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

Awesome episode, UFO and all. Bit confused with what happened with Lous wife tho? After she fell, and Molly found her, they sort of left it at that. I guess that'llcome up next week.

Yah

Molly went to get Noreen (the existentialist) and they all drove to the hospital.

fifty bucks says Hank and his daughter wake up in the same room together as inpatients

Ha, that'd be neat.

Yeah, no bet

the split screen with Wilson and Milioti was so well done

This show uses split screen and wipe edits better than any post 80's movie I can think of (hedging my bets for Kurosawa)

Mike Milligan on showing up at the motor motel:

http://i.imgur.com/XujHL.gif?noredirect

Ive been reading other commentary on this last ep, on TV.com, reddit and other places, and it is making me cranky how many people hated/were unpleasantly surprised by the UFO in the shootout. Its as if they forgot all the foreshadowing, or the whole damn reason the story kicked off (Rye being distracted by a UFO).

The last ep tonight is called Palindrome. One of the things not ever really explained til now is why that judge in ep1 was there. I'm wondering if somehow something'll come full circle to the start.

why the judge was in the restaurant or why he judge was targeted by rye? the latter is directly explained in episode one.

Why she was in the diner, I'm thinking. Tho yeah I'd forgotten about that weird typewriter scam thing.

I had forgotten that Rye saw the UFO.

Still doesn't make me like the UFO appearing during the shoot-out tho!

I was quite enjoying the mildly enigmatic nature of the ufo stuff, and was disappointed for a big, kind of terrible-looking, ufo showing up during a pivotal scene

The thing is, we're not neccesarily meant to believe an actual UFO appeared. Lou was being choked - he could have been hallucinating (likewise, Rye might have just seen the mylar balloon Lou wife found afterward). I dont actually mind either way, it was just a great moment of absurdity and humanity, really.

Look at these little humans, all wriggling on the ground, snuffing each others lights out. Look at them, from the POV of the aliens.

I thought it was brilliant.

Also, Hanzee saw a UFO as well, and there's an implication he was abducted when it happened (some hours suddenly passed).

Lovely ending, more focused on the human and resolution than spectacle.
The short sovereignty of the accountant king and the schism between law/family and crime/business felt ballsy and right and very satisfying. Just desserts indeed.

Yeah it was a nice change from the usual all out explosive finales that seem to be the thing these days. It got me a bit weepy.

yeah the word humanity kept leaping at me the last 2 eps. sweet ending. unexpected but welcomed. left with a few questions but that's good. is hanzee malvo?

wait I just did some reading and hanzee becomes Tripoli from s1 and I do not even recall that guy wtf

"Not apprehend, dead. Don't care heavily-guarded. Don't care into the sea. Kill and be killed. Head in a bag," he pronounces, before switching from English to his native tongue to add, "There's the message."
As it turns out, Hanzee isn't the first "Fargo" character to use that particular phrasing. Season 1, episode 6, "Buridan's Ass," introduces the head of the Fargo mob circa 2006, who's discussing what to do about Sam Hess's killer...

He looks a bit different but apparently Hanzee is the Mark Acheson character in S1, or at least he uses the identical expression
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-GhLNchIM4Hc/VhpZyRSdIeI/AAAAAAAAqdQ/dyEpUWXVko8/s640/fargo%2BI%2B51.jpg

And it has just dawned on me that the kids in the playground that he rescues from the bullies are Mr. Numbers and the deaf character Mr. Wrench in S1.

Yup.

So has anybody taken the notes from Hank's study and translated the writing inside the bar that Hanzee shot up?

ohhhh, shit. games within games on those last five posts. Somebody else is gonna have to do the work for me to shake out the details tho'.

Yeah I cant believe I didnt twig the signing kids were Numbers and Wrench. I was too preoccupied with the concept of communication/miscommunication, which I loved as an overarching theme, and made Hank's explanation of the signs in his study neat.

Though why were there signs in the bar?

I like the way if I had watched S2 first there are some deaths in S1 which would have elicited a far more emotional response.

although because of their tightness, Mr numbers death was actually quite sad.

I just want to go back now and watch both seasons in a binge! There was so many little details I missed. Also, Malvo, aw yeah.

Binge watching both again sounds like a very degenerate, but excellent plan!

alas ive not the time to, but I'd love to.

btw, this argument aside, i wonder what all that past stuff that her dad refers to is all about, and whether we'll see it play out in the coming seasons (the sioux falls/sitting on the front porch stuff).

Nice to see Slocki called this way back when :)

The one thing that I'm still disappointed about from the season two finale is that there was no epilogue for Karl Weathers or the Gerhardt kid with palsy. A simple scene or two would have been all that was necessary - we had time to spend reminding the viewers that ALMOST all the Gerhardt clan are dead, and time to flash forward to the season one Solversons, and time to do a cute origin story bit for Mr. Numbers & Mr. Wrench, but not time for just reminding us of Charlie and Karl? Yes, one is drinking at the American Legion and the other is going to prison, but still.

yeah, no idea where the last gerhardt ended up, that required some closure

Maybe we'll find out in season three when he's rebuilt the Gerhardt empire selling meth and bootleg DVDs.

just binge-watched this whole season
lol @ ufo
don't get to watch that much decent tv atm so enjoyed all the writerly stuff

In the realm of trailing references, the guy who is a shit cop mumbles something to the effect of "oh god, this is Rapid City all over again!"

Can't wait for Fargo season 6: Rapid City

oh man, unless it was an obvious Custer reference, lol

Man, this show

the guy who is a shit cop mumbles something to the effect of "oh god, this is Rapid City all over again!"

Ha yes I had noticed that too, and it may have been a nice plant for the next season. Which I'm given to understand is set in the mid 2ks and involves text messages or something?

According to showrunner Noah Hawley, the show's third season is set in 2010 — four years after its first season — and focuses on what he calls "selfie-oriented culture."

"I like the idea what we're now living in a very selfie-oriented culture... it feels like a social dynamic that is very antithetical to the Lutheran pragmatism of the region," said Hawley. "So many of our crime stories are based on the difficulty that people have expressing themselves and communicating... I like the idea of setting up these pragmatic and humble people against the culture of narcissism and (seeing) what that generates for us, story-wise."

and the shakey graves cover of 'o death'

maybe it's just because there isn't any official OST info out yet (?), but it's weird to me that this is credited to Shakey Graves everywhere, with no mention of Monica Martin (from Phox), who actually sings the song.

Just finished the second season and this show rules

it's good, man

season three seems to be coming out in the far-flung future of 2017

I've only seen the pilot episode of season 1, but miraculously found the blu-ray set for season 2 for $5 and watched it over the course of a couple weeks.

incredible show tbh. i thought it was a really well-cast season, and i thought the momentum of the narrative and how it was driven by lies and misinformation was great. the sioux falls massacre was one of the tenser and brutal things i've seen in a show, and just the double whammy of these vulnerable cops and these completely wrongheaded criminals made it seem even more palpably vicious and useless.

great group effort performance-wise, i was pleasantly surprised by a few of the actors. and that was a nicely moving and human ending to the season.

Only seen S1 and enjoyed it in spite of the fact that it was kinda consistently hard to swallow a lot of the plotting and character motivations and whatnot. Is S2 any tighter in that respect?

significantly.

Good to hear. Looking forward to it!

S2 has some motivations that are unexpected and might seem absurd but only in the way that sometimes people have unexpected and absurd-seeming motivations. at the same time it's so tightly plotted, and not in the artificial "trapped in a tv show" way that 'breaking bad' sometimes felt like to me.

I was very on the fence about s1, but s2 is legitimately good.

S3 cast so far: Ewan McGregor (apparently playing twins?), Carrie Coon and Mary Elizabeth Winstead. Sold!

Wow, the first season was great, but season 2 was something else.