With Sally's visit home, Barry season 4 nails a key aspect of abuse. BarryHBO
Season 4 is interested in origins. It not only gives us a surreal flashback to Barry as a child meeting Fuches for the first time, but it also follows Sally along as she heads back to her hometown. We’ve heard a lot about Sally’s old life back in Joplin—we know she had an abusive husband named Sam, who we met for a few episodes back in Season 2—but we never actually got to see any of it.
The second red flag is when Sally shows her parents the first episode of her TV show. Not only does her mom not show any excitement over the show or offer any sort of congratulations to Sally for her accomplishment, but she immediately gets on Sally’s case for mentioning her ex-husband by his first name. “I can’t believe you used his name,” she says, as if Sally has committed some vile, unpardonable act. “Now I’m going to have to call the family and let them know all about this.
If you were to look at this scene without any context, unaware of the sheer extent of how cruel her mother’s words are, Sally might come across as a straightforwardly hysterical person here, and her mom looks like a respectable person doing her best. It’s so easy to see how someone can look at this and think Sally’s the one being abusive, even though her mom is the one who’s coldly, methodically pushing on every single pressure point she knows her daughter has.
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