Bad news for Barry fans – Bill Hader is wrapping the series up with Season 4. The final batch of eight episodes will launch next month.
Barry, co-created by Alec Berg and Hader follows the titular hitman who comes to Los Angeles on assignment but ends up looking to follow a different path when he finds a community in an acting class led by Gene Cousineau (Henry Winkler). But his criminal past never entirely goes away.
Across three seasons, the show has won plaudits for its blend of comedy and drama and some audacious direction, some also by Hader.
Talking to Variety, Hader outline why he and Berg thought it was time to end the show. "It was very much in the writing and the storytelling. I mean, a lot of people after last season were like, 'Why are you doing another season? It should have just ended,'" he says. "But to me, there are still so many questions with the other characters, and with Barry — and there’s so many things unsaid. 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." For more from Hader, head to Variety's site.
Barry's fourth season kicks off on HBO in the US on 16 April, and should be on Sky Comedy around the same time.