Fear and Trembling
- Episode aired Nov 2, 2015
- TV-MA
- 52m
The Gerhardts respond to Kansas City's proposal, while Hanzee finds a new lead in Rye's disappearance. Lou questions Ed and Peggy.The Gerhardts respond to Kansas City's proposal, while Hanzee finds a new lead in Rye's disappearance. Lou questions Ed and Peggy.The Gerhardts respond to Kansas City's proposal, while Hanzee finds a new lead in Rye's disappearance. Lou questions Ed and Peggy.
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- Trivia"Moonbase Freedom" is the second of three fictional Ronald Reagan movies in this season. The clip actually shown in the theater scene is from Edgar G. Ulmer's The Man from Planet X (1951), which was indeed released in 1951.
- GoofsHanzee finds a piece of broken headlight in the road, which he then conveniently matches up with Ed and Peggy's car. But the police previously spoke about finding broken glass in the street, and they would've taken said glass as evidence. It's extremely unlikely they would've missed a piece as large as the one Hanzee found, but even if they had, roads get plowed when it snows. It was snowing the night of the murder and the road had clearly been plowed at least once in the days between the crime and Hanzee finding the glass. It's simply not plausible for that piece of headlight to still be lying in the road so many days after the hit and run.
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Lou Solverson: You didn't fight, did you, Ed - in the war?
Ed Blumquist: No, sir. 4-F on account I got the one kidney.
Lou Solverson: So... There's a look a boy gets when he's been shot or a - or a land mine takes off his legs, and he's laying there in the mud, trying to get up, 'cause he doesn't feel it yet.
Ed Blumquist: I, uh, don't...
Lou Solverson: His - his brain hasn't caught up with the reality, which is... he's already dead.
Peggy Blumquist: Ed. He's scaring me.
Lou Solverson: But we see it, the rest of us. And we lie. We say, "Lay still. You're gonna be fine." If you'd been to war, you'd know the look. See, you and Peggy, you got the look.
- ConnectionsFeatured in The 68th Primetime Emmy Awards (2016)
- SoundtracksDas Lied von der Erde
Written by Gustav Mahler
True Detective season 2 tackled many different story lines that all seemed too prevent any one story from taking off or becoming great at any particular aspect. But Fargo season 2 has far more characters than the previous season, but it actually improves the narrative. I love that this episode focuses more on some of the minor characters such as Hanzee, Mike Milligan, and most importantly Dodd Gerhardt. We seemed to get a bit of clarification on the opening scene of the first episode with Ronald Reagan's film as a callback to Dodd's childhood and the one particularly tragic moment. That scene with Dodd and his son felt a lot like Kingpin and his father back in Daredevil season 1. But I liked that we got to see more about the Gerhardt's who are as entertaining as they are deceptive. Judging by the end scene, it looks like we are going to get some big time mob murders in the coming episodes.
It was good to see Nick Offerman back as Lou's friend and car dealer. It was definitely a little convenient that he was in fact the dealer who has the Blomquist's car, but again, I bought into it. It was hard to watch the Blomquist's struggle to tell Lou about the accident. Now that they have reached that no point of return I think it's inevitable that they both die at the end of the season. Just as you rooted for Lester in season 1, you root for the Blomquist's here. It's unfortunate because I think Ed was just about to confess to Lou what really happened, oh well. Once again, another gem of an episode. It's funny that I can go from watching a mediocre and playful show like Supergirl to then immediately watching a masterpiece like Fargo.
+Esposition episode that was just as if not more entertaining than usual.
+Focused on minor characters
+Dodd
+Just tell them Blomquist's!
9.5/10
- ThomasDrufke
- Nov 3, 2015
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- Runtime52 minutes
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- 1.78 : 1