Two episodes into Fargo Season 5 and I can see that Noah Hawley has lost his passion and imagination for writing or at least telling us an interesting story. I was stunned Hawley wrote these episodes. Or did a team of interns write it and he slapped his name on them to give them weight? Season 5 so far has been (and will continue to be based on the "coming up this season" previews) part Home Alone, some MacGyver and add in some Sleeping With the Enemy. It takes from those different premises minus any engaging or charismatic characters and replaces entertaining writing with the usual agenda: Men are bad, mad, weak or goofy, not heroic and not worthy of admiring or respecting. Only the female characters are smart, strong and important. It's all so repetitive, predictable and boring and it's in most shows and movies since about 2016. Jon Hamm is great as always. Here he's the perfect archetype of the toxic, alpha male for Hollywood writers since about 2016, and while everything he says makes common sense and therefore true, he is the villain and will predictably lose in the end. We waited three years for this? And why was a moment of silence given to a little daughter having a "wedgie"? It felt gross and unnecessary. Juno Temple plays a likeable and sympathetic woman on the run, but the bad writing lets her down. The direction and cinematography look great, as per Fargo standards. Season 4 was so bad I had to quit as well and I wasn't the only one. The ratings started at 1.22 million (a 14 percent drop from Season 3) and dropped to 851,000. Day 1, Season 1 fans like myself have abandoned Fargo and Season 5 has no interest in bringing us back.
Review of Trials and Tribulations
