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The 10s were the decade Disney studio executives hounded Pixar Animation with demands for sequels to their most lucrative properties. But that didn’t stop these independent minded artists from fighting to maintain the spirit of the company’s intent, delivering well-thought, patiently crafted original films. While Disney was getting their Incredibles 2, Cars 2 & 3, Toy Story 3 & 4, Finding Dory, and Monsters University , trailblazers like Pete Docter were focused on turning animation Inside Out , literally. Inside Out is an unconventional, kid-friendly animation dealing with childhood depression. As we know from works like Up, Coco, and WALL-E , Pixar is never unwilling to strike sensitive nerves in viewers of all ages. Whether making us cry over lost memories, or pondering the existential, Pixar is the one mainstream animation company that goes there, all the way, holding nothing back while maintaining a PG-rating. Inside Out may seem like a gentler episode of Black ...

Barry Berkman (Bill Hader) is a skilled marksman, an in demand hitman managed by the dimwitted master manipulator, Monroe Fuches (Stephen Root). Barry seems to be growing restless with the criminal life, but cannot get himself out from the grip of Fuches’ lucrative underground business. On his latest job in Los Angeles, he gets assigned a hit that thrusts him into the acting school of Gene Cosineau (Henry Winkler), discovering an underlying passion he never knew he had for theatre, or at least a possible ticket out of his violent past. The question all throughout: is he in it too deep to ever get out? Will his past haunt him forever? I stumbled into Barry blindly during a screenwriting competition as I frantically searched for a show I could write a spec for. I liked the simplicity of the title and gave it a shot, knowing nothing about it. I couldn’t believe how gripped I was. Furthermore, the latitude of the show’s range between comedy and drama, fantastical and practical, w...