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FX's FARGO Discussion Thread

Peteyandjia said:
Ah well. I know my opinion won't be a popular one here, but I think this season started out a lot stronger than it has ended up these last 3 episodes or so.
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I agree with you there.
 
Frank23 said:
I agree with you there.
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I don't know, individually I'd say the last two are the best two episodes of the season. They've narrowed the scope a little, and some quality characters have been shut out as a result, but the quality of the hour+ of television has really only improved as the season has progressed.
 
CM 4 said:
Monday at 10:00 eastern time. This Monday is the finale.


Side note: Dunst deserves a Emmy for how great she's done in this season. She by far has had the best performance IMO
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Total opposite for me. There's no way I can call her performance of a annoying, dim witted, delusional, get by through dumb luck of a character a great performance. Dunst did a adequate to good job playing one of the leads. For me, Ted Danson, Nick Offerman, Bookem Woodbine, and Jean Smart all are more effective than Dunst and they play more compelling and/or likable characters. Dunst character is the least believable main character in Season Two. She would have died long ago in almost any logical scenario. She also would have been at least punched in the face a couple times by any Gerhardt she ran across.
 
lol @ Pete bringing up TD season 2 haha.. what a clusterfuck that show turned out to be.

Fukanaga (sp) was the real brains behind season 1 imo

Hopefully they can bring him back for season 3 if they do a season 3.
 
lildog said:
Total opposite for me. There's no way I can call her performance of a annoying, dim witted, delusional, get by through dumb luck of a character a great performance. Dunst did a adequate to good job playing one of the leads. For me, Ted Danson, Nick Offerman, Bookem Woodbine, and Jean Smart all are more effective than Dunst and they play more compelling and/or likable characters. Dunst character is the least believable main character in Season Two. She would have died long ago in almost any logical scenario. She also would have been at least punched in the face a couple times by any Gerhardt she ran across.
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No way. Even if you don't like her role, blame the writers not her. She filled in the character perfectly, flawless I'd say. She went from a flaky, egotistical hairdresser dreaming about a different life to becoming "actualized" as a devoted wife and partner in crime of Ed Blomquist. I love the scene when the fat sheriff is offering the deal of going undercover to get Milligan on tape.

Sheriff: -You are going to be wearing a wire.
Ed: -A what?
Sheriff: -A recording device son. Are you stupid?
Peggy snaps forward: Hey!
Sheriff gives a slightly puzzled look at Peggy then returns to discussing the deal.

A perfect culmination of the Peggy-Ed lovestory. In the earlier episodes everyone here was sure she would sacrifice Ed by abusing his loyalty and dedication to her. She was the only character who truly made me nervous as I had no idea whether Ed was about to be f*d over. And the scenes where she is calmly discussing her Spiritual Journey while taming Dodd?

Come on!
 
Peteyandjia said:
All caught up now.

Boy, has this season gone off the rails.

It was great for the first 4 or 5 episodes, when it was mostly about the couple hitting that guy, and the state troopers & local hillbilly crime family playing catchup.

It has since turned to shit, as it tries to be more & more stylized each episode, and has spun into a mess of post-modernesque wannabe Pulp Fiction bullshit.

Milligan is a completely useless and ridiculous character. The voiceover guiding us through the action nonsense of the last episode, was also silly. The twin shotgun brothers, retarded.

It's crazy to me how True Detective season 2 was largely panned, while this is hailed as some kind of high art. TDS2 was way more nuanced, intricate, and made a fuckload of a lot more sense than this crap. It just required a greater attention span.

Ah well. I know my opinion won't be a popular one here, but I think this season started out a lot stronger than it has ended up these last 3 episodes or so.

Still some great performances, from the lead state trooper guy from Bone Tomahawk, to Fatt Damon, to dead Dodd, to Ted Danson. Just wish the writers and directors hadn't consumed themselves with trying to be so hip, and just told a goddamn cohesive story. Season 1 was the the shit, with Billy Bob, Nygaard, the preggo sheriffe, and scared Hanks. This season pales in comparison imho.
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LOL at the butthurt in this post. True Detective S02 was a disappointment. Your blue status can't change anyone's opinion on that.

I started watching Fargo S02, without watching season 1, by suggestion of this thread and I was pleasantly surprised. I still don't know how I feel about the UFO, and I think Milligan was miscast/misplayed, but I think the season is even better than Breaking Bad's season 1, 2 and 5.
 
With such lofty praises as it being the best show on TV no less, I definitely decided to wait for the whole season to comment. And usually I don't like to read up on opinions lest I be swayed subconsciously one way or another beforehand. I can't hold out any longer to post.

Save for a few inexplicably odd police procedural hiccups , this show is sublime. At times almost meditative for me.

I don't watch too many TV shows so I am not qualified to say it is the best of that specific genre out there but I think I am qualified to say it is as good as any quality movie production value you can find out there.

This second season even trumps the Coen Brothers original by a long mile. It'll most likely have great replay value for me on DVD and I know I'll probably have some withdrawal after Mon night.
 
The oddest thing about this show for me is it going from a mass murder story that involves police investigations and a coverup by a married couple to a crime family war story to a personal revenge story involving an Indian working for one of the crime families against the married couple.
 
Magooglie said:
The oddest thing about this show for me is it going from a mass murder story that involves police investigations and a coverup by a married couple to a crime family war story to a personal revenge story involving an Indian working for one of the crime families against the married couple.
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Well, Lou did tell Malvo that if he told him the details of the case it would sound like he had made it up. :icon_lol:

And I don't think he was referring to the UFO. :wink:
 
All caught up here as well. Just wondering, was the whole Lifesprings seminar thing a scam by Peggy's (Dunst) boss?
 
Magooglie said:
The oddest thing about this show for me is it going from a mass murder story that involves police investigations and a coverup by a married couple to a crime family war story to a personal revenge story involving an Indian working for one of the crime families against the married couple.
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and UFO's.
 
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