Nothing lasts forever and Fargo is no exception. It's a silly, fun way of spending an hour but its only connection to the masterpiece that it started out as, is the title.
Sherrif Tillman is a cartoon/panto bogeyman, whereas Lorne Malvo was a fully fleshed-out original, unpredictable person. One you'd never want to meet but compelling to watch.
So many of the characters are so dumb they could only exist in a cheesy drama; like the policewoman who stays married to a guy who plays golf all day, racks up $100k debt and criticises her for not being more of a "wife." Obviously she's unable to react because the writers haven't given her a personality. Maybe meet some actual policewomen before writing a character? Maybe credit women with the ability to think and act for themselves?
Munch is a nod to the weirdness of the original film series but the genius of the Coens is in finding the weirdness in the ordinary and the mundane, not just planting a weird character into an ordinary street, have him murder people then carry on as if witnesses or ring cameras don't exist.
But it had a good run and seasons 1-3 still stand up as excellent TV. I'm looking forward to whatever Noah Hawley does next, now that Fargo is done.
Sherrif Tillman is a cartoon/panto bogeyman, whereas Lorne Malvo was a fully fleshed-out original, unpredictable person. One you'd never want to meet but compelling to watch.
So many of the characters are so dumb they could only exist in a cheesy drama; like the policewoman who stays married to a guy who plays golf all day, racks up $100k debt and criticises her for not being more of a "wife." Obviously she's unable to react because the writers haven't given her a personality. Maybe meet some actual policewomen before writing a character? Maybe credit women with the ability to think and act for themselves?
Munch is a nod to the weirdness of the original film series but the genius of the Coens is in finding the weirdness in the ordinary and the mundane, not just planting a weird character into an ordinary street, have him murder people then carry on as if witnesses or ring cameras don't exist.
But it had a good run and seasons 1-3 still stand up as excellent TV. I'm looking forward to whatever Noah Hawley does next, now that Fargo is done.