Fargo - C4

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Beati Dogu

8,896 posts

140 months

Wednesday 18th November 2015
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There's me thinking the Kitchen brothers were just "The Edge" from U2 and some clever editing:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVGRWVt0wkw



FiF

44,148 posts

252 months

Wednesday 18th November 2015
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kev b said:
WRT the stuff in the Blomquist basement, I think Mrs Blomquist may be a kleptomaniac.

She stole all the TP from the salon but the boss ignored it, even after her romantic advances were spurned.
That's a fair point, they're probably all the old magazines from the salon.

FourWheelDrift

88,558 posts

285 months

Wednesday 18th November 2015
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Beati Dogu said:
There's me thinking the Kitchen brothers were just "The Edge" from U2 and some clever editing:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVGRWVt0wkw
I can see now why they don't say anything in the show hehe

Black can man

31,846 posts

169 months

Friday 20th November 2015
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Finally caught up with this fantastic programme , I absolutely love this .


Bloody brilliant.

ajprice

27,539 posts

197 months

Monday 23rd November 2015
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BANG...

"st"

hehe

castex

4,936 posts

274 months

Monday 23rd November 2015
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Simply outstanding.
Loved the original film, as I do most of the Coen oeuvre.
This has the previous TV series knocked into a cocked hat.
Acting, pacing, script. Rawness.
Fabulous.

FourWheelDrift

88,558 posts

285 months

Monday 23rd November 2015
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Why is it always the good stuff that goes quickly. I wanted at least another 20 mins tonight.

Mr.Fog

904 posts

143 months

Tuesday 24th November 2015
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FourWheelDrift said:
Why is it always the good stuff that goes quickly. I wanted at least another 20 mins tonight.
What you do in your own time fella... biggrin

Beati Dogu

8,896 posts

140 months

Tuesday 24th November 2015
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Anyone else noticed the similarity of the lawyer fellah Karl Weathers to Dr. Zaius from Planet of the Apes?




ajprice

27,539 posts

197 months

Tuesday 24th November 2015
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There will be a season 3 http://www.theverge.com/2015/11/23/9786126/fargo-s.... No mention of characters or when it will be based yet.

nicanary

9,805 posts

147 months

Tuesday 24th November 2015
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Last night's episode r5eminded me of the old John Wayne films Rio Bravo and El Dorado, with the cops holding out against an armed gang. We even got the old chestnut "I've come for my boy".

I hadn't expected the drunken lawyer to take such a central role. Excellent script.

(I have collected two monthly magazines for the last 35 years, and the stash is only a fraction of what Peggy had in her basement - and I'm 65. She's still in her twenties, so how the hell did she amass that lot? All the Gerhardts had to do was set light to it all, and she would have been burned to a crisp.)

ajprice

27,539 posts

197 months

Tuesday 24th November 2015
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nicanary said:
All the Gerhardts had to do was set light to it all, and she would have been burned to a crisp.)
I don't think Dodd Gerhardt has the brain to work out stuff like that, he's happy with his cattle prod stick and shooting first smile .

FourWheelDrift

88,558 posts

285 months

Tuesday 24th November 2015
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nicanary said:
(I have collected two monthly magazines for the last 35 years, and the stash is only a fraction of what Peggy had in her basement - and I'm 65. She's still in her twenties, so how the hell did she amass that lot? All the Gerhardts had to do was set light to it all, and she would have been burned to a crisp.)
Lots of different magazines, the kind that signs up to everything. Probably all in the shop's name too.

Beati Dogu

8,896 posts

140 months

Tuesday 24th November 2015
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nicanary said:
Last night's episode reminded me of the old John Wayne films Rio Bravo and El Dorado, with the cops holding out against an armed gang. We even got the old chestnut "I've come for my boy".
"Hey, you in the jail!"

Yes, I thought of those films too. Although a drunken lawyer rather than a drunken sheriff. The cop even told them it didn't work in cowboy movies and it wouldn't work here.


Meanwhile Fat Damon is on the run. Not that he'd get far on foot in those conditions.

Peggy is clearly a hoarder / pack rat and as the sheriff noted, "a little touched".

Halb

53,012 posts

184 months

Tuesday 24th November 2015
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Yes, very good ep, and yes, I prefer this series, very nuanced and a more complete story than the first.
Way to go, Fargo!
The stand-off was brilliant. Seemed pretty realistic to me.
And Ron, he is just brilliant in everything he turns up in.

GetCarter

29,406 posts

280 months

Tuesday 24th November 2015
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Halb said:
I prefer this series, very nuanced and a more complete story than the first.
+1

Bar was set high - but I agree.

ajprice

27,539 posts

197 months

Tuesday 24th November 2015
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GetCarter said:
Halb said:
I prefer this series, very nuanced and a more complete story than the first.
+1

Bar was set high - but I agree.
At first I thought there might be too many threads going through with Lou Solverson, the Gerhardt's, the Mafia, the police, the Blumquists, Mike Milligan...

Then people died and thinned it out a bit hehe . Lorne Malvo is still winning it for the better villain, but Mike Milligan and the Indian come close.

joema

2,649 posts

180 months

Tuesday 24th November 2015
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What's the guessing ed never shows up after the Indian catches him up?

Art0ir

9,402 posts

171 months

Tuesday 24th November 2015
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I thought we were going to see the massacre then realised we weren't near the end yet.

Slightly odd watching it knowing at least one of the main characters lives to be an old man, but enough twists and turns to keep us guessing about everything else regardless.

Cracker of an episode, glad I stuck through the first half of the tale (as you should with any Cohen connected works).

LewG

1,358 posts

147 months

Tuesday 24th November 2015
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Really enjoying this second series, the attention to detail is fantastic. Have to say I probably prefer the first though, purely for the fact that Malvo was such an evil bd!