# Fargo S4 **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** tv-shows-scripted\ **Created:** [December 31, 2018, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fargo-s4/826991 "2018-12-31T17:21:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 8
**Author:** ![Smid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/838e76/32.png) [@Smid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smid)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2020, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fargo-s4/826991/141 "2020-11-16T22:59:11Z")
Took me till near the end to work out why the current episode was in Black and White. ---
**Author:** ![simster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/simster/32/1047_2.png) [@simster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/simster)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2020, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fargo-s4/826991/142 "2020-11-16T23:45:19Z")
Just finished the episode - I still don’t quite get some of the guests in the hotel, unless they were simply figments of his imagination/memory. I loved the callback to the book - _The History of True Crime in the Midwest_ ---
**Author:** ![Smid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/838e76/32.png) [@Smid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smid)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2020, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fargo-s4/826991/143 "2020-11-17T00:06:43Z")
East and West could refer to wicked witches. Rabbit might even be the Rabbi reincarnated as the Oz like dog earlier in the day. ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2020, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fargo-s4/826991/144 "2020-11-17T02:40:58Z")
Ok so we’re on the same page here. But, that’s Fargo! 🤷‍♀️ ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2020, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fargo-s4/826991/145 "2020-11-17T03:42:01Z")
That must have been a sharknado, because the series has jumped a few. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2020, 6:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fargo-s4/826991/146 "2020-11-17T06:24:36Z")
Some explain that epi to me? ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2020, 7:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fargo-s4/826991/147 "2020-11-17T07:11:03Z")
> **[Fargo Recap: Under the Rainbow](https://www.vulture.com/article/fargo-recap-season-4-episode-9-east-west.html)** > > Season four’s oddest episode is as wild a departure as this series has ever attempted. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2020, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fargo-s4/826991/148 "2020-11-17T19:41:58Z")
Good recap, thanks. Still… ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2020, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fargo-s4/826991/149 "2020-11-17T19:42:39Z")
It’s not for us to understand. Just to be like “Yeah, Fargo’s a cool show.” ---
**Author:** ![monstro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba9def/32.png) [@monstro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monstro)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2020, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fargo-s4/826991/150 "2020-11-17T19:59:53Z")
I knew Rabbi was a goner when he left the hotel without doing the “I’m either in jail or dead” thing with Satchel. Despite knowing this, I was still sad when he got sucked up in the tornado. ---
**Author:** ![Paintcharge](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/paintcharge/32/7946_2.png) [@Paintcharge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paintcharge)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2020, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fargo-s4/826991/151 "2020-11-17T20:33:55Z")
I liked the “either dead or in jail” thing. I got a real Dread Pirate Roberts “I’ll probably kill you in the morning” vibe from it. ---
**Author:** ![PastTense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pasttense/32/14550_2.png) [@PastTense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastTense)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2020, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fargo-s4/826991/152 "2020-11-17T23:51:16Z")
So at the end of the episode we see Satchel with a gun in his belt. Is he going to kill someone? Who? ---
**Author:** ![Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eyebrows_0f_doom/32/3119_2.png) [@Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eyebrows_0f_Doom)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2020, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fargo-s4/826991/153 "2020-11-18T04:01:11Z")
> [@monstro](#): > > I knew Rabbi was a goner when he left the hotel without doing the “I’m either in jail or dead” thing with Satchel. Despite knowing this, I was still sad when he got sucked up in the tornado. Yup, I thought the same thing. Well that was an hour I will never get back. I’ve gotta say, having never seen a previous season of this show, I don’t think I’m going to tune in for the next one. It’s now giving me major _Legion_ vibes, where it was a really cool show at the beginning and turned into a weird pile of nonsense just because Hawley likes weird. I bailed after the second season of that one. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2020, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fargo-s4/826991/154 "2020-11-18T04:04:58Z")
If you’ve never seen the previous seasons, you really should. It’s a _really_ good show. ---
**Author:** ![Smid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/838e76/32.png) [@Smid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smid)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2020, 11:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fargo-s4/826991/155 "2020-11-18T11:05:11Z")
“It WAS a…”. ---
**Author:** ![simster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/simster/32/1047_2.png) [@simster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/simster)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2020, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fargo-s4/826991/156 "2020-11-18T14:03:15Z")
Still is - this season has lots of golden moments - Nurse Mayflower being the highlight for me. ---
**Author:** ![Smid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/838e76/32.png) [@Smid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smid)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2020, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fargo-s4/826991/157 "2020-11-18T14:13:22Z")
Outside of the context of previous seasons, yes it probably is a decent enough quirky show, but it’s so much lower quality than the previous seasons that it is a definite loss for new viewers not to go back. Even Season 3, which I enjoyed, but others thought the worse, was much much better. I guess some things are under the contraints of covid, lack of ability to revisit, redefine and reshoot parts of it doesn’t help. It’s intrigue. A lot of nothing happening. I’m not even sure of the connection to Fargo or Minnesota or North Dakota at all, kind of coincidental and barely related. I assume the nurses accent is the strange one of Minnesota. The worst shots ever, they got sold the guns, were from Fargo and that’s about it. First season was in Bemidji, second season Fargo itself, third in Minnesota too. I mean Kansas is three states down from Fargo, you go three states westerward and you’re at the Pacific Ocean in Oregon… I’m watching it to the end now, that’s for sure, but I’d tell people who start the series to skip it, like past season 3 of Lost, past season 4 of Orange is the new black. ---
**Author:** ![simster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/simster/32/1047_2.png) [@simster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/simster)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2020, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fargo-s4/826991/158 "2020-11-18T14:45:42Z")
In general, I agree with you - The real ties to other seasons - a) The Fargo group that bought the guns/came to hit the Italians - this is specifically the person in season 2 that killed Gerhardt’s leader at the time b) Satchel is likely to become Mike Milligan (also from season 2) THe real tie in is the book - _The History of True Crime in the Midwest_ - all of the fargo seasons are coming from that history. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2020, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fargo-s4/826991/159 "2020-11-18T14:47:26Z")
I’m OK with tenuous connections to Fargo (the location, the film and the previous seasons). I’m willing to accept the show as a series of very loosely connected seasons. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2020, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fargo-s4/826991/160 "2020-11-18T20:15:20Z")
> [@PastTense](#): > > So at the end of the episode we see Satchel with a gun in his belt. Is he going to kill someone? Who? Was there something after the tornado? I didn’t catch that scene. Anyone else notice that the religious gas station owners (not seen) were named Em and Henry? (As in “Auntie Em! Uncle Henry!”) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fargo-s4/826991.md?page=7) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fargo-s4/826991.md?page=9)