Fargo series 5 anyone watching?

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I think it's so good. Love Fargo anyway, but this series focusing on domestic violence and strong women just really hitting all the right buttons for me. Also giving me strong Home Alone vibes.

Anyone else?

Yes, liked season 1 and 2 but lost interest with 3 & 4. But this season is great, bit bonkers but great.

Brilliant, back to best form.

where is it available ?
i dont know how many series i have seen, i think the last one was with ewan mcgregor, but i couldnt access the one with jessie buckley

They're on Amazon prime. Not sure if anywhere else.

I just "found it" on Prime, and caught up yesterday.
So many thoughts - but, after reading a few threads about useless DPs and DHs on here today, I wish a few more women would see it and listen to the speech from the Policewoman's husband. Wow.
(And very triggering for me.)
And the Sheriff backhanding his wife. Oh God.
(I still only see Don Draper when watching John Hamm though.)
Brutal.
And yes, bonkers.

We saw series one and two but couldn't get into three. Can we jump straight to five or will we not get it?

Yes, they are completely self contained stories in different eras. You can jump straight in to season 5.

Started last night and man oh man, what an intense first episode. I love the husband.

husband’s out tonight, so will have to wait until tomorrow to keep watching.

can’t wait

So bleak now.

I just started tonight. First episode is intense.

Why is the tall bad guy wearing a kilt?

Love Dot.

The black cop - why did he wait outside the shop, in the light? That was stupid surely.

It never lets up really.
I'm not sure about the kilt - he does bring to mind Javier Bardem's character in No Country for Old Men. Single-minded, basically unstoppable.
It does not get any easier for Dot/Nadine.
The Sheriff/John Hamm is so loathsome.

Yes, definitely like Javier Bardem in No Country for Old Men @LighthouseTheme .

I love Jennifer Jason Leigh's character. I know she's evil but they way she delivers her lines is very entertaining.

I also love the vocabulary of the two main police officers. 'To wit' etc.

@Awrite
I read a NYT recap, and it turns out that (pretty obviously) the Coen brothers were either involved or inspiration for the Duffer brothers, who have written this. Coen themes run right through it. And of course, the setting - and the downtrodden/heroic female cop.

One of the difficulties I am having is not seeing the Gator actor as the "jock" character from Stranger Things - which (!) I have only recently started to watch.

Together with the mental disconnect of Don Draper and the Sheriff (although DD did have a very mean streak. I do not forgive him all because he - spoiler - turned to yoga in the end).

There was a Wizard of Oz sequence in the last season, with the little boy who had been the gangster in an earlier season. He had been at a guest house with his guardian and they got caught in a tornado. He had a dog who resembled Toto, there was a crossroads, and he was wearing the same colours as Dorothy.

Anyway…. in a recent episode of this one, Dot has a dream about Utopia/Linda and there was a scene where she was arm-in-arm with other women, as Dorothy was with the scarecrow etc. Or am I reading too much into this?

Was the Home Alone stuff deliberate?

I am not great with film (last went to the cinema in 2020) and don’t pick up on this stuff!

Also - what was the relevance of the Welsh chapel scene with Rhys Ifans?

@PastorCarrBonarra Hmm, I didn't watch S3, or 2 for that matter, so that's not something I know about.... and so links back to them are lost on me. But there probably was some kind of reference.
I found the whole of the Linda episode very unsettling - and the reveal was - to me - unexpected. I had hoped that it wasn't a dream.

Just watched the last episode and the last 5 minutes were heartbreaking, it’s the fist time you can see she’s losing hope.

There are always loads of senseless murders on Fargo, I truly hope this series ends with her going back to her husband and daughter.

I don’t know what the mother in law will come up with in terms of rescuing her, but at least it seems like the Welsh fella might get the son out of the way.

I’m not sure I’m enjoying Jon Hamm’s acting, I feel he’s had the same face expression most of the time.

@2023usernameNew Yes, it was sad to see her crying out for help through the broken window, having just see what they did (did she know him? I can't remember if he only dealings he had had were with the son.... even if she could have seen who it was anyway). Heartbreaking.

I find JH a bit one-dimensional anyway, and in this agree that he is wearing one grim expression throughout, with little changing even with his outbursts of casual violence. So with a lot of evil simmering beneath, maybe the expressionlessness is intentional for shock value.

I hope against hope that Lorraine and Officer Olmstead save the day!

(Edited: Is "expressionlessness" a word?)

Right, I'm up to the end of episode 8. What happened to Linda?

I don't know how to do spoilers.... If you watched the episode, you know as much as I do (gallic shrug)

Mind you, I wasn't concentrating too well 🙄

Well, Roy told Dot that he would bury her next to Linda but he could have been lying. I had thought the crash was an accident and Linda had merely fled.

I guess we shall find out.

I thought that Dot had dreamt the whole sequence about Linda. Because when the pancake with the smiley face was put in front of her by the waitress, she looked at it and closed her eyes. Then, after the Linda sequence, she opened her eyes again and the pancake was still there. I don’t think that Linda was ever in the car because I think she died many years prior at the hands of the sheriff.

I could be wrong of course!

I agree - thought it was a dream sequence, as she would have needed to be at the camp for quite a while what with all the carving and puppetry (and not even being allowed to leave). Very peculiar, but isn't all of it?
I would believe anything at this point. Or equally, disbelieve.

I am an idiot. You guys are obviously right. Glad I posted though otherwise I would still be in the dark. My only defense is that I watched late at night.

So, she told Gator she could take him to his Mum as a rouse to get him to help her.

@Awrite i think she still believed the dream was true.

it was only when he was beating her up and said something like ‘I’ll bury you next to her’ that I think she realised Linda was dead.

Gator looked very confused when she said to him she had seen his mum. I’m not 100% certain if he knows she’s dead or not.