Another element of the show I wish i'd seen more self-awareness of the show is that Malvo was really, really, REALLY bad at his job.
― Look at this joke I've recognised, do you recognise it as well? (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 19 June 2014 23:10 (nine years ago) link
if you're bothered that people have critiques, maybe this isn't the right board for you?
― da croupier, Thursday, 19 June 2014 23:20 (nine years ago) link
also weird to call a show where a crying, bound dude gets blown away by cops while a lonely choir boy sings in the background "fun"
― da croupier, Thursday, 19 June 2014 23:22 (nine years ago) link
if anything i wish the show had more fun stuff like malvo goading the kid to piss in the gas tank
feel like fun was mostly out the door by the time ItsAlwaysSunny guy and adam goldberg were dispatched
― da croupier, Thursday, 19 June 2014 23:40 (nine years ago) link
lotta critique there
― Look at this joke I've recognised, do you recognise it as well? (forksclovetofu), Friday, 20 June 2014 01:51 (nine years ago) link
croup otm
― some dude, Friday, 20 June 2014 02:19 (nine years ago) link
i feel like at a certain point they should've just gone 50 Shades Of Gray and disassociated the show entirely from its supposed source material. probably before the last few episodes where it just became Corky St. Clair: Unstoppable Killing Machine.
― some dude, Friday, 20 June 2014 02:21 (nine years ago) link
Lol
― da croupier, Friday, 20 June 2014 02:36 (nine years ago) link
also weird to call a show where a crying, bound dude gets blown away by cops while a lonely choir boy sings in the background "fun"― da croupier, Thursday, June 19, 2014
― Look at this joke I've recognised, do you recognise it as well? (forksclovetofu), Friday, 20 June 2014 02:53 (nine years ago) link
so what was the riddle again?what was the point of the glove story, I'm tired and idgi were the gloves the wivesI hope they stop with the 'answer a question with a seemingly unrelated story/riddle/etc' next time around
― kinder, Sunday, 22 June 2014 21:36 (nine years ago) link
i didn't totally get the gloves thing at first, but i think it's something about selfishness - on some level it's absurd to throw your glove out the window in hopes it will find its pair, but it's just as absurd to keep one glove. and lester is the kind of person who couldn't even fathom letting go of that remaining glove, destroying more and more lives in a futile attempt to protect himself
― da croupier, Sunday, 22 June 2014 21:40 (nine years ago) link
the gloves story made sense -- the other riddle i didn't hear the answer he figured out before he shot up malvo tho?
― everybody loves lana del raymond (s.clover), Sunday, 22 June 2014 21:41 (nine years ago) link
the "why do humans see so many shades of green" bit his wife solved way back
― da croupier, Sunday, 22 June 2014 21:44 (nine years ago) link
xps da croupier, that makes sensenot really fair that he got that one about the fox and the rabbit, he already did that one in The Office
― kinder, Sunday, 22 June 2014 21:45 (nine years ago) link
on some level it's absurd to throw your glove out the window in hopes it will find its pair, but it's just as absurd to keep one glove. and lester is the kind of person who couldn't even fathom letting go of that remaining glove, destroying more and more lives in a futile attempt to protect himself
THANK YOU, that metaphor was bugging the shit out of me, I knew it was somehow related to his involvement in the deaths but I couldnt slot it in.
I did enjoy this all the way thru tbh, but I was bothered by the fact Gus killed the guy and got a commendation for bravery for it. Um, he's not a cop anymore. He hid in wait for the guy in his own home. I dont care what Malvo did, thats straight up murder!
― the Bronski Review (Trayce), Sunday, 22 June 2014 23:50 (nine years ago) link
It was a most cowardly un-rewardworthy type of execution, it isn't like Malvo had a chance as he was peacefully tending to his severe leg injury, unarmed and some home invader fucker comes out of the shadows and homicides him repeatedly! I still enjoyed it as well, it was a good series.
― xelab, Monday, 23 June 2014 00:09 (nine years ago) link
I was bothered by the fact Gus killed the guy and got a commendation for bravery for it. Um, he's not a cop anymore. He hid in wait for the guy in his own home. I dont care what Malvo did, thats straight up murder!― the Bronski Review (Trayce), Monday, June 23, 2014 12:50 AM (48 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― the Bronski Review (Trayce), Monday, June 23, 2014 12:50 AM (48 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
well molly and gus both have practice covering up the consequences of gus' itchy trigger finger so maybe they came up with some story about malvo threatening them or something. i mean, i agree, they kind of would have had to because otherwise it's like "you did what??"
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Monday, 23 June 2014 00:42 (nine years ago) link
am i forgetting a moment earlier where they established that this was malvo's home? like, wasn't he staying at a hotel in the first episode? a year later, does he actually have a full-on abode in the area or was this somewhere he was just hiding in?
― da croupier, Monday, 23 June 2014 00:49 (nine years ago) link
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Monday, 23 June 2014 00:51 (nine years ago) link
if it was set in the modern era i'd just assume he decided to AirBnB since the hotel didn't go so well last time, but it's allegedly 2007
― da croupier, Monday, 23 June 2014 00:53 (nine years ago) link
Well I used home in the loose sense, it was his hideout I guess.
― the Bronski Review (Trayce), Monday, 23 June 2014 00:55 (nine years ago) link
still funny that he bothered to get a "hideout" when chasing lester back from vegas, considering his previous lodging when he was in town
― da croupier, Monday, 23 June 2014 00:57 (nine years ago) link
could be some kinda company safehouse too
― Clay, Monday, 23 June 2014 00:58 (nine years ago) link
wouldn't he have stayed there the year before?
― da croupier, Monday, 23 June 2014 00:59 (nine years ago) link
and neither time was he there on company business - he got into an accident leaving st paul the first time, was chasing lester the second. not really any "company" business in Bemidji
― da croupier, Monday, 23 June 2014 01:02 (nine years ago) link
Maybe we were meant to infer it was some random's house he killed to hole up in.
― the Bronski Review (Trayce), Monday, 23 June 2014 01:07 (nine years ago) link
i still wish airbnb was a possiblity
― da croupier, Monday, 23 June 2014 01:08 (nine years ago) link
TBH the snowmobile chase at the end was comically pathetic. Maybe that was the point.
― the Bronski Review (Trayce), Monday, 23 June 2014 03:48 (nine years ago) link
the snowmobile chase was up there with the It's Always Sunny guy death as one of the moments that made me feel deeply embarrassed for the Coens that their name is attached to this in any way at all
― some dude, Monday, 23 June 2014 11:12 (nine years ago) link
THIN ICE
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Monday, 23 June 2014 11:20 (nine years ago) link
eh, they've had worse
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― Number None, Monday, 23 June 2014 11:20 (nine years ago) link
feel like this show's bone-headed script was constantly being rescued by tremendous acting and cinematography
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Monday, 23 June 2014 11:21 (nine years ago) link
bit like True Detective
― Number None, Monday, 23 June 2014 11:24 (nine years ago) link
Agree that the ending wasn't the most satisfying, and the whole plot of the show probably crumbles to pieces if examined too closely but nonetheless I found it consistently thoroughly enjoyable. Fantastic performances, very atmospheric, very funny.
It feels more than a little shaggy doggish after the fact.
Oh, totally. This doesn't bother me, in fact I like shaggy dog stories.
― the joke should be over once the kid is eaten. (chap), Monday, 23 June 2014 14:19 (nine years ago) link
Came away with a bizarre sense of "Gus isn't good enough for Molly" ... by which I mean ... he shot someone he didn't need to and (I could have got the timeline wrong here), had he acted earlier, he could have saved some lives.
― djh, Monday, 23 June 2014 15:55 (nine years ago) link
Yeah he was a total idiot.
― the joke should be over once the kid is eaten. (chap), Monday, 23 June 2014 16:54 (nine years ago) link
this show is amazing—just caught up on it
soooooo much better (funnier, more creative, etc) than the "other" one-season-storyline crime show that everyone slobbered over this year
― socki (s1ocki), Monday, 30 June 2014 14:32 (nine years ago) link
i also think it's the first show i've seen that seems really obviously influenced by the i guess you would say formal qualities of breaking bad... like the mini-movie openings, usually set in some strange location and/or featuring characters you don't know
― socki (s1ocki), Monday, 30 June 2014 14:33 (nine years ago) link
and the dentist thing was incredible.
can't say i was super wild about the oliver platt storyline or key & peele. but otherwise A+
― socki (s1ocki), Monday, 30 June 2014 14:34 (nine years ago) link
I liked it fine, but I think I'd appreciate shows like this so much more if I knew going in that plot/story was at the end of the showrunners' list of priorities (or, less charitably, capabilities). Because it's a lovely showcase for all of the other elements.
― Love Theme From Meatballs 2 (Old Lunch), Monday, 30 June 2014 14:47 (nine years ago) link
"Fargo > True Detective" is some Armond White shit imo
― some dude, Monday, 30 June 2014 14:58 (nine years ago) link
so much better.
― socki (s1ocki), Monday, 30 June 2014 15:00 (nine years ago) link
come on. you can all safely admit you were wrong about true detective (or at least quietly pretend you never thought it was that great à la every movie critic ever and american beauty / crash / etc) now.
― socki (s1ocki), Monday, 30 June 2014 15:02 (nine years ago) link
this show actually featured a female character who was a real human being!
― socki (s1ocki), Monday, 30 June 2014 15:05 (nine years ago) link
I'd agree with the Fargo > TD logic at the halfway point of Fargo but honestly think I preferred the koopa's castle climax over Malvo v Mailman.
I just don't think Fargo was that fun and creative in the end and I think TD did better by its actors.
― da croupier, Monday, 30 June 2014 15:06 (nine years ago) link
If anything, I wouldn't be at all surprised to see a lot of backpedaling on the plaudits for Fargo now that it's over. I'd argue that True Detective (while not any kind of apex of the medium) was better if only for McConaughey, generally, and his shootout in the projects specifically. That scene was all time.
― Love Theme From Meatballs 2 (Old Lunch), Monday, 30 June 2014 15:07 (nine years ago) link
that scene was so ridiculous and show-offy in retrospect
― socki (s1ocki), Monday, 30 June 2014 15:08 (nine years ago) link
Again, though, as showcases for a lot of talented people who I hope get a bunch of awesome work in the future, they're both top notch.
― Love Theme From Meatballs 2 (Old Lunch), Monday, 30 June 2014 15:09 (nine years ago) link