"yikes" is the first episode of the fourth 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 0.274 million household viewers and gained a 0.05 ratings share among adults aged 18–49.
He calls Gene (Henry Winkler), asking him if he collaborated with Jim Moss (Robert Ray Wisdom) in his capture.
District Attorney Buckner (Charles Parnell) tells Gene that he will be the key witness in Barry's trial.
As her flight lands in Joplin, Missouri, Sally (Sarah Goldberg) is contacted by Lindsay (Jessy Hodges) about Barry's arrest and that he was with her when he killed Moss.
Hank (Anthony Carrigan) and Cristobal (Michael Irby) are in a temporary remote house in Santa Fe, New Mexico and are considering retiring from their criminal lives.
After learning sand is imported at high prices for construction, Cristobal suggests using his criminal contacts to make money.
After being beaten, Barry recalls a childhood memory where he was running in a field and hears his father's voice before regaining consciousness on the floor.
That night, Gene calls a Vanity Fair reporter named Lon O'Neil (Patrick Fischler), intending to reveal how he caught Barry.
"[2] Hader explained that Barry's state throughout the episode involved confusion, as the character fails to understand what he did wrong.
He explained that Barry abandoning every potential good thing about him as "just because you're hyper-aware of your issues doesn't mean they go away; you still have to manage them.
Barry's current predicament ties directly back to his murder of Janice Moss, which happened because he became Gene’s student.
And many of the other mistakes he's made — from a criminal standpoint, if not a human one — have come from the way that acting classes forced him to confront all the damage that violence has done to himself and others.
"[9] Ben Rosenstock of Vulture gave the episode a perfect 5 star rating out of 5 and wrote, "And yet we see a new side of Barry Berkman in this premiere, barely recognizable in his almost-feral state of disbelief and, later, utter self-hatred.
Barry begins its fourth and final season with a two-episode premiere, exploring the darkest possible version of what fame can bring.