Fargo, so far so good?

[Girlsbrigadewashorrible]

Just watching it now with DH, kids gone to bed stuffed with chocolate. Anyone else enjoying this as much as I am?

[Girlsbrigadewashorrible]

I am at a loss tonight... the last ten weeks of Fargo have been so memorable. Great tv, made even better because DH and I have both enjoyed watching it together. Bring on Series Two.

[PedantMarina]

I guess I must be missing it too. Am watching Pushing Tin, mainly because it's got BBT in it. And John Cusack ain't hard to look at, ftr.

[susiedaisy]

Just changing the topic slightly someone mentioned BBT teeth in the series and looking at other footage of him (bad Santa) I think that is his own teeth. They have always been somewhat prominent from what I can see.

Anyway as you were!

[slartybartfast]

gonna miss it tonight.

[Oblomov]

Loved Gus shooting Malvo, Malvo's broken leg etc.
I thought the finale episode, was beyond superb.

[MrsCakesPremonition]

I think that's why I thought it was the salesman (possibly wrongly). Because he had to get the body out of the driving set of the car, and possibly the body would have been visible from the road (as the FBI car was parked close to the house). But the bloody snow is weird.

[PedantMarina]

Yeah, good point MrsCake. Seeing dead bodies scattered about would surely gave out the shit up Lester, and wasted precious time, to boot.

Anyway, what's the point of dragging a still-bleeding corpse around on the snow. Not Malvo's brain's finest hour...

[MrsCakesPremonition]

I'm not sure. I watched it twice and am still not sure. Nor why he bothered to hide the body regardless who it was.

[misslaughalot]

MrsCakes I thought that was one of the FBI agents

[MrsCakesPremonition]

Re: the car salesman... We saw Malvo dragging a corpse behind the woodpile outside Lester's house (bloody drag marks in the snow, feet sticking out from behind the woodpile, one shoe one sock). I assumed that was the car salesman?

[slartybartfast]

the car salesman was in the cafe wasnt he?

[mileysorearse]

I think the supermarket guy was to tie the series into the original movie, as he took the money in the flashback, and to show that Malvo was a predator (the shades of green thing) rather than just a hitman. Once the guy's henchman tried to frighten him off he decided to play with his head. It was a stand-alone illustration of how terrible Malvo could be.

[mummytime]

YEs its one of those unanswered questions. Although I thought the Supermarket did occur after the jump forward. It would be so interesting to investigate those other tapes (I'd volunteer for that FBI job).

[AllMimsyWereTheBorogoves]

Does anyone know what happened to the Greek supermarket tycoon? That storyline just seemed to end without ever finding out what happened to him.

[mummytime]

Malvo took the FBI manual/ whatever from the FBI car at the police station, but he left the car. He used it to get the FBI sending back up.

That Metro story is great!

I want to know the back story of the other time Lou was guarding the porch all night.

[slartybartfast]

talking aobut cars, didnt we see malvo take a passport from a car, i thought he took lester's car with passport? but next he had the red car

[Coumarin]

*drove home.

[Coumarin]

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I hadn't spotted this about the car salesman. Clever.
I also hadn't realised we didn't see his fate and the car does disappear doesn't it? Seems very unlikely he'd spare him but where else did the car go? I'd like to think he just drive home too.

Didn't know that the FBI agents are a well known comedy duo in America. Explains why they were so funny.

[Bigsooze]

Yes, I wondered about the continuity with the cars - the FBI's car was blocked in by his. But he managed to drive away in the FBI car... With his bad leg he can't have moved one to drive the other away. And he didnt have the keys...

Or maybe he let the salesman go and he drove it away... ooo, like that, a happy ending for the sales guy...

[misslaughalot]

One quick question, the car salesman who was in the dummy car to lure the FBI guys out, what happened to him? We saw Malvo go up to the window with his gun, and the salesman taped to the wheel was pleading with him (I think he said he had a little girl) but we didn't see Malvo finish him off.

After Lester shot Malvo in the leg, and he got away in the one car (the FBI car?) the other one was gone. I can't imagine Malvo let him go, so what happened to the second car?

[mileysorearse]

I thought the glove story may have been a metaphor for the wives, the first one was in the heat of the moment (running for the train) and the second one was sacrificed willingly. But I'd had wine

[AllMimsyWereTheBorogoves]

I think Gus would have got away with it even in the UK because Lorne would have had a huge gun very close to his hand Gus could quite reasonably have said he fired in self-defence. In the US, my impression is that nobody would have thought twice about shooting somebody like Lorne Malvo!

I loved Fargo on TV. Billy Bob Thornton was mesmerising and I thought Martin Freeman was pretty good too. Allison Tolman was great. Must watch the film again!

[BaconAndAvocado]

coumarin thank you so much for explaining that!

It was a very touching moment but I wasn't sure why

[Youdontneedacriminallawyer]

In this country (UK) Gus would have been arrested for murder. In USA he gets a citation for bravery.

Great series though, and good ending. Would also have liked to see the baby.

Roll on series 2.

[Coumarin]

They deleted a line of the glove story.

"It's not a story about a man who loses a glove. It's a story about a man who gives his gloves away."

So the glove guy turns it around so he's in control. He chooses to give them away rather than lose them. I guess she's telling Lester that it's not too late to do the right thing. To choose to give himself up rather than have it taken from him.