Fievel wrote:Wikipedia says it's a 10 episode limited series.... and that's fine with me.
TheBaxter wrote:billy bob thornton is da bomb in fargo, yo!
Ribbons wrote:I was already on the fence about Fargo, and this time jump just made things worse
Fievel wrote:Ribbons wrote:I was already on the fence about Fargo, and this time jump just made things worse
I'm sorry.
I'll admit - the jump was the one thing that bugged me simply because I didn't buy Lester's seemingly instant swagger. But since it ultimately led to his comeuppance, I didn't mind it in the end.
Ribbons wrote:I'm wondering if that means Billy Bob Thornton will be back. Whether the character of Malvo was involved in the Sioux Falls incident was kind of ambiguous... possibly that was just me reading too much into things.
Fievel wrote:Ummmmm..... so this second season......
I have to sit on a hemorrhoid pillow because my ass hurts so much from the beating this show gives me.
Nick Offerman deserves some recognition. If not for his outstanding performance, then just for that beard!!!
Maui wrote:Fievel wrote:Ummmmm..... so this second season......
I have to sit on a hemorrhoid pillow because my ass hurts so much from the beating this show gives me.
Nick Offerman deserves some recognition. If not for his outstanding performance, then just for that beard!!!
The King of Breakfast.
This is my favourite show on TV right now. Season 2 is proving to be as excellent as season 1.
RaulMonkey wrote:Anyone who wants to stop on by, we'll go on a Fargo tour.
RaulMonkey wrote:
It's filmed in Calgary, eh? They're trying to turn that hotel the Kansas City crew stays at into low-income housing. In high school I took an acting for film class in that room with the plastic, where Raymond's brother negotiated with Jean Smart.
Anyone who wants to stop on by, we'll go on a Fargo tour.
Ribbons wrote:RaulMonkey wrote:Anyone who wants to stop on by, we'll go on a Fargo tour.
HARD PASS. Unless poutine is involved.
RaulMonkey wrote:...but there's an A&W across the street from that hotel (which is the big building north of the Enterprise Rent-a-Car.)
My treat and a milkshake.
Maui wrote:RaulMonkey wrote:...but there's an A&W across the street from that hotel (which is the big building north of the Enterprise Rent-a-Car.)
My treat and a milkshake.
Wait...I see a Pho restaurant on the map. This might work out after all.
Those Coen bros. sure like their UFOs, eh?
RaulMonkey wrote:
It's close to the airport too (zoom out), so it could even work if you got a long layover one day.
Maui wrote:RaulMonkey wrote:
It's close to the airport too (zoom out), so it could even work if you got a long layover one day.
Alright, next time I visit my kin in cowtown, I'll hit you up.
Fievel wrote:Amazing.
This season was so good. I'll hopefully post more thoughts later.
Fievel wrote:
After reading Ribbons' thoughts on the first season, he pointed out a lot of issues with it. I didn't agree with all of them, and mentally justified others. But it did help to bring back that first season to my mind.
The second season was far better. It was much more original in the overall plot. It still had some stupid people doing stupid things, but it was expected of them (that's so Fargo!).
Ribbons wrote:I'm trying to untangle my feelings in regards to this show. I feel kind of bad because I do appreciate the fact that it was very well-shot, and also the kind of offbeat story that you don't usually see on television. But I didn't really like it. Right off the bat, there's something problematic about trying to do a "Coen Bros.' Greatest Hits." There's a little bit of Fargo in here, a little bit of Blood Simple, a little bit of Burn After Reading, and a LOT of No Country for Old Men. But it doesn't work like that. Porting Anton Chigurh over to Bemidji fundamentally changes the story. Malvo, with his million secret identities and (near) invincibility is no fuck-up hitman like Peter Stormare. He's the kind of ruthless master criminal that pothead film school brats love to write stories about, but that don't actually exist, certainly not in the middle of sleepy podunk towns, anyway. But there he is with his weird haircut, smiling while he strangles a cop with a belt, calling people "friendo" and shooting Stephen Root in the neck. So okay, whatever. Maybe he's just like a personification of chaos. But then everybody gets away with everything, Bilbo becomes salesman of the year and buys a million-dollar house, and the final grisly showdown happens because he... wants Malvo to say hi to him while he's on a job? If anything I would be running in the other direction. And then Malvo breaks his cover... just because? And then Bilbo hits him in the head and runs away why? And then Malvo kills himself going after some loser in Bemidji because he hit him in the head? Why? The whole show to me is just a big studly "so what?" What's the moral, even? It's okay to kill your bitch wife as long as you don't get too cocky after you get away with it? If you lose a metaphorical glove you should give up the other metaphorical glove? There's no middle ground where you get a divorce and move to Florida or something? They did a really good job of copying the look and tone of a Coen Bros. movie, although it felt a little forced at times (Gus talking to his boss while he was taking a shit, again for no discernible reason). But beyond that slick veneer there's nothing there.
As you can probably tell, I thought the movie was better.
Ribbons wrote:And as twins!
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