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I just have to share this because it was such a wild coincidence. Last Sunday I was watching E2 while my almost 3 y.o. toddler was napping, but she woke up when I was about 3/4 of the way through and wandered into the living room. I decided to finish out the scene I was watching (seemed like it'd be okay, no signs of violence or vulgarity), then pause it and watch the rest later. This is the exact point we got the "This is Halloween" needle drop in that episode, and my daughter flips out. She became obsessed with Nightmare Before Christmas this Halloween season and was running around the house going "this is halloween, halloween, halloween" for the entire month of October, plus some of November. In fact, she was just starting to forget about it...until she heard it on Fargo last Sunday. Now she's back to singing it and asking to watch it again, just when I thought we were past it. It's extremely rare for me to watch any one of my "grown-up" shows when she's in the room, and the one time I chance it they set back our Nightmare Before Christmas counter by 2 weeks. I just can't say I expected that result, at all. And now I'm super tuned in to all the Nightmare Before Christmas references, of which there were several in E3. What's that all about anyway?
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Nov 29, 2023 22:51
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timp posted:And now I'm super tuned in to all the Nightmare Before Christmas references, of which there were several in E3. What's that all about anyway? Okay, I'm glad you mentioned this because it's honestly been irking the poo poo out of me: Disney now owns FXP. Disney has been absolutely loving relentless with its invasive advertisements to the extent they've been constructing movies around reminding you about all the poo poo they own. Despite how much I like TNBC, it's just slammed in there as Disney product placement and it enrages me. Everything else I'm enjoying!
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Nov 29, 2023 23:16
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The inclusion does make it pretty apparent they probably planned to release this show two months ago.
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Nov 30, 2023 00:13
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I'm curious what delayed it considering the strikes only just ended. Did they really only have a couple weeks worth of work left to do or did something else delay it? Or was it delayed so the actors could advertise it before airing? Edit: Looked it up, yeah, it was strike-related. The show got shelved when it was supposed to be out in September. I have to assume it got shelved so they could have Hamm go on talk shows for it. DaveKap fucked around with this message at 01:43 on Nov 30, 2023 |
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Nov 30, 2023 01:30
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I hope Munch gets what he's owed
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Nov 30, 2023 03:25
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That was one of the coolest episodes of television I’ve ever seen. Cannot wait to see where things go next week. Wish I could binge this season like I did with one and two. I’m wondering what all the Nightmare Before Christmas stuff is about. Could be the show literally telling the story of a “nightmare” situation that happens before Christmas. Could be a fun thing to with the snowy Halloween backdrop.
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Nov 30, 2023 03:58
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1. I will admit that Fargo has been guilty of being so far up its own rear end with mythology / magic / bullshit to its own detriment. 2. LET'S loving GO! What a good episode, for ways that I don't even understand fully.
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Nov 30, 2023 04:55
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Hard to think about how all of this evolved from the Mike Yanagita scene.
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Nov 30, 2023 05:41
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the usage of a prodigy track is very apt because one of the best parts of this show is beautifully sampling other media already clears s4 way out of the park. they've already nailed relative subtlety (s3) and i am so ready for them to keep going sicko mode
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Nov 30, 2023 09:19
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Well that episode certainly turned a corner into some weird poo poo and I'm definitely onboard. I've never been able to get into this show, but this season has been pretty fun so far.
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Nov 30, 2023 17:46
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I'm enjoying Jon Hamm as a Far Cry villain very much.
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Nov 30, 2023 22:36
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El Jeffe posted:I'm enjoying Jon Hamm as a Far Cry villain very much. Do you know what the definition of insanity is? Adapting the same movie over and over again and expecting different results.
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Dec 1, 2023 03:37
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Just finished E3 and what the gently caress just happened? (Serious question- what was Munch 1522 eating?) I think I said this already, but I'm saying it again: this blows the doors off S4.  (e- though I feel ripped off at losing 5-6 minutes because they have to do the movie-style credits  )LifeLynx posted: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. oh jay posted:1. I will admit that Fargo has been guilty of being so far up its own rear end with mythology / magic / bullshit to its own detriment. This show seems to lean way, way too hard into the tropes it's trying to inject into every season (and episode). Everyone with an accent, everyone with an accent being simple-minded, goofy country folk from the Upper Midwest ya betcha, the stupid "This was based on a true story" bullshit they still insist on having in the intro to each episode. But, in four of five seasons, it's been enough to overcome with how good the show has been. 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? The only reason I'd have seen it would've been watching it with a girl I dated 18 years ago and we never made it that far, so I've never had a reason to watch any of the Brat Pack movies. CatstropheWaitress posted:I'm a winner Good to see Gator is exactly the neo-Nazi you'd think he'd be. He's absolutely the in-over-his-head villain from Justified who gets got at the end of the season. Das Boo posted:E: Oh, and The Shining music made me smile. I'm glad I didn't make that connection, or else finishing it at Midnight would've been even creepier. CBJSprague24 fucked around with this message at 06:16 on Dec 1, 2023 |
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Dec 1, 2023 06:12
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CBJSprague24 posted:the stupid "This was based on a true story" bullshit they still insist on having in the intro to each episode.. I always felt this was in poor taste after that mentally ill woman became obsessed with Fargo being based on a true story and froze to death looking for the lost cash.
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Dec 1, 2023 06:21
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Open Source Idiom posted:I always felt this was in poor taste after that mentally ill woman became obsessed with Fargo being based on a true story and froze to death looking for the lost cash. That was an unorthodox suicide (she sent a note home to Japan) that blew up into an urban legend.
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Dec 1, 2023 06:44
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CBJSprague24 posted:Just finished E3 and what the gently caress just happened? (Serious question- what was Munch 1522 eating?) He was a sin-eater, they believed that placing food atop a dead person would soak up their sins before they go to the afterlife and pass the sin onto who eats it. Not sure if the actual type of food matters.
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Dec 1, 2023 06:45
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CBJSprague24 posted:Just finished E3 and what the gently caress just happened? (Serious question- what was Munch 1522 eating?) He's a Sin Eater, it was bread and wine (and I think a few other little additions?). The idea was you paid a poor (and likely starving) person money to "eat" the sins of some rich gently caress, then the rich gently caress got to go to heaven for all eternity and live in bliss in paradise while the Sin Eater suffered and was ostracized because now they were the ones responsible for all the bad things the rich gently caress had done, and their soul was stained because of it. Edit: Beaten like Gator needs to be (more)
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Dec 1, 2023 06:46
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I feel like an apologist for S4, as while it's easily the worst of the seasons, it did have so much going for it. Setup was loving great, and a lot of the individual characters had a lot of potential. Heck, most of the cast was brilliant. Just resolved so uncharacteristically unsatisfyingly, and Chris Rock was such a load-bearing presence that his lack of weight crippled half the main plot. Fargo had done anti-climatic endings before, S2 basically has one, but it at least twisted into something heart warming and was a hoot up til then. Hawley in general seems to be a writer that really leans into the style/vibe/tropes of what he's writing. And 4/5 times he nails it. Tropes are there for a reason and when it's done with even just a fraction of cleverness it comes off brilliantly. quote:Everyone with an accent, everyone with an accent being simple-minded, goofy country folk from the Upper Midwest ya betcha, the stupid "This was based on a true story" bullshit they still insist on having in the intro to each episode. Like this is a feature, not a bug. Makes the characters that have a thick accent but have a turn or two off just being simple-minded stick out (nick offerman S2, Mary Elizabeth Winstead S3). And that in turn feeds into anyone with the thick accent being just a simple-minded goofy country folk being a facade for much more complex people, which is a borderline moral of Fargo in general. "This was based on a true story", eh. I can't hate it. Appreciate the nod to the series guiding light.
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Dec 1, 2023 06:58
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sure okay posted:I'm a WINNER! I hate this racist little prick so much
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Dec 1, 2023 09:47
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CBJSprague24 posted:This show seems to lean way, way too hard into the tropes it's trying to inject into every season (and episode). Everyone with an accent, everyone with an accent being simple-minded, goofy country folk from the Upper Midwest ya betcha Yeah this is a big reason I have never been able to get into this show.
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Dec 1, 2023 17:28
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I'm not saying they don't lay it on much too thick but also your loss
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Dec 2, 2023 02:02
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but they aren't simple minded country folk. that's the whole point. "minnesota nice" like you're doing ME a favor...
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Dec 2, 2023 02:08
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The last episode was entertaining but nothing actually happened. It was entirely build up for whatever is going to go down in the next one.
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Dec 2, 2023 02:47
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Turpitude posted:The last episode was entertaining but nothing actually happened. It was entirely build up for whatever is going to go down in the next one.
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Dec 2, 2023 04:11
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Turpitude posted:The last episode was entertaining but nothing actually happened. It was entirely build up for whatever is going to go down in the next one. I think that's just called storytelling my man. There weren't any gun fights, but a lot happened: Shot cop confirmed Dot's photo, in a scene confirming that "deputy dipshit is really, really bad at what he's doing" in a wonderfully show don't tell way. We got Munch's name and backstory. He also takes up camp in some old ladies home. Bad mother strategizes with Dave Foley now that they know Dot is a Tiger. I think they said they were going to hire security, which is gonna be a lot of extra thugs for shoot outs down the road. Deputy dipshit is put in charge of a raid on Dots home, is possibly showing up there as is possibly Munch.
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Dec 2, 2023 06:31
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CatstropheWaitress posted:I think that's just called storytelling my man. It is a storytelling choice, yeah. But none of our characters took action in any visible way; it was all just plot to get things into position. It's been a while since I watched the previous seasons of this show (and I didnt watch the last season because of the reviews) but iirc we rarely got episodes where so little action was taken. In fact with this show there is often a ton of stuff happening in every episode. I'm not passing judgment until we see the payoff though.
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Dec 2, 2023 06:55
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Season 1 had plenty of "filler" where Molly tries to run down a lead but doesn't really get anywhere, and Malvo prepares to rip off the Supermarket King, but doesn't execute yet. I don't know if there was ever a full episode of "nothing happening", but slow burns and building suspense have been in this show since the beginning.
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Dec 2, 2023 07:54
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There was a whole episode dedicated to a non-sequitur and a character pretty much said, "Yeah, not every story is yours." and that's honestly a very Coen take.
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Dec 2, 2023 08:44
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i can help!
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Dec 2, 2023 08:53
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It’s true that not a lot happened in this episode, but the execution of that not a lot was still loving awesome
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Dec 2, 2023 10:29
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Lotta twins in this show now that I think about it. Was there any in season 4? I completely forgot about it even existing
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Dec 2, 2023 11:45
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VERY nice sly little touch (assuming it's intentional...)* [possible spoilers in link for a future character arc]: the chronologically first time you see Ole Munch he's wearing a brown sack over his head. Just like Oogie Boogie. *Non-spoiler article summary: all the Nightmare Before Christmas references are deliberate and, at least in one casec important, but the specifics of when and how much are a bit of a guessing game. Mike Yanagita was invoked.
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Dec 2, 2023 20:13
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Turpitude posted:The last episode was entertaining but nothing actually happened. It was entirely build up for whatever is going to go down in the next one. We got to see a woman play with Jon Hamm’s nipple rings, you dolt.
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Dec 3, 2023 01:29
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I know in my soul that the nipple rings were Hamm's idea
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Dec 3, 2023 03:37
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If you look closely, you can see the nipples are definitely stick on nipples. I definitely didn't look closely though, no way I would do that.
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Dec 3, 2023 09:04
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El Jeffe posted:He was a sin-eater, they believed that placing food atop a dead person would soak up their sins before they go to the afterlife and pass the sin onto who eats it. Not sure if the actual type of food matters. Bread and ale was the most common. Atleast in Wales where the term comes from. Wine looks better on camera though.
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Dec 3, 2023 09:46
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Caesar Saladin posted:If you look closely, you can see the nipples are definitely stick on nipples. CatstropheWaitress posted:Deputy dipshit is put in charge of a raid on Dots home, is possibly showing up there as is possibly Munch. DaveKap fucked around with this message at 11:15 on Dec 5, 2023 |
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Accidental double post.
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