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The finale of Fargo’s third season sure does signify… something
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…
Fargo - Season 3
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Emmit tries to come clean on a focused Fargo
“Aporia” opens with a blackly comic murder (Meemo, killing another Stussy to muddy the water), but quickly follows up…
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This season of Fargo can’t see the forest for the trees
So that was weird, right? Don’t get me wrong: I like weird. There are plenty of striking bits in “Who Rules The Land Of…
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Darkness abounds and a dinner goes poorly on Fargo
One of the challenges of reviewing, at least for me, is trying to figure out the line between “well-written character…
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Hail Varga, Fargo’s King Of White Noise
I’ve written before about how Varga is more or less filling the same role that Malvo did in Fargo’s first season—the…
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On Fargo, the truth stays muddled, but a theme becomes clear
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…
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Fargo goes back home, plays a familiar tune
There’s narration in “The Narrow Escape Problem”—read by none other than Billy Bob Thornton, unless I’m mistaken. The…
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Gloria heads to Hollywood for a Fargo highpoint
“The Law Of Non-Contradiction” is, at least with the context we have available to us, a narrative cul-de-sac. Gloria…
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Fargo gets more interesting as the Stussy feud turns messy
The title of tonight’s episode, “The Principle Of Restricted Choice,” is a reference to bridge—the card game, not the…
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Meet the new Fargo, same as the old Fargo
Call it Minnesota drag. I’ve been trying to come up with a good way to describe why I enjoy watching Fargo as much as I…