.”

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Series star Bill Hader adds, “It’s been an amazing journey making this show, and it’s bittersweet that the story has come to its natural conclusion.”

The news is certain to disappoint many fans, but knowing going in that the show is coming to its close allows the writers to end the Barry story in a proper way. It marks the end of the life cycle for the series that first premiered on HBO to instant success in 2018. Its second season would follow on 2019, but because of the pandemic, fans would have to wait until 2022 before they’d get to see season 3. Season 4 will premiere just under a year after the third season arrived, so at list this wait wasn’t quite as severe.

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This isn’t a case of HBO pulling the plug on Barry. Hader reveals in a new interview with Variety that four seasons felt just right for the show, as he felt like he needed just one more season after the last one to tie up all the loose ends that he wanted to. Beyond that, he didn’t really see any more story potential in going for a fifth season.

“To me, there are still so many questions with the other characters, and with Barry — and there’s so many things unsaid,” he says. “What happens in season 4 is structurally radical in some ways, but it made sense for what I think the characters needed to go through, and what I think the whole show is always kind of headed towards. You realize, well, we could pad a lot of stuff, and just make story. But if we’re going forward, it ends in season 4.”

Alec Berg and Bill Hader created the series. It stars Hader, Stephen Root, Sarah Goldberg, Glenn Fleshler, Anthony Carrigan, Sarah Burns, and Henry Winkler. The series follows Barry Berkman, a hitman who finds a new love in acting but finds that his past and profession are not so easy to escape from. In the final season of Barry, “Cousineau (Winkler) is hailed as a hero as Barry’s (Hader) arrest has shocking consequences. It’s all been leading up to this – the explosive and hilarious final chapter of Barry.”

The fourth and final season of Barry will premiere on HBO on April 16, 2023.

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