All right ... Am I the only one who thought that Fargo was unsatisfactory this year? Lots of spoilers ahead, if you care.
Notice that I did not say "crappy" or anything really derogatory. I thought that the characters, for the most part, were interesting and even fascinating. But things never developed for some of them. The female cop (the former chief), who could have been the protagonist, became almost peripheral.
And Ray, the scoundrelly ne'er-do-well who started out as a parole officer, and also had protagonist potential, gets killed along about midway in the story. The Hispanic female cop, who was also an interesting character, never seemed to develop fully as a character in the story, either.
And how about that first episode, in East Germany? Was it even related to any later characters and events? I watched the episode a couple of times with the intention of remembering the faces of the characters. But many years went by before the next episode, which picked up in the usual Fargo locale, and I could never make any connection of the East Germany stuff with the later episodes. Did I miss something?
And in the last episode, when an assassin kills Ray's brother five years after the primary events are over, I thought that the assassin was the deaf accomplice of Ray's dead girl friend Nikki. But I was not sure. I simply could not recognize him - and maybe that was just my fault. I looked up the series on the internet and learned that I was right. The assassin was Nikki's accomplice. But, jeez, so many uncertainties and undeveloped threads. What the heck?
I read in the internet article that the series is going into hiatus for, I think, three years. That probably means that it will never return.
Notice that I did not say "crappy" or anything really derogatory. I thought that the characters, for the most part, were interesting and even fascinating. But things never developed for some of them. The female cop (the former chief), who could have been the protagonist, became almost peripheral.
And Ray, the scoundrelly ne'er-do-well who started out as a parole officer, and also had protagonist potential, gets killed along about midway in the story. The Hispanic female cop, who was also an interesting character, never seemed to develop fully as a character in the story, either.
And how about that first episode, in East Germany? Was it even related to any later characters and events? I watched the episode a couple of times with the intention of remembering the faces of the characters. But many years went by before the next episode, which picked up in the usual Fargo locale, and I could never make any connection of the East Germany stuff with the later episodes. Did I miss something?
And in the last episode, when an assassin kills Ray's brother five years after the primary events are over, I thought that the assassin was the deaf accomplice of Ray's dead girl friend Nikki. But I was not sure. I simply could not recognize him - and maybe that was just my fault. I looked up the series on the internet and learned that I was right. The assassin was Nikki's accomplice. But, jeez, so many uncertainties and undeveloped threads. What the heck?
I read in the internet article that the series is going into hiatus for, I think, three years. That probably means that it will never return.
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