FTA-TV Fargo

[Catfish Alley]

Keeps getting better somehow! Gerhardt brother sure took some punishment that episode. I'm not sure what will happen with Milligan now. I guess things will come to a head at the cabin.

Was that a mid-season finale? How many episodes left?

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

would love to meet some people one day that actually spoke like this, dunno if I could keep a straight face but you never know, yah...

Haha I watched that on Saturday night and thought of my mates missus who he met at the University of Minnesota 25 years ago. Mentioned it on the Port board off topics thread. She was from Wisconsin ( which is next to Minnesota) and whilst over 20 years living in Oz the Yahhs are less and less heavily accented, they are still there. I have met her mum and dad and a couple of her sisters and they all speak like that without being as heavy as the 2 girls but more like Frances McDormand's character.

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

Oh and by the way loved the movie, loved the first series and I reckon series 2 is even better.

Some strange dodgy shit happens up there in the great frozen north of USA.

 

[Godchin]

Keeps getting better somehow! Gerhardt brother sure took some punishment that episode. I'm not sure what will happen with Milligan now. I guess things will come to a head at the cabin.

Was that a mid-season finale? How many episodes left?

There's no mid-season break. 2 episodes left.

And yeah, absolutely ripping show.

Season 1 and 2 are classics.

 

[rumply]

Oh and by the way loved the movie, loved the first series and I reckon series 2 is even better.

Some strange dodgy shit happens up there in the great frozen north of USA.

yeah the movie sits somewhere in my top 20 favs & I still get a chuckle from the 'this is a true story etc' line the Coen's ran with which pretty much everyone just accepted as being fact when of course, as eventually came out years later, it's all fiction. & so the tradition continues with the TV series.

 

[Godchin]

I was just watching the last ep of season 1 on FX.An interesting line from Lou Solverson [Keith Carradine] to his step-grand daughter about sitting on the porch one night in 1979 with a loaded gun waiting for some baddies to show up.He says they didn't that night but a couple of nights later.

A reference to the Gerhardts from season 2 ?

I thought it was a reference to the lights in the sky. I remember him saying something along the lines of, "it was a question of who, more like what".

Love the Malvo/Milligan/Kitchen Brothers/Hanzee characters that give off that divine and untouchable sort of vibe.

 

[BotsMaster]

****ing LOL at Peggy stabbing Dodd to teach him some manners.

He really was useless. He could've tied her up and then waited for Ed to come home and successfully hang him, but was too busy whinging about women. "You can't turn them into cat food"

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

yeah the movie sits somewhere in my top 20 favs & I still get a chuckle from the 'this is a true story etc' line the Coen's ran with which pretty much everyone just accepted as being fact when of course, as eventually came out years later, it's all fiction. & so the tradition continues with the TV series.

Thanks. I forgot all about the true story stuff at the start of the movie but as I watched the repeats of series 1, just before season 2 started I took it that all those lines on screen based about a true story but just names changed, was true. I know some strange shit that happened in Canada so just assumed this was part of cabin fever stuff you get from 3 to 4 months of being snowed in just south of the border.

 

[Cruyff14]

What an amazing piece of television that episode was.

Absolutely incredible. The TV scene Peggy was watching was obviously detailing what was going to happen (don't know if anyone else picked up on that) - but what I guessed was slightly off.

Hansi is one badass mofo, you definitely don't want to mess with him.

When Dodd got Ed by the noose I jumped, scared the absolute shit out of me.

This episode must be what Hank references in season 1:

"Had a case once, back in '79. I'd tell you the details, but it'd sound like I made 'em up. Madness, really?"

"Bodies?" a curious Malvo asks.

"Yessir. One after another. Probably if you stacked 'em high, you could've climbed to the second floor. I saw something that year I ain't ever seen — before or since. I'd call it animal, except ... animals only kill for food. This was ... Sioux Falls. Ever been?"

It makes a lot of sense, really. Unless the next episode we see more of a massacre.

The last 5-10 mins were gripping. My heart was racing. Glad Dodd is dead now though, the arseh*le - just didn't expect Hansi to kill him.

The big question is, what happens with Milligan now?

 

[Seeds]

Woweee on this bandwagon.

 

[pjcrows]

Loved the take from Fargo the movie - when Peggy couldn't get any TV reception and kept getting frustrated. She's actually similar to Buschemi's character - jumpy and won't shut the f*ck up

 

[Mr Eagle]

THAT. WAS. AWESOME!!!!

 

[Gak Attack]

Great episode. Easily the best thing on tv.

 

[evo]

I was surprised no one mentioned last week that Coens went with an old favourite song, but done by a different artist.

 

[evo]

this week, I loved the part where Peggy's friend gets off the phone, and the Indian just fondles here hair like he's sizing her up for a scalping.

 

[pjcrows]

this week, I loved the part where Peggy's friend gets off the phone, and the Indian just fondles here hair like he's sizing her up for a scalping.

Did to her what he did to that white bunny.

 

[Catfish Alley]

He's mostly killed people for a reason I think. I'm not sure he would have killed her.

 

[FISTO]

This has been the series of the year for mine. I can't speak highly enough of it and usually I'm a hate filled campaigner of a little man.

 

[Gasometer]

Best episode of the season.

Outstanding

 

[Cruyff14]

This has been the series of the year for mine. I can't speak highly enough of it and usually I'm a hate filled campaigner of a little man.

One of the best shows of all time.

 

[rumply]

"dont tell Betsy I'm down"
"yeah, she scares me more than you, so I'm gonna call"
"oh you son of a...."

 

[Godchin]

"I just wanted a glass of water"

 

[Seeds]

I've got no idea how these last two episodes play out other than there will be lots of bodies.

 

[Father Jack]

So Ronald Reagan does some play acting which distracts someone long enough for the bad guy to get free? Not a bad summation of his presidency I guess.

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

I'm a bit slower than some of you but what a great episode #8 was. Kirsten Dunst is outstanding as Peggy. And Hanzee is turning into a great anti-hero. He was chilling at times but you had to laugh when he shot those blokes in the legs sledging him near where the plaque that 22 natives where hanged. If this season doesnt win a heap of awards from even more nominations, then either something is wrong or there is some brilliant stuff to come or I have completely missed some good stuff.