IMPORTANT NOTE. The “Fargo” season finale on Tuesday, June 17 at 10:00 PM is listed as running 1 hour on 32 minutes. Set DVRs appropriately or you’'ll miss the last 32 minutes or the last 2 minutes. Don’t be the guy on here Wednesday saying, “I missed the end. Please tell me what happened.”
I’m pretty sure the word was “bounty”.
Yep, def: good call!
What I’m reminded of is the movie Fallen with Denzel Washington. Fallen (1998) - IMDb
I’d be very surprised if the producers/writers etc break with realism to tell us what Malvo is. I think the speculation is a major part of the enjoyment.
I hope that Molly or Gus collar and/or shoot Malvo.
Lester is pathetic. I hope he gets a quick death.
I wonder whether any of the characters will return in the next season. I’m kind of hoping Malvo returns.
Is there a second season?
For what it’s worth, Entertainment Weekly labels the last episode as “Season Finale” and not “Series Finale”.
There is no indication that there will be a second season. It’s a shame but at least that means that we’ll get a resolution in a few days.
It seems like if there was going to be one we’d know by now. Besides, everything I’ve read has said this was going to be a one season mini-series.
I’m not sure I agree it’s completely against type for Freeman. He has often played the put-upon shrinking violet who is sometimes pushed too far into taking extraordinary action. Only this time, the extraordinary reaction is something horrific instead of heroic. In some ways he is still able to hang onto my sympathy even when he’s at his worst.
I thought I’d read that it was intended as an anthology, so that each season would be a different story with a different cast.
I hope neither of them ends up dead. I know that that’s the fantasy that this thriller cliche always feeds us – that killing the bad guy is the goal, purpose, solution, perfect ending. That this is what justice means.
But it’s not really and I’m tired of seeing it all the time. It’s really what disappointed me about the end of “True Detective.”
I want to see our fiction start exploring the notion of justice much deeper and not be satisfied with simple retribution.
That would be cool. You could have different people finding and then re-burying the suitcase. There has been no announcement for a second season though.
I know we tossed that idea around the only part of it I didn’t like is that with the exception of the money being a B plot, it runs the risk of making the show somewhat predictable.
Here is a couple of excerpts from a Hollywood Reporter article from before the show aired. (FYI, Hawley is Noah Hawley, the executive producer.)
“‘After a season or two of the show, people who see the movie might say that was a great episode of Fargo. Each season is a separate true crime story from that region. The movie now fits into the series as another true crime story from the region,’ Hawley said. ‘I don’t think you need to it watch before [watching the series], but I think you should watch it because it’s a great movie, but you don’t need to.’”
Later the same article says, “As for what a potential second season would look like, Hawley said he’s already planning to tell a new story, but Fargo isn’t like FX’s Ryan Murphy-Brad Falchuk anthology series, American Horror Story, in which actors would return to play new parts for a completely different premise.”
So far, they haven’t said either way as to cancellation or a new season. We have to wait and see.
$100k is low.
A busy dentist could make that much in a partnership in 6 months or less.
And the house that he was living in was (even for the KC area) north of $500k.
I would imagine that if you flushed out a person in WITSEC and offed them, we’d be talking $500k or more as the feds would be hunting for you and you might not work for a while.
At his point I think Malvo picks his work in a similar way to BBT and Martin Freemon - he does what interests him.
I like to “suspend disbelief” when I watch a movie (or TV series); those I like best are those I can imagine to be “a true story” – just like it claims at the beginning of each Fargo episode.
But I was shocked and disappointed by the elevator shootings. The series suddenly “jumped the shark” for me (if that’s the appropriate expression); it didn’t seem realistic. It turned the series into a farce, like Get Smart or 1960’s Batman.
Perhaps I’m showing gross naïveté: why did I need to wait until Episode 9 to think the story wasn’t really true? :smack:
(And I’m afraid part of the reason the killings seemed unrealistic is that a fake-dentist wouldn’t have killed such a hot-looking fake-wife. 
:eek: )
Did anyone else react this way?
Yay! 9/10 through before the first SDMB ‘jumped the shark’ claim.
It’s just a somewhat silly ‘in joke’. You might enjoy looking at some of the Coen Brothers work though.
Fwiw, I’m kind of surrpised at how this matters for some, it’s not like most documentaries get a rounded sense of an event eithe. Hollywood - zero chance. It’s all just entertainment.