We need a thread for the FARGO TV show yah? Oh, yah!

My one minor complaint so far is that Bokeem Woodbine's character is a little 'quirky but menacing assassin' by numbers.

What was the prog track playing after the scene in the typewriter shop, assuming it was riffing off the "we sound like a prog band" joke? Sounded like Tangerine Dream or somethin.

in general, the music this year (both original and period) has been excellent.
show is making me nervous in the more intense moments. the "get in the hole" bit got me weirdly anxious

loving these first three episodes so far.

I figured that but was he a known figure back as far as 79... I wouldnt know tbh.

which Vietnam War did you think he was a POW in?

I'm aware of when that was. I didnt think he'd be known to the average joe as a politician/political figure back then is all.

His father was a well known admiral and his captivity made the news. When he returned home it was fairly newsworthy and he did talk shows, etc.

http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2008/01/28/john-mccain-prisoner-of-war-a-first-person-account

I feel like Nick Offerman's jacket in this episode would probably cost at least a thousand dollars today

McCain has said that Fargo is his favorite movie, so it's possible the shoutout was inspired by that

holy shit that episode is the best piece of television I have ever seen in my life and is probably going to stay that way for a really long time

you don't have to care about my tastes in shit but as personal points of reference, that was better than all of Homeland, all of True Detective, don't know from Breaking Bad but probably better than all of that because frankly Walter White was kind of a lame character imho (same with Boardwalk Empire - why was I supposed to care about any of those people again?) Anyway getting off topic - it's also probably as good as just about any acclaimed crime thriller you care to name. I was thinking The Departed myself.

holy shit folks! it was a REALLY GOOD episode! and we're only halfway through the season!

my guts are still untying themselves

also Bruce Campbell's Reagan impression + makeup are all wrong and perfect at the same time

poor Bokeem Woodbine and Ted Danson only got like 6 lines each it seems unfair but fuck it

also:

1. what's that red soda with the kiwi fruit on the label that they have at the butcher shop? Surely this is an important regional period detail, someone must know what this is

2. what the hell kind of over-th'-shoulder-boulder-holder do they have Kirsten Dunst wearing? Maybe ridiculous amounts of jiggle is supposed to be another period detail? IT'S DISTRACTING is what I'm saying

3. Camus! I read that last year.

this show is pretty top of the pile right now, yeah.

http://www.pitt.edu/%7Eslavic/courses/russ1771/labels/soda/kiwi.jpg
^this, right?

the scoring and music supervision on this easily the best thing about it imo
― the naive cockney chorus (Simon H.), Tuesday, October 20, 2015

Close? I want some upper midwestern child of the 70s to confirm. Wife is from Ohio, she's no help.

the Jeff Tweedy vox in this last episode finally broke the spell of awesome period 'choons (unless I misheard)

still feeling weirdly ambivalent towards this though it's consistently, passably entertaining. I did like Campbell as Reagan. dude has a gift for Americana pastiche.

I wonder what they're going to make of the UFO stuff. Seems to be mandatory to drop in exactly one moment or reference per episode. Probably the series ends with aliens kidnapping Peggy & Ed.

it just feels very late 70's to me.

yes, except for jeff tweedy...wtf

holy shit that episode is the best piece of television I have ever seen in my life and is probably going to stay that way for a really long time]

same here. been listening to the music from that episode all morning!

That was another brilliant episode, Offerman was hilarious man!

I didn't notice any UFO weirdness in this one. Going to rewatch though, will see if I somehow missed something this time.

does every ep have a UFO reference?

Yeah the UFO thing has me intrigued. The last ref was Molly's drawing, right?

(if an ep has just aired, no spoilz! I have to wait to DL it)

Or maybe avoid the thread till you've watched it? That's what I do.

Was wondering where they were going with the Offerman stuff, if it was just going to be a comic relief section, then they turned it round to one of the most tense scenes of the entire series. Brilliant. Also loved the sleaze-funk Man of Constant Sorrow over the credits.

Last episode gonna be Offerman's Emmy reel.

have my reservations with this show - referring to both seasons - some of the dialogue is too on the nose, e.g. some of the humorous dialogue intended to be folksy and demotic, or some of the villain soliloquys seem too transparently "writerly" at times, which tends to break my suspension of disbelief, has a brechtian effect on me that the show is clearly not going for

but

last two episodes have been great, the height of the show so far, some of the best stuff on tv right now (maybe the very best?)

despite the jabberwocky bit being the epitome of one of those things I just complained about

i thought the latest episode is the worst as far as writing goes

too transparently "writerly" at times

The "erstwhile on Fargo" before the last episode recap really does this for me, it's just trying too hard.

I really like this show though it took me a couple of episodes of the first season to get past the "yah you betcha" shtick that never actually sounds like any of the Minnesotans and Dakotans I know. I finally understood Southerners complaining about accents that varying levels of "close enough" but never quite right, or how a character from Alabama will use a Virginia accent, etc.

The girl at the front of the butcher shop though sounds exactly, freakishly like a friend of mine from near Sioux City, South Dakota. I was surprised when I looked her up and she's from Vancouver, so maybe my friend actually has a Canadian accent.

adored "erstwhile on Fargo"

The writerly artifice is part of the point.

sure know a lot of words carl

oh yeah so is offerman's character called carl weathers, he is isn't he?

season seems to be kicking into gear a bit

grinds to a halt any time "Mike Milligan" is on screen tho. The Jabberwocky bit was a nadir

Oh I enjoyed that. You could hear how much fun Bokeem Woodbine was having, just under the surface.

I think that might be part of the show that I kind of love, is how the cast almost all seem to be just having a great time with it.

(which verges on breaking the suspension of disbelief at times I guess but I definitely am not watching this for its verisimilitude)

casting is actually my main problem with this season. The Gerhardt brothers are particularly terrible (and they killed off the best one almost immediately!)

Angry Gerhardt seems to have one facial expression

The Gerhardt brothers are particularly terrible (and they killed off the best one almost immediately!)

Parenthetical is true but I love seeing Burn Notice all fat-faced, and simply enjoying Gussie Sampson having a role in a prestige US TV series paid off this week as his glower has risen to a simmer

love this show and all but the amount of coen needle drops and references in the last episode pretty much fourth-walled me

Season 1 was so much better. This is fine tho.

This is on fire at the moment imo. How the hell does Ed know about Mike Milligan though? Their paths have never crossed right.

Yeah Season 2 is cool but there's no one who comes close to Billy Bob.

I rewound "You're a shit cop, you know that, right?" about 49 times. I may have to try and make that into a ringtone.

Ed knows about Mike Milligan from Dodd, I'm assuming.

I spun it back up on the DVR tonight just for

0. ...the breakfast king of Loyola!
1. Danny Boy
2. You're a shit cop, you know that, right?
3. Molly's alien writing all over the study wtf!?!?!?!? interrobang 11
4. "Gentlemen!" *bang* *slash* *stab* *huff, huff, huff*
5. White Denim's cover of "Just Dropped In"

Mainly just for 2, but it says something about this show and this season that I feel the need to stop and enjoy so many scenes. This is Mad Men with guns and snow.

Are they going to make an OST album for this season? Seems necessary. Seems like it should already be out, if so.