Deadline | ‘Barry’ Review
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As a cast member of Saturday Night Live, Bill Hader was one of the show’s great utility players, shape-shifting that rubbery face and malleable baritone into a crowded funhouse of oddball characters, from flamboyant club kid Stefon to an ever-exasperated Vincent Price. On Barry, HBO’s eccentric new dark comedy series launching Sunday with the first of eight half-hour episodes, Hader calls on every bit of mastery over that face of his in the service of one character, and what a character.
