durdencommatyler wrote:Lester Nygaard might be the most disgusting, heartless, awful and immoral character I've ever seen on TV. Jesus. That fucker just turns my stomach. Unreal.
Yet at the beginning you almost felt sorry for him. You understood and applauded his passive, then active vengeance.
Quite the character arc for Lester. From empathy deserving/hiding in the shadows to hate deserving/selfish lowlife vile pussy.
The characters in this show are brilliant. All of them.
Billy Bob's sociopath
The women deputy
The Bemidji chief of police
Colin hanks timid midwestern
The grocery store dude
I think so, yes. It has some dumb moments. But overall it's got great, I mean GREAT performances. The writing is solid. The direction and the tone are wonderful. They've managed to capture what was fun about the movie and make it their own thing.
I had a real problem with the female characters at the start. Too much "women are just nagging bitches" in the writing. But it grew out of the that fairly quickly.
Not a perfect show, but a lot of fun in your a fan of the film and definitely worth checking out.
Also, some of the most violent and fucked up scenes I've seen on any TV show. Some of these people to terrible and disturbing things.
The post was also made three days after the show initially aired. While I always think it's best to spoiler tag big events, I don't think anyone did anything wrong. These are living threads. Once something airs, I'm not sure it can be called a spoiler. At that point it's really just about how cautious one wants to be.
Specifically Malvo's death - I was ok with Gus killing him, but just sitting down wounded? I get it with all of the predator/prey stuff, but I just wanted more. Lester should have suffered, but I was ok with his outcome. Molly should be involved a lot more with both of their demises.
Specifically Malvo's death - I was ok with Gus killing him, but just sitting down wounded? I get it with all of the predator/prey stuff, but I just wanted more. Lester should have suffered, but I was ok with his outcome. Molly should be involved a lot more with both of their demises.
Agreed.
I thought the finale was a little disappointing.
However, not sure what we were expecting - Just as in the original film, the local heroes were everyday family folk, of high quality and character, and they were up against some pretty vile criminals. Good defeats bad (all kinds of bad), and somehow it doesn't disrupt the family. It may affect their opinion of the world, but there inner strength is too durable to let it change who they are.
I thoroughly enjoyed the entire series. The acting performances and character development especially were superb.
