For the second season, Winkler, Root, and Carrigan all received Emmy nominations for Outstanding Supporting Actor, while Goldberg received a nomination for Best Supporting Actress. The series has received various accolades, including 30 Primetime Emmy Award nominations Hader won Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series twice, while Winkler won Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series for his performance in the first season.
In May 2022, the series was renewed for an eight-episode fourth season.īarry has received critical acclaim, with most praise going to its directing, writing, originality, humor, characters, and performances (particularly Hader's). In April 2019, HBO renewed the series for a third season, which premiered on April 24, 2022. The second season premiered on March 31, 2019. Hader stars as Barry Berkman, a hitman from Cleveland who travels to Los Angeles to kill someone but finds himself joining an acting class taught by Gene Cousineau ( Henry Winkler), where he meets aspiring actress Sally Reed ( Sarah Goldberg) and begins to question his path in life as he deals with his criminal associates such as Monroe Fuches ( Stephen Root) and NoHo Hank ( Anthony Carrigan). Barry is an American black comedy crime drama television series created by Alec Berg and Bill Hader that premiered on HBO on March 25, 2018.
