Chapter One: Make Your Mark
- Episode aired Mar 25, 2018
- TV-MA
- 33m
A disillusioned hit man wants to start a new life after following his quarry to an acting class.A disillusioned hit man wants to start a new life after following his quarry to an acting class.A disillusioned hit man wants to start a new life after following his quarry to an acting class.
- Dead Lawyer
- (uncredited)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaThe acting class goes for drinks at Residuals, which is a real bar in Studio City. It takes its name from the residual payments that union actors receive when their work is broadcast on TV. These payments are sometimes quite small, so the bar allows actors to exchange any residual check of one dollar or less for a drink. There is a shot in the episode of several residual checks pinned up behind the bar.
- GoofsThe shadow box showing Barry's Marine Corps memorabilia has his rack of ribbons upside down, with the Purple Heart and Silver Star ribbons at the bottom and campaign ribbons at the top. No Marine (indeed, no one who ever served in uniform) would make this mistake.
- Quotes
Barry Berkman: You wanna know what I'm good at? I'm good at killing people. You know, when I got back from Afghanistan I, ah, was really depressed. You know, like I didn't leave my house for months, and, ah, this friend of my dad's, he's, uh he's like an uncle to me. He, uh, he helped me out and he gave me a purpose. He told me that, that what I was good at over there could be useful here and, uh, it's a job. You know. All right the money's good, and, uh, these people I take out, like they're they're bad people, you know, like they're pieces of shit. Um... But lately, you know, I've like, I'm not sleeping and, ah, that depressed feeling's back, you know. Like, like I know there's more to me than that. Maybe, I don't know, maybe there's not. Maybe this is all I'm good at.
- ConnectionsFeatured in The 70th Primetime Emmy Awards (2018)
- SoundtracksChange for the World
(uncredited)
Written by Charles Bradley, Menahan Street Band, Thomas Brenneck, Leon Michels, Nick Movshon, and Homer Steinweiss
Performed by Charles Bradley
(Title Theme)
At first, I thought I was in for a slow-moving show about this guy working contracts and killing people. However, it quickly turns up the volume after an incredible opening scene and shows the audience that this is a show filled with drama and intense scenes. The show does a great job of taking Barry's main job as an assassin and pairing the intense nature of it with the acting class that he takes, and it almost seems like Barry is more frightened by standing on stage as a mere scene partner than putting a bullet through a guy's brain. Not only is that brilliant storytelling, but it's a great way of getting us into the mindset of this character, which is a very twisted one. I didn't expect Bill Hader to make an impact like that out-of-the-gate, but he actually gives a great performance that captures that feeling of desire that his character is walking around with inside. It's being believable displayed to the audience without trying to forcible make the guy sympathetic. He's clearly not a great guy, but we still can't help but feel for him. The episode kinda seems like it could have easily been a one-off due to its sense of finality at the end, but that just says to me that they know how to make the show without the need for setting up a lot of stuff. At least not yet. Also, can we just accept that Henry Winkler is a national treasure? Because that's just a fact.
"Chapter One: Hit Your Mark" definitely hit the mark and shot the show off to a great start. Even though it felt like a good deal of finality was given, I can't wait to see what the writers have come up with for the next episode, which is currently queue'd up and ready to go.
- lassegalsgaard
- May 18, 2021
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Details
- Runtime33 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 16:9 HD