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

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.

I can't wait to watch this show on binge mode.

Back April 19th

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLjd8r6ANd4

season 2 up on Hulu now too

New trailers coming thick and fast. Glad Thewlis is sticking to a Brit accent.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7NB0YQBQWI

willing to condemn both McGregor performances on that fifteen seconds or so

Currently loving Season 2 but this one doesn't look as good to me. (I haven't seen Season 1, either.)

Between how awesome S2 was, and how brilliant Legion has been, I am stoked for the madness on this.

haha shit, scoot mcnairy, awesome.

Love Carrie Coon in The Leftovers so can't wait to watch her in this.

late pass but i finally finished s2 of fargo and it was so great. for most of the season it wasn't living up to s1 for me but the last 3-4 episodes really turned things around. it's amazing how well they stick to the coen bros. tone while not just straight ripping off their movies. i also love how amazing it looks visually, the music cues, and the weird stylistic quirks that come and go (e.g. the history book narration for one episode, the dying wife's dream that flashes back forward to s1, etc.) my one wish is that eventually they'll do a season not as based in people murdering each other in graphic detail. the ads for s3 haven't blown me away but i was skeptical about both of the first two seasons and ended up loving both of them.

i also wasn't initially crazy about how they went from having a great strong female lead in s1 to having kirsten dunst's character in s2 basically be insane and causing most of the problems for everyone else but she really got to me in the last few episodes - her hallucinatory epiphany in the basement, protecting ed through the end, and especially her speech to patrick wilson in the cop car

i mentioned to my wife one thing that's interesting to me about this show is how old-school black-and-white the morality of it is, in general - everyone is either capital G Good or capital B Bad, except maybe peggy

Oh man this show

- Mike Ehrmantrout reference! the AMC universe is a thing

- Prisencolinensinainciusol!* I was so happy the way they used it, too.

- I figured MacGregor would make or break this season. He isn't that distracting. Fun fact, he put on weight to play the schlub brother and then wore spanx to play the rich one.

Excellent episode, the best season opener yet I think. MacGregor actually very good, and borderline unrecognisable. And David Thewlis!

The easy breadcrumb trail left by McNairy's would-be idiotic assassin was pretty funny. Not into MacGregor at all usually, but he has done good here - because I wasn't even sure he was playing both parts at first and normally I find him unwatchable.

Oh yeah, David Thewlis was the right kind of broad in this role--menacing and funny in the Fargo way

because I wasn't even sure he was playing both parts at first

come on

Seriously, but I didn't read anything about it in advance and was on the exercise bike at the time.

the real estate brother kind of looks like fake dark-haired McConaughey

I thought he looked a bit Cranstony.

I could buy that, too

I wish Thewlis was in the McGregor role

Mike Ehrmantrout reference! the AMC universe is a thing

This would be cool, but Fargo is FX, and I'm pretty sure the first name wasn't Mike and the surname was along the lines of 'Ehrmantraub'.

... ok

the scene with the narwhal representative was soo funny

"where are you from?" "... America"
"a document is just a piece of paper" "I... ahhh... a legally binding contract"

the lawyer with his puffy coat
McGregor's goofy grin

Stussy and Swaaaango

I am in love with mary elizabeth winstead

This would be cool, but Fargo is FX, and I'm pretty sure the first name wasn't Mike and the surname was along the lines of 'Ehrmantraub'.

First name was Rick.

Yeah never mind okay already

It's totally this guy (based on a true story) https://www.parkdental.com/dentist/richard-c-ehrmanntraut-dds/

This one was so weird I barely knew what was going on until halfway through (I maybe could have been paying more attention). A klein bottle episode. I love the box that turns itself off.

amazing episode, loved it

"Let me get two beers...

...do you want two beers?"

Billy Bob narrating!

show needs more Swango

This show always has weird little running themes, two Ive noticed this season is a focus on shoes/feet. And the tampon thing.

(Putter-inner? No one calls them that ffs)

Silence on the thread suggests that ILX, like me, finds this the most underwhelming season so far. Still a perfectly enjoyable caper, but the wackiness often seems forced and glib compared to previous seasons.

Varga is a truly sinister villain, and Thewlis is obviously terrific, but I feel they're overusing the character. Would be much more effective if his goons did most of the interaction and he made a cameo every few episodes.

Season is boring AF

I wouldn't go nearly that far.

not as good as s2 but i'm enjoying