TV #3 of 2024: Fargo, season 5 I like sporadic elements of this season of Fargo. The gas station shoot-out in episode one is a remarkably tense action sequence, and Jon Hamm and Juno Temple are both acting up a storm with those accents. As ever for this anthology series, the midwestern pleasantries masking dark …
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TV Review: Fargo, season 4
TV #52 of 2020: Fargo, season 4 The latest year of this midwestern crime drama is circling an interesting idea of rival families exchanging child hostages a la Game of Thrones, but there’s not much of a plot to latch onto here beyond random violence. The most intriguing element, a 1950s black mafia, isn’t really …
TV Review: Fargo, season 3
TV #47 of 2018: Fargo, season 3 This show has always been in danger of substituting style for substance, given that its essential MO is to just remix the themes, characters, and events of the original Coen brothers movie. And while the first two seasons largely managed to chart their own strong courses of midwestern …
TV Review: Fargo, season 2
TV #28 of 2016: Fargo, season 2 Fargo’s second season was even better than the first, another taut examination of how quickly events can spiral out of control once people step outside the protection of the law, all wrapped up in midwestern niceness. It had a great cast in service of some seriously great writing …
TV Review: Fargo, season 1
TV #15 of 2016: Fargo, season 1 This was a very strong season of television. Of course, I’m a sucker for a shared universe, so I love the fact that this season tells a self-contained story that is nevertheless a sequel to the original Coen Brothers movie. (And that the next season is a prequel …
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