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“Storia Americana” is the shortest episode of Fargo’s fourth season. More than that, it’s unusually short, with the…
Reviews - Fargo
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One of the more unpleasant aspects about watching a mediocre season of a show like Fargo—a series that holds its…
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I love when a show changes its tempo for an episode. It’s something The Walking Dead does (or did) a few times a…
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So, it looks like we’re in the “shit meets fan” portion of the season. Last week, I commented on how Fargo’s bold…
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Looks like I should’ve saved my mini-treatise on Doctor Harvard’s name for this week; sort of “paying tribute” kind…
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I still can’t quite get over the name “Dr. Harvard.” Obviously the names on this season of Fargo were chosen with…
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It’s a problem of pacing, I think, but it’s one that’s hard to pin down. This season of Fargo has picked up some…
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One thing that’s always balanced out Fargo’s more self-conscious quirks is the show’s ability to balance oddball…
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I spent a lot of time in last week’s reviewing trying to pin down why the first two episodes of this season of Fargo…
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Here’s a question for yah: is Fargo (the TV show) actually smart?
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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…
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“Aporia” opens with a blackly comic murder (Meemo, killing another Stussy to muddy the water), but quickly follows…
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So that was weird, right? Don’t get me wrong: I like weird. There are plenty of striking bits in “Who Rules The Land…
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One of the challenges of reviewing, at least for me, is trying to figure out the line between “well-written…
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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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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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There’s narration in “The Narrow Escape Problem”—read by none other than Billy Bob Thornton, unless I’m mistaken.…
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“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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The title of tonight’s episode, “The Principle Of Restricted Choice,” is a reference to bridge—the card game, not…
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Call it Minnesota drag. I’ve been trying to come up with a good way to describe why I enjoy watching Fargo as much…