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Jean Henegan's avatar

I’d been waiting for your FAM thoughts since I saw the finale back when the screener dropped several weeks ago. Aside from the excellent use of Chekhov’s gun, I definitely agree across the board. I’ve been harping for the last couple seasons that they haven’t done enough to seed future generations of characters and I’m very wary about what happens in S5 now that they’ve essentially backed themselves into a corner in terms of characters remaining.

The writers haven’t proven they can create new compelling characters from whole cloth each season, so I honestly don’t know where the show can go from here - and the last thing we need is 80 year old Ed still throwing around his weight in space.

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Chuchundra's avatar

As great as this episode of Fargo was, I found the ending to be pretty annoying. When a smart, competent character does something really dumb to service a story element it just sets my teeth on edge.

Going down in that grave hole was pretty dumb, Dot is trapping herself somewhere she can't escape if she's discovered and, as Roy figures out, it's a pretty obvious hiding spot. But not taking the rifle with her down the hole makes no sense at all. As she was climbing down, my wife yelled at the TV, "Take the gun!"

And the whole thing was there just so she could be saved by Munch and have that moment with him. It's a lazy bit of construction in an otherwise excellent season of television.

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