History Headscratchers / Barry

** I didn't think it was feeling guilty so much as it was a terrifying, traumatic moment, and she would feel that trauma for the rest of her life. But WAS it self-defense? Stabbing a guy who's choking you is definitely self-defense. Knocking him out while he's trying to recover his also self-defense. Smashing his head in with a bat after you've knocked him out, that is absolutely murder and not self-defense.

** I didn't think it was feeling guilty so much as it was a terrifying, traumatic moment, and she would feel that trauma for the rest of her life. But WAS its self-defense? Stabbing a guy who's choking you is definitely self-defense. Knocking him out while he's trying to recover his also self-defense. Smashing his head in with a bat after you've knocked him out, that is absolutely murder and not self-defense.

* Sally wanted Barry to turn himself in. Why doesn't her testimony exonerate Cousineau of Janice's murder? After failing to turn herself in, was her new plan for Barry to turn himself in and for her to remain a fugitive?

* Why does Sally feel so much guilt for and keep hallucinating the biker that she killed? Obviously she's not as used to killing as Barry is, but that kill was totally self-defense. And given that he used the same choking tactics that Sam used, one would think she would get some catharsis out of killing him.

** Michael Richards' career ''was'' destroyed by his outburst, though it was already floundering at the time. Mel Gibson's career also took a massive hit. He ''was'' virtually unhirable for years in spite of having been one of Hollywood's biggest stars, and even his comebacks have been a small fraction of his former star power. So even famous people can be more or less tanked by one viral video. Sally was a virtual nobody who'd only done one show that critics loved but no one saw. Almost everyone knows her ''only'' because of her viral video.

** It's a lot different when you're already a big name vs. when the outburst is the only thing you're known for to most folks. If Joplin hadn't been immediately canceled she might have had a chance.

* Would Sally's outburst at Natalie really have been as career-ending as implied? Plenty of celebrities have had viral clips of them angrily yelling (to name a few: Tom Cruise, Alec Baldwin, Michael Richards, and Mel Gibson) and they aren't considered unhirable afterwards.

** It's a lot difference when you're already a big name vs. when the outburst is the only thing you're known for to most folks. If Joplin hadn't been immediately canceled she might have had a chance.

* Would Sally's outburst at Natalie really have been as career-ending as implied? Plenty of celebrities have had viral clips of them angrily yelling (to name a few: Tom Cruise, Alec Baldwin, Michael Richards, and Mel Gibson) and they aren't considered unhirable afterwards.

* One wonders whether Sally ever notices the grievous and fresh stab wound on her lover Barry's back.