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Fargo TV series on FX - season 3 starts TONIGHT 4/19!!! (1 Viewer)
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Josie Maran
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Sand
Footballguy
Celph Titled
Footballguy
Sure. True Detective's ending was reasonably disappointing, and you always want a show to stick the landing. But everything's gotta end.a lot of endings are disappointingMovies end.
Wingnut
Footballguy
Sand
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3C's
Footballguy
In a way it is. The show will go on but the storyline and characters/actors will be "one and done" apparently. All new next time.
jamny
Footballguy
While the elevator scene was intense, I thought the diner scene with Malvo and Molly's dad was even more tense. While it was obvious what was going to happen in the elevator, I thought for sure Malvo was going to kill the dad. Great transition into the next scene.
I also kept feeling like someone was going to slam into Lester's car as they were driving to go to the airport.
Great episode.
I also kept feeling like someone was going to slam into Lester's car as they were driving to go to the airport.
Great episode.
Sand
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3C's
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BustedKnuckles
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Jaysus
Good times!
RUSF18
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BustedKnuckles
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Josie Maran
Footballguy
I wonder if next season will be the younger version of Keith Carradine dealing with that case he was talking about.
jdoggydogg
Footballguy
Can't say enough good things about this show.
ClownCausedChaos2
Footballguy
Have I mentioned that I know that guy that this story is based on? I think William H. Macy plays him.
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SmoovySmoov
The Way of the Samurai
BustedKnuckles
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The season finale of the FX TV series Fargo airs Tuesday. The series is an "original adaptation" of Joel and Ethan Coen's 1996 film, a dark comedy set in the wintry landscape of rural Minnesota. Nearly 20 years ago, the film won Oscars for best screenplay and best actress.
The 10-episode TV series has a different story and characters, but critics agree that it captured the look and tone of the film, mixing eccentric characters and deadpan humor with sudden and savage violence.
The 10-episode TV series has a different story and characters, but critics agree that it captured the look and tone of the film, mixing eccentric characters and deadpan humor with sudden and savage violence.
Maik Jeaunz
Footballguy
game day!!!
BustedKnuckles
Footballguy
Celph Titled
Footballguy
Seems like Lorne Malvo is up to something...
Mister CIA
Footballguy
Wondering aloud, would other movies, especially Coen Brother films, lend themselves to 10 hour mini-series?
No Country For Old Men certainly, Miller's Crossing too and Blood Simple. Big Lebowski, probably not.
No Country For Old Men certainly, Miller's Crossing too and Blood Simple. Big Lebowski, probably not.
BustedKnuckles
Footballguy
Fargo' finale stuns and satisfiesWith one final, breathtaking blast, Fargo (FX, 10 ET/PT) ends its run Tuesday with a stunner that solidifies its place, not just as the year's best miniseries, but as one of the most satisfying ever made. And for viewers who have been burnt elsewhere, part of that satisfaction will no doubt stem from the happy fact that the story actually does conclude, without feint or cliffhanger or extra-mystery padding.
If for no other reason, embrace this conclusion as time well spent with a fabulous quartet of actors and characters. The driving force is Billy Bob Thornton as the impishly satanic Lorne Malvo, but there's equally irresistible work here from Martin Freeman as his increasingly morally unhinged foil, Lester Nygaard, and from Allison Tolman and Colin Hanks as the now happily married Molly and Gus, our heroes and links to a better world.
Obviously, it would be unfair to tell you how their story ends. But ultimately, their fate isn't the issue; what matters is that creator Noah Hawley, who wrote every episode, has made us care about these characters and kept us uncertain as to whether they'll survive. That was his job, and he has done it spectacularly well.
Tonight's last hour and a half charges ahead at a relentless pace, while still offering fans the pleasure of a few season-long callbacks, including Malvo's message to Gus about the nature of predators and the wisdom of staying out of their way. Cross the wrong path, as Lester and Malvo both did, and you come to regret it.
There are touches of humor, as you'd expect from a show based on a movie by Ethan and Joel Coen — and a great deal of bloodshed, as you'd also expect. This constant upping of TV's violence ante is troubling, but where Game of Thrones increasingly seems to use graphic violence as an enticement for a young male audience, Fargouses it to make an artistic point. There's a line between the "moral" world and a world cut loose from civilization, and you can trace it with a sharp knife.
Nowhere is that difference more clearly articulated than in a speech from Bob Odenkirk's bumbling sheriff, Bill Oswalt. Up until now, he's mainly been used as a comic-relief fool and obstacle, but as he expresses his horror at "seeing the things people are capable of," you begin to wonder who's really the fool.
It's a lovely, small moment in a show where nothing is off pitch or out of place, from the actors, to the music, to the way director Matt Shakman intensifies the action without obscuring what's happening. Because with Fargo, you don't want to miss a moment.
If it has to go, rejoice that it's going out on top.
If for no other reason, embrace this conclusion as time well spent with a fabulous quartet of actors and characters. The driving force is Billy Bob Thornton as the impishly satanic Lorne Malvo, but there's equally irresistible work here from Martin Freeman as his increasingly morally unhinged foil, Lester Nygaard, and from Allison Tolman and Colin Hanks as the now happily married Molly and Gus, our heroes and links to a better world.
Obviously, it would be unfair to tell you how their story ends. But ultimately, their fate isn't the issue; what matters is that creator Noah Hawley, who wrote every episode, has made us care about these characters and kept us uncertain as to whether they'll survive. That was his job, and he has done it spectacularly well.
Tonight's last hour and a half charges ahead at a relentless pace, while still offering fans the pleasure of a few season-long callbacks, including Malvo's message to Gus about the nature of predators and the wisdom of staying out of their way. Cross the wrong path, as Lester and Malvo both did, and you come to regret it.
There are touches of humor, as you'd expect from a show based on a movie by Ethan and Joel Coen — and a great deal of bloodshed, as you'd also expect. This constant upping of TV's violence ante is troubling, but where Game of Thrones increasingly seems to use graphic violence as an enticement for a young male audience, Fargouses it to make an artistic point. There's a line between the "moral" world and a world cut loose from civilization, and you can trace it with a sharp knife.
Nowhere is that difference more clearly articulated than in a speech from Bob Odenkirk's bumbling sheriff, Bill Oswalt. Up until now, he's mainly been used as a comic-relief fool and obstacle, but as he expresses his horror at "seeing the things people are capable of," you begin to wonder who's really the fool.
It's a lovely, small moment in a show where nothing is off pitch or out of place, from the actors, to the music, to the way director Matt Shakman intensifies the action without obscuring what's happening. Because with Fargo, you don't want to miss a moment.
If it has to go, rejoice that it's going out on top.
pollardsvision
Footballguy
Good finale.
I was hoping Wild Bill Hickok would get a chance to draw, but I guess it had to be Guys.
I was hoping Wild Bill Hickok would get a chance to draw, but I guess it had to be Guys.
Ned Ryerson
Footballguy
Sepinwall said this, but it was what I was thinking at the time....a civilian hides in Malvo's house, doesn't call the cops, kills him unarmed, execution style and he gets a citation for bravery?
BustedKnuckles
Footballguy
a former cop who took down a cop killer and a mass murderer...pin that medal right to his chest
Ned Ryerson
Footballguy
Morally I had no problem with it, but it rung false to me
BustedKnuckles
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BustedKnuckles
Footballguy
2 things...
1- im assuming he let the car dealer go free ,his car was not in Lesters driveway .
2 - I liked the story about the gloves and the train...im also guessing it meant ''do the right thing'' Lester
1- im assuming he let the car dealer go free ,his car was not in Lesters driveway .
2 - I liked the story about the gloves and the train...im also guessing it meant ''do the right thing'' Lester
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Josie Maran
Footballguy
"If he throws up, I will too."
I don't care what anyone say, Bob Odenkirk was great in this.
I don't care what anyone say, Bob Odenkirk was great in this.
Agreed"If he throws up, I will too."
I don't care what anyone say, Bob Odenkirk was great in this.
Wishing the ending was a little darker... especially with all the foreshadowing they dropped about preggers getting it... but that was so heavy handed you knew they'd go a different direction. Would've been nice if Malvo snuck one last kill in (Hanks Jr.) before he was taken out. He was a great villain.
FigJam
Footballguy
I'm guessing that you didn't pay attention to the rest of the series... This didn't take place in New York, Chicago, LA or other places where serial killers (or more importantly cop killers) are revered by lawyers. Honestly, how deep do you think that the police and FBI would dig into this after losing a few of their own?
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Bigboy10182000
Footballguy
So this show is like True Detective in that it's only a season at a time with the same actors?
What do the masses say about this show, is it good and worth the watch?
TIA
What do the masses say about this show, is it good and worth the watch?
TIA
Jackstraw
Footballguy
Agreed. Also two bloody trails to behind the woodpile not three. Two agents got it. Car salesman got let go.
Fennis
Footballguy
I was expecting her story to be a morality or a warning story, but I didn't get it from that. I wasn't sure what the purpose of the story was.
Other than that, I thought it was a great ending.
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pollardsvision
Footballguy
They didn't show it specifically, but I'm pretty sure Gus put Malvo's gun beside him or in his hand. They showed Malvo putting the gun down on the desk beside the briefcase with the tapes, and it wasn't there when Molly showed up. Obviously, it could've been taken by the cops before then, but I thought the implication was that Gus put it by Malvo (because it would've been stupid not to).
Also not shown, but could've been done: Gus called the police station after the shooting to say he followed Malvo to the cabin (either saw randomly or was going by Lester's place to check on things). They say just stay there, and he says okay. Between the call and the cops showing up, he just says he saw trail of blood, was worried, and went in (to find Malvo with a gun in his hand).
Ned Ryerson
Footballguy
Basically Gus makes up a lie and the cops don't try very hard to disprove it, because they have little incentive to do so. Even in the real world, that doesn't seem entirely implausible.
Fennis
Footballguy
that would make sense. I noticed Gus took the knife out of Malvo's hand and I couldn't figure out why. Maybe he replaced it with a gun.
