Holy freaking shizzle.. what an episode. Who ever did the casting for this season struck straight gold. Juno Temple, John Hamm, Sam Spruell, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Richa Shukla Moorjani, Joe Keery.. they all just fit their part so perfectly. Hope we get a great finale next week.
I'm not saying production value is my favourite thing this season, but jesus the lighting, the fog and the smoke in this episode is so breathtaking
Always a pleasure to see a show so confidently fire on all cylinders.
Glad most of the naysayers are quiet now - this is a fantastic series of television and a fantastic series of Fargo. Genuinely feels like one of the best - some of these performances are outrageously good.
I think I should feel bad for Joe but I really don't, though I felt bad for the puppet versions when Dot was telling the story.
Munch being the unlikely hero of this episode wasn't exactly a surprise after the whole "hand" thing but that moment was great.
I kinda hope deputy Farr gets to do something until the end because so far he only got a bullet. :joy:
Holy cow. A violent Western (with sheriffs, ranches, horses and guns). Acceptable in the 19th century. But this is NOW. This picture of the US and its conservative heartland scares me (whether that's the slightly altered truth or pure fiction might be debatable) .
Here's the interesting aspect of this season: every single character - be it Dot, be it Roy, be it the billionaire, be it the officers, be it the agents, be it the other victims, be it the golfer pal, be it the late pirate lawyer, be it the security detail, be it Munch (who of course follows his own archaic codex), be it the rest of the Tillman family, be it the bank CEO - are conservatives (possibly also Republicans and they possibly would consider themselves to be, family man and good Christians). Some shows let conservatives fight against people representing the (woke) left. Not Fargo. That would be too easy. Too predictable. Frankly boring. They fight among themselves. They are not the monolithic block you think they are. Being "too woke" (whatever this means) has became a top complaint about contemporary shows. Nobody can accuse this show of being woke (if you don't think that the absence of home abuse already constitutes liberal values). It lacks any liberal beacon that might function as the contrasting morale high-ground. There's nothing that could be constantly rubbed into the faces of the viewers.
This episode is a great penultimate climax. However, this episode also shows the problem with this season. As far as the main story is concerned, not much happens really. Not in this episode. Not over the course of now 9 episodes. Domestic abuse. She can escape. She got caught again. She escaped. She was nearly caught again. Law enforcement prepares to storm the ranch and rescue her for good (but it's all build-up: no shootout yet). Compare this to the elaborate ruse (literally the devil's plan) to snatch the parking lot business from season 3. Don't get me wrong, it's still a great season. It has all the Fargo trademark ingredients and great actors. The important topic of domestic violence is approached in a wonderful and respectful way and I certainly prefer quieter and drawn-out scenes over too much distracting noise. That said, I still think that the main story's simplicity doesn't justify 450 minutes of television.
PS: fog machines are cool
OMG another episode of slow shots of people walking, staring, and generally doing nothing. So boring.
Oh boy, they really went all out with that US politics stuff this episode.
In an otherwise dumb unrealistic season filled with stereotypes (of stereotypes) this was the dumbest episode yet by far.
If there's one show I thought was safe from that nonsense it's Fargo, but I guess this is just what all US shows will be for a few more years.
I comment only on episodes/series that are very bad or so damn good... Well, this one is ffff good, cant wait for the last episode to come out
Oh... And if they spend 2 entire minutes on another person walking all the way from a barn... To another building... Slowly... With nothing in between... Im going to stab my eyes out with a screw driver. Life is too short to watch people walking just because someone thought it was super nifty to film that way and would add drama or seem "suspenseful" and artistic..... (it didn't. When it does, call me back.).
It feels more and more as if they just couldn't figure out what to do and are trying so hard to fill their time, but literally nothing happens... Every single episode. You think something interesting might finally happen... Or have even happened and its either the "dream" trope, or some scene that builds up with absolutely no climax and fizzles completely out.
Then there are the extremely cheesey lines they keep saying, trying to be mysterious and cool... Except everyone comes off as being a tool, including the writers... And even JON HAMM.... How the hell did they manage to make him boring and lame as a character. Everyone is so painfully 1-dimensional it's not even funny.
Literally wth happened to this season? The others are so good. This is a glorified car commercial.
it is headcanon that Munch is actually a wendigo
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I burst out laughing when YMCA started playing. All subtlety gone out of the window. I don't know how popular Fargo is among conservatives but that had to piss them off, lol