I had more problem with the narrative voice over than the UFO. Yeah, I got it was Martin from the first season, though I didn't see it. Just kinda took me away from the story. Would been good if it was the final episode, but obviously it wasn't.
From start to finish, one of the best seasons of ANYTHING I have watched on television. The ending was frustratingly open and ambiguous, which totally fit. So many homages to No Country for Old Men in the last handful of episodes (Hanzee/Clerk conversation, Mike Milligan's 'friend-o', Hanzee diving behind the car after seeing Lou's reflection in the mirror).
The flash forward to the present was cool. Betsy's phrasing and the unpredictability of the show had me wondering if Lou was actually going to live, or if we were going to veer off into some altered universe.
Were those two kids at the end Mr. Numbers and Mr. Wrench?
__________________ "It's a great day for hockey."
-'Badger' Bob Johnson (1931-1991)
"I see as much misery out of them moving to justify theirselves as them that set out to do harm." -Dr. Amos "Doc" Cochran
From start to finish, one of the best seasons of ANYTHING I have watched on television. The ending was frustratingly open and ambiguous, which totally fit. So many homages to No Country for Old Men in the last handful of episodes (Hanzee/Clerk conversation, Mike Milligan's 'friend-o', Hanzee diving behind the car after seeing Lou's reflection in the mirror).
The flash forward to the present was cool. Betsy's phrasing and the unpredictability of the show had me wondering if Lou was actually going to live, or if we were going to veer off into some altered universe.
Were those two kids at the end Mr. Numbers and Mr. Wrench?
That intro with War Pigs by Black Sabbath was one of the greatest things I've ever seen. This is one of the best seasons of any TV show ever filmed IMO, 9.5/10. It only loses a half-point for the weird UFO scene, I prefer it when they just allude to the really weird crazy #### instead of bluntly showing it
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That intro with War Pigs by Black Sabbath was one of the greatest things I've ever seen. This is one of the best seasons of any TV show ever filmed IMO, 9.5/10. It only loses a half-point for the weird UFO scene, I prefer it when they just allude to the really weird crazy #### instead of bluntly showing it
It put me off until I read that interview that Dion posted. Add that to the brief reference to the situation in the finale, and I'm converting to accepting in this universe Hawley and the Coens are creating.
I am re-watching the first season right now (partly because I'm trying to get my roommate hooked on the show, and partly because I just want to), and there are so many instances of randomness and convenience that it plays into the general theme and narrative structure.
The "impossible" becomes relevant to the story and "true" crime element.
__________________ "It's a great day for hockey."
-'Badger' Bob Johnson (1931-1991)
"I see as much misery out of them moving to justify theirselves as them that set out to do harm." -Dr. Amos "Doc" Cochran
^^ lol. Man wish the thanks button was on. I'd probably spend it all on this thread. Why the hell is it so hard get Calgarians to watch this show? I have no one except you guys to ponder this great piece of cinema with.
Might have to make a few memory sticks for stocking stuffers.
The 2 shows I'm watching right now are Fargo and The Walking Dead. I can't say enough about Fargo. It makes Walking Dead seems so boring and drawn out in comparison.
I can't wait to see what direction or era season 3 is set.
Yeah that describes my take too pretty much. I despise a lot of the characters in walking dead, but it's hard to find any that I didn't totally love in Fargo season 2. I've found myself surfing cpuck on some walking dead episodes this season.
Location: A simple man leading a complicated life....
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Fargo creator Noah Hawley says 'it's certainly our plan' to return to Alberta for Season 3
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“It’s certainly our plan to,” Hawley says. “We’ve had a great production experience up there for both seasons and have trained our crew and our departments to make the show Fargo and certainly our goal is to come back and do it again.”
It’s the first time anyone has commented on whether the Emmy-winning series will return to the region. Last month, FX announced the show would return for a third season but would not confirm whether Alberta would be the location, as it was for the first two seasons.
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Hawley said production on Season 3 likely won’t start until November of 2016 and will air in the spring of 2017.
“It’s a winter show, for better or worse, ” he said. “There is not time to shoot another year before this winter is over … I think one of the strengths of the show is that we separate the writing from the production and we really take the time and we write the whole story and write eight of the 10 hours at least and we end up there knowing exactly what we’re doing and exactly what the whole story is. We are going through the writing process now.”
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Hawley said he has written the first hour of the third season, which will take place in 2010. But he denied that main characters from Season 1, which took place in 2006, will be featured prominently in the new season. There had been some speculation that the first season’s protagonist, Molly Solverson (Allison Tolman) might return.
“As much as I love those actors and those characters, the danger of bringing them back and putting them through their paces for another crazy case is that the artifice of the whole thing becomes too clear and suddenly it just feels we’re doing it because it’s fun and we like them, but we’ve broken our own rules,” he said.
“That’s not to say that one of our stories might not intersect with characters we’ve seen before for a certain period of time. But I don’t think we can say that two years later, Molly gets a phone call and you’ll never believe what happened and here we go again.”
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While Hawley did not reveal any plot points or cast for Season 3, he did offer a hint of what one of the themes will be.
“Our first year was set in 2006 but we didn’t really deal with what it was like to be in that region in a more contemporary world and I like the idea that we’re now living in a very selfie-oriented culture where people photograph what they’re eating and put it up for other people to see,” he says. “It feels like a social dynamic that is very antithetical to the sort of Lutheran pragmatism of the region. I like the idea of setting these very pragmatic and humble people against a culture of narcissism and see what that generates story-wise.”
The last episode was great up to the point where they go too far to connect to Season 1. It felt a bit like George Lucas cramming C3P0 into the prequels having him being built by Anakin Skywalker.
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-Molly's mom has accurate visions of the future including technology, Costco, and the cast of Season 1 including Colin Hanks
-Numbers and Wrench show up as kids
-Hanzee gets plastic surgery and turns into a fat Italian dude who runs the Fargo mob in Season 1
