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

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.

was wondering the same thing

http://open.spotify.com/user/michaelfabiano/playlist/7KR6PNPMKbVibxjGwOw6Yy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pEJrT6TA8_Q

also i thought this was a pretty solid version of the track!

https://soundcloud.com/denis-michurov/blitzen-trapper-man-of-constant-sorrow

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YeZ0mC0Iqe8

https://soundcloud.com/whitedenim/just-dropped-in-to-see-what-condition-my-condition-was-in

Lisa Hannigan's Danny Boy:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9eKo6iL8P68

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-7yjMLNops

that should be everything except the tweedy track:
http://www.ibtimes.com/fargo-showrunner-noah-hawley-explains-snagging-wilcos-jeff-tweedy-song-cover-2177943

and the shakey graves cover of 'o death'

"You're a shit cop, you know that, right?"

Fuck that part cracked me up. These last 2 eps were staggeringly good. Is lil miss family traitor dead? It wasnt 100% clear.

i'm gonna say yes very much

the "alien writing" appears again in the bar where Hanzee gets his tequila.

also nice period accurate headline about the beginning of arctic satellite record keeping

jesus christ that was intense

I totally didnt get that it was meant to be Molly who wrote all those weird letterings? Wasnt that her grandads house?

Yup, you're right, that was Hank's study, not the Solversons'.

yeah ted damson has been doodling up a storm.

Weird, sad and frightening that Hanzee's M-16 is perfectly reasonable as a period-accurate firearm - even though it's miles away from the revolvers and shotguns and the other rifles everybody else is using to kill each other

Goddamn, this show just got so good.

Another thing I just noticed on 2nd viewing - scoring an extended slo-mo sequence with a drumline tattoo & a liberal helping of 32nd notes & triplets etc really helps to de-emphasize the slo-mo, unlike the usual treatment of drawn out chords and such other tropes. Really nicely done.

wait forks hang on have you been watching? this show has been tremendous!!!

oh yeah, i've been watching. Just mean to say that the last show i saw that made the leap from a very very good season one to a superlative "you need to be watching this" was The Americans. This is pretty much my fave show on teevee right now.

ah okay I took it the wrong way

I guess the UFO stuff is a reference to The Man Who Wasn't There? I barely remember that one.

last couple few eps have been so good.

Man that was intense. This show moves between and combines funny, intensely awkward, and horrifying so well and I have no idea what's going to happen to anyone other than Lou surviving until 2006.

Hanzee's M-16 is perfectly reasonable as a period-accurate firearm

AK-47s had been around for 32 years by that point as well. I don't know what I expected but him pulling that out when the cops showed up wasn't it.

i thought it was odd - he (i assume) killed the two cops, but left the guys that followed him out of the bar with off the hook with a bullet to the legs.

he was in a weird place. I like his unpredictability.

really enjoying this show though some of the plot is a little rando, only thing i really took issue with was the deux ex machina of ed blomquist reading "mike milligan thought to be holed up in x hotel" in the newspaper, which just seemed preposterous.

i would say the one thing i find unbecoming about the series is its tendency to make people of color or ethnicity either ridiculous stereotypes (the stoic indian hunter, the jewish mob boss) or some sort of weird "othering" (milligan's inscrutability). First season had similar issues; i suppose you could argue all the characters are over the top but i don't think you can find a single POC character this season that isn't some sort of intense and/or homicidal oddball.

I see all the characters as cartoonish, and take that as part of the charm - though I agree about Milligan in particular, his schtick is a little annoying. he's no Malvo thats for certain.

i get more salvo vibes from hanzee than milligan. especially the last episode.

milligan feels much more like mr. numbers from season 1 right down to the silent henchman

yup

Theres some symbolism bubbling under the surface all over this show that has me real curious. Its easy to miss things - I feel like I need to rewatch the last 2 eps.

What was with the hangman puzzle on the phonebooth Ed was in?
Did you notice how when Ed and Peggy were in the car escaping to the cabin, the splitscreen divided them and their conversation even tho they were in the same space?
What IS with all those alienese symbols?

Ed got hanged in the same episode!

....that did not occur to me, shit!

it's surprising how well Ed handles himself under duress so far (until being hanged).. jesse plemons is good in this series, plays character well

LOL I have just also realised that Ed staring at box of hamburger helper dumbly in the store = him thinking of mincing up Rye.

people of color or ethnicity either ridiculous stereotypes or some sort of weird "othering"

I'll give you and anybody else the point that all the surviving heroes in season 1 and 2 are white folks. However, on the argument that all minority folks are either ridiculous stereotypes or "funny lookin' in a general sense" - have you paid attention to the white people? They're the worst, weirdest people Earth has to offer!

Did you notice how when Ed and Peggy were in the car escaping to the cabin, the splitscreen divided them and their conversation even tho they were in the same space?

They're on different planets during that sequence. Ed is like "we gotta plan. that's what matters." Peg is all fully actualizin' herself.

Hanzee's arbitrary who-dies-who-lives matrix is perhaps a little too obviously descended from Anton Chigurh in NCFOM, imho. That's why I'm hoping somehow he's in cahoots with the space aliens, that would be gratifying, I think

They're on different planets during that sequence.

yeah exactly! The split screen hammered that home nicely. Loved it.