He also directed this episode and the previous one.
Adam Arkinhas some great bloodlines. His Daddy is Alan Arkin. Adam was a key player in Sons of Anarchy recently. His range is impressive, for my money. The bald head probably didn’t help in identifying him and until this latest episode you didn’t get a good view of him in Fargo S2. They did several name actors that way. Sneaky devils! 
He was called away on matters of the utmost importance.
Still wondering what became of the ground Rye.
My best guess: dog food.
Fargo Season 3 Will Take Place in 2010 and Deal With Our ‘Selfie-Oriented Culture’. It won’t premiere until 2017, which is way too long, but I’m sure it will be great.
Should I use my powers of invisibility for good, or evil?
So was S1 or S2 better? I am leaning towards S1, but they were both great.
I liked S2 much better.
I’m going to break from the majority opinion and say that was one of the finest hours of television I can recall seeing. I love shows that zig instead of zagging, and even though “denouement episodes” have become a “thing,” I found this episode kept surprising me. One of my very few criticisms of Season 1 was that the final conflict and resolution with Malvo seemed too conventional for the tone of the series. This seemed more on the money. Overall, I thought Season 2 was vastly superior to Season 1, and Season 1 was fucking brilliant.
I’d have to say S2.
I loved the first season until… the final episode. The conclusion to the first season reminded me too much like the original film. Don’t get me wrong, I love the film but I thought that ending was a bit too redundant.
This second season still had the feel of the original film and the first season, but felt original too.
The limp is from being shot during a traffic stop that would happen in-between seasons 1 and 2. Molly explains it during season 1.
Agreed on both counts.
I thought, somehow, Milligan was going to be killed in the final episode. Instead, I loved how he ended up in his own personal hell. I think Sisyphus would have been a better name for the episode, based on Milligan’s future,Lou’s reference, and Noreen’s book. I don’t feel the series ended as it began, and so don’t see the Palindrome reference. Could someone enlighten me?
It’s explained in one of the review sites - Lou is the Palindrome - and in some sense the area.
Lou is the same now as when he started.
Thirded - Season 1 was brilliant - this season was better.
I preferred S1, all in all, and Billy Bob is a big reason why.
The guy giving Hanzee his new identity - FBI or US Marshals Service? They are the ones I would think of. And they did the “rack the shotgun/no spent shell” thing again when Milligan and his sidekick encountered the thief. I accept its a Hollywood thing done for dramatic effect but no one goes into a situation where they might have to shoot without one in the chamber. They wouldn’t live to see their second gunfight.
I agree with the Billy Bob thing, but I really grew attached to Hanzee in S2. And I think Ed and Peggy added a dimension to S2 that was lacking in S1.
It might make for some fun head-scratching to pick the Top Ten charcters from BOTH seasons. The full list is at
I thought I heard the rattle of a spent round when he racked it. But why would a hired killer carry a weapon with a spent cartridge in the chamber into a potentially nasty situation?
I think Season 2 was far and away the better executed and better acted of the two. A bit too much exposition in the final ep, but overall just fine. The scene in the meat locker (Get it? A butcher dying in a meat locker? Oh! the blunt force irony of it all.) should have been rewritten, doing away with that weird smoke fantasy and the non-existent Hanzee waiting outside the door. It was clumsy, and even the actors seemed to be having a hard time with it.
Some sort of Native American agent. Not government.