Fargo, so far so good?

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

I think I hate lester more than bbt. At least bbt has no emotional involvement with the people he kills where as lester has sat and watched his two wives and brother become victims of his crimes.

It looks like Molly is going to get her vindication, I really hope none of her family get killed though.

was nerve wracking in the cafe.
good on molly's dad though, not giving out the address,

so how did the man get across the river with the cabbage, fox and rabbit?

at Lester. I know I shouldn't be as he did kill his first wife but still, it was so calculated.

This episode seemed so much tenser than the others for some reason.

Does anyone know how many more episodes there are?

He takes the rabbit across then goes back for the fox. Takes the fox across and swops it for the rabbit.
Then he goes back for the cabbage and swops the rabbit for it. Takes the cabbage across and leaves it with the fox. Goes back for the rabbit and takes it across last.

Tada.

Loved last nights episode, skipping forward a year has really kept it interesting I think. I keep forgetting how bad Lester actually is and then he does that to his new wife!
Also worrying about Molly and her family.

but I dont think Lester meant to kill his first wife, He just go to the end of his tether, and Bop on her head with the hammer. he was pretty mild mannered until then, what with being bullied at school by Hess - bullied by his wife and his brother.

Coumarin. Well done

that does make sense coumarin.

I'm really enjoying it. Love BBT, the scene a few weeks back where he refused to end his phone call when cop pulled a gun on him was brilliant.

He looked gorgeous as a silver fox didn't he! I've always nurtured improper thoughts about him since (probably before) he was with Angelina.

So BBT had assumed a new identity as a dentist (six months looking in skanky mouths!) in order to get close to a target for a hit, which he accomplished in the lift.

But who was the target? Was it (a) fat bloke (b) fat bloke's wife or (c) glamorous woman who seemed to be in a relationship with BBT at the beginning of the episode?

No, I think BBT had no "choice" but to shoot the lift people. He said something about how he'd worked on the fat dentist bloke for 6 months, so I think he was planning a money thing, rather than killing them all. I've really enjoyed the whole series, think MF has improved week on week.

I imagine the target was the colleague's brother in witness protection that he was about to meet...he said something like 'that's 100k down the drain' i.e he won't get paid because he didn't make the hit.

Yes I think it was the fat dentist's brother who was in witness protection.

I liked Martin Freeman in Sherlock but I love him in this.

Re the riddle, I remember it from school. We had a teacher who would give us a riddle on a Friday afternoon and a small prize to the first few in with the answer on Monday morning. I think it was a wolf, sheep and turnip then though.

Is next week's, the last one?

That riddle was also used in an episode of The Office - with Martin Freeman.

Next week's is the last one.

Thanks Nancy can't imagine it's all going to be tied up in one more episode.

I'm going to dig my Office box set out to get more of Martin Freeman's lovely face.

Much as I hate Lester - he's an idiot! Why goad Lorne Malvo like that - asking for trouble. I just hope he gets his dues next week.

Hope there's a second series!

I am still shocked about the poor (second) wife...like a lamb to the slaughter. Can't believe next week is the last one? Second series seems possible to me.

I really liked the straight choice given to Lester by Malvo- very Faustian! And wasn't Malvo sinister in the diner? "I havent tasted cherry pie that good since the Garden of Eden"

who's gonna die do we reckon?

Molly's dopey husband must be likely.

SPOILER ALERT

Apparently, they are considering a whole new set of characters for series two. Which means that anything could happen next week...

Googled Fargo on an American site and it sounds like a second series is being made. I ordered the original film recently, it was in a box set of three Coen bros films and I'm making myself wait to watch until this has finished.

Nancy, I'm afeard for Lou, Molly's dad. He just seems too good to live, especially after that touching exchange about Gus' daughter being the granddaughter he'd always wanted. And there was something ominous too about her saying that she thought she would look cool with a limp...