Fargo (FX) TV Show • Page 42

I spent this whole episode thinking the exterior shots looked familiar, especially the really wide one at the end where there’s a water tower visible in the distance. Turns out they filmed this outside of my hometown and I’ve driven on the roads around that farmhouse hundreds of times. My high school is probably just out of frame or digitally edited out of some shots.

'Fargo' crew features historic McLean County farmhouse

 

Just caught up on all of season 4 in the last week. Think my thoughts mostly line up with the thread.

1. Too many characters, not enough of them are interesting
2. Rock and Schwartzman are...fine? Nowhere near as compelling as central performances from the past seasons
3. Oraetta, Rabbi, and Ethelrida are the best characters so far
4. Gaetano is just a huge baffling misfire
5. Most importantly: Not. Enough. Olyphant!

 

I do think it’s gotten better lately though...

 

Rock is great, Schwartzman is a caricature

 

Lol I like Schwartzmen and Gaetano NGL, I feel like chris rock/the whole funeral home family have barely done anything

 

I really want to like Ethelrida but don’t feel like I’ve gotten enough of her to actually attach to her in any way. They really framed it like she was gonna be a main character but she’s actually been a pretty small cog. Apart from setting the stage in episode one she hasn’t had much interesting dialogue and it seems her only purpose from a narrative perspective so far was to rat out Oraetta

 

yeah my major problems with this season would be gone if they'd just scaled back the Fadda stuff massively and focused more on Ethelrida, Rabbi and Oraetta honestly

 

Yeah. It’s tough because I think the Faddas have had the overwhelming majority of memorable characters and interesting movement happening. All the things that have gone on in their camp have basically carried the season so far (and I’m including Milligan/Satchel in this). But in a lot of ways, reallocating like 80% of the focus on them to other parties instead — the funeral family, the outlaws and Olyphant, Oraetta, Loy’s crew — would’ve probably made for a much more streamlined season and allowed a story that outshined anything the Faddas have given us the way things are now.

Still, just gonna hold my breath and hope that Hawley knows how to land the plane. I would love to look back on this season and laugh about how well it came together.

 

Chris Rock has like barely been in it right? Am I the only one that thinks that?

 

Seemed to me like he and Schwartzman have had the most screen time up until this week’s episode

 

I do not like Oraetta

 

That was the first episode of the season I loved, and as others have said, the first time it felt like Fargo. Made me realize the show had been missing that weird humor that the other seasons have (and most of the attempts at humor this season have been misses for me.) The billboard bit was great. The tornado stuff was wild, I really hope Milligan survived but doubtful.

 

Yeah the tornado was great. I love that Hawley is just not afraid at all to pitch a curveball like that. He could just given us a routine shootout that ultimately led to the same end result for both characters, but instead he just says “fuck it, tornado”

Whether not either one of them died is hard to say without seeing it on screen. My assumption was that they were both killed, but on the other hand Calamita got that big cockroach energy

 

I think the Tornado was a nod to A Serious Man. And the house/hotel they stayed at was called Barton Arms

 

Plus the Wizard of Oz all over the ep

 

Oh yeah! I got this in a few other places, the color change being the most obvious, but I totally spaced the tornado connection!

 

This is coming together much better than i thought it was going to. Still, the only role i want to see Salvatore Esposito is Wario.

 

A lot of ground covered in this episode; felt a bit of a rushed way to end the season. Certainly feels like they could easily make another season of this storyline. For sure still the weakest of the four seasons

 

I’m giving it a solid B right now, which i wouldnt have expected 3 episodes ago. I agree it’s the worst of the 4 to me though.

 

Still convinced that a mattie ross-like Ethelrida vs crooked racist cops and a Minnesota nice serial killer would've been way more interesting than the tired crime family disputes we got, but I thought Chris Rock gave his best performance tonight (and last week's episode was probably my favorite of the season).

 

This episode was great. I wish everything wasn't coming together so late into the season but it finally is and it's getting great

I lol'd hard at the brother's death, even though I'm not sure we were supposed to

 

I said “what the fuck?” out loud, then laughed when Josto said the exact same thing a second later.

 

Andddddd I just realized there's one episode left; makes sense now, as it felt like several loose ends weren't tied yet.

 

Busted out laughing at Italian Nacho Libre's death

This was the first episode shot after the lockdown, thought they handled the season change pretty well. I thought Satchel actually seemed older too, crazy what couple months can do.

So all of that time spent with Oraetta was ultimately just to get a ring to Loy? And the OCD cop just minorly fucked over both sides (no arrests stuck?) killed 2 pointless characters and then died.

For how long this season is, with so many characters, it's crazy how little of it actually matters.

I also wonder if they realized Andrew Bird is a shit actor and that's why he hasn't had any lines in the past 6 episodes

 

Yep, this exact thing happened to me too haha