A few weeks back, I brought up Don DeLillo’s White Noise in an attempt to describe what set V.M. Varga apart as a…

“Aporia” opens with a blackly comic murder (Meemo, killing another Stussy to muddy the water), but quickly follows…

So that was weird, right? Don’t get me wrong: I like weird. There are plenty of striking bits in “Who Rules The Land…

One of the challenges of reviewing, at least for me, is trying to figure out the line between “well-written…

I’ve written before about how Varga is more or less filling the same role that Malvo did in Fargo’s first season—the…

I’m starting to get an idea of where this season may end up. I’m not going to share my predictions—for one, I’m a…

There’s narration in “The Narrow Escape Problem”—read by none other than Billy Bob Thornton, unless I’m mistaken.…

“The Law Of Non-Contradiction” is, at least with the context we have available to us, a narrative cul-de-sac. Gloria…

The title of tonight’s episode, “The Principle Of Restricted Choice,” is a reference to bridge—the card game, not…

Call it Minnesota drag. I’ve been trying to come up with a good way to describe why I enjoy watching Fargo as much…

In addition to their murder mysteries, each new season of Fargo has had a larger question looming over it. For the…

A palindrome is a phrase that reads the same forwards and backwards: “Madam I’m Adam,” or something like that. Fargo’…

Well, the Sioux Falls Massacre certainly lived up to its name. After a season full of dropped bodies, the climax of…

There’s nothing so volatile as a person who doesn’t know their own mind. It’s become increasingly obvious that Peggy…

This show looks great, doesn’t it? And it sounds great, too. The colors are crisp and wintery and a little sad, and…

Why did Hank leave the Blumquist house without checking on Peggy? “Rhinoceros” is a crackerjack hour of television,…

There’s a scene three quarters of the way through “The Gift Of The Magi” that sums up Fargo’s peculiar strengths and…

You want to believe things used to be better. It’s something fundamental to the human experience; you want to…

The story of Sisyphus is a story of futility. In Greek myth, Sisyphus was a human king known for his cleverness and…

As Hank Larsson gropes his way toward a working theory on the Waffle Hut killings, he muses, “Was this judge just in…