Security cameras in the elevator would show that Lester did nothing wrong, but that he was a witness to three murders and then tried to hit the murderer. We’ve seen from our recent Kanya West and his sister in law fight in the elevator that security cameras do indeed extend to the elevators in some hotels, and casinos have security cameras everywhere but in private rooms and restrooms. Malvo doesn’t care if he is caught on a security camera.
It would be inconsistent for the writers to explain exactly what Malvo is, but they might drop a big hint that his body really is that of Rev. Frank Peterson.
You may have forgotton who, in E7, made the point originally point about Fargo, magic realism and The Bible:
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One thing Fargo has reminded me of was the discussion back in the day about Gabriel García Márquez and the origins of magic-realism. You don’t need to spend too long with the Bible to work that out, so anyone thinking Fargo is a little ‘out there’ with some of these happenings might muse a little on the book that is the foundation of western civilisation.
Excuse me, I just need to part the Red Sea.
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And that was probably still true in 2006 but not in this show apparently. Lester would still have been fucked to have been seen with Malvo when the murders took place though.
Nitpick on the show: The tickets were leaving MSP at 11pm and they were arriving in Mexico at 8:30am with no layovers. That plane is moving really slowly on a non-existant red eye.
So if you DON’T sneer at the idea that Malvo is not entirely human, why did you say this earlier: “It really isn’t. This is an adult-orientated drama with adult themes. Honest.”?
Very good episode, I thought - maybe the best yet.
Loved seeing Malvo passing as a vapid suburban dentist (“Aces!”). Did you notice his partner call him “friendo” when he arrived at the party? That was a key word in the Coen Bros.'s No Country for Old Men (the same actor appeared in that movie, too). The incongruity of Malvo putting on that Sixties acid hit “My Green Tambourine” made me laugh out loud.
Also loved the closeup later as Malvo arrives at Lester’s old house and has a dagger at the ready, but deftly tucks it away when he realizes Lester’s not there - but still fucks with the new homeowner and his kids by talking about the double homicide there.
The combination of the ominous music and the cold, vaguely threatening empty hallways of the Vegas hotel reminded me a lot of The Shining.
I noticed that the U.S. and Minnesota flags are on the wrong side of each other in the Bemidji police station - a subtle way of indicating that the chief is incompetent?
I didn’t buy that the FBI agent who asked the two disgraced agents to pull a file would let them keep the phone message slip. It looked like they still had the original when they were talking to Molly.
And remind me of the Garden of Eden reference, please?
A dybbuk is also (maybe) a character in the Coen Bros. movie A Serious Man.
Yes, I liked that very much.
I recall someone did mention that in another thread.
Agreed. Lester, that bastard, was willing to send his poor sweet smitten second wife on a possible suicide mission, but was still a bit shocked to see her shot before his very eyes.
Lester is proving to be Malvo’s most catastrophic error. He should never have left him alive in the first place. He did so to indulge himself, he took great pleasure in seeing Lester throwing aside the bonds of morality and law. He enjoys corrupting the weak, although it is only the weak over whom he has any influence. With people such as Molly and her father he is impotent. He did come close to corrupting Gus but Gus had his daughter to keep him on the straight and narrow so the effort proved unavailing in the end.
That’s why I don’t think Malvo has any supernatural powers (and I agree with Dex, it would be most disappointing if it turns out that he does). The guy makes too many mistakes and it’s only by sheer good fortune and quick thinking that those mistakes haven’t finished him off already. Lester was one mistake too many and that mistake is going to prove his undoing.
I’ve had this series queuing up all season and finally just binged on all the episodes over the past three days. So good.
Hmmm. That scene made a point to show very specifically that he never said no, either.
The African kid is really Tahir. They both had pictures of each other. Unfortunately Tahir’s pictures of Bill’s family were stolen with his luggage.
Speaking of which, if they do decide to go the anthology route and make another season I’d love to see Tahir’s stolen luggage play some role in the next story.
Oh come on, was I the only one to react to the in-show explanation with an immediate “Sharknado!”?
My guess is Deadwood. It reminded me of the scene when he tells Jack McCall that his mouth looks like a cunt.
All of which happened in a single night. You could say he denied common sense three times before the rooster crows the next morning. heh.
There’s a similar sort of scene set in a diner in an episode of Criminal Minds only in this one Keith Carradine is the serial killer rather than the good guy and Mandy Patinkin is the one engaging him in conversation.
I would like to point out that the last thing the FBI agents said was that they wanted to take another run at Lester. Malvo may well be their primary interest but the way they may get to Malvo is through Lester.
When you spoke about the dumbass chief and how Molly’s chart may open his mind …
I have to wonder how that can happen. You may well be correct about her chart. But I can’t imagine a howitzer blast to his head opening his mind. He just does not possess the kind of mind that would seem capable to being opened.
I’m not sure why. But for some reason, I have a real huge hatred on for that dumbass Chief. Maybe it’s because I like the Molly character very much and this chief has done nothing but obstruct her at every turn and caused her nothing but grief and the reason for all of that was essentially nothing more than his own stupidity. That really just gets my blood to boiling.
Well, no, he didn’t really respond to the idea of killing Sam Hess one way or the other, but he certainly didn’t object. And then, shortly after, Lester called Malvo to say that he’d bashed his wife’s brains in, come help me. That means, from Malvo’s POV, that he’s corrupted Lester quite well.
I love the way Malvo does nasty little things along the way, like scaring the kids about the murders in the house. Reminds me of the film BEDAZZLED (the original, with Peter Cook and Dudley Moore), where the devil does nasty little things just to be spiteful, like training pigeons to poop on people, tearing out the last page of Agatha Christie mysteries, etc.
I must have missed the take another run at Lester line, though they never ran at him before. Probably never heard of him until that point as they were focused on watching the Fargo crew, not a couple of murders in Bemidji, when Malvo sent them to FBI limbo.
About the chief, I didn’t mean that Molly’s chart would suddenly impress him, but the fact that two FBI agents were interested in it might.
I’m not, there’s only one episode left (well, in that case, I guess they could have found a longer lasting role for him), but as I mentioned up thread, it was hard to have that many comedy actors on the show. Might as well have Dave Foley play Gus.
One thing has bothered me. Lester says that he hadn’t seen Hess since High School which we know is a lie because he bullied Lester the day before. Why didn’t the sons ever tell the police that?
