Fargo

This season isn't nearly as good as the previous two seasons. It's still quality, but it's a little too outlandish. For some huge The Wire Season 2 level criminal organization they're pretty fucking sloppy.

Pretty on the nose casting to put Ray Wise in that role, especially with Twin Peaks running concurrently right now.

spronk said:

sorry it feels like the writers saw true detective season 2 and thought they could write something even stupider. I guess Minnesota must be an awesome place to be a criminal because it feels like you could do whatever the fuck you want and nobody will ever catch you unless you literally confess at a police station.

Purgatory is a bowling alley in the middle of nowhere filled with the jewish guy who laughed at Jesus and is doomed to walk the earth until his resurrection, I guess. Mr. Reaper aka Paul Marrane
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Yeah, I was a little surprised at people saying this was the best of the season.

Like, last season a lot of people were kind of WTF about the UFO thing. It detracted from the story since it was literally put in for no reason (the only plot points it had impact on were the guy getting hit by the car, and the shootout distraction; but those could've easily been written differently). This was taking that to an entirely different level. It was just very out of place.

I'm liking this season. Not as much as the first two, but I like it for what it is. The show has always had a fantasy element to it, so the bowling alley thing wasn't surprising. I'm not really seeing the connection between Ray Wise in LA and Ray Wise in the bowling alley, I haven't (and won't) rewatched that episode though to get whatever insight might be gleaned from that. I didn't know about the Wandering Jew thing, that's interesting.

No ghost Burgle. That's fine.

It's a great show. This is pretty clearly the weakest season, but it's still quality tv. Ironically, I like a few of this season's characters more than all of last season's characters. Last season's story/plot was tighter.

I think the primary flaw in this season is that it seems rushed and incomplete. There are several cool concepts and ideas that they touch on but fail to fully explore. I think they had a lot of material to work with for S01 and S02 and struggled to come up with material in time for S03.

Who knows. Last episode next week and I'm still enjoying it.

Excellent ending (very Sopranos like), and a very good season.

I would rate season #2 as the best of the series, but this is a runner up.

I'd still put it as 1 > 2 > 3, there were just too many bad episodes in season 3 to rate i t high up. Plus the twins thing really was not very good and while VM Varga had some enjoyable scenes the character was just way too fantastical to make it good. Malvo was also supernatural but he was fun throughout.

Gloria Burgle looked hot as FUCK in her homeland security outfit.

I'm glad Nikki fucking Swango got got, her character was just all over the place in abilities and the fact she was willing to shoot a cop shows she is hardly an avenging angel, just another scumbag who will kill anyone. That cop's red uniform was amazing. I was sorta ambivalent about Emitt dying, while he definitely deserved it I think Mr. Wrench killing him 5 years later is a bit ... contrary. Did he repent and do good things? I guess thats life, but just felt unsatisfying.

It is sorta interesting that the end is what you make of it, but given that VM Varga has shifted heaven and earth in the past (the text from a mysterious source about the IRS, the fact he got out of the country, has been running around for 5 years, etc) suggests his money will continue to buy his freedom. Its too bad we never really got an understanding of WHY he continues to amass money while trying to stay under the radar, that would have been a very important part of the puzzle of what makes him tick.

If they do another season I hope they get rid of that "THIS IS BASED ON A TRUE STORY" stuff, it really got grating by the end.

Was okay. Season 2 still my favorite by far. Gloria did look hot in her 90's mom haircut for sure. One thing that irked me is Emmett's car not working so Swango can catch up, then shootout and it's magically completely fine. Nice. Niiiiiice.

Xevy said:

Was okay. Season 2 still my favorite by far. Gloria did look hot in her 90's mom haircut for sure. One thing that irked me is Emmett's car not working so Swango can catch up, then shootout and it's magically completely fine. Nice. Niiiiiice.

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We didn't get a scene of Emmett picking up his license/registration and busted up phone. Seems like that would've pinned him to the scene of a double homicide.

I'll give them the benefit of the doubt that he did it and it wasn't shown, but it seems like it they could have done a quick shot of it. There's a bunch of shit laying in the road as he drives away.

I'd rank them 2>1>3. I liked it, the ending was pretty well done, but yeah it wasn't on the same level as the other seasons. I'm ok with that, and Varga is an awesome bad guy. spronk I'd have to rewatch (and I won't) but I think he explained a good deal of why he does what he does. He was very open with Emmett about what was going on, you just had to read between the lines a little, which he could never do because he was involved in all this bullshit.

I think the vampire theory fits, actually, silly as it sounds. The way they framed him and lit him and his disappearing act in the elevator and his bulimia. I kept expecting a big reveal, which would have been a huge mistake. I like it left as a metaphor. He's a parasite, he sucks people dry and then he moves on, it's how he survives.

In season 2, is it some sort of running gag to reference to Reagan films that don't actually exist?