Fargo the TV series

I thought it set up the rest of the season really well.

 

I think the Grimsly/Holverson family may be one of the coolest families on TV today. That was cemented with the shotgun scene.

 

Chekhov's bear trap!

 

I don't watch much TV outside of sports and movies. But I watched every episode of Fargo. What an outstanding show. A part of me wants another season, another part says "let it be."

 

I'm excited by the prospect of a second season, with the obvious complete reboot. They guaranteed that.

 

Shotty, I don't think you should worry about spoilers. Anyone who clicks on a TV/movie thread without having seen it/caught up deserves what they get. If I miss the first-run broadcast of this show or any of the others I watch, I purposely avoid the thread until I catch up.

 

Gus did what a lot of people want to see happen in such situations, facing an obviously-guilty killer. No judge, no jury, instant justice.

 

Thoroughly enjoyed the entire series...but who was the (syndicate's hitmen's) law enforcement mole, and what the hell was the point of the thing with Bill and the kid from Africa?

 

Many have suggested season two could be Sioux Falls and FINALLY tell us what happened in '78/'79. But that's just fans talking and hoping I think.

With regard to the Bill and Africa kid story, Alan Sepinwall said this, and I'm inclined to agree:

"Bill and Tahir's story of reuniting was a lovely thing not only for Molly's smile at the end of it, but for the reminder that while Bill is both stupid and stubborn, he's a fundamentally decent guy — which has been part of the problem with the whole Nygaard/Malvo case. He can't conceive of a world where a fellow nice guy like Lester could have so thoroughly snapped, and so he ignores all evidence to the contrary the moment an alternate theory and suspect are presented to him."

The folks at AV club viewed at as a bit of foreshadowing:

"...you already know from Tahir and Bill’s story that Lester’s going to meet someone unexpectedly, and then the penny drops and it’s a decidedly different looking Malvo—a Malvo who, at least right now, doesn’t seem to notice Lester at all."


I wonder if it will go down like the Mike Yanigata scene from the film. Sepinwall said in his post series finale blog that Hawley didn't view the Yanigata scene in the film as terribly important from a plot perspective, but Sepinwall believed that was the key scene that helped Marge tie everything together.

 

I just want to know about what's going to become of Key & Peele after that episode.

 

I bet they keep the Sioux Falls, 1979 story in their pocket for now, but I could see doing a season on it at some point. They've left themselves with plenty of options the way they did it.

They could do a complete reboot with nothing that has anything to do with these characters or they could see if Allison Tolman and/or Colin Hanks want to come back and do the story of her next big case a year or two later. They could do something set in the early 2000s and if the main characters cross paths with Key & Peele or Vern or whoever it would be cool little Easter Eggs.

 

Having the earth swallow you whole after you've spent way too long walking on thin ice. Greatest symbolic ending on TV ever