The movie was set in 1987, so eight years after this season is set. I think we might see Jerry Lundegaard (William H Macy’s character from the movie) or his father-in-law Wade Gustafson or maybe just the car dealership. (And I think in the first season Oliver Platt’s character had the ice scraper from the movie hanging on the wall.)
Huh, I’ll have to go back and watch for him. It’s surprising that no one else caught that, usually people online catch all sorts of hidden info, like references to the movies and what the titles mean.
It could be some tangential character survives and we see them in the early 80s. Or someone or something is just mentioned in a passing reference and we see them next season. The creator has described it as a Midwest crime show, and there are plenty of other places in the Midwest it could go.
Hmm. I didn’t think the bingo caller looked like Billy Bob, and didn’t notice him in the credits, either. FWIW, neither IMDb.com nor BBT’s filmography on Wiki includes this season of Fargo:
I looked at the imdb too and didn’t see him listed as cast, but isn’t he listed in the opening credits? One of my friends thought the bingo guy was BBT also. Maybe it’s misdirection?
I looked at a few more discussion boards about season 2 and I’m apparently way off base regarding BBT. Sorry for any confusion.
Just rewatched the first episode. The bingo caller is NOT BBT.
Maybe the undertaker isn’t the bingo guy. :rolleyes:
On a slightly different note, Noah Hawley, the creator of the show, is making a show out of Kurt Vonnegut’s Cat’s Cradle. Kurt Vonnegut is my favorite author, and I’d be a bit worried about someone making a show from Cat’s Cradle, but Hawley is doing such a great job with Fargo that I’m cautiously optimistic.
Mostly blind items about hard drinking, maybe drugs, cheating, revolving door of boyfriends. As with BIs, you can’t always rely on them and sometimes it’s a person with an axe to grind. Sometimes, however, they do turn out to be true, like a ton of pre-divorce-announcement Affleck, Sheen’s HIV.
I hadn’t considered him from the wife’s character perspective. I agree she sees his goals and asperations as ‘dead-end’.
Yeah, I thought her speech to the sheriff really drove home how trapped she feels. I’m guessing they got married right after high school before either of them knew what they wanted out of life.
Yeah, I see them as football star and head cheerleader and she thought that combination would translate into being a star in adult life. Also, I’m sure the choices for a spouse were limited in that little town, so he looked like a winner, doncha know. But Ed began running to fat, and the only job out there that would support a wife (even though he likely inherited the house) was as the assistant butcher.
It might save a lot of time in the future, now that people know that you can look stuff up on the internet.
I’ve heard, but don’t quote me on this - where you can make words clickable on this here internet - you could, - conceivably - type “Hanzee Dent” and actually make that clickable to the source you want to direct people too -
Not that I have a cite for that - but I have heard tell that its possible.
So I rewatched the season so far over the weekend and find myself wondering, what did Ed do with the ground Rye?
That’s the question I’ve been expecting the show to reveal at some point. The obvious answer is unsettling.
Picked up for a third season.
I’m certain I recall Peggy saying something to Ed about “Hamburger Helper”. Didn’t she?
She is a little touched. I just wonder …
Tonight is Episode 7. So great it was picked up for a 3rd year. But it’s almost over now. There are only 3 more epis after tonight? I don’t do well with withdrawl. The Man in the High Tower can only take me so far. What to do? What to do?
Any suggestions?
That was before Ed did the butchering - this was @ the dinner table whilest Rye was still alive (ep1).
Some good tunes tonight.