Fargo - "She's a wolf in sheep's clothing, that one." (s5 airing now!)

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MightyJoe36: Dec 29, 2013; Cat Army

Terra-da-loo! posted:

Lol, Treehorn trucking

Guess I'm not the only one who noticed that.

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MightyJoe36: Dec 29, 2013; Cat Army

oh jay posted:

They should skip even further and show Gator on January 6.

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MightyJoe36: Dec 29, 2013; Cat Army

Nameless Pete posted:

Watch all the Fargo.

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MightyJoe36: Dec 29, 2013; Cat Army

Tender Bender posted:

Aged Mike Milligan should be in Accounting at Lorraine's company

This made me laugh way more than it should have.

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MightyJoe36: Dec 29, 2013; Cat Army

roomtone posted:

Yeah I was thinking all the way throught the last few episodes - in my story, Dot just point blank kills Roy without any hesitation and no torturing on her way out of this back to her own world. In this story, he needs to be erased. Forgotten, nothing, it doesn't even matter if he 'wants to die' as the last 2 eps were putting forth, he just has gotta go because of the damage he does. He won't stop, can't be fixed, and just has to go. But we don't need to enjoy it.

Torturing him, or making him feel fear, or whatever - none of it is important, and the need for that kind of violent retribution is the same impulse that creates the kind of person Roy is. You let a bit of that in, and you become a bit worse, something uglier. There's no upside. You chain yourself by indulging in your worst impulses.

So, of course Lorraine's response is to take that to the nth degree and ensure he will be beaten and raped for 20 years while she sips expensive booze or whatever. She's an emotional wreck, violent gratification is one of the few pleasures she is aware of.

The thing I really liked though, is that the show doesn't end on that - it ends on what I think of as an anti-fight scene. Munch shows up at Dot's house presumably with some kind of violent showdown in mind, but the entire sequence is just the three family members putting a cork in it every time he tries to push things in that direction. He doesn't know what the next thing to say is, what to do, and finally the violence in him is just gone.

I actually don't see things ending that badly for Roy. He's really good at manipulating weak individuals and prison is full of them. Also, a guy like him probably already has ins with the Aryan Brotherhood and their ilk which more or less runs the place.

Then again, he is an ex-cop and they generally don't do well in prison.

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