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I love the original film and the first series.

For some stupid reason I missed the first three episodes of the new series, but last weekend I managed to catch up.

If I had to review it in one word, I'd say "GENIUS". Honestly, every single bit: the characters, the dialogues, the plot, the sound, music, the camerawork, atmosphere...

Watching the 4th episode last night only made me love "Fargo" even more!

 
Posted : 10/11/2015 12:42 pm
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PS I think its the best thing on the box 🙂

 
Posted : 10/11/2015 12:44 pm
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For some stupid reason I missed the first three episodes of the new series

Yup,same here,I only saw that it was on last night ,must do catch up.

 
Posted : 10/11/2015 12:47 pm
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Yeah, it's quite a good follow-up series so far.

Bad because it makes me want to light my stove...

 
Posted : 10/11/2015 12:49 pm
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A new series? Dagnabbit why does nobody tell me these things!

 
Posted : 10/11/2015 1:13 pm
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Not enjoying this series as much as the last one. Just doesn't seem as (dark) funny as the last, and the pace of it seems excessively slow, (I know that's part of it's production, but taken just a bit too far for me) Will likely stick with it to the end though.

 
Posted : 10/11/2015 1:18 pm
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Yeah love it though agree with @tthew about the humour & pace at first but as the series progresses each episode seems to crank it up but exactly the right amount & the last one was sheer brilliance. The attention to detail is jaw dropping at times.

 
Posted : 10/11/2015 2:30 pm
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I like!

Slow, steady and funny.

😀

 
Posted : 10/11/2015 2:37 pm
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I love it; it has all the Cohen hallmarks of wierdness and unexpected cockups as well as the atmosphere and the frightening characters, although nobody will ever match the menace of Bardem in No Country.

 
Posted : 10/11/2015 3:14 pm
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Not enjoying it as much as the last one, have to say. Needs a bit of Billy Bob.

 
Posted : 10/11/2015 3:17 pm
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MrsBouy absolutely loves it . Had her glued to the telly for the first series, we're recording this one as she's away and suspect when she returns it'll be on back to back.

 
Posted : 10/11/2015 3:21 pm
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Lacks a proper psychopath. It's nicely kookie, but it needs to start making ground soon.

 
Posted : 10/11/2015 3:22 pm
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Indian dude is well scary. All sub plots are heading towards one huge blood bath. Fargo definitely beating Walking Dead.

 
Posted : 10/11/2015 3:27 pm
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That scene were detective visits Ed & Peggy tell the anecdote about injured soldiers & lies - genius. As for a psychopath Dodd Gerhardt is about as bad as it gets IMO.
Mike Milligan plus that conversation between him & detective in typewriter shop 🙂

 
Posted : 10/11/2015 4:13 pm
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Really enjoying it, only criticism needs more Malvo.

 
Posted : 10/11/2015 4:16 pm
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Thumb up the arse 😯

 
Posted : 10/11/2015 4:16 pm
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Am loving every second of this series ....from the moment that amazing song comes on. Genius 😀

 
Posted : 10/11/2015 4:17 pm
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Thumb up the arse

I had someone pull that on me once. I swear I got that extra inch trying to get away from her...

 
Posted : 10/11/2015 4:35 pm
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for a psychopath Dodd Gerhardt is about as bad as it gets IMO.

Really? He's pretty tame compared to the menace of Malvo.

 
Posted : 10/11/2015 4:38 pm
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Malvo was great no doubt he had the dialogue too & was more crafty with it., but you could actually be in Malvo's company & get away it it, Dodd is a paranoid agressive full on loon that you couldn't even be in the same room with at any time, Dodd is thick as **** too

 
Posted : 10/11/2015 5:04 pm
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"Lacks a proper psychopath"
Yes, because everyone goes to the barn to slice a few ears off 😀

Malvo wasn't a psycho, he was the Devil.

 
Posted : 10/11/2015 5:25 pm
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We love it (and we loved the first series too). Best thing on the telly! 😀

 
Posted : 10/11/2015 6:15 pm
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Brilliant as before.
Fargo, River and Catastrophe are all the TV I need.

 
Posted : 12/11/2015 11:30 pm
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I'm liking it.the fargo series is not as gritty and harrowing as the film 'winters bone'
But it's pretty decent. And let's face it, decent tv series are few and far between.

 
Posted : 12/11/2015 11:43 pm
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Loving it here. Had some difficulty engaging with the first episode, but as noted above, it's cranking up nicely with every instalment.

Enjoying the post-Watergate enui and the Vietnam War trauma themes.

Granted, there isn't a monster to match Malvo, but any attempt to do so might have felt forced, like they were setting out to top that character and performance.

As for the bumfoolery experience of Milligan, I seem to recall a reference to something similar in season 1. Is this set to become one of the Coen Brothers' many recurring motifs?

Aces.

 
Posted : 13/11/2015 12:25 am
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It's not on yet, over here in China.
Is it based in Sioux Falls?

 
Posted : 13/11/2015 1:47 pm
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Loving tense stand-offs.

Ted Danson looks well cool.

And I didn't realise Ms. Dunst was so....well figured in her top half.

Great series.

 
Posted : 13/11/2015 6:21 pm
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the fargo series is not as gritty and harrowing as the film 'winters bone'

Why would it be? Am I missing something?

 
Posted : 13/11/2015 6:24 pm
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Love it, easily the best thing on tv at the moment 😀

And I didn't realise Ms. Dunst was so....well figured in her top half.

You'll need to go and remind yourself of "that" Spiderman scene 😯

 
Posted : 13/11/2015 8:24 pm
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Or the bouncing on bed scene from Eternal Sunshine of The Spotless Mind

 
Posted : 13/11/2015 8:57 pm
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Love Fargo! As above, best thing on telly at the mo. Pound of "mince" anyone...... :-/

 
Posted : 13/11/2015 9:26 pm
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Loving the characters in this one. Better than series 1 so far. IMO of course

 
Posted : 13/11/2015 9:28 pm
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Ted Danson looks well cool.

delivers the best cake related line on TV ever !!!!

 
Posted : 13/11/2015 9:30 pm
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It's just brilliant.

 
Posted : 14/11/2015 12:24 am
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Hmmm. Not sure about actually putting Reagan [i]in[/i] it, but having Bruce Campbell play him was a masterstroke.

 
Posted : 17/11/2015 12:13 am
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> delivers the best cake related line on TV ever !!!!

What line was that? I've just watched all 5 episodes in a row and my memory is a little blurry.

 
Posted : 17/11/2015 2:59 am
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the best cake related line

Lou comes home after confronting Milligan and the Kitchen Brothers in the typewriter shop, Betsy and her father are home, and Betsy offers him a piece of cake. Hanks asks how the day has been and Lou explains that he met Milligan and the Kitchens and "we pointed out guns at one another for a while before going our separate ways". Hank says "maybe two pieces of cake".

Something like that. 🙂

I'm enjoying it [i]enormously[/i].

The film is a great favourite, season 1 was amazing, season 2 is doing really nicely.

The scene in season 1, where post-Vegas Malvo comes into the diner and tries to get Lou to tell him where he can find Lester was electric, and when it got out that the season 2 was going to be about the Sioux Falls incident that Lou faces Malvo down with, you just knew it was going to be great.

It has built slowly (I've only managed to see the first 4 here in Hong Kong), but everything is in place for a massive eruption. Worth noting as well, that season 1 did not behave as one might have expected - the break in the middle where Malvo disappears, Gus and Molly get over the shootout in the blizzard and Lester appears to have got away with it was almost an ending - that season got away with cranking up to a bloody climax twice. It also pulled a magnificent piece of misdirection in what actually ended up happening to both Malvo and Lester.It's hard to imagine that season 2 is going to behave itself.

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Posted : 17/11/2015 3:23 am
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It's simply brilliant.

 
Posted : 17/11/2015 8:25 pm
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And I hadn't realised it was the same character...doh.

Watched the last couple - has picked up nicely now.

 
Posted : 17/11/2015 8:41 pm
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Enjoying it, but don't find the black guy menacing. In fact, his character and acting are poor.

 
Posted : 18/11/2015 1:04 am
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Finally started catching up with 4od last night and noticed that today's the final day that episode 1 will be available. So if you're dithering or disorganised like me, sort it out.

 
Posted : 18/11/2015 9:24 am
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Watching it on catch-up. It's different, but just as brilliant as the previous series.

Where is the moral centre, indeed.

 
Posted : 18/11/2015 10:12 am
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The scene in season 1, where post-Vegas Malvo comes into the diner and tries to get Lou to tell him where he can find Lester was electric, and when it got out that the season 2 was going to be about the Sioux Falls incident that Lou faces Malvo down with, you just knew it was going to be great.

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What a scene. Reminds you just how good BBT is, and that season 2 still has some way to go to match the first one.

 
Posted : 18/11/2015 10:15 am
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It's great. I'm enjoying the second season more than the first tbh.

 
Posted : 18/11/2015 10:34 am
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"Haven't had a piece of pie like that since the garden of Eden." (From the above S1 clip.)

It's such good writing and acting in both series. I need to watch them through from beginning, including the film, to make sense of it all.

don't find the black guy menacing. In fact, his character and acting are poor.

I disagree.

 
Posted : 18/11/2015 12:17 pm
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"Am I the only one here who understands the concept of law enforcement?"

 
Posted : 18/11/2015 1:51 pm
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I disagree.

I disdisagree.
If he came up to me and threatened me, i'd say 'am I supposed to feel threatened? You're trying to hard to be cool mate.'

Plus I found his aversion to bum/thumb interface completely unbelievable.

 
Posted : 18/11/2015 3:30 pm
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It's been fantastic. May need to rewatch series 1 and the film once this is finished. I really hope they go on to make more.

 
Posted : 18/11/2015 3:33 pm
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If he came up to me and threatened me, i'd say 'am I supposed to feel threatened? You're trying to hard to be cool mate.'

It's not him who is the threatening one. It's the two brothers, isn't it? He can afford to be cheerful/jovial/whatever.

Anyway, we can disagree happily. Understand? <threatening emoji> 🙂

 
Posted : 18/11/2015 3:41 pm
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What made Malvo such a good character was his menacing charm. Milligan is an attempt at the same thing. I think he will be every bit as psychopathic.

 
Posted : 18/11/2015 3:53 pm
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two brothers
SPOILER - One brother. I like the black guy.
edit - Milligan; is that his name, how did I miss that?

 
Posted : 18/11/2015 3:54 pm
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