That episode was a train wreck laden with predictability and implausibility. You could see the count of monte cristo move coming a mile away with all the gratuitous shots of the guy in the ridiculous head bandage. The "cops in cars getting coffee" scenes were just dull as dishwater but still managed to telegraph the final scene; we get it, he's incompetent, she's not. Also I don't see how the biblical theme works at all here; part of the appeal of the original Fargo setting is it's intentional banality and the utterly pragmatic motives of its characters, including the bad guys; they were morons, neither psychopathic nor supernatural. People are too busy dealing with the weather to do much deep thinking or get all mystical. And earlier episodes kept a good balance between humor and violence, but that went off kilter in this one. That TV.com reviewer wrote that this was the episode where Fargo got REAL; he forgot to add the word silly, or stupid, I fear.
Did everyone catch the name of the parking garage - "Gustafson", which was the name of Jerry Lundegarde's father in law from the movie, who gets killed at the parking garage by Buscemi's character.
I didn't see that, but it looked like the exact same garage as in Fargo; at least they shot it in such a way to make you think so. Plus seeing the garage attendant asking for his 2$ gave one pause.
Was the money that the young Oliver Platt character finds along the fence, the money Steve Buscemi character hid in the movie, shortly before he found the inside of the chipper?
Yes. And now there's a new briefcase full of money planted there. Maybe this will be the device tying each season to the next. (If it returns -- haven't the ratings been kind of underwhelming?)
Platt buried the money he had collected for the ransom in the same place, thinking if he "returned" the money that would stop the madness that has been happening to him.
I thought they wanted it to be a continuing series with a new set of crimes and characters every season.
Before the series started, they said it would only be a 10 part series. Unless something changed since then, that's all I've seen.
I think you might be confusing this with the True Detectives series on HBO. That one will have a new set of characters/ actors.
I discovered a few days ago I forgot to record last Tuesday and the only replay was last Wednesday. I'm getting bits and pieces from the comments above. It sounded like a disappointing episode. Rather than watch it on the computer, if one of you could just summarize the major points in a few sentences I will just continue on with the next episode. Thank you!
A major storyline was, after Lester's brother offends him in the hospital, Lester absolutely brilliantly sneaks out of the hospital, gathers up some key evidence from his home, plants it in his brother's house, and successfully sneaks back into the hospital -- all of this undetected. I didn't know Lester had this in him.
Not really - don't forget Lester's nephew saw him in the house. Even though his nephew pretty much ignored it, you know that's going to become important down the line.
I liked the last episode a lot. A ton of riveting things happened (Lester sneaking out and back into the hospital, Malvo being ambushed by the mob guys in that snowstorm, the whole money exchange thing going south etc) to keep me glued to the TV, just that some of it defied any logical explanation I could think of (how did the mob guys know where to get Malvo, know what kind of car he was driving etc?? how was it that Molly + whatshisname just happened to be like 2 blocks away from Malvo's ambush?). I'm hoping there will be some plausible explanations for that stuff though.
I enj0yed it, I'd say go ahead and watch it. There were some things that may or may not be made believable in the future that were a little hard to swallow, but these were for the most part action-packed cathartic moments. . .the show needed something like this and there it was.