Note: The following contains spoilers for “Barry” Season 3 Episode 2.
Bill Hader’s hitman-turned-actor Barry in the HBO series “Barry” has had his share of emotional outbursts over the course of the series, but in the second episode of Season 3 he explodes at girlfriend Sally (Sarah Goldberg) in a terrifying – and very public – way. It’s the fallout from the moment, both in terms of Sally’s reaction and in how Elsie Fischer’s character attempts to report the incident, that’s almost more unsettling.
Originally, the outburst was followed by a scene of Fischer’s character seeing Sally’s text to Barry asking if he’s mad at her and if he’s okay, underlining how she’s falling back into behavior from her past of dating abusive men.