What I couldn’t get over at the butcher shop were the dead chickens in the window. Why would you have raw chickens hanging in a window?!? It was not enclosed, so it’s not refrigerated. I’m an old fart, my dad worked in a butcher shop in the 70s, and all the meat was refigerated. That part really bugged me!
Besides it wasn’t a hairbrush, it was hair combs. And it wasn’t a locket – it was a pocket watch. She sold her hair to buy him a watch fob for it. At least get the story right.
uh - charlie_wayne said he couldn’t remember the exact details, and still he got it pretty fricken close - someone piss in your Wheaties today?
Yeah, not only that he said the episode reminded him of a short story and then proceeded to arrive at the title of the episode on his own. Pretty impressive, actually.
I have been listening to “Aw Jeez”:A Fargo Podcast from Minnesota Public Radio. It really gives some insight to each episode. It has an interview with a cast member at the end too. http://www.mprnews.org/topic/aw-jeez-fargo
One of the things mentioned on the last episode was that Kirsten Dunst had said that there had been an unfilmed scene in which her character had come into the butcher shop to visit her boyfriend/fiance who was leaving for Vietnam and he had said to Ed “take care of her if something happens to me”.
He linked to the story in Wiki, he could’ve read it.
I know this goes back some episodes, but Brad Garrett’s character’s comment about the “Northern water” rings true. Small details. I’ve been to NDak and the water is different than what I’m used to in the mid-Atlantic–it does feel slimy, and tastes different, and it takes forever to wash clean in the shower as Mike Milligan noticed.
I’m enjoying the show and will definitely keep watching.
Loved the scene where the meek local cop unloads his gun when ordered to by the Gerhardt mooks, but Trooper Solverson refuses: “Am I the only one here who’s clear on the concept of law enforcement?”
Some questions:
Who was the bow-hunter that Bulo and the other mob guys were going out into the woods with? Why were they all so heavily armed, but so totally surprised by the Gerhardt attack?
What happened to the young Gerhardt boy’s gun in the back of the butcher shop? Did it jam, or was there only a single bullet in the magazine?
Why not take Otto hostage after you’ve killed his guards and nurse? That would give you some pretty serious leverage over the rest of his family.
Agreed. She’s come a long way from Designing Women, as I noted upthread.
Remember, too, that the B&W Reagan movie of which we see a little in episode 1, scene 1 is Massacre at Sioux Falls - a nonexistent flick, according to Wiki and IMDb, just like Operation Eagle’s Nest and Moonbase Freedom, which Reagan also mentions on the show. (According to Wiki’s history of Sioux Falls there was no massacre there during the Indian Wars, either).
She’s a bad girl and probably has a reputation in the area. Milligan doubtless soon saw she was rebellious and hated her dad, and sleeping with a badass black guy from out of town would be a pretty good way to get back at him in rural Minnesota c. 1979.
Yeah, good scene. I thought the crime boss young Dodd stabbed looked like he might be played by Owen Wilson, but IMDb says not.
Heh. That would have made for a very different show!
Marvel also plays an ambitious lawyer and politico on House of Cards:
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Campbell is doing his best as Reagan but not quite pulling it off, I’d say (although the bathroom scene where he’s trying empathize with Solverson, an actual combat vet, by remembering war movies he’d starred in, was funny). Phil Hartman did a better Reagan on SNL, and Alan Rickman (of all people!) in The Butler, IMHO.
Interesting! I’d like to see that someday.
That was a recreational hunting trip with a local politician who was going to deliver Kansas City all the corruption and influence they desired. They weren’t heavily armed; for the most part they just had hunting rifles. (Shotguns?)
Sort of the mob equivalent to business deals on a golf course.
I feel like they deliberately played that NOT as an impersonation. Reagan is so easy to impersonate that if they had wanted us to see Reagan, they could have. I was actually surprised that that turned out to be Reagan, I kept expecting whoever it was to say “and thus it’s my great honor to present the next president of the united states, Ronald Reagan!” or something like that.
But in retrospect, I like it. Reagan is such an icon (for better or worse) that it would be hard to see him as an actual person if he looked and acted like full-on Reagan.
Kind of strange their intelligence was good enough that on short notice, they could lay an ambush in a remote area, where both the mob and the politician would not want it known that they were meeting, and yet they have no clue about the trysts between Milligan and Dodd’s daughter.
That doesn’t bother me much. The Gerhardts are local criminal royalty, undoubtedly with deep family ties to the area ( already hinted at by the local officer ). Someone like a local dirty politician would be somebody they’d already know very well and keep tabs on in a war-time situation. All it would take would be a secretary in his office dropping a dime on him and they could set up an ambush in an hour or two if they knew generally where he was heading.
Meanwhile the family is so tied up in that blood ties shit it is probably inconceivable to them that even their occasionally abused, resentful wild child would play that sort of game behind their back.
All of Bulo’s guys met beforehand and were openly carrying weapons, which I wouldn’t expect them to do if they were just escorting Bulo and the developer on a deer hunt. Seemed like they expected trouble, or were on their way to inflict it on someone else, and yet they were caught flat-footed by the Gerhardts’ attack.
I watched Episode 4 again and I got a laugh out of the realization of just how much most everyone spews hypocrisy most all the time. IMO, we all do this. I’m certainly not immune. I don’t know of anyone who is. I’m talking about the scene between Peggy and her boss.
“Repeat after me. You will go to Sioux Falls. You will take that course. And no one will ever tell you how to live your life again.”
Apparently neither of these ladies realized that while she was telling Peggy that “no one would ever tell her how to live her life again”, she was doing exactly that.
I see this all the time. Some of the strongest speeches we make is when we are finding fault with others for doing exactly the same thing they are doing at the moment when they are telling others how wrong it is for them to behave in that same way.
It is to laugh.
The most emphatic advice can also sometimes be the most ironic.
It’s also a pretty good way to get back at him in rural Minnesota c. 2015.
no time to read all the posts…why are the Milligan’s looking for Rye Gerhardt?
IIRC, the councilman mentioned how many weapons they had. I think that the Kansas City crew were carrying a lot of weapons because they thought there might be trouble, but they were taken by surprise how quickly the Gerhardts hit back. They underestimated the Fargo crew and probably assumed they’d make a deal.
For leverage over the rest of the Gerhardts. Floyd would be more likely to negotiate if her youngest son was held hostage.
That’s what I thought too. Negotiations weren’t going great, so Kansas City thought there might be trouble and were prepared, just they weren’t prepared enough. Or it could have been that there was some plan to threaten or kill the councilman, but then he was killed by the Gerhardts, so if that’s the case it’s a dropped plot thread.