Fargo S2, Mondays at 10, FX - "What If You're Right And They're Wrong?"

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grrarg: Feb 14, 2011; Don't lose your head over it.

The costumes are amazing. Patrick Wilson is doing a good job filling Keith Carridine's shoes.

Kirsten Dunst's character is a monster, holy poo poo.

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grrarg: Feb 14, 2011; Don't lose your head over it.

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Yeah, but the reason the rural Midwest doesn't have a long history of hitmen and mobsters is because there's gently caress all to extort or blackmail or whatever in a small town thats Minnesota nice. The first season at least was working with the concept that the bad guys were coming into nowheresville, but this season is setting up that there's a crime family in a tiny town that also has a police department that's dimly aware of it, but they also "run things" so well that a distant KC mob wants to buy them out by sending the one black guy in the world with that accent.

This is less a cool premise (like a Coen brothers movie) and more the cheesy application of some stock genre elements mishmashed together. But hey, wasn't it funny when everyone had accents? LOL!!

It's not about extortion or blackmail. Gambling and prostitution are everywhere, and it's about controlling truckers for distribution. Remember that in the first season, Lester's high school nemesis ran a little trucking company. This season, the Gerhardt's talk up their connection to Winnipeg, so they are presumably involved in smuggling stuff across the border too.

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