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CBJSprague24 posted:I remembered her reddish brown hair in Hateful 8 (literally the only thing I know her from) WHAT
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ruddiger posted:I know the reason they did was because it makes for better dramatic television but it irked me that she didn’t just shoot the guy while he was knocked out and the cop just stood there out of cover when he was in front of the gas station. The cop thing I get because he doesn't seem particularly savvy.
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Big Bad Voodoo Lou posted:My wife didn't recognize that Deputy Gator (he even sounds like a Justified jobber) was Steve from Stranger Things. I appreciate how season 3 pre-empted 'fake news' and had a lot of really fun stuff in it (bowling alley, the wolf, fun central conflict, deaf guy returns in spectacular form, "I can help" robot etc.). Feel like it holds up better on rewatch, but it's got the unfortunate duty of following the best standalone season of a tv show ever made. S4 isn't hard to beat, as it's the first one to truly be a mess. Only thing outside of the setup I recall fondly was The Rabbit episode, and even that kinda missed the mark.
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CBJSprague24 posted:I got the two confused. I remembered her reddish brown hair in Hateful 8 (literally the only thing I know her from) and, not paying close enough attention/without looking closely, assumed she was in the starring role. I just looked at that actress' IMDB page, because I don't know her at all. I've seen the Netflix movie "Anihilation" but that kind of sucked and I didn't even remember that Natalie Portman was in there.
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cant cook creole bream posted:I just looked at that actress' IMDB page, because I don't know her at all. I've seen the Netflix movie "Anihilation" but that kind of sucked and I didn't even remember that Natalie Portman was in there. My favorite Jennifer Jason Leigh performance was The Hudsucker Proxy, which happens to be my favorite Coen Brothers movie. She does a very similar accent in that movie and in Fargo season 5, the "Transatlantic" accent actors used to do, which sounds "old-timey" to our ears.
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Big Bad Voodoo Lou posted:My favorite Jennifer Jason Leigh performance was The Hudsucker Proxy, which happens to be my favorite Coen Brothers movie. She does a very similar accent in that movie and in Fargo season 5, the "Transatlantic" accent actors used to do, which sounds "old-timey" to our ears.
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Nov 24, 2023 22:14
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Taking the chance to post this thing that I did for some GBS thread For the kids.
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Big Bad Voodoo Lou posted:My wife didn't recognize that Deputy Gator (he even sounds like a Justified jobber) was Steve from Stranger Things. Oh holy poo poo, neither did I. So sad to see a single mom turn bad like that.
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Regarding Jennifer Jason Leigh, for god's sake, is Fast Times at Ridgemont High not nearly as well known as I thought it was?
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Mr. Funny Pants posted:Regarding Jennifer Jason Leigh, for god's sake, is Fast Times at Ridgemont High not nearly as well known as I thought it was?
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DaveKap posted:Known, sure. Seen, less so. Apparently. I thought it was one of those movies that even younger people today had a decent familiarity with. I'm old, so of course it's a staple.
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Mr. Funny Pants posted:Apparently. I thought it was one of those movies that even younger people today had a decent familiarity with. I'm old, so of course it's a staple.
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Oh they know the Matrix! It's that weird movie from a couple of years ago with the guy from How I Met Your Mother? And you angrily tell them no, it's that weird movie from a couple of years ago with Doogie Howser! 
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I read a review that called this season "an accent in search of a show" or something and now I can't get it out of my head. Yeah, lots of crazy accents, and a lot of them seem designed to replace having to write character personalities. I don't like how one-dimensional everyone who's not Juno Temple is. But I'm willing to stick with it a while longer. It really hurts that this is the first season I haven't been able to just marathon since season 1.
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So we've got a Dorothy marred to a cowardly Lyon with a daughter whose name is also Toto's breed. Tillman could use a heart and from what we've seen of Wink he may be lacking in the brain department (I guess the cop's wife could also be a scarecrow). Lorraine is the wicked witch and Dave Foley is a flying monkey? Am I reaching here? They did already do a tornado in the last season though. I'm going to try to work "moist repose" into as many conversations as possible. Chinston Wurchill fucked around with this message at 03:55 on Nov 27, 2023 |
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Yeah the Wizard of Oz was a heavy thematic element last season, but the connections seem too blatant to ignore. Tillman is like 85 percent of the way to tinman, although it kind of falls apart when you consider that he is trying to drag Dorothy back to the farm. Might just be a fun naming convention.
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Nov 27, 2023 04:08
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Danish Graves is the all time greatest fictional character name.
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I still think about Lorne Malvo and wonder if the name came from the show likely being rated TV-MA LV.
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Nov 27, 2023 06:00
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I hope Jennifer Jason leigh's character dies
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She assumed it was a fake kidnapping to get at her money that went sideways. Her downfall is going to be thinking she's in Fargo the movie instead of Fargo the TV show. Good call making the bad guy a sheriff and our "good cops" POCs. We're like six months before George Floyd and trying to make the 2019 Minnesota police look sympathetic would be an absolute fool's errand.
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One of the better ideas of Season 4 was partially inverting the dynamic between honest cops and evil criminals so I'm glad they're not purely returning to the old formula
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Yeah it rules that they're portraying the American sheriff as a feudal lord with endless capacity to abuse their power, which is what they essentially are. https://twitter.com/RealSheriffJoe/status/1727091355636371667?t=k9jd58Jv2rktf8dZOhZ8PQ&s=19
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Nov 27, 2023 19:01
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Tender Bender posted:Yeah it rules that they're portraying the American sheriff as a feudal lord with endless capacity to abuse their power, which is what they essentially are. poo poo I bet Sheriff Joe would have literally agreed to be cast in this show playing that character exactly as it's currently written, fully unaware it's essentially a parody* of him. He's too much of a narcissist to detect subtle insults when they're wrapped in what seems like praise on the surface. Although I'm sure Sheriff Morals will probably end up getting got in some way by the end of the season and I doubt his ego could sustain that. *Parody's not the right word though because this portrayal is way more charismatic than that sack of poo poo could ever be Anyways, really enjoyed the first two episodes. Really feels like a return to form after S4. Pretty much any show is improved by the presence of John Hamm and this one is no different. For now I'm choosing to believe that his character here is canonically the same as his character in Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt
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timp posted:poo poo I bet Sheriff Joe would have literally agreed to be cast in this show playing that character exactly as it's currently written Would’ve been such a good bit if this happened and they got him to pierce his nips irl
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Also greatly enjoying this season so far. Watched the episodes days ago and still thinking about them. Really compelling stuff.
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Tender Bender posted:Yeah it rules that they're portraying the American sheriff as a feudal lord with endless capacity to abuse their power, which is what they essentially are. One of the comments is bitching about them "gender-swapping a girl." It's true, I wore a suit once in 4th grade and I've been a guy ever since.
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Das Boo posted:One of the comments is bitching about them "gender-swapping a girl." Imagine watching that scene and thinking,"Yes, the grandmother is clearly the good and right person here, this is the intended and expected interpretation of what I am watching."
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For the first episode I had to keep reminding myself that this Fargo and that Dot is the season's designated Peggy-type figure. And then the second episode has her set up a bunch of murder traps around her house. She gonna incur some collateral damage this season. Probably her husband -- as foreshadowed by the opening where she tasers the cop. Which, I dunno, I'm not convinced that this season's fully moving away from having police characters act as mouthpieces for sensible morality. Though the show's always had lovely cops too e.g. Bob Odenkirk's character. I don't see the set-up here as too significant a departure. I liked those scenes between Dot and her husband in the second episode. He clearly doesn't believe Dot's story, but he'd very much like to. As such he's willing to ignore his misgivings and just construct a version of the truth as defined by her. You get the sense that a lot of this season is going to be featuring domineering partners and weak partners, themes about enabling, etc. (cop and her golfing boyfriend, JJL and Danish Graves, even that couple that Hamm is counseling at the start of episode two).
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Welp, going to need to think that episode through quite a bit.
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Problematic Pigeon posted:lol the bad guy named Munch is a literal sin eater ahh i figured he was another coen bros supernatural assassin guy lmao
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Loved Dot's shopping list. So far this season is just cranking those Fargo dials to 11 it feels like. Gator in his childhood room with ninja daggers on the wall was great too.
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Goddamn, this season is really loving good so far. 
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Very glad my note about no supernatural elements is not only wrong but also completely blown out of the drat water. As much as I love the use of Smack My Bitch Up it's a shame that they had to chop it up so drat much. However, it's not often you'll hear it in media and have the entirety of the central vocals presented. Well done.
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uber_stoat posted:ahh i figured he was another coen bros supernatural assassin guy lmao The rocking chair scene was directly lifted from the 1979 Salem's Lot miniseries. Really hammering in the damned undead bit. E: Oh, and The Shining music made me smile.
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Das Boo posted:E: Oh, and The Shining music made me smile. Haha yeah, that kinda caught me off-guard.
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lmfao that episode was all over the place in a really fun way
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I was holding out for an explanation for the kilt and God drat did I get one.
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I'm a winner
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