Fargo the TV series

Yeah, that last part really turned me off. Ruined a perfectly good show, though I'll still watch and still love it for the most part.

 

I have a feeling there will be an explanation for the UFO, don't you?

 

I hope there is a (good) explanation, because it was a clunker for me. They've been hinting at it - Hank's mystery room, etc., but yeah, doesn't really work for me. "It's just a flying saucer, hon," was a good line, though.

 

Part of me hopes there isn't one; that they just leave it at that, as if to say, "Yeah, so what?"

There is also this:
The real-life UFO story behind this season of 'Fargo'

 

I look at Fargo, the movie and the show, as a tall tale. I think a lot of the Coen Brothers' stuff is like that and Hawley has really nailed it with the series.

You've got the opening, declaring it to be a "true" story when we all know it's not really. The Paul Bunyan stuff in the movie also is meant to be a reminder. The characters are larger than life. The villains are soulless killing machines, Malvo may have been the Devil himself, and the good guys are nothing but heroic and pure of heart. Yet, it all rings true because of setting and the tone.

This season in particular is like somebody telling us the story, the legend, really, of the Sioux City Massacre. How the Gerhardt family took over the North. How the Indian betrayed them all. How slick the Mike Milligan was. The Reagan stuff plays like some ole timer telling you about the time Dutch passed through town, not as any kind of historical truth. Heck, in this version of the story Bear seemed to turn into an actual bear at the end and couldn't be put down.

That's a longwinded way of saying the UFO stuff fits. It's part of the legend.

 

They appreciate absurdity. Now, is locking yourself in a meat freezer ever a good idea?

 

Liked the final episode of the season well enough, but it had no chance of comparing to last week's, which I though was a masterpiece.

 

Mind blown.

How the 'Fargo' finale revealed a hidden secret from season 1

 

This show is so good. Admittedly, I figured "a TV show based on Fargo" would suck. But it is tremendous. Given Hawley's resume, Bones and the Unusuals, who would have thought? Probably helps that he's a writer first and foremost, a TV guy second.

 

The Unusuals was excellent.

 

It was, but still - I don't know if anyone saw Fargo coming.

 

Yeah, I picked up on that as soon as I saw the one kid signing to the other on the baseball field. Pretty cool.