I'm trying to get through the third season of Fargo right now. It's pretty rough. I guess the people who write the show must all have decided to get heavily into PCP this season, because it's been a disaster. Poor casting choices. Storyholes so big you could drive a semi- through them. And a nausea-inducing reliance on curelty and shock, instead of story or dialogue, to generate interest. The show feels like the spiritual equivalent of watching someone torture and then kill a small animal. It is utterly unredeeming.
What a come-down this marks from the glories of last season. The second season of Fargo was everything this season isn't. Sharp surprising dialogue, complex memorable characters--but best of all were its villains. Its villains were figures of complexity. They weren't pasteboard monsters, who existed only to kill and maim, their depravities 'justified' by trite speeches about man's bestial nature--they were fully imagined human-beings. That's all gone this season. It's a grim, dispiriting slog, one unleavened by any notes of hope or cheerfulness. Avoid it, I say--at all costs.
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I was actually just wondering how the new season is. Good to know.
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