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

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

needs more carrie coon screentime tho

I think the season is good, and it's a good slow burn, but it does seem like the show is getting overshadowed by a bunch of other equally good television which is on right now (Saul, Handmaid, Twin Peaks, Leftovers wrapping up, House of Cards restarting, etc).

Silence on the thread suggests that ILX, like me, finds this the most underwhelming season so far.

Ha yeah I actually came here to post that yesterday and then got distracted. Thewlis is overdoing his gross nastiness and ... I dont know.

akm otm maybe we're more spoilt for choice now.

Maybe is it cos Hawley put all his energy into Legion?

i'm just getting a strong sense of deja vu this year no matter how consciously the show's working to mix it up (eg the carrie coon visits LA episode)

Yeah the whole "determined spunky female cop whose boss wont listen to her but she'll work it out anyway" thing.

And weirdly she's on two TV shows at the same time having difficulty interacting with electronic devices (ticket machines in Leftovers, door sensors in Fargo).

Nikki sat down next to someone in the jail bus, and I thought "wait whys he look familiar?" It was Mr Wrench from S1 apparently!!! D:

holy shit, Fargo beat Twin Peaks to the White Lodge, and it's a bowling alley

yeah the nicki & wrench half of this episode was prob the best thing the show has ever done

it's one of those faux-magical realism scenes that illuminates how suspiciously artificial some of the other things have been, outing it as a parable

"holy shit, Fargo beat Twin Peaks to the White Lodge, and it's a bowling alley"

that was a completely amazing scene; obviously an intentional nod. I believe the 'interacting with electronic devices' was as well; hawley was probably tipped off by the leftovers writers that would be in there.

this was easily the best epsiode, all around, of the season; it feels like it came late though and lots of people dropped off. Still waiting for Carrie Coon's character to actually do something but at least we got a lot of dedicated Swango time.

oh, the other TP reference, which may have just been luck: the Cossaks in the Dakotas (Gordon Cole mishears Albert in the second or third episode when he says 'carsick" and yells "Cossacks? We're in South Dakota!")

I'm enjoying this although I never watched the previous 2 seasons. I like schlubby McGregors fiance. A friend of mine tells me it's the weakest one yet but he's going to keep watching

mary elizabeth winstead has been a complete joy in this, would love to do some crimes with her

uh maybe just some petty theft, not so much the murder via air conditioner

she is wonderful I'm in love with swango

http://variety.com/2017/tv/news/fargo-mary-elizabeth-winstead-1202458136/

What was it that surprised you about her?
I guess I thought I’d be playing a really nice Minnesota cop or a really sweet Minnesota housewife. I didn’t expect to be playing this brash, sexy, confident, bold fighter of a woman. She’s just so much woman. I guess I hadn’t really seen myself that way before doing this. It’s definitely brought me a whole new level of confidence now that I’ve played her. But going into it I thought, “Am I the person for this? I don’t know if I’m enough woman for Nikki Swango.”

For some reason I thought the new episode was the last of the season! I'm glad there's another, although I feel like it's on some sort of dramatic precipice and there can only be denouement left

That'd be inline with all of Hawley's other work, he seems to like final eps being sort of debriefs/slower.

Noticeable disdain for new tech/FB/smartphones in this years season

I'm not caught up yet but my friends' band had music in the new ep, looking forward to hearing how it was used.

"I didn’t expect to be playing this brash, sexy, confident, bold fighter of a woman. She’s just so much woman."
Kind of like a super lady, one might say

definitely a metamorphosis into avenging angel of fargo after a mixed past

I'm not caught up yet but my friends' band had music in the new ep, looking forward to hearing how it was used.

I have a good guess about when this was used and I think it worked pretty well?

I really wasn't feeling this for a while but the past two won me back.

so I wound up kind of loving this season in the end, but I did think we'd get more about Ennis Stussy's former career as a sci fi writer. That feels like something that was set up and just left which is unusual for this show.

also carrie coon and mary winstead 4 ever, both so good

I like that both fargo and the leftover ended with carrie coon sitting across a table from someone talking

I feel like the sci if writer angle got its own full episode, which ended in the revelation Ennis's life prior to the show had nothing to do with what happened to him. That was the beauty of the ending -- how do you explain what happened to his grandfather, when it had nothing to do with who he actually was? And how do you tell a kid about his grandfather's broken dreams and mixed accomplishments, when he obviously had tried to leave all those things behind?

I think that's something Hawley likes to play with in his shows, this determination of what really matters, and how fleshed out the characters need to be before the narrative starts. It was nice to have a diversion into a past that wasn't giving us any clues or evidence as to how the rest of the plot would go. Complete opposite of every prequel franchise or forced plot device everything seems to lead to.

Oh wow I thought I was the only one enjoying this season! Only on ep 5 doe

And yeah, totally in love with Carrie coon

"Who did you think it was, Menachem Begin?" lol

good post mh

ended up really enjoying this one

I thought Varga was a great villain.

I found him a little overbearing! I mean maybe that was the idea? But all those constant shots of lol-british teeth masticating away on sandwiches and whatever was just uuuurrgh. I respect him highly as an actor, but ever since that violent rape/bash scene in Naked, Ive always been faintly turned off by Thewlis.

All that aside yeah. This was prob my least fave of the 3 seasons only because the pacing was off, it never really gathered steam til the last few eps. I liked the ambiguous ending though.

One thing I didnt get: who texted Varga to warn him the IRS had the drives, thus tipping him off? It wouldnt be in Swango, Burgle or Stussy's interests to tell him and who else knew?

IRS guy said he was "protected" earlier in the episode

Ya, I assumed it was someone inside the agency.

how do you explain what happened to his grandfather, when it had nothing to do with who he actually was? And how do you tell a kid about his grandfather's broken dreams and mixed accomplishments, when he obviously had tried to leave all those things behind?

a fun wrinkle to this was that the kid didn't really think of the guy as his grandfather and complained whenever his mom tried to talk to him about him

hah, yes