The cycling shorts-wearing, sushi-eating agent who “walks around like he’s life’s bread” is completely out of place in the M&E (as it is now known) office, which looks like it hasn’t been changed since the ’70s – computers included. ![]() The format and the humour might be on the same track, but it was all change at Michael and Eagle Lettings thanks to the arrival of Stath’s nemesis Julian (Dustin Demri-Burns) as the new boss. While Demetriou can get away with making fun out of his character’s poor grasp of English, he does back up the easy humour with genuine jokes – the kettle is held together with electrical tape because Stath smashed it in reaction to accidentally asking Alexa to play heavy metal. All four seasons of the Emmy-winning series, each one better than the next, are available to stream in full.Last night’s episode opened with the hapless Greek Cypriot doing what he does worst, showing potential tenants around a “brand banking new” flat. But transitioning back into the real world isn’t without consequences for Barry, who can spend an entire episode being hunted by a pint-size martial arts master. When a job takes him to Los Angeles, Barry stumbles upon an acting class led by Gene Cousineau (Henry Winkler, in what may be the role that finally supplants Fonzie as his most memorable), a failed but charismatic mentor. Barry Berkman (Hader) is a traumatized marine whose newfound apathy toward the world and the very act of living makes him perfectly suited to work as a gun for hire. ![]() But what might sound like a played-out trope has taken on new dimensions of humor, darkness, humanity, and plain old weirdness, with its recently concluded final season serving as a brilliant crescendo of all of that dark weirdness mixed in with a little time jump. No one seemed particularly wowed when HBO announced that Bill Hader and Alec Berg were cocreating a series in which Hader would play a hitman with a conscience who attempts to go straight.
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