Fargo FX Original Series

Discussion in 'Visual Arts' started by Scope J, Mar 15, 2014.

  1. misterdecibel

    misterdecibel Bulbous Also Tapered

    I liked it better as the season progressed, it was just a hurdle for me to overcome before buying into the whole thing.
     
    chacha and Lonson like this.
  2. modrevolve

    modrevolve Forum Resident

    Season three was a bit of a step-back from the first two. It also ruined Ewan McGregor's marriage :-popcorn:
     
    rburly likes this.
  3. Fastnbulbous

    Fastnbulbous Doubleplus Ungood

    Location:
    Washington DC USA
    I'm obviously way late, five years to be exact, for this thread. I just finished the first season last night and was reading through the comments. This one hit home to me.

    There's no question that in real life, Gus would've at least faced charges for B&E and manslaughter, if not first-degree murder, of an unarmed man, in his own house, who was physically incapacitated. Even cops need search warrants to enter a suspect's domicile - Gus wasn't even a cop! But I realize it's pointless to argue such points in a drama such as this. Malvo was an evil bastard who needed killin' and he got kilt.

    Gus's character transformation was even less plausible than Lester's. The whole series Gus was an emasculated, ineffectual and incompetent cop, who I guess became a competent mailman. But he was also a deeply moral person, a good friend, father and neighbor. Now, because his family is threatened (and where's the evidence of this anyway?) Gus grows a brass set and kills a man in cold blood? Because he "figured it out"? Moreover, he didn't even do that - it was Molly who explained the shades-of-green riddle to him. The whole scenario evinces a "tie a bow on it and let's get this show wrapped" mentality. A shame, because the series as a whole was quite entertaining.
     
    agentalbert and milankey like this.
  4. chacha

    chacha Forum Resident In Memoriam

    Location:
    mill valley CA USA
    Watch season 2
     
  5. Fastnbulbous

    Fastnbulbous Doubleplus Ungood

    Location:
    Washington DC USA
    I'll be getting to it tonight.
     
  6. chacha

    chacha Forum Resident In Memoriam

    Location:
    mill valley CA USA
    I loved it. Beautifully shot. Couldn’t get through the first season.
     
  7. modrevolve

    modrevolve Forum Resident

  8. I'm a newbie who just started watching the show over the weekend and am now seven ep's in, and I'd say that the "problem" isn't so much that Malvo is a psychopath, but that he's been portrayed so far as one of those omniscient, omnipotent characters who know exactly how everything is going to play out, and can take on a couple dozen thugs and kill them all without getting so much as a scratch. It takes one out of the overall reality of the show (something the plague of locusts and rain of fish didn't help with).

    Took me a while to recognise Martin Freeman too - even though I knew he was in the series the transformation is pretty severe.
     
  9. mr. steak

    mr. steak Forum Resident

    Location:
    chandler az
    Malevolent
     
  10. misterjones

    misterjones Smarter than the average bear.

    Location:
    New York, NY
    Isn’t that often par for the course for the Coen Brothers? “Look upon me! I’ll show you the life of the mind!”

    That surrealism was one of the reasons I liked season one (that and the various references to their films).
     
    EVOLVIST and slipkid like this.
  11. slipkid

    slipkid Senior Member

    As Mister Jones said above, that was the point. They wanted him to appear that way. For one thing it amps up the tension (if rooting for the other guys) and even in death it seemed to that character like HE COULD NOT DIE, HE WAS OMNIPOTENT etc. Not meant to be a "reality" show by any stretch....
     
  12. Myke

    Myke Trying Not To Spook The Horse

    Fargo has never claimed to be even remotely related to reality. :laugh:
     
    SteveRes and slipkid like this.
  13. slipkid

    slipkid Senior Member

    Well, actually, don't they say something at beginning of each episode that says it is a TRUE story o_O LOL
     
  14. misterjones

    misterjones Smarter than the average bear.

    Location:
    New York, NY
    I won't discuss how it all turns out (since Dudley Morris hasn't finished season one), but your "omnipotent" comment reminds me of the old lady in The Lady Killers. How silly and unrealistic - yet side-splitting - was that? You have to be in an "anything can happen" frame of mind to watch the Coen Brothers (or the Fargo spin-off). Yet it seems to make sense (at least on a symbolic level) and has an internal consistency (even though I'm often hardpressed to explain it). Like a Pinter play.

     
  15. Veech

    Veech Space In Sounds

    Location:
    Los Angeles, CA
    We just finished season 3. All I can say is.. Nikki Swango/Mary Elizabeth Winstead. :love:

    Actually I can say a lot more but overall I enjoyed this season just as much as the previous two. I have found that watching the brief 5 or 6-minute recaps on youtube help me tie together certain apparently random elements. For example, the bowling alley scene went a lot deeper than what I gathered on first viewing.
     
    slipkid and dmiller458 like this.
  16. misterjones

    misterjones Smarter than the average bear.

    Location:
    New York, NY
    I saw it merely as an homage to The Big Lebowski.
     
    slipkid likes this.
  17. slipkid

    slipkid Senior Member

    I loved her character (& the actress) but I did not like what happened to her at the end. With all she went through she had me really rooting for her...
    ...and it would have been "ok" for them to kill her off, like if Emmitt had ended up shooting her by mistake or something, but the way that went down with her killing an innocent cop (who killed her as well at the same time) let the air out of the balloon of making her a flawed heroine and instead ruined the good will factor we/I had for her. It was like they did that on purpose merely to fck with the audience saying "so you liked her huh? how you like her now huh? you gonna root for a cop killer huh? take that you *****" etc.

    Of the 3 seasons I felt this was the weakest one (I grew tired of the whole corporate greed weirdness angle & that annoying "wolf" guy, plus felt the god/angel stuff was too much over the top), but it still had its moments. Plus the ambiguous ending (meh).

    Season 2 is my favorite.
     
    Veech and GentleSenator like this.
  18. GentleSenator

    GentleSenator what if

    Location:
    Aloha, OR
    agree with all of this. season 2 is outstanding, strange alien stuff included.
     
  19. Veech

    Veech Space In Sounds

    Location:
    Los Angeles, CA
    Yeah, both my wife and I said "oh no" when that happened. But she had turned (broken bad) due to the events with Ray. In the last four episodes we saw a much different Nikki.. hardened, bitter and vengeful.

    I would love to have seen a spin-off series titled "Swango" (cool name) that featured her outwitting various Varga types.
     
    Last edited: Aug 20, 2020
    slipkid likes this.
  20. Veech

    Veech Space In Sounds

    Location:
    Los Angeles, CA
    I could listen to this on a loop for hours.

     
    Captain Groovy likes this.
  21. Bender Rodriguez

    Bender Rodriguez RIP Exene, best dog ever. 2005-2016

  22. Bender Rodriguez

    Bender Rodriguez RIP Exene, best dog ever. 2005-2016

    I was hoping for a "Swango & Wrench" series.

    [​IMG]
     
    Last edited: Aug 20, 2020
    rufus t firefly, Veech and slipkid like this.
  23. slipkid

    slipkid Senior Member

    Good news. athough I thought it was a "winter show" and didn't usually air until then (I could be confusing airing with shooting/recording).
     
  24. slipkid

    slipkid Senior Member

    Is "Wrench" Mr Drums' name? I never knew/can't recall if they gave him a name.

    Awesome artwork there. Artist should have given her a kitten (reincarnated Ray) instead of a grenade though!
     
    Bender Rodriguez likes this.
  25. kwadguy

    kwadguy Senior Member

    Location:
    Cambridge, MA
    Right now, new material that's in the can is more precious than gold. Glad they wrapped this before COVID shut everything down.
     

Share This Page

molar-endocrine