Barry and Killing Eve are two examples of shows that succeed because of their flaws

The Hollywood Reporter

"Barry, on HBO, and Killing Eve, on BBC America, are perfect iterations of the imperfect aesthetic of wabi-sabi, the Japanese concept of finding beauty in something that is flawed," says Tim Goodman. "They are series that shouldn't work — in fact, often don't work until they inconceivably and almost without explanation do. They are series so out of whack with what their intentions seem to be that they then find some kind of incomparable rhythm of their own. And in that ill-advised misstep, a sense of beauty arrives, definitively. Call it a weird kind of perfection, with flaws — which is basically the whole concept of wabi-sabi." ALSO: Anthony Carrigan has become Barry's scene-stealer.