Fargo - An Unofficial Podcast

This week sees KC's two crime families taking hard lines on their business interests which could lead them to a confrontation, Josto has a personal confrontation of his own, and we get some good old-fashioned outlawin' from a very hungry pair of women. Join the discussion: Email | Forums Follow us: Twitch | YouTube | Twitter | Instagram | Facebook Leave Us A Review on Apple Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The first two episodes of Fargo's newest season have been a long time coming but now they're here and they feel like home. Join us for a discussion of this season's new round of characters, the crazy Fargo setup, and a thematic dissection of the show. Join the discussion: Email | Forums Follow us: Twitch | YouTube | Twitter | Instagram | Facebook Leave Us A Review on Apple Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The fourth season of Fargo begins airing this Sunday @ 9pm with a special double-header premiere so we're defrosting the podcast hotdish with a preview. Join us to get hyped for the new season. Join the discussion: Email | Forums Follow us: Twitch | YouTube | Twitter | Instagram | Facebook Leave Us A Review on Apple Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Season three has proven to be another polarizing season among the fan base, and for once, we’re on the sweet side of it!  We loved the ambiguity and economic and political themes this year, and thought the villain was one of the all time greats.  And quite a few more people last week agreed with us, but there are still a lot of people that hate it.  I don’t think I can move you from one camp to another, but if you’re on the fence? Maybe we can help you do what we know you want to do, which is loLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

FX’s Fargo season three draws to a close, with the finale episode, “Somebody to Love”.  In a dramatic twist, everyone who loved season two, which was everyone but Jim and I, absolutely hated this finale.  And yet, the only two people in the known universe that didn’t see season two as a triumph, which, again, us two, loved and liked it respectively.  What the darn tootin’ heck is going on here, anyway?Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Fargo continues on it’s hot run with “Aporia”.  Jim and I break down the highlights of this installment, Emmitt tells Gloria a whole lot of truth, Wrench and Nikki get Biblical on Varga’s gang, Moe ruins everything, as per usual. and we’re honestly terrified anytime the camera starts to pull focus on David Thewlis’s mouth. Good god, this show ought to have driven stock in fluoride up 500%.  We wrap things up with a little bit of dead pool for the finale, and a little bit of feedback from yourLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

FX’s Fargo threw audiences a supernatural, out of nowhere curve ball this week in “Who Rules the Land of Denial” and A.Ron…. loved it?  The man who hates a fishnado, the man who revolts at the first sign of UFO, is all down for purgatory overseen by a Wandering Jew?  Okay, then.  We discuss Jewish mysticism, Gloria Burgle’s arc, who is tormenting Emmitt, and how Varga’s move against Sy could be a fatal mistake.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

FX’s Fargo continues to pick up steam as it heads into the final stretch, with “The Law of Inevitability” dealing with the aftermath of Emmitt’s loss (he doesn’t acquit himself well), Sy coming to grips with the destruction of his world, and Gloria getting sick and tired of people not being clear on the definition of law enforcement around these parts.  And that doesn’t even get into the big finish with the return of a familiar face!Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jim and A.Ron are floored at the surge of pacing on the back half of this season’s Fargo, as typified in “The Lord of No Mercy”.  Shocking events unfold as our hero, the technically challenged Gloria Burgle, goes head to head with the master of cyber sleuthing, VM Varga.  Plus, what’s Nikki’s play?  Does Emmitt have a change of heart and begin resisting Varga’s take over of his parking lot empire, or does the tragic accident of this episode wash away his humanity for good?Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

FX’s Fargo comes out swinging this week on “The House of Special Purpose”,  delivering top notch black comedy and savage inhuman beatings with equal aplomb.  Seriously, somebody should get an Emmy nom just for the phrase “fornicating with the cookware!”  We try to figure out exactly how powerful Varga is, speculate on the Storage Queen’s prospects as an escape hatch for the Stussey crew, start to get suspicious of “New Chief” Dammick, and consider some of our listener feedback in a packLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

There is a whole lot to ponder in “The Narrow Escape Problem”, the latest episode of FX’s Fargo.  Communist propaganda, meditations on the 1%, Joseph Stalin, bulimia, Ewan McGreggor playing a different Ewan McGreggor playing yet another Ewan McGreggor; an Ewan McCeption, if you will, biblical themes, our heads are just spinning.  And Gloria with new found gal pal Winnie seem on pace to have this whole thing solved by the next episode.  Which probably means the floor’s about to fall out!Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jim and A.Ron struggle to wrap their minds around the apparently “useless machine” of an episode of FX’s Fargo, “The Law of Non-Contradiction”.  Is the ep an artistic triumph, or ultimately a pointless treadmill of plot?  Is Gloria married or divorced?  Is she Chief or Old Chief?  Was the little android MNSKY a useless failure or scientific breakthrough?  Is Thaddeus Mobley really Ennis Stussy or is there a bit more to the story?Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

FX’s Fargo was very, very good this week, expertly blending the unfathomable pinheadery and sublime comedy that has become the series hallmarks in “The Principle of Restricted Choice”.  We talk about the dramatic possibilities of using one actor to play two characters, chat about the ins and outs of “duplicate” bridge, and analyze the symbolism and possibilities of Gloria’s incompatibility with modern technology before opening up the old mailbag and seeing what you all have to say.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

FX’s Fargo is back for it’s third season, and it’s visually exciting and is chock full of colorful characters played by gifted actors and we’re all having a lot of fun.  But it’s also the exact same Fargo formula we’ve seen in the movie and in two seasons of the show.  Is that a problem, and if it is, what will the series offer as a change or curveball this year, especially give that we weren’t all that thrilled with the UFO twist of season two?  Aw, jeez.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jim and A.Ron close the books on season two of Fargo, as we consider the finale episode, “Palindrome”.  We discuss how we feel about Hanzee, Peggy vs. feminism, the Solverson family, and the Kansas City mafia in the final analysis, consider some fan feedback over the last two week’s episodes, and look ahead to 2017 for Fargo season 3.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Where you come down on Fargo’s latest episode, “The Castle”, and perhaps the season as a whole, entirely hinges on whether you swallow the final act… We did not, and thus are in the uncomfortable position of not liking and yet still admiring Noah Hawley’s bold experiment in television.  Hopefully some of our concerns will evaporate by the time the finale episode is over next week, but if not, we promise we’ll be here with some pod therapy.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

FARGO WINS THE WEEK!  In “Loplop”, Fargo hits all the notes; comedy, drama, suspense, without ever causing any tonal conflicts, and sets the season on it’s final, no doubt bloody, and most likely weird, trajectory. It wasn’t perfect; we felt a little uncomfortable with this episode’s timelines, and geographic orientation, which we discuss in the cast proper and in feedback, but Peggy as hostage taker, Ed as gangland negotiator, and Hanzee as the anti-Malvo were all fascinating and satisfying tLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Lots of stuff to talk about, from Simone’s tragic end, to Mike Milligan’s desperate gamble, to Mama Gerhardt’s turning snitch, Lou triumphant, and say, what the heck has Peggy, Ed, Dodd and Hanzee been up to during this episode?  Lots of phone calls and a few dead bodies is all we know, hopefully we’ll catch up with them in the weeks ahead.  All this plus some stellar (ha!) feedback from our fellow fans.  If this isn’t a good podcast then, well, I’ll cut off my big toe!Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A.Ron is sick and the show notes are suffering for it.  But this otherwise excellent podcast for Fargo’s extremely excellent episode 206, “Rhinoceros” managed to be recorded just before the precise instant he lost his voice.  We talk a lot about Lou and Hank, the majesty that is Karl Weathers, Jabberwockies and aliens and just all kinds of stuff.  And while A.Ron might be on death’s door, the email bag is quite healthy.  Enjoy, take some vitamin C and get your flu shot, and we’ll see you next Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Fargo episode 205, “Gift of the Magi”, was a real deal… Both sides of the Gerhardt and KC war take grievous losses, tensions between Bear and Dodd threaten to boil over, Hanzee’s loyalties are tested, Peggy has an apparent change of heart, but alas, it’s too late; Ed has killed another fella, maybe two!  We discuss all the happenings and theories going down this episode, with assists from our fellow fans.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices