I am about to watch the final episode of Fargo season 1 - had never seen season 1 before

My favorite season, followed closely by season 2. I gave up on watching season 3.

I wish I would have seen this one first. Mr Wrench is in another season and I had no idea who he was. Not sure if it really mattered that much

Lorne Malvo was a superb villain. He was the devil incarnate.

The writing in season 1 was superb. It totally takes the movie's spirit and runs with it.

Season 1 was a revelation when it came out. Season 2 made this show the single best thing being put on TV that seemingly nobody talks about.

They made "Better Call Saul" a stumbling, bumbling moron. Molly had it figured out from the very beginning.

Now I can watch seasons 2 and 3 again.

Love Fargo. S1 and 2 were gold. S3 was a little disappointing but still enjoyable.

I'm probably in the minority here but I thought S1 of Fargo was better than True Detective S1 since they aired about the same time.

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Lorne Malvo was a superb villain. He was the devil incarnate.

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He was an okay bad-guy villain.

Quick recap:

He randomly meets a guy at the emergency room and takes it upon himself to murder the guy's nemesis with a knife. Though it was from behind and the guy never saw it coming.

He then shoots the chief of police of the small town in his new friend's house after his new buddy killed his wife.

Then he moves on to another town and the mafia sends two hit-men to snuff him out for killing one of their guys. He kills one hit-man and helps the other escape incarceration inviting him to come at him again when he feels up to it.

He then either injures or kills his boss who apparently runs a stable of many hit-men.

Then he goes to Fargo and single-handedly wipes out an entire mafia syndicate in one single attack in a three or four story building, blasting his way from one floor to the other.

He then murders his new best buddy of six months, his buddy's wife and his own fiancee without blinking an eye. Then makes light of and laughs at the look on his buddy's face when he pulled the gun to kill him. (I thought that was the funniest part of the season, talking about being a dentist, working the guy for six months, losing out on the $100,000 bounty. "Still, the look on his face when I pulled the gun. Classic, huh?")

Along the way he intimidates police officers, postal employees, new home owners, former state police officers, restaurant workers, car salesmen, etc, etc.

He goes to a police station and steals FBI documents.

He kidnaps a car salesman and uses him in a scheme that allows him to murder two FBI agents giving him access to his intended victims home.



BUT then he learned a very valuable albeit short-lived lesson.


He learned that:
You don't tug on superman's cape
You don't spit into the wind
You don't pull the mask off that old lone ranger
And you don't mess around with THE HOBBIT!!!!

THE HOBBIT is the debbel and Lorne Malvo was just renting space on his coat-tails.

Once the face-to-face confrontation became inevitable THE HOBBIT put his mind to it and quickly dispatched of the wannabe bad guy.

Malvo was soon running or limping away from THE HOBBIT with great haste. Like a minnow trying to get away from a whale, a rabbit from a dog, a gazelle from a leopard or a seal trying to get away from a shark.

Lorne realized he was out-smarted, out-manned and basically unequipped for THE LORD OF THE RING whom he had just killed people to get at. THE HOBBIT followed the poser's tracks but Malvo had already vacated the premises at which THE HOBBIT got a wry smile on his face.

A few weeks later THE HOBBIT was snowmobiling in a state park in Montana. THE END!!!!!



Poser wannabe bad guy:






The real bad guy:







The real bad guy wearing his tactical gear ready to do battle: