Reviews - Fargo

“Storia Americana” is the shortest episode of Fargo’s fourth season. More than that, it’s unusually short, with the…

One of the more unpleasant aspects about watching a mediocre season of a show like Fargo—a series that holds its…

I love when a show changes its tempo for an episode. It’s something The Walking Dead does (or did) a few times a…

So, it looks like we’re in the “shit meets fan” portion of the season. Last week, I commented on how Fargo’s bold…

Looks like I should’ve saved my mini-treatise on Doctor Harvard’s name for this week; sort of “paying tribute” kind…

I still can’t quite get over the name “Dr. Harvard.” Obviously the names on this season of Fargo were chosen with…

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…

One thing that’s always balanced out Fargo’s more self-conscious quirks is the show’s ability to balance oddball…

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…

Here’s a question for yah: is Fargo (the TV show) actually smart?

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…