3rd Season - Fargo..........................

........................it's back - April 19th. Can't wait.

OK you pancake eater - two can play at this game! See how you like it!

 

While I recommend you check out the first 2 seasons, there's no continuity of storyline or characters from one season to the next or from the original movie. Just a few minor off beat references to names from the movie like someone mentioning the Gustoffson parking garage which may have been the garage where Buscemi shot Wade (Jerry Lundergard's father in law) in the movie. It translates well to the small screen series format.

 

Dude. Watch. Now. That is all.

 

This may be the most succinct post (of your 25k+) you have ever made. I think I'll start calling you Verbal Kint.

 

Here's a link to the presser on season 3 - the only cast name I recognize is Ewan McGregor.
Gotta be great with a new character called "Emmit, The Parking Lot King of Minnesota"!

http://tvseriesfinale.com/tv-show/fargo-fx-announces-new-season-three-cast-members/

 

Tomorrow night is the beginning of the new anthology. Can't wait! Been seeing the previews for it a lot now. Ewan McGregor looks crazy in it.

 

Well that was a tad eclectic - ya think? Including the soundtrack.

And the topper: "Things To Do Today".

Biggest killer of 'em all - Death by electrical appliance.

 

Come on BFT - you gotta say something about episode 1 -

 

Guess Fargo will be cancelled mid-season, no one here is apparently watching.

 

They say it's not healthy to talk to one's-self, but I digress......Fx re-ran last year's final two episodes involving the Motel shootout and the aftermath. It will be hard to top those characters and storyline as they slowly show every remaining characters fate. The overall split screen filmography and scene fades was epic.

 

Sorry I'm just getting back with you about it. Yeah it was awesome. I seriously died when she said that she had given her landlord a fake name and he was like "ya know that's a violation of your probation!" LOL!!! Soooooooo Coen-esque! Also it was very Big Lebowski-ish when he dropped that joint in the car. Also very Raising Arizona-ish (my favorite Coen film) for him to meet her at work the way H.I. and Ed met but in reverse. Can't wait to see how it plays out.

 

These writers and actors are having waaaaaay too much fun perpetuating the Fargo misadventures. The character names and dialogue are priceless:
- Emmit Stussy's financial attorney Sy referring them to "Bruce Shipschlitz" a criminal attorney for the impending money laundering racket being dumped on them.
- Emmit's sidekick talking on the phone to the dimwit parking lot attendant and says: "I'm not going to create the implication of foreknowledge" and then trying to explain to dimwit what he means and can't.
- Sidekick making reference to Stan Grossman who was Wade Gustoffson's real estate attorney in Fargo the movie that Jerry Lundergard was supposed to talk with first about the bogus parking lot scheme.
- Sidekick reminding Emmit why they bought the parking lot buried deep in the filthy noisy hole under the elevated highway bridge: "We bought it for the long-run, you know, to build condos on it down the road".

And you have to love the stereo-typed Brit intellect thug with the rotten teeth.

And to think "This is a true story".

 

Yeah it's really cool how they build off the Coens world. One thing I would LOVE to see Fargo do in the future is maybe like a Bonnie and Clyde era gangster type story. I think that would be really cool. I think that scene from Berlin must have something to do with the Ennis story or something since he's not who he claims to be. Although when I first saw it I thought it might just be like a reference to the opening of A Serious Man or something where they have that whole scene that literally has nothing to do with the rest of the film at all and even the Coens said it didn't. They said they just wanted to do something random. LOL! I absolutely love the accents too. They never become unfunny.

 

Yeah the Berlin scene is similar to Jimmy at Cinnabon opening scenes (non-sequetars?) except more obtuse - but when have the Coens team not wrapped every scene into something later? Unless it's meant to be more of a parable thing like oft repeated in "Oh Brother". Funny, I have a very good friend who is 3rd generation Minnesotian and liked Fargo the movie but is now so offended by the mid-west dimwit sounding dialect in the TV series - he refuses to watch it anymore (he's taking it personal lol lol). What is also funny is that the only person in Season 2 who spoke with absolutely no accent or dialect whatsoever was the smooth talking intellectual Mike Milligan character - the only survivor from the KC mob who ended up getting pigeon-holed in an accounting cubicle by the KC syndicate at the end of the series for superb performance up in Fargo.

 

Who hired David Lynch to write and direct tonight's episode? Very bizzarro. Totally screwed the whole story line, especially since we the audience already knew how Ennis Stussy was selected and whacked. I've got to get me one of those switch boxes with the moving hand inside.

 

Yeah that one was definitely crazy. Did you think the motel she stayed in looked like the one from No Country For Old Men where Moss finally gets killed? Also I thought the cafe that she was eating in might have been the one that Walter almost got kicked out of for yelling in The Big Lebowski. Since she was in LA it's possible that it could have been. It didn't look exactly the same but it was very similar. Plus the guy who played Howard Zimmerman was sort of the villain in A Serious Man.

 

Yeah it would be like the Coens to use a former location just to get a chuckle from the audience. Not sure about No Country - wasn't that all shot in New Mexico and west Texas? I still think devoting a whole episode to a somewhat wasted plot line was a downer. But having all the SoCals making fun of her accent was cute (fer shure!)

A separate thought - it's possible this whole "alien robot" (I can help) sequence was a semi-political statement - I noticed that several other network drama shows this past week made overt political statements about immigration almost as if orchestrated by the Hollywood mucky mucks (they've done it before about other topical political issues).

 

I've always thought the UFO stuff was really an homage to the end of The Man Who Wasn't There. But yes most shows have to wear their sjw bullcrap on their sleeves.

 

Ah - another great Billie Bob performance - he was delightful in Fargo Season 1. He was really good in Bandits with Bruce Willis and a very uncharacteristic Cate Blanchett. Still amazed at his riveting Slingblade performance - a very touching yet troubling flick.

 

Having lived in the south for my whole life I can honestly say that I've never seen a movie that fully captures exactly what life is like down here more than Slingblade. The way he talked and the sayings he used and all that were exactly the way I've heard people talk all my life. Slingblade could have been a documentary as far as I was concerned. It was that realistic of a portrayal of southern life.

 

What is up (Chuck) with the Coens and hurling? Marge ("I think I'm gonna barf") Gunderson, then the Ennis Stussy character who gets his new identity from reading the toilet maker's name inside the throne after hurling, and now this loony Brit guy hurling after every meal. The first two examples are understandable - but this mob guy is a head-scratcher. Interesting episode however. So where's the priceless stamp? Buried in a coffee tin under a rock along some lonesome highway outside of Fargo?

 

Season 3 is going down the crapper fast. Season 1 and 2 were unique and well done. Season 3 is going for shock value and getting too weird for me. Almost like they're going through the motions to fulfill a production contract.

 

Finally I'm caught back up after vacation. The last two episodes have been a lot better. Sooooooo many Lebowski references. When he used the word "nomenclature" I seriously came unglued laughing. Also the "new chief" is clearly meant to pay homage to Walter but instead of talking about Vietnam he talks about Afghanistan. Then the terrible pornography which is what Bunny was involved in. Also I've thought the whole season that they were basically using Jacob and Esau as a template and that has now been confirmed for sure. I agree that this season has not been "as good" but I still like it a lot and especially when it just gets into the more awkward and quirkier type elements. The bathroom interaction where she had to use toilet paper to serve another purpose had me rolling. That was seriously one of the most "Coen" things the show has ever done.

 

Well this explains a lot - I'm probably the only person in the Western hemisphere who didn't really get into Lebowski. I've seen and appreciated every other Coen(s) movie - just watched Blood Simple again the other night. OK - I'll stay with Fargo season 3 a while longer and go back and check out Lebowski again.