A review of tonight's "Fargo" coming up just as soon as I know why the human eye can see more shades of green than any other color... "That's what you're going to say a couple of hours from now: 'You're making a mistake.'" -Lorne Malvo Noah Hawley and company have been very cagey in talking about how, if at all, the TV "Fargo" is connected to the movie "Fargo," but "Eating the Blame" opens with a flashback that delightfully draws a direct line between one story and the other, as a young Stavros Milos finds the ransom money that Carl Showalter buried out in the snow near the end of the film. Though we saw the painting of the telltale red ice scraper on Stavors' wall last week, I just took that as another of the series' many winks at the film (and the larger Coen brothers body of...
- 5/7/2014
- by Alan Sepinwall
- Hitfix
A review of tonight's "Fargo" coming up just as soon as I buy a zombie kit... Because "A Muddy Road" concludes with Lorne reciting a Bible passage about baby Moses being placed in a basket, followed by him unleashing the first of the Ten Plagues from the story of Exodus (and because the Passover holiday wasn't too long ago), I was briefly tempted to dust off my old dayenu gimmick (most recently deployed, and explained, in this "Parks and Rec" review from the fall). You know: "If the episode had only featured Lorne explaining things to Don in the supply closet... dayenu." Or "If the episode had only featured one of Sam Hess's idiot sons shooting the other with a crossbow bolt while the widow Hess tried to seduce Lester... dayenu." But while "A Muddy Road" is another excellent episode of what's been an excellent series so far, it doesn't...
- 4/30/2014
- by Alan Sepinwall
- Hitfix
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