"Past = Present x Future Over Yesterday" is the third episode of the second season of the American dark comedy crime drama television series Barry.
The series follows 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, where he meets aspiring actress Sally Reed and begins to question his path in life as he deals with his criminal associates such as Monroe Fuches and NoHo Hank.
According to Nielsen Media Research, the episode was seen by an estimated 1.78 million household viewers and gained a 0.7 ratings share among adults aged 18–49.
For his performance in the episode, Anthony Carrigan received an Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series nomination at the 71st Primetime Emmy Awards.
After having a dream where he debates with Thomas Friedman (Sam Ingraffia), Hank (Anthony Carrigan) is woken up and is surprised to see Esther (Patricia Fa'assua) alive.
Cristobal (Michael Irby) allows Esther and some of her gang to move into the stash house and sends Hank and his men out to live in a storage unit.
He decides to focus on the first time he saved a life, but the events prove to be even more traumatic, as it involved his partner Albert (James Hiroyuki Liao) being gravely wounded.
Barry wants to talk about his war experience but Fuches advises him against it, warning him that his class would be against him if he details everything that happened, and the two have an emotional re-connection while an increasingly frustrated Loach looks on.
"[5] Nick Harley of Den of Geek wrote, "'Past Equals Present x Future Over Yesterday' continues Barry's soul-searching in intense fashion, cutting the heaviness with healthy doses of humor.
Barry is a tightly wound coil of suppressed emotion, never revealing the trauma he's endured in his years as a hired killer, so it often looks like Hader is underplaying it.
"[7] Anthony Carrigan submitted this episode into consideration for his Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series nomination at the 71st Primetime Emmy Awards.