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Post by TWD Zone Site Admin & Owner on Oct 12, 2015 17:03:49 GMT -5
Articles, interviews, and discussions of the TV Show Fargo should go here.
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Post by TWD Zone Site Admin & Owner on Oct 12, 2015 17:07:08 GMT -5
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Post by webergal on Oct 13, 2015 2:42:34 GMT -5
I watched it and it started out just as good as Season 1, same sense of humor in the writing. Gonna miss Billy Bob Thorton though.
I like Ted Danson in this better than I liked him in CSI Vegas.
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Post by TWD Zone Site Admin & Owner on Oct 13, 2015 8:54:43 GMT -5
I watched it and it started out just as good as Season 1, same sense of humor in the writing. Gonna miss Billy Bob Thorton though. I like Ted Danson in this better than I liked him in CSI Vegas. Me too. Yes, I agree Ted Danson is a better fit here.
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Oct 14, 2015 10:11:26 GMT -5
Post by dark sister on Oct 14, 2015 10:11:26 GMT -5
I liked it, but I thought the direction was all over the place. Too many style changes in one episode, it didn't come together well. But acting and story wise it was great. I'm bummed Keiran Culkin's character died right away. I love that guy.
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Oct 19, 2015 15:02:11 GMT -5
Post by webergal on Oct 19, 2015 15:02:11 GMT -5
I liked it, but I thought the direction was all over the place. Too many style changes in one episode, it didn't come together well. But acting and story wise it was great. I'm bummed Keiran Culkin's character died right away. I love that guy. Yes, I agree that it was all over the place for starters, but I kind of took it as their introduction to various story groups that will be involved, at least in the beginning. Nothing like a humorous murder mystery. You can help but laugh at these characters. Gonna miss: {Spoiler} Rye
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Nov 9, 2015 23:54:59 GMT -5
Post by TWD Zone Site Admin & Owner on Nov 9, 2015 23:54:59 GMT -5
Fargo has definitely gotten dark and sinister. Jean Smart plays one cold cookie. So does her son, Dodd. Zahn McClarnon who plays Dodd's man Hanzee has an agenda I believe. TBH, one of my favorite TV shows ever. Both seasons. TPTB are geniuses. Recap of tonight's "The Butcher of Luverne" - in spoiler tags in case someone wants to be surprised.
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Nov 10, 2015 3:20:22 GMT -5
Post by webergal on Nov 10, 2015 3:20:22 GMT -5
I loved the show tonight too Rosie !! I feel bad for Bear's son. Absolutely one of the best shows on TV, both season 1 and now season 2. That dizzy wife of Eds must have subscribed to every magazine in American stored in that basement !!
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Nov 10, 2015 10:58:24 GMT -5
Post by TWD Zone Site Admin & Owner on Nov 10, 2015 10:58:24 GMT -5
I loved the show tonight too Rosie !! I feel bad for Bear's son. Absolutely one of the best shows on TV, both season 1 and now season 2. That dizzy wife of Eds must have subscribed to every magazine in American stored in that basement !! I could not figure out that basement stack of magazines. I feel sorry for Charlie too. Also Simone - Dodd's daughter. Neither one of them are cut out for a life of crime.
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Nov 12, 2015 4:19:13 GMT -5
Post by webergal on Nov 12, 2015 4:19:13 GMT -5
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Nov 16, 2015 23:21:42 GMT -5
Post by webergal on Nov 16, 2015 23:21:42 GMT -5
Just watched episode 6 and I think I lost track of the body count !!
And it's far from over I fear !
And that Peggy is a psycho. :-X
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Nov 19, 2015 0:03:23 GMT -5
Post by webergal on Nov 19, 2015 0:03:23 GMT -5
www.vulture.com/2015/11/kirsten-dunst-fargo-interview-with-vampire-reunion.htmlKirsten Dunst on Fargo and the Possibility of an Interview With a Vampire Reunion TourSnippits: Interesting parts they left out of the show !! Q: And we find out she's hoarding hundreds of these beauty magazines in the basement. Do you think her delusion just comes from a desperation to leave her current situation?A: "She's (Peggy) someone who has buried so much stuff under the rug that it's now bubbling up because of what's happened. And the way she's reacting, I think it would have come out a different way down the line if she hadn't hit someone with her car. There was one scene we didn't shoot, I think in episode two, which also explains a bit more about Peggy, where me and my former fiancé, he was going off to Vietnam, and we go into the butcher shop where Ed is working, and my fiancé tells him, "If anything happens, take care of her for me." So clearly my fiancé died over there. I think that might have helped explain things a little bit, but you definitely know something is deeply wrong with her. You know she went through a real trauma. Like, who hoards that many magazines and toilet paper?"
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Nov 21, 2015 1:55:29 GMT -5
Post by webergal on Nov 21, 2015 1:55:29 GMT -5
Preview for the next Episode 11/23/15 titled, "Did You Do This? No, You Did It!"
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Nov 21, 2015 2:07:55 GMT -5
Post by TWD Zone Site Admin & Owner on Nov 21, 2015 2:07:55 GMT -5
webergal, who did the hitman kill at the end? Grandma and granddaughter ducked. When granddaughter called hitman, she said "You were supposed to kill my dad, not _________." I didn't catch what she said. It was in the after credits so the dialog was not included in Forever Dreaming. ... and do you think Peggy actually killed Dodd with the cattle prod? I feel certain Dodd's man has 'double cross' intentions. I can't wait to see how that plays out. This is a wild and crazy ride isn't it? I'm totally sucked into this Season. Nick Offerman as the lawyer - I was laughing so hard. So many good actors.
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Post by webergal on Nov 21, 2015 2:17:05 GMT -5
My best guess is that Ed will make it back to his house before the Indian Hanzee gets him, and since Peggy just has to get to the "Life Spring" Seminar, hell or high water, (don't ya know), I'm thinking she'll take Ed with her to that motel that her boss reserved.
But, I think Peggy's boss has "other" plans for her so if Ed goes with her, that's going to be interesting !!
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Nov 21, 2015 2:45:02 GMT -5
Post by webergal on Nov 21, 2015 2:45:02 GMT -5
webergal, who did the hitman kill at the end? Grandma and granddaughter ducked. When granddaughter called hitman, she said "You were supposed to kill my dad, not _________." I didn't catch what she said. It was in the after credits so the dialog was not included in Forever Dreaming. ... and do you think Peggy actually killed Dodd with the cattle prod? I feel certain Dodd's man has 'double cross' intentions. I can't wait to see how that plays out. This is a wild and crazy ride isn't it? I'm totally sucked into this Season. Nick Offerman as the lawyer - I was laughing so hard. So many good actors. "You were supposed to kill my dad, not _________."
The granddaughter Simone said "the cripple" meaning her grandfather in the wheelchair, who had the stroke earlier !! Simone is something else. I thought for sure her grandmother (Floyd) was getting wise to her since she asked Simone right out whether she was with the family or not, and then reminded her that she couldn't play both sides. So Grandma Floyd suspects something. I don't know if Peggy killed Dodd or not, but she sure did zap him good those two times !! I'll be surprised if the show kills Dodd off, at least at this stage of the game. I hope not. Once he finds out his daughter is fraternizing with the enemy, the only new "career" advice he's going to give her is how hot it is in HELL ! Somebody in that family better wake up and smell the coffee before Simone gets them all killed !! You're right, there are so many good actors on this show. I love it. The humor is so dark and dry and so damn funny.
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Post by TWD Zone Site Admin & Owner on Nov 23, 2015 16:01:08 GMT -5
www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/fx-renews-fargo-a-third-843201Woo Hoo!!!!! Noah Hawley's FX dance card is getting awfully full. The prolific showrunner, currently under an overall deal with FX Productions, is now set to tackle a third season of his critically cherished Fargo anthology.
The cable network announced the order Monday, as the series heads into the second half of its sophomore run. It comes as little surprise. The first go of Fargo, in 2014, earned 18 Emmy nominations and three wins. And the second season currently ranks as the most-acclaimed series of 2015, per review aggregate Metacritic, averaging a score of 96 out of 100.
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Nov 24, 2015 18:33:02 GMT -5
Post by TWD Zone Site Admin & Owner on Nov 24, 2015 18:33:02 GMT -5
webergal and any of you that watch Fargo. I have a couple of questions about last night's episode. 1. When Betsy went into her dad's house to feed "Snowball" his cat, what were the papers pinned up all over the place all about? Totally do not get what this was supposed to be. www.nytimes.com/2015/11/23/arts/television/fargo-season-2-episode-7-review.html“This family deserves the ground.”
So says Simone Gerhardt mere moments after Rye and Otto are laid to rest on the family estate. And this just after Bear spits at the mention of Simone’s father, muttering darkly about a third hole in the ground for Dodd.
2. What were they burying? Rye was put through the meat grinder. 3. Yet Bear is exposed as a terrible hypocrite, with more in common with his brother than he would care to admit. He goes out of his way to keep anyone from knowing that Dodd has been kidnapped, to the point that he won’t even take the call from his brother’s abductor. (“Take a message,” he grumbles.) He’s acting as a free agent, too, and he wants Dodd dead just as much as Simone does. Still, it’s Bear who leads his niece into the woods for betraying the family, all while conceding that “none of us are family anymore.” Simone doesn’t know that Bear has also trusted a third party to take Dodd out of the picture, but we do, and it adds a note of bitter irony to her execution. In the end, they shared a common goal. She just trusted the wrong guys to carry it out.
Who is Bear trusting to take out Dodd? Hanzee? The guy whom he told to "Take a message" and who went with him to get Simone from Mike Milligan's hotel?
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Nov 24, 2015 19:51:13 GMT -5
Post by TWD Zone Site Admin & Owner on Nov 24, 2015 19:51:13 GMT -5
I answered one of my questions - I had kind of forgotten about the alien/UFO references and I do remember Hank looking up at the sky in a previous episode. "That being said, I absolutely thought Dodd or someone from the Gerhardts was going to kill her in this episode during that tense scene in Hank's house. The editing in Fargo is always top-notch, but I thought this week's episode was particularly artistic in how it controlled the audience's tension. Instead of a murder, though, we were treated with a more interesting revelation: Hank's obsession with ancient symbols that he has been translating. I hope this ties back to the extra terrestrial through-line of this season, because that was a character twist I don't think any of us were expecting."
www.ign.com/articles/2015/11/24/fargo-did-you-do-this-no-you-did-it-review
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Nov 25, 2015 3:19:41 GMT -5
Post by webergal on Nov 25, 2015 3:19:41 GMT -5
Rosie, I'm confused about a few things from Monday night's show on the UFO story line.
- This whole UFO thing has me mind boggled. I can't figure out where it fits in. It has been reference or mentioned on several occasions, starting with Rye Gerhardt being so mesmerized by the lights in the sky that he walked right in front of Peggy Blumquist's car.
- Maybe I missed something before on the UFO issue now that Betsy discovered her father's study full of the drawings.
- I do think that both Rye and Simone Gerhardt had more a connection with each other. They're both rebels going against the grain of their families criminal empire. He rented that apartment for his own wheel and dealing, and allowed Simone to visit there for both men and drugs. He was making personal deals outside the family with the typewriter dude, not turning in his collection money, and she was sleeping with the enemy. So when it was finally decided that Rye was dead, it was Simone who tossed his belt buckle into the empty grave to say goodbye.
- Simone's quote, "This family deserves the ground.” I took this as part of her being a rebel, she doesn't want to have any allegiance to her father, Dodd, actually she hates him, or to her uncle Bear or their criminal empire. Simone just wants to do HER thing and have fun.
- Did Simone's Uncle Bear kill her? They sure left that up in the air of mystery. If he didn't kill her, and gave her the option of being banished as she begged in the woods, how would she survive out there in the woods alone? If he did let her go, that will be his undoing for sure, especially if she has a cell phone on her and she called Mike Milligan to come and get her. She'll be out for Bear's blood.
- It's been obvious from the start that Bear hates the thought of his brother Dodd becoming the head boss of the family, and especially more so now that Bear knows their father is dead. And Bear is out for revenge that Dodd allowed young Charlie to get involved with trying to kill Ed Blumquist and ended up in jail. So whoever is calling Bear on the phone, that he's refusing to answer, and I think it's Ed Blumquist, Bear just wants the kidnappers to do whatever they're threatening to do, kill Dodd. I'm sure it's Ed and Peggy Blumquist and they probably just want money so they can start a new life somewhere else.
- I hope they don't kill off Hanzee, he's pretty cool, dangerous, but cool. And who knew that Mama Floyd smoked a pipe.
- I'm sure in the end of all the body counts, the blame for all killings will be put on Ed and Peggy Blumquist as Bonnie and Clyde !!
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Nov 26, 2015 1:54:30 GMT -5
Post by webergal on Nov 26, 2015 1:54:30 GMT -5
I'm laughing at myself after thinking about what I wrote that if Bear didn't kill Simone that perhaps if she has a cell phone she could call Mike Milligan. Well, DAH, they didn't have cell phones back in the day !! Heck, they were still using rotary phones ! Anyway, since we didn't hear a gun fire in the woods, I guess we can assume whatever we want to.
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Post by webergal on Nov 27, 2015 8:34:33 GMT -5
www.hollywoodreporter.com/fien-print/fargo-star-rachel-keller-simones-843337'Fargo' Star Rachel Keller on Simone's Long Walk Into the Woods11/23/2015 Article LinkQ: You mentioned you were shocked when you read the script for this episode. Did you have no warning of what was coming? Nobody tried to break this to you gently?A: (Laughs) It's fun. People were asking me, my family and friends were asking my, "Do you die?" And I was like, "Is that really the right question? Do I die? Or is 'How do I die?' the right question? It's Fargo!" So no, I had no idea! I knew I was going to die. I think I knew! I don't even remember, but I do remember being shocked and I got a lot of texts from other cast members going, "Shiiiiiiit!" and that was fun to share reading it for the first time with the cast
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Nov 27, 2015 9:56:26 GMT -5
Post by TWD Zone Site Admin & Owner on Nov 27, 2015 9:56:26 GMT -5
I'm laughing at myself after thinking about what I wrote that if Bear didn't kill Simone that perhaps if she has a cell phone she could call Mike Milligan. Well, DAH, they didn't have cell phones back in the day !! Heck, they were still using rotary phones ! Anyway, since we didn't hear a gun fire in the woods, I guess we can assume whatever we want to. webergal, LOL! "Cell phone" didn't even register when I read your comment.
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Nov 27, 2015 17:27:07 GMT -5
Post by webergal on Nov 27, 2015 17:27:07 GMT -5
Yeah, LOL, my "cell phone" revelation came when Ed (The Butcher of Luverne) Blumquist was using the phone booth at the gas station. I was, "Oh wow, there's a phone booth !" There was another scene where I wondered how Bear and that other guy from the Buffalo crime family found out that Simone was at the hotel where the Kansas City syndicate were camping. But after watching the episode again on my DVR, I realized after Grandma Floyd slapped Simone in the face and then Simone made that comment about how they "all deserved the ground" then she drove off in a huff, and that the guy from Buffalo said he would handle Simone and he apparently followed her. The Buffalo guy drove her car back from the hotel to the ranch so I'm just waiting to see if Grandma Floyd discovers it and makes comment as to why Simone's car is there but no Simone ! There is so much going on in this show that you got a watch it more than once to catch everything !! I hope they have Season 3 in the spring or early summer next year, perhaps to replace "Under The Dome" time slot. Either that or toss in "Fear The Walking Dead" in April 2016 when "The Walking Dead" season ends.
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Nov 27, 2015 19:28:24 GMT -5
Post by TWD Zone Site Admin & Owner on Nov 27, 2015 19:28:24 GMT -5
I don't know when I've last seen a pay phone? I saw a documentary about a small town in the US that houses a huge satellite. No cell phones or microwaves etc. www.cnn.com/interactive/2015/07/us/quiet-town-american-story/I bet there is still pay phones there. I bet Saul Goodman's brother would love that place. No electromagnetic frequencies
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Nov 30, 2015 23:53:51 GMT -5
Post by TWD Zone Site Admin & Owner on Nov 30, 2015 23:53:51 GMT -5
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Dec 5, 2015 5:21:27 GMT -5
Post by webergal on Dec 5, 2015 5:21:27 GMT -5
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Dec 5, 2015 10:41:24 GMT -5
Post by TWD Zone Site Admin & Owner on Dec 5, 2015 10:41:24 GMT -5
webergal , did you watch Breaking Bad? If so, you probably recall that Jesse Plemons who is Ed in Fargo was one of the BB cast. Great screen caps BTW! TX!
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Dec 5, 2015 13:44:05 GMT -5
Post by webergal on Dec 5, 2015 13:44:05 GMT -5
No, I never watched Breaking Bad.
Heck, I almost didn't watch Fargo Season 1 but my grandson was bugging me to death to watch it and finally by the 7th episode I started watching it. Then I had to back track to find episodes 1 through 7.
That Jesse Plemons also had a small bit in the movie, "Paul." He played one of the two trouble making guys in the restaurant harassing the two British guys wanting to visit Area 51.
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Dec 8, 2015 18:03:13 GMT -5
Post by webergal on Dec 8, 2015 18:03:13 GMT -5
OMG, that was a killer show last night on Fargo !!! I not only totally lost track on the body count but I was originally rooting for Hanzee to break away from his mob family after he made that comment about being sick of the life, but now he's gone totally bonkers with his mission to kill Ed and Peggy. And who's back on the Gerhardt farm to take care of the young children? And poor Charlie stuck in jail. One more episode and I think it's going to be a heart breaker By the way, here's a link to the original story about the UFO spotted in Minnesota, and the writers worked it into the show, apparently since it happened during 1979, the same year the story is taking place on the show. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Val_Johnson_incident"Incident" Johnson reported that while he was on patrol near Stephen, Minnesota about 2 AM on August 27, 1979 he saw a beam of light just above the road. According to Johnson, the beam sped towards him, his squad car was engulfed in light, and he heard glass breaking. Johnson said he was unconscious for 39 minutes and when he awoke he realized his wristwatch and the vehicle's clock had stopped for 14 minutes. The windshield was shattered, a headlight and red emergency light was damaged and a thin radio aerial bent. Deputies responding to Johnson's call for help found the squad car sideways on the road. Johnson suffered bruises and eye irritation that a physician compared to "welder's burns". When the story received national publicity, Johnson told reporters the sudden attention had caused him and his family a great deal of emotional strain.[1][2] On September 11, 1979, Johnson appeared as a guest on ABC's Good Morning America program."
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