Fargo Season 2

[Tyche]

Well, I'm 3 episodes deep and I think this is going to be my favorite season thus far. The scenes with Juno Temple and Jennifer Jason Leigh are so damn good.

[Tyche]

Finale comes in a week. Def a top 2 season. The casting is sooooooo fucking good. Richa Moorjani has been a superstar, but her, Jennifer Jason-Leigh, and Juno Temple carry the show despite great performances from the guys as well. Jon Hamm, Joe Keery, and Sam Spruell all play very different villain roles and all kill it in their own way. They did not whiff on a single casting. Kudos to Hawley for nabbing Moorjani for that role despite being Indian and never playing a role like that.

[kisada]

totally forgot that this was going on, i'll be very happy to start up

[Byrd]

This season has been my favorite since Season 1, and might even be the best season depending on if they stick the landing or not. It's been a while since I've looked forward to a show on a weekly basis as much as I have on this season of Fargo.

Roy Tillman isn't the most evil villian, but he's kind of the scariest because he feels a lot more real than Malvo or Varga. There's a lot more people like Roy Tillman out there (or who want to be like Roy Tillman) than the other two. The other scenes didn't have a singular pinpointed villain, IMHO, the same way those three are.

[Tyche]

We did it! We stuck the landing. Richa, Juno, and Jennifer...just so damn good. Wish we'd have gotten more Richa in the finale, but the Sam Spruell stuff closed it out well in a "what the fuck" kind of Fargo way.

[Byrd]

We did it! We stuck the landing. Richa, Juno, and Jennifer...just so damn good. Wish we'd have gotten more Richa in the finale, but the Sam Spruell stuff closed it out well in a "what the fuck" kind of Fargo way.

I don't know what I was expecting from the finale, but that was not it. Very Fargo, though. Dot's promise of killing Roy didn't come through, and we never saw Chekov's Tank.

I will say that I thought Munch's arc was wrapped up in the previous episode and he was just going to vanish into the sunset, but as soon as the siege at the compound got wrapped up, there was only so much left to resolve, so clearly there was more to come with him. I also figured with the amount of commercials they had in the first two thirds of the episode something big and intense was coming for the final act with no commercials, and the only thing outstanding was Munch. But it still didn't resolve the way I was expecting.

And Wayne was kind of the MVP of that scene. "Geez." "We saw a tiger at the zoo once."

[Tyche]

Wife and I were watching and remember pausing it after everything seemed to settle and there was still like 30 minutes left. I didn't know what to expect after that.

Wayne 100% knew what was up and there was a fleeting moment where tension was building immensely and you thought Wayne was going to go down protecting Dot (right before Wayne asked him his name when Dot was trying to get Wayne out and Wayne kept pushing the conversation). I really loved his character. Played off as this folksy, simple guy but he knew how to handle massive power imbalances better than anyone else in the show. He'd been doing it his entire life. No one really knew how to handle people. Roy didn't. Indira didn't. Lorraine didn't. Dot was trying to learn. But that was Wayne's superpower. Whether he was the one in power (giving a car away) or the one without the power (his mom, the final scene, etc), he always handled his shit with other people. Really appreciated that final scene, think it was important for Wayne and Munch.

[Byrd]

Played off as this folksy, simple guy but he knew how to handle massive power imbalances better than anyone else in the show. He'd been doing it his entire life. No one really knew how to handle people.

That's a good observation. They even said during the scene "Wayne likes talking" and in the previous scene, Dot told Indira that he's a "people person." Sure enough.

While watching the scene first, I thought he was completely clueless and still suffering brain damage from the electrical zap, but then something about the cheers of the orange pop made me realize he knew exactly what he was doing.