TV: Fargo

[Biff Pocoroba]

Happy to see Fargo was still in my dvr to record new episodes; I wouldn’t have realized a run has started. Nice to see the early positive response here so it will be Thanksgiving viewing later today or tomorrow.
I think S2 is one the best single season shows I’ve seen, over S1.

[tragabigzanda]

Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

[Biff Pocoroba]

Saw the first episode; hope the others aren’t filmed as darkly. Even adjusting the settings it was hard to see sometimes.

[Anders]

Casting does sound very good.

[The Argonaut]

Really enjoyed that first episode. I don't love when the show gets too close to the movie, and the episode did dwell on movie moments a little too long and a little too closely for my tastes. The movie is so perfectly built that anything that resembles it ends up feeling weak by comparison. Obviously, the show quickly subverts that and went to a couple cool places. But, yeah, personally I'd prefer fewer close similarities to the movie.

[daft twat]

Took me a bit to place John Hamm’s son in episode 2. Steve Harrington!

[The Argonaut]

Oh! Didn't realize episode 2 was already available. I'll look at that tomorrow, nice

[wease]

Off to a great start!

[epilogue]

This show is great. I goddamn love that it's back. This is shaping up to be the performance of Hamm's career. We'll see...

[tragabigzanda]

Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

[epilogue]

This show is great. I goddamn love that it's back. This is shaping up to be the performance of Hamm's career. We'll see...

His dialogue is killer

Totally. And his physical life, his whole presence is fantastic. Feels like he's really in his element. Love to see it.

[Monkey_Driven]

Greatly looking forward to tonight's episode.

[Ello Sailor]

This show is on fire. So hot right now. Oh ya.

[Ello Sailor]

The episode discussions on r/FargoTV are a great read. Nothing gets past those nerds.

[epilogue]

That might be the best episode of this series so far. Holy shit.

[daft twat]

Going from the vampire of Midnight Mass into this series with a sin eater has me feeling right at home.

As a Minnesotan, I do at times find the exaggerated accent grating, but they get a lot right. When Dot asks to see the pepper spray, the husband says, “The what now?’ That is regionally dead ass accurate.

[wease]

Fucking awesome episode.

[Biff Pocoroba]

I fell for it; the last few scenes built up a climax really well and then it pulled the closing credits card. Looking forward to seeing what happens next.

[tragabigzanda]

Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

[epilogue]

There's a real genius to opening the episode with Sixteen Tons. It's fucking profound on so many levels for this season. I can't really handle it. And then to end the episode with an echo of the opening lyric ("Some people say a man is made out of mud") by showing a man covered in mud is fucking next level.

Everything about this show is operating on 11. I fucking love it.