TV: Fargo

[Biff Pocoroba]

I saw the hangman game last week and noticed that "Sioux Falls" would fit this week. Of course "hangman" could be a symbol of crime & punishment.
I didn't see last season but I've read a couple summaries from this run that old Lou refers to an incident at Sioux Falls. That seems to be where the big finale is headed with Kansas City, the Gerhearts, the law, and Ed & Peggy.

[dimejinky99]

Hangman.. Couldn't remember the name of the game, thanks

[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.

[The Argonaut]

Yeah, I'm digging this season. The only thing that bums me out is that they had to force-start this Dodd-in-the-trunk plot.
Ted Danson had to not go into the house after he woke up outside the house, which of course he would do. Even if he gets the call that says that the police station is under siege, he would have gone into the house he is next to that was just under siege and had an innocent woman in it. Of course he would.

It could be that he did wake up and enter the house, but that Kirsten Dunst (Peggy?) had already left with Dodd in the trunk.

No, I thought the same thing at the end of last week's episode. But he said on the most recent episode something about how he wishes he had gone into the house. That still doesn't solve the allowing-the-fugitive-to-just-run-away issue, anyway.

I thought this, too, but in last night's episode, they did get to the house, just right after the butcher and peggy had left. It could be just that they were close enough, and the Butcher made it to the house faster, cutting through the woods or something.

Yeah, it was confusing for an episode, though. It still doesn't solve the problem of Ted Danson not going into the house to check on Peggy--unless the concussion is the excuse.

[The Argonaut]

but damn, that was a good episode--easily the best episode of either season.

[hlniv]

I'm good with how the Butcher got away I guess, but it did leave a little head scratch for an episode. But, you are right, Ted Danson leaving Peggy by herself is hard to swallow. That character never would have done that.

But, only a small critique in the midst of great TV. I agree that the last episode is certainly the best of either season, and I would consider it for one of the best episodes of any TV show I've ever seen. There was one in True Detective S1 (the long continuous take episode), and a handful of other series finales and penultimates come to mind, but this last Fargo episode is right up there.

[tommymtcom]

Ted Danson probably has a concussion.

[daft twat]

Eps 1-8 are genius.

What happened in ep 9 was horseshit. What a shame.

[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.

[15showsandcounting]

Eps 1-8 are genius.

What happened in ep 9 was horseshit. What a shame.

Yeah. I'm pretending it never happened.

[The Argonaut]

I don't have a problem with the deus ex machina sort of thing that happened in episode nine. They've been teasing it all season in an interesting way, and it needed a payoff. They also could have set up that shootout in a million other ways that it could have ended exactly the same way for every character, no UFOs involved.
What I did have a problem with is the sudden introduction of this 'book narrator' who only shows up when the Indian is doing things that make no sense without narration. This is a show without a narrator. In order for the things that they want to have happen on this show to happen, the Indian has to betray lots of people and do lots of things. In order for it to look like they aren't just making the Indian do whatever will result in the plot that they want to have, they need to suddenly invent a temporary narrator to theorize a bunch of bullshit about the motivations behind the random actions the Indian is taking. To me, that's just bad writing.
Enjoyable ep, though.

[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.

[dimejinky99]

https://eztv.ag/tvnews/6535/fargo-creat ... -season-3/

[EJ]

https://eztv.ag/tvnews/6535/fargo-creator-noah-hawley-talks-ufos-mortality-rates-and-season-3/

real good, yah.

[dimejinky99]

While it was an option I didn't see this latest episode panning out like that.
Not sure how I feel about it. It was a bit too obvious whereas everything up to now has been really subtle or even gently implied and sometimes leaving you wondering.


Was that Martin Freeman doing the narration?
Sounded like him.

[RussellManiac12]

Was that Martin Freeman doing the narration?
Sounded like him.

Yes. I didn't realize it at first, but about halfway through I noticed.

[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]

Guys... this was GREAT.

[Monkey_Driven]

Guys... this was GREAT.

Welcome to two months ago.

[epilogue]

Guys... this was GREAT.

Welcome to two months ago.

I know! I started watching "in real time." But then got buried with other stuff. I wasn't able to finish the series until last week. Holy shit!