Fargo (FX) TV Show • Page 26

I don't think there is a single moment/piece of art on this planet that would throw me off if an Alien showed up.

 

the ufo actually showing up whipped ass and season 2 is perfect

 

Aliens are cool, but it was pretty stupid at the end of the season for no reason

 

Team alien/UFO all the way

 

Yeah, I love alien shit. I wish there were more high quality invasion or abduction movies and shows, I feel like that’s a big chunk of horror movies that just aren’t happening anymore.

But them being used as a kinda ‘deus ex machina’ in Fargo just rubbed me the wrong way.

 

The aliens were all about heightening the absurdity of the violence taking place and it was absolutely the perfect way to end that season.

 

My favorite scene in the whole show is when the Native American character(my bad I can’t remember his name) has that run in at the bar. Just such a poetic character.

 

I'm not familiar with that term. Care to explain?

 

“A plot device whereby a seemingly unsolvable problem in a story is suddenly and abruptly resolved by an unexpected and seemingly unlikely occurrence, typically so much as to seem contrived.”

It would be like if in that scene there was an earthquake or meteor that happened and “solved” everything like the UFO did.

 

I mean the UFO was teased all season. It didn’t come out of nowhere

 

Right, like I said before, I like it as a background thing while the main story is happening. I just thought it didn’t work as being shoved in there at the end.

 

Watching S2 right now. They seemed to have worked an alien component into every episode. Forgot that one of Molly's kid drawings had a UFO.

 

If I remember correctly I think she drew a sun, and a coffee ring left by a mug made it look like a flying saucer. I think they literally showed a ufo observing the butcher in one of the first few episodes of that season, so it definitely didn't come out of nowhere. I loved every second of the ufo parts of that season, thought it was a nice parallel to the 'god is watching' throughline of the first season

 

how does the ufo showing up solve anything also? everything was pretty resolved up to that point the ufo was just the cherry on top no one saw coming lol

 

but it’s been a while since i saw s2 so maybe i’m not remembering correctly

 

IIRC the main protagonist was about to be killed when it suddenly showed up and stopped it from happening. Could be misremembering that though, and it wouldn’t bother me either way

 

If I remember correctly, it turned the tides in that parking lot shootout which is what annoyed me.

 

The UFO was incredible

 

this is correct. It shows up and distracts one of the Gerhardts from killing Lou.

But the UFO is what kicked the whole story off (Rye gets distracted by the UFO which causes him to get run over by Peggy, kicking off the whole shitshow) and it wraps up the story as well by showing up at the end. And it's sprinkled in nearly every episode between. I think it's a pretty integral part of the season overall.

plus aliens are super tight and always welcome

 

Hearing people talk about the season I honestly don’t remember anything.

 

Yeah 100% I agree. It’s one of those things where I totally get both sides of the argument but it’s a lot more fun to just buy in and accept the alien interference for what it is.

One thing going a little overlooked too is how the entire event is alluded to even in season 1 as this crazy mysterious thing that no one even has the capacity to talk about. In a way, they’d been building up to that conclusion long before season 2 even started and if it had just been a wild shoot out I think a lot of people would have been severely disappointed that it wasn’t something more tremendous

 

Plus it was inspired by an actual UFO incident ("actual" of course being a loosely applied word here)

 

This, and I feel like it's thematically in line with a lot of the bizarre, otherworldly, unexplainable elements that shows up a lot in Coen Brothers films. Granted that Fargo itself isn't one of those films, but the series as a whole has woven in a lot of stuff from other films of theirs.

 

All three seasons are great and have very distinct vibes from each other that it’s hard to compare them. I get people thinking that S3 was slow/not a ton happened, but i feel like it had the strongest and most coherent themes.

 

The Wandering Jew was fantastic