re: FX: Fargo season 5 starts Tuesday Nov. 21

I was disappointed throughout this season. Jon Hamm and Jennifer Jason Leigh's characters seem like caricatures rather than real people. Neither actor seemed able to pull it off.

They never explained, unless I missed it, how Dot/Nadine was able to operate like a ninja and how she acquired those skills. I'll accept that she is a survivor but that in no way explains her skill set.

Dave Foley was surprisingly good and Juno Temple, Joe Keery, and David Rysdahl were solid.

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Jon Hamm and Jennifer Jason Leigh's characters seem like caricatures rather than real people. Neither actor seemed able to pull it off.

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Disagree about Hamm. I thought he did pretty well. Her character was a bit hard to watch at times though. She had some pretty good moments though.

Definitely a strange ending, but it's a strange series. I kinda liked it since I think everyone assumed a battle of some sort was coming.

Anyone notice that Gator didn't put the top back on the "escape hatch" and it was on when Roy got there? Not a big deal, but for a show this tight, I thought it was kind of glaring.

Also, YMCA playing as the "patriots" rode up to the ranch had me laughing.

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I just assumed the federal agents standing above the hole had put the lid back on to keep the element of surprise.

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And that is probably the correct answer. I'll show myself out now.

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Who was the grave they were visiting in the end?

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Her Trooper. Other than Dot's husband, probably the only good person who didn't compromise.

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He's a Sin Eater

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god damn, the human race used to be so much cooler

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at funerals to hire poor people, who were to take upon them all the sins of the party deceased. One of them I remember lived in a Cottage on Rosse-high way. (He was a long, lean, ugly, lamentable Raskel.) The manner was that when the corpse was brought out of the house, and laid on the Biere; a Loaf of bread was brought out, and delivered to the Sine-eater over the corpse, and also a Mazar-bowl of maple (Gossips bowl) full of beer, which he was to drink up, and sixpence in money, in consideration whereof he took upon him (ipso facto) all the Sinnes of the Defunct, and freed him (or her) from walking after they were dead

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I’m confused that some of you are surprised we didn’t get a traditional shoot em up ending. It’s Fargo, it’s more often going to take a quirky turn than not

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I didn't necessarily want to see a shoot 'em up ending, but I didn't expect a 40 minute epilogue with a complete lack of tenison trying to provide closure to all of the characters.

The perfect ending was Season One. Tension throughout the finale with the Fargo ending of this...

I think it was just a pack of cigarettes, kind of a taunt knowing that he will have to beg and barter for his safety but they both know it will run out and there are simply some guys who aren’t going to care what he offers them.

The whole show is about the concept of debt, what is owed and what is expected. Thought it was a really well done examination of a concept involving virtually every character in some way. The end with Munch was addressing the concept of forgiveness in a pretty well-earned way. Felt like what the show was really building was a familiarity with these two misfit characters as a way of explaining that forgiveness is in fact an option

Binged S5 over the weekend. It was better than S4, but I'd still take S3 over it. First two seasons were obviously on a different level.

I may have missed something, but I didn't pick up on any cameos with characters from previous seasons. Someone from seasons 1 or 3 would have been pretty easy to integrate, but maybe the showrunners didn't want to reach just for the sake of a cameo.

I was under the impression she didnt.
Was a dream

Ok I just died laughing when the husband gave the dude killer a soda