Discussion: FARGO on FX @10pm Update: Season 5 w/ John Hamm
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fargo was the shit...
season one and two I wouldve never peeped
it if bgol aint shout it out..
the next shit Im waiting for is that luke cage shit on netflix....
season one and two I wouldve never peeped
it if bgol aint shout it out..
the next shit Im waiting for is that luke cage shit on netflix....
Surprising how good both seasons were. Well-cast & I don't think anyone was really sure how well the show would be received 20 years after the original movie was released. Props on doing the movie justice with the TV re-up.
Kirsten Dunst and Jesse Plemons are engaged
Kirsten Dunst and Jesse Plemons — who played a married couple on “Fargo” — are rumored to be engaged in real life, sources tell Page Six.
We hear the pair got engaged over Golden Globes weekend.
Dunst and Plemons were seen kissing at an Emmys after-party for their FX show in September, and they’ve been spotted out together in LA many times since.
Plemons’ career has been on the rise since he was cast on “Breaking Bad,” followed by films “Black Mass” and “Bridge of Spies.”
The couple’s reps did not get back to us. A rep for the show had no comment.
http://pagesix.com/2017/01/10/kirsten-dunst-and-jesse-plemons-get-engaged/
Kirsten Dunst and Jesse Plemons are engaged
Kirsten Dunst and Jesse Plemons — who played a married couple on “Fargo” — are rumored to be engaged in real life, sources tell Page Six.
We hear the pair got engaged over Golden Globes weekend.
Dunst and Plemons were seen kissing at an Emmys after-party for their FX show in September, and they’ve been spotted out together in LA many times since.
Plemons’ career has been on the rise since he was cast on “Breaking Bad,” followed by films “Black Mass” and “Bridge of Spies.”
The couple’s reps did not get back to us. A rep for the show had no comment.
http://pagesix.com/2017/01/10/kirsten-dunst-and-jesse-plemons-get-engaged/
they was damn good in fargo...they became their characters...
I thought the new season of fargo was about to start...
ME TOO!
Season 3 returns April 19th.
Fargo’s third season finally has a premiere date. FX announced on Wednesday that the show will bow its third run on April 19th at 10 PM ET/PT on the cable network. The new season stars Ewan McGregor (in two roles), Carrie Coon, Mary Elizabeth Winstead and David Thewlis.
Set in 2010, the third season centers on “Emmit” and his slightly younger brother “Ray Stussy” (both played by McGregor). Emmit, the Parking Lot King of Minnesota, sees himself as an American success story, whereas Ray is more of a cautionary tale. Forever living in his more successful brother’s shadow, Ray is a balding and pot-bellied parole officer with a huge chip on his shoulder about the hand he’s been dealt — and he blames his brother. Their sibling rivalry follows a twisted path that begins with petty theft but soon leads to murder, mobsters and cut-throat competitive bridge. Coon stars as “Gloria Burgle,” the steady chief of the local police department. A newly divorced mother, Gloria is trying to understand the new world around her, where people connect more intimately with their phones than with the people around them. Winstead stars as Ray’s girlfriend, “Nikki Swango,” a crafty and alluring recent parolee with a passion for competitive bridge. Thewlis stars as “V.M. Vargas,” a mysterious loner and true capitalist whose bosses plan to partner with Emmit, whether “The Parking Lot King” likes it or not.
Noah Hawley shows are all ove FX this year with this and Legion after a 2 year hiatus.
Fargo’s third season finally has a premiere date. FX announced on Wednesday that the show will bow its third run on April 19th at 10 PM ET/PT on the cable network. The new season stars Ewan McGregor (in two roles), Carrie Coon, Mary Elizabeth Winstead and David Thewlis.
Set in 2010, the third season centers on “Emmit” and his slightly younger brother “Ray Stussy” (both played by McGregor). Emmit, the Parking Lot King of Minnesota, sees himself as an American success story, whereas Ray is more of a cautionary tale. Forever living in his more successful brother’s shadow, Ray is a balding and pot-bellied parole officer with a huge chip on his shoulder about the hand he’s been dealt — and he blames his brother. Their sibling rivalry follows a twisted path that begins with petty theft but soon leads to murder, mobsters and cut-throat competitive bridge. Coon stars as “Gloria Burgle,” the steady chief of the local police department. A newly divorced mother, Gloria is trying to understand the new world around her, where people connect more intimately with their phones than with the people around them. Winstead stars as Ray’s girlfriend, “Nikki Swango,” a crafty and alluring recent parolee with a passion for competitive bridge. Thewlis stars as “V.M. Vargas,” a mysterious loner and true capitalist whose bosses plan to partner with Emmit, whether “The Parking Lot King” likes it or not.
Noah Hawley shows are all ove FX this year with this and Legion after a 2 year hiatus.
I did too for the first season, just rolled my eyes at them making another tv remake of a movie, then watched it rack up awards, checked it out and was glad I did.
April 19th can't come quick enough. This, Bates Motel, The Americans and the Blacklist is my shit.
3 weeks until the premiere, famalama.
One more day before season 3 drops 
One more day before season 3 drops
Enjoy the season 3 premiere tomorrow, BGOL fam'.
http://www.vulture.com/2017/04/fargo-season-three-review.html
Like the two seasons that preceded it, the third iteration of Fargo shifts to a different time period and introduces a cavalcade of idiosyncratic new characters, yet delivers all the things one has come to expect from this limited series. Which is to say that season three features, among other things and no spoiler alert necessary: decent folk who make incredibly stupid decisions; dazzling directorial choices; intimidating heavies who roll in from out of town; misunderstandings that lead to serious crimes; a pinch of sci-fi (remember the UFOs in season two?); and Minnesota accents as thick as the snow that coats the perpetually frigid ground. There’s also a bunch of stuff about competitive bridge, though that’s not necessarily anything one would expect. Fargo: It can still surprise ya!
Actually, even though showrunner, writer, and sometime director Noah Hawley hasn’t significantly altered his storytelling tools, Fargo still delivers enough moments that — tiny spoiler alert that won’t make any sense until you watch episode one on Wednesday night — hit you on the head with little advance warning. The FX series, universally praised, particularly for its ambitious second season, may have developed its own set of identifiable tropes, some of them borrowed from the 1996 Coen brothers film that inspired it. But it is certainly not the sort of television one can watch and credibly call lazy, not when Hawley, his fellow writers and directors, and a cast of exceptional actors, including not just one but two Ewan McGregors, are making such carefully considered choices. Drama is easy; crime drama with dry humor and this many bumbling idiots is hard. But Fargo, unlike some of its protagonists, knows how to handle it all, no problem, you betcha.
As implied above, McGregor turns in a dual performance as both Emmit and Ray Stussy, siblings who, in Fargo family-rivalry tradition, have serious bad blood between them. Emmit’s the successful one with the wife, kids, megamansion, and lucrative parking-garage business, while Ray is the ethically challenged parole officer who looks like he just fell out of a scene from Starsky and Hutch. The younger, bitter brother still resents Emmit over some long-standing, perceived slight involving vintage stamps, and Ray is determined to get his hands on one of those pieces of postage that happens to be hanging on Emmit’s home-office wall. The fact that said stamp features an image of Sisyphus pushing a boulder up a hill should signal that retrieving it may be more trouble than it’s worth. So should the fact that the person Ray initially turns to for help, a parole-violating stoner named Maurice LeFay (the hilarious Scoot McNairy), starts sentences with such phrases as, “So I know I’m the moron …” But this is the Minnesota of the Fargo universe, where some people don’t see red flags even when they’re waving violently enough to generate hurricane-level winds.
Emmit, meanwhile, has his own set of problems thanks to a loan he borrowed from an investment firm and now wants to pay back. That firm — overseen by a shady out-of-towner named V.M. Varga (David Thewlis), whose business practices seem even more crooked than his gnarly set of teeth — is less interested in accepting that repayment and more interested in “partnering” with Emmit. And yes, it appears Mr. Varga does have something illegal in mind.
Also drawn into all this business are Nikki Swango (Mary Elizabeth Winstead), Ray’s calculating girlfriend, a killer competitive-bridge player and yet another person shamelessly violating her parole; Sy Feltz (Michael Stuhlbarg), Emmit’s business partner and a man who is not shy about expressing his disdain for Ray; and, in classic Fargo tradition, an ultracompetent, no-nonsense female cop, Gloria Burgle, played with just the right level of steadiness by Carrie Coon.
Not only is this great casting, in some cases it’s even sly casting. The idea that Stuhlbarg, who had to listen to a junior rabbi explain the everyday beauty of a parking lot in the Coen brothers film A Serious Man, is now playing someone who helps run parking garages in another Coen-produced project is … well, it’s really something special.
McGregor has the most obviously showy work to do, sometimes acting opposite a scene partner who happens to be himself. He does a seamless job of shedding his Scottish accent and sliding between these very different midwestern men, one classy enough to wear “house shoes” indoors, the other the owner of an old Corvette with a license plate that reads “Ace Hole.” Of the two characters, Ray is the sleazier, more pathetic, and, therefore, more interesting one. At least in the two initial episodes, the only ones made available to critics, the Trainspotting star gets more of an opportunity to burrow into an alter ego in that role.
As the presence of the Stussy brothers suggests, a running theme on Fargo this season involves doubles and mistaken or secret identities. Perhaps to the narrative’s detriment, that theme is telegraphed so unmistakably that one can already guess what roads may be traveled in future episodes. (Until I started watching this season of Fargo, I never noticed that Winstead and Coon look an awful lot alike. That can’t possibly be a coincidence.)
A more amusing motif, and one whose reason for being is still, happily, a mystery, focuses on the clash between some of these Minnesotans and their technology. In the first episode, Emmit complains that he tried to call Varga’s investment firm multiple times and all he could hear on the line was “clicks and buzzers.” Coon’s Gloria struggles with her cell phone and, in a funny repeating visual gag, can’t get any automatic doors anywhere to open for her, no matter how hard she flaps her arms and tries to trip the sensors. “I’m here, right?” she says to a fellow cop as the doors to their police station remain stubbornly shut before her. “You see me?” Those who know Coon from The Leftovers can be forgiven for immediately assuming that Gloria suddenly departed and just doesn’t know it yet.
More than anything else, though, what makes Fargo feel like an event is the boldness of its visual style. Hawley directs episode one and, as he has before on Fargo as well as Legion, chooses to make certain moments big, cinematic, and portentous, whether it’s Gloria searching a ransacked house with a flashlit police gun to the the throaty rattle-chant of Radik Tyulush’s “Oskus Urug” or, of all things, a montage of Ray gathering urine samples from his clientele that’s set to the jazzy Lambert, Hendricks & Ross version of “Moanin’.”Seriously, you have to hand it to a show that can depict pee collection and make it really swing.
As is always the case, Fargo promises, via a title card at the beginning of each episode, that it’s telling a true story. Whether it’s true or not — hint: it’s totally not! — is beside the point. Even if some of the characters seem familiar or we recognize some of the narrative beats before they’re hit, we know from the very moment it begins that Fargo once again has a great, big story to tell us, and that means it’s time to settle in for the ride, wherever that old “Ace Hole” Corvette may take us.
Man I watched the premiere of season 3 and was glued to the tv...The 2 brothers 1 w/a successful software company and the other brother collecting piss test specimens for his probation clients only bright spot of his job is fugging his fine azz probationee
Then in comes in the dude representing the company who loaned them the million dollars Clicks and Buzzers was all they got when they tried to call to repay em that scene was priceless...
Okay I'm sure it's going to come out but WTF the opening scene in Germany got to do with this
Then in comes in the dude representing the company who loaned them the million dollars Clicks and Buzzers was all they got when they tried to call to repay em that scene was priceless...
Okay I'm sure it's going to come out but WTF the opening scene in Germany got to do with this
Yeah - gonna be interesting to see how this season plays out. We watched Fargo and Better Call Saul yesterday.
Mary Elizabeth Winstead aka Nikki, nothing special, but still tits... sorta
From some magazine, just see through.
From the original Fappening right after she found the Sepia filter on her camera...
From some magazine, just see through.
From the original Fappening right after she found the Sepia filter on her camera...
caught the premiere last night...as is the case with the previous 2 seasons I'm all in
question I wonder if the girlfriend was plannying that AC stunt for probation officer boyfriend to use in case of emergencies
seemed to have it timed to perfectly to come up with it at the drop of a dime
question I wonder if the girlfriend was plannying that AC stunt for probation officer boyfriend to use in case of emergencies
seemed to have it timed to perfectly to come up with it at the drop of a dime
My favorite scene of the night!!!
It was spur of the moment, she was counting his steps in her head, bitch is the smartest person ever to be on Fargo
Me too
My favorite scene of the night!!!
It was spur of the moment, she was counting his steps in her head, bitch is the smartest person ever to be on Fargo
Me too
how did she know how long or how many steps it would take if she hadnt counted it out before...
I'm so addicted to binge watching shit
Tho I may let it grow a couple of episodes
Before I go in
Tho I may let it grow a couple of episodes
Before I go in
how did she know how long or how many steps it would take if she hadnt counted it out before...
Nigga i ment spur of the moment as in she needed to make a play.
Of course she knew how many steps it was prior.
you missing the point i was trying to make
i am speculating that she knew how many steps cause she was gonna use that trick on her boyfriend
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