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Uncle_ricky
Member
07-02-2007
| Thursday, October 29, 2015 - 5:09 pm 
You're one of the best contributors at TVCH, Tishala, and I noticed you hadn't been posting in recent weeks, so I was pleased to see your "Fargo" post.  (The NFL Pool game is fun, but frustrating!)
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Naja
Member
06-28-2003
| Monday, November 02, 2015 - 9:59 pm
This post half off topic but I just had to mention a movie I saw over the weekend.
If anybody is interested in seeing a movie that has the same atmosphere and type of plot as Fargo the tv show, you have to see
"Cut Bank (2014)"
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1661820/reference
It even has a few of the same actors as the TV show.
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Naja
Member
06-28-2003
| Monday, November 02, 2015 - 10:38 pm
eta: to my post above--
If you subscribe to STARZ channel, it's in their on-demand right now.
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Tishala
Member
08-01-2000
| Tuesday, November 03, 2015 - 2:20 pm
The second half of last night's show was pure visual poetry and beautifully suspenseful. From the moment Hanzee arrives at Ed and Peggy's house, through the scene in the back of the car with the Gerhardts--Mama Gerhardt refusing to console her son, twice, before she acquiesces--to Lou's speech to Peggy and Ed about being already dead, to Lou's wife looking at her placebos/experimental cancer drug, to Mama Gerhardt enveloping her husband in bed before declaring "this is war," it was all so amazing.
I don't understand everything yet, and suspect I'm going to need to re-watch the entire series after it's over, but this episode was a complete wow for me.
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Tishala
Member
08-01-2000
| Tuesday, November 03, 2015 - 2:28 pm
BTW Jean Smart as Mama Gerhardt has to be a front runner for an Emmy. Her speech about her children, including the stilborn ones, could earn it for her without voters needing to see the scene in the back of the car or her scene in bed with her husband.
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Lexie_girl
Member
07-30-2004
| Tuesday, November 03, 2015 - 2:49 pm
Tish, I agree about needing to rewatch the entire season over again. The first season was so much easier to follow.
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Marameko
Member
07-14-2002
| Wednesday, November 04, 2015 - 5:12 am
The Indian who tracked Ed and Peggy's car to the auto body garage and him casually strolling through their home was awesome ...The scene where Ed realizes, without speaking, that someone has been in the home was memorable. If Lou was referring to a "look" surely that was the one where ED sees the fireplace..
The clothes, hair, cars and home furnishings brings back memories if one is of a certain age.
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Sanfranjoshfan
Member
09-17-2000
| Wednesday, November 04, 2015 - 6:16 pm
So what's the deal with Hanzee, the Native American guy played by Zahn McClarnon? During that scene when he was looking up at the sky it appears that he lost two hours.
Before he walked out of the Waffle House and went back outside there was a clock on the wall that showed it was 7:07. Then Hanzee walked outside and found a piece of a car's broken headlight in the snow. That's when he looked up at the sky and we see the sun moving very fast across the sky. Then he puts the broken headlight in his pocket and pulls out a pocket watch which shows the time to be 9:07.
Was this some kind of epilepsy event? Or some other kind of blackout or something?
Just before Hanzee leaves the Waffle House:
Just after he puts the broken headlight shard in his pocket:
(Images are screen caps from this episode.)
Whatever that lost time was caused by, I'm guessing it will play a part in some future episode.
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Egbok
Member
07-13-2000
| Wednesday, November 04, 2015 - 7:11 pm
I thought the 2 hour lapse had to do with the UFO Hanzee was looking at through the trees. In Episode 1, I recall there being a UFO when Peggy hit Rye with her car. I would hope we are eventually filled in with the UFO scenes but I suspect we won't. It'll probably be chalked up to one of those FARGO type of bizarre unknown moments.
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Tishala
Member
08-01-2000
| Wednesday, November 04, 2015 - 7:18 pm
http://www.mprnews.org/story/2015/10/27/fargo-val-johnson-incident
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Egbok
Member
07-13-2000
| Wednesday, November 04, 2015 - 8:45 pm
Interesting article Tishala, thank you for posting it.
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Lexie_girl
Member
07-30-2004
| Thursday, November 05, 2015 - 4:22 am
Great catch SFJF and Eggie. I never even caught the two-hour time difference. If this was Lost, I would have been looking for it.
Great article Tish... thanks for posting.
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Tishala
Member
08-01-2000
| Thursday, November 12, 2015 - 11:06 am
I can't believe nobody posted about this week's AMAZING episode. But it was AMAZING!
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Sanfranjoshfan
Member
09-17-2000
| Thursday, November 12, 2015 - 1:03 pm
Thanks, Egbok! I had totally forgotten all about the UFO!
This week, the scene that stuck with me the most was the guy with the bow and arrow who said (paraphrased) "Anyone can shoot a gun. The longbow is in art"...seconds before a bullet blew his brains out.
Gotta love the little bits of irony that pop up every time you turn around on Fargo!
I also cracked up at the seemingly innocent and naive girl in the butcher shop when she was talking about death moments visited the shop....."It doesn't matter what you do with your life....you're gonna die anyway". (paraphrased) I can still her accent when I think about it.
This really was an excellent episode.
The second season has been really good, but also it's been a much slower burn than last year when bumbling murderer Lester (Martin Freeman) was going head to head with professional serial killer Malvo (Billy Bob Thornton). Finally, this year's latest episode really ramped it up and a lot of the actions/plans from all these different people started to mesh. It really snowballed when it got going!
ETA - I agree, Tishala...it was truly AMAZING!
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Reenie
Member
06-24-2006
| Thursday, November 12, 2015 - 4:10 pm
That was some episode!!! I was surprised that the Kristen Dunst character hadn't left town! Her poor husband!!!
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Uncle_ricky
Member
07-02-2007
| Thursday, November 12, 2015 - 4:35 pm
I really feel sorry for anyone who is missing this show (knowingly or unknowingly) -- each and every episode is delightful and menacing fun. Yummy on all fronts!
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Lexie_girl
Member
07-30-2004
| Monday, November 16, 2015 - 4:33 am
I watched my recording this weekend. I agree with SFJF that this season's episode was a much slower burn but this past week's episode totally ramped it up. I think it is going to really hit the fan between those two Gerhardt brothers and I can't wait.
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Lakecat
Member
10-01-2006
| Thursday, November 19, 2015 - 7:17 pm
It's not one of those shows that you can check your facebook, check News and Views etc or you will miss some small nuance. We watched the first two episodes and then binge watched the last 4. We were having a hard time remembering and catching up but we are good now.
Whose head was that in the hat box?
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Egbok
Member
07-13-2000
| Thursday, November 19, 2015 - 7:44 pm
The head in the hat box was Brad Garrett's character, the Kansas City mob boss Joe Bulo.
I am enjoying this AMAZING show filled with such a rich cast of actors.
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Lakecat
Member
10-01-2006
| Friday, November 20, 2015 - 4:56 am
Thanks. I'm also, once again having a hard time understanding some of the conversation. I must start using CC. I also don't know all the characters names that would help in keeping up with what's going on.
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Puttergirl
Member
08-11-2000
| Friday, November 20, 2015 - 8:08 am
Someone please refresh my memory. I can't remember. How did papa Gerhardt get the way he is? Was he shot in the first episode?
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Foolscap
Member
09-04-2004
| Friday, November 20, 2015 - 8:21 am
I think he had a stroke in the first episode.
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Sanfranjoshfan
Member
09-17-2000
| Friday, November 20, 2015 - 11:17 am
Lakecat, this link might help...it matches the actors with their characters. No photos, but most of the actor's names link to their publicity photos (but they aren't in character for their Fargo roles).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fargo_%28season_2%29#Cast
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A few weeks ago, TV Guide had a double page of showing pictures of each main Fargo season 2 character along with a short description of that character and the actors who play them...but I couldn't that anywhere online.
If you can find the Oct 12-25 (DOUBLE ISSUE) of TV Guide magazine with Michael Weatherly's picture on the front, go to pages 22-23.
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Lakecat
Member
10-01-2006
| Saturday, November 21, 2015 - 7:40 am
Thanks! This is probably what you are talking about.
http://www.bustle.com/articles/117925-the-cast-of-fargo-season-2-is-full-of-familiar-stars-this-guide-puts-a
I think Mike Milligan is my favorite character. I didn't recognize Ed in the first episode, he's gained quite a bit a weight from Friday Night Lights and Breaking Bad. I wonder if that was for the part of " Ed"?
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Sanfranjoshfan
Member
09-17-2000
| Saturday, November 21, 2015 - 9:13 pm
That wasn't the same thing I saw in the TV Guide, but it had similar info.
I wonder if that was for the part of " Ed"?"
Maybe so....Kirsten Dunst says she had to pack on some extra weight for her role on Fargo. Sounds like she enjoyed it!
Kirsten Dunst: "I Sat in Bed, Watched Friday Night Lights and Ate" Cheese and Bread to Gain Weight for Fargo
Kristen Dunst was 100 percent okay with having to gain weight for her role in FX’s Fargo. The usually slim actress revealed to Jimmy Kimmel on Monday, Oct. 12, that she pretty much just chilled and ate cheese and bread to pack on the pounds for her role as Midwestern beautician Peggy Blomquist.
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http://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/news/kirsten-dunst-reveals-how-she-gained-weight-for-fargo-role-20151310
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