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What a time to be alive for TV watching: Better Call Saul on Mondays, SHIELD on Tuesday, and, oh yeah, Fargo's back. Last we left this series
of unconnected, yet somehow still connected, seasons, Hanzee Dent had gotten his face boiled after settling things with the Gerhardt's and was
on his way to becoming a head of the Fargo crime syndicate that would ultimately be killed by Billy Bob's Lorne Malvo in season 1, Patrick
Wilson's Lou Solverson had had his mind blown by everything he had to deal with at Sioux Falls and was on his way to becoming Keith
Carradine's Lou Solverson, and Mike Milligan was promoted to a desk job with W2's, stock options, and weekend golf outings for his victory
at Sioux Falls.
Season 3 is set in 2010, which, for those keeping track, is 4 years after Season 1, in which Billy Bob killed through most of the Fargo syndicate
before going into business for himself, and 31 years after Season 2 and its 1979 backdrop where Sioux Falls happened. Naturally, this takes place in
Minnesota, because that's how Fargo rolls: throw simple people into not so simple situations and watch the fun. This season follows Ewan
McGregor, who plays a lot management mogul (because it's a thing) who finds himself in a new partnership with a group that is less than savory.
Meanwhile, his brother, Ewan McGregor, is a parole officer trying to get money from him so he can get a ring for his girlfriend, superhot Mary
Elizabeth Winstead. And in the middle is a cop out of her element almost immediately, played by Carrie Coon.
One episode in and, yeah, it's still great.
Also, for those keeping track, the list of the living includes the Solverson family (probably not in this because they're a small town family
now), Charlie Gerhardt (the Gerhardt son with the messed up hand who Nick Offerman negotiated into being kept in jail for his own good), Mr. Wrench
(the deaf hitman from season 2 who was broken out of custody by Lorne Malvo), and possibly Mike Milligan (though if he had a desk job, he probably got
wiped out during the hit on Fargo HQ) and Kirsten Dunst's Peggy Blumquist (though she would now be older and likely still in jail). So now you
know who to keep your eyes out for in regards to cameos.
"The Seahawks are cool. Me and Tubby here hung out with them once at a Bruno Mars concert."-Jay and Silent Bob representing the Broncos on FOX NFL
Sunday.
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posted on 4-30-2017 at 01:40 AM
Death by air conditioner? Oh, my. I'd heard before that Winstead had an award-winning ass on her and that scene in the tub pretty much confirmed
it. First two shows have been great so far.
You know, everyone says it's not supposed to make sense, like that's the whole point, dude. And I'm just saying, you know,
that's like an excuse for lazy storytelling. Just don't sell me shite and tell me it's gold, all right? I might be stoned, but
I'm not high. You know what I mean?
- Cassidy from Preacher, commenting on The Big Lebowski and/or professional wrestling
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posted on 4-30-2017 at 02:31 AM
Bought one a' them there style Mustangs a few years back after I seen't her writhing around in it in that shitty 'Death Proof'
movie. If she'd move her leg a bit I could at least see where to stick the nozzle to fill 'er up. She's got Universal Hot Brunette
Chick Face. Kind of a girls next door-ish, not so hot as to be unapproachable, not too to dowdy to be easily forgettable face. I rate her 4 s
out of 5.
Oh right, the show. Hoping it dives into some of the lore established in the film and the first two series even though I don't think
there's much more you could wring out of those plotlines. Hoping David Thewlis comes close to matching the menace of some of the heavies
portrayed in this universe. Though I don't think anybody will touch what Billy Bob accomplished in the first series.
*siiiigh* But as with Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul, I wish I could be knocked into a coma and awoken whenst all these shows were over so I could
have a more contiguous viewing experience. I'm definitely getting dumber with each passing day so it's hard to recall all the details and
nuances of the shows when they're week to week viewing.
"Well, life's a bitch n' then you marry one. Alls you know now is you're goin' into the bar tonight to get just fuckin'
interplanetary." - Wayne (Letterkenny)
"This is the water and this is the well. Drink full and descend. The horse is the white of the eyes, dark within." The Woodsman
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posted on 5-18-2017 at 06:19 AM
And a bit of the old ultra-violence rears it's head again as the plotlines coming crashing together. That wasn't a very nice thing to do
to the pretty bad-girl. Golly.
You know, everyone says it's not supposed to make sense, like that's the whole point, dude. And I'm just saying, you know,
that's like an excuse for lazy storytelling. Just don't sell me shite and tell me it's gold, all right? I might be stoned, but
I'm not high. You know what I mean?
- Cassidy from Preacher, commenting on The Big Lebowski and/or professional wrestling
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posted on 5-25-2017 at 06:33 AM
And the dominoes begin to fall.
You know, everyone says it's not supposed to make sense, like that's the whole point, dude. And I'm just saying, you know,
that's like an excuse for lazy storytelling. Just don't sell me shite and tell me it's gold, all right? I might be stoned, but
I'm not high. You know what I mean?
- Cassidy from Preacher, commenting on The Big Lebowski and/or professional wrestling
nOOb
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posted on 6-1-2017 at 11:36 PM
How much do I like Yuri's chances of completing his mission? Well, Yuri...
...they'll take care of it.
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posted on 6-9-2017 at 10:23 PM
And it turns out Wrench took that gif above quite literal. Decapitation by slightly broken chain...ouch. And since it was DJ Qualls, you can assume
someone, likely played by Sean William Scott, probably pooped and/or jizzed on the chain before said decapitation.
Edited to add: I forgot the most important thing I learned on repeat viewing yesterday: the first scene of the season makes sense after the bowling
alley. The second video may need volume adjustments but it's starting to come together now.
[Edited on 6-9-2017 by nOOb]
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posted on 6-9-2017 at 11:58 PM
Neat that they had Ray Wise playing the angel(?) of justice in the mystical bowling alley as his reward for what BOB did to him in Twin Peaks.
You know, everyone says it's not supposed to make sense, like that's the whole point, dude. And I'm just saying, you know,
that's like an excuse for lazy storytelling. Just don't sell me shite and tell me it's gold, all right? I might be stoned, but
I'm not high. You know what I mean?
- Cassidy from Preacher, commenting on The Big Lebowski and/or professional wrestling
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posted on 7-20-2017 at 07:39 AM
quote:Originally posted by Paddlefoot
Neat that they had Ray Wise playing the angel(?) of justice in the mystical bowling alley as his reward for what BOB did to him in Twin Peaks.
He was playing the part of The Wandering Jew, apparently.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wandering_Jew
I wasn't feeling this season. Don't get me wrong, there was a lot of good stuff but if the first season was 10/10 (which it was) and
Season Two was 8/10 (give or take) then this season was 6/10 at best. If this were the first season that I watched, I'm not sure if I'd
keep watching next season.
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posted on 7-20-2017 at 10:11 AM
I would have given it a 6.5 or 7 out of 10, which is too bad because both David Thewlis and Michael Stuhlbarg probably did the best single
performances in all three seasons; Stuhlbarg especially, given what a high-strung frantic mess completely out of his depth Sy Feltz turned out to be.
I guess any disappointment came from the ambiguous ending, in terms of what finally happened to Varga, whereas the first two seasons didn't
leave any guessing as to the fates of the main characters. I also would have liked to see both Nikki and Emmett survive altogether. The only single
scene I can recall not liking was when the DJ Qualls bad guy died with the shackle chain cutting his head off as he was pinned with his back against
the tree stump. I can see it easily snapping his neck with two people hauling in it, or the damaged chain link clipping his jugular vein, or even his
jaw getting ripped off if the chain slip up his face. Decapitating him though was a stretch too far because that kind of defies the physics of what a
smooth surface on chain links can do to flesh.
It's still probably one of the best TV shows of the last five years though, despite whatever flaws were in season three. Here's hoping the
rumours are false and a fourth season gets made over the next couple of years.
You know, everyone says it's not supposed to make sense, like that's the whole point, dude. And I'm just saying, you know,
that's like an excuse for lazy storytelling. Just don't sell me shite and tell me it's gold, all right? I might be stoned, but
I'm not high. You know what I mean?
- Cassidy from Preacher, commenting on The Big Lebowski and/or professional wrestling
s
out of 5. 
