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Fargo (TV series)

Vintage Paw said:
Finished.

Brilliant.

And omg baby Numbers and Wrench! <3

Fucking lol at Milligan in his office.

Will definitely watch it through again, and would be interested to see S1 again too to look for stuff.

Do we know what era S3 is set in?
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Series 3 is gonna be 2010. Definitely links to series 1 in it, but clearly from casting is very much it's own story, so whether it'll just be the odd character and reference, or something a bit more solid, is hard to guess. I'd suspect the former. Very much looking forward to it.

Edit - ignore!

So many neat touches to this show, it's definitely worth doing twice. I got a lot more out of season 2 early episodes when I rewatched them. They are slow burners, but there's a whole load of character development that happens which you don't understand the first time round. Season 1 definitely deserves a second watch as well.
 
Yeah I can imagine a second watching will make those early episodes feel a lot better. There were just so many 'main' characters, no real focus was given on any specific antagonist, the domestic stories of the Blumquists and Solversons hadn't got going at that point, and I felt like there was nothing to root me to it. It wasn't until episode 5 that it started to pick up for me.
 
Currently reading "Before The Fall" by Noah Hawley (Fargo series creator/main writer/showrunner). About halfway through, and it's turning into a pretty tight thriller. Not a bad option, if waiting for your Fargo fix in spring is feeling a bit too much. Some very snappy dialogue, well paced, interesting characters and intriguing plotline (wealthy family's plane crashess with only two survivors - 3 year old son of rich family and a random painter hitching a ride. Flits between flashbacks to the stories of those on the plane and the main narrative).

It's not a "great" book (so far...) but is certainly "very good". This opinion may be revised up or down upon completion, depending on how well it all ties together. But certainly worth a go if you're out of series to binge and want something a bit familiar.
 
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Jon-of-arc said:
Currently reading "After The Fall" by Noah Hawley (Fargo series creator/main writer/showrunner). About halfway through, and it's turning into a pretty tight thriller. Not a bad option, if waiting for your Fargo fix in spring is feeling a bit too much. Some very snappy dialogue, well paced, interesting characters and intriguing plotline (wealthy family's plane crashess with only two survivors - 3 year old son of rich family and a random painter hitching a ride. Flits between flashbacks to the stories of those on the plane and the main narrative).

It's not a "great" book (so far...) but is certainly "very good". This opinion may be revised up or down upon completion, depending on how well it all ties together. But certainly worth a go if you're out of series to binge and want something a bit familiar.
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Ordered. If it's rubbish I shall blame you :p :D
 
Sad to say that I'm revising my opinion of this book down. It's worth a read, I guess, but it seems to be trying a bit too hard to be too many things, and ends up failing at all of them. Is it a thriller (no, although the first half does its best to make you think it will be)? Is it a who dunnit? Kind of, but it spends half the book making you think it's about one thing, and then the second half switches up on this completely, and leaves plot major plot elements infinished. Is it a study of the relationship between the two survivors? No, despite what the blurb claims - neither character is fleshed out well enough to justify this claim.

It's a shame, because there's the bones of a good book here. The non survivors are all brilliantly written, the fox news type pundit is also pretty rounded, and the unfinished plotlines I mentioned would have made a more Satisfying story, if they were taken to conclusion. Ho hum.
 
Anyone know the C4 start date yet?

I'm rewatching the first two seasons in preparation, on S2, Ep5 at the moment :cool:
 
Watched the first episode last night, thought it was great!

David Thewlis stole the show!

"...America." :D
 
I haven't looked but I expect that Rob McElhenney's twitter mentions are full of nerds telling him he should have tried a certain system.
 
Third Ep a very different story than we're used to from Fargo, but so well done (although I'm not sure the timelines match up, Thaddeus / Ennis was meant to be 82, no way is he 40-50 in the 1975 LA flashbacks, hopefully that's deliberate).

They're clearly building up to something with the constant references to tech and modern life, so many shots of Gloria isolated by her lack of online presence or capability. Carrie Coon can't catch a break with technology whatever show she's in :D

Always nice to see Ray Wise show up too :cool:

Bubbling along nicely.
 
The Octagon said:
Third Ep a very different story than we're used to from Fargo, but so well done (although I'm not sure the timelines match up, Thaddeus / Ennis was meant to be 82, no way is he 40-50 in the 1975 LA flashbacks, hopefully that's deliberate).

They're clearly building up to something with the constant references to tech and modern life, so many shots of Gloria isolated by her lack of online presence or capability. Carrie Coon can't catch a break with technology whatever show she's in :D

Always nice to see Ray Wise show up too :cool:

Bubbling along nicely.
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Noticed that timeline shift too, sure you're right and it's deliberate.
On tech side there was also VM saying they had already got into the Stussy's software.
 
Orang Utan said:
how do you mean? it's the first show I've seen her in.
Loved the cartoon interludes.
I was also puzzled by the age thing with Ennis
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Watch The Leftovers, HBO Drama about the after-effects of a global 'event', also just entering it's 3rd (and final) season, she's one of the highlights but the show in general is very good.
 
Really enjoying this season 3 so far - it's got a distinct Burn After Reading vibe in one of the plot strands
 
I didn't really get the need for the flashback episode on Ennis,

. As far as I can tell it didn't add anything to the plot going forward.
 
Am just getting up to speed on C4 catch-up - two episodes so far. It hasn't grabbed me as immediately as I remember the others doing, but looking back I see I said similar at the start of Season 2, so I'm giving it time. I felt it lacked the sensational incident/crime to kick it all off that the other seasons had, though.

Thewlis is the highlight so far, although we noticed that his accent is weirdly like the not-quite-right accent of Antony LaPaglia playing Daphne's useless brother Simon in Frasier, and now I can't not notice the comparison....
 
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