And he is clearly cheating on her. Okay, but that is partly on her for not standing up to this man-child.
Dot’s clearly a badass, but it seems to me she’s ignored the chance to grab an abandoned gun and turn the tables more securely in her favor, more than once. Which is weird because she explicitly attempted to buy one.
I wonder if there’s some explanation, or a flashback to when she tried to grab a dropped gun and it turned out really bad for her? I don’t know, it seems conspicuous to me at least. But maybe it’s just dramatic license, because Dot with a gun could end the season in one or two episodes?
But also, as smart and capable as she seems, booby traps were really a dumb, dumb idea. So maybe I’m just overthinking it. She’s quick thinking and confident, but not as experienced at evading militiamen abductors as we might think?
(Coincidentally, we got a new puppy and named her Dorothy/Dotty/Dot, literally a week before beginning this season of Fargo, with no clue about the main character’s name ahead of time.)
Is she a bad ass puppy???
I’m really liking this season, I think it’s as good as the first. I thought the most recent episode (#7) did a great job of filling in Dot’s back story.
I agree and having it be with puppets was just brilliant so as not to have to show the actual violence.
My take on this episode:
i think that Dot fell asleep at the wheel and was hit by that semi. Everything else, including stopping at the diner, was part of the dream.
Yes, it was all a dream, though I thought she was dreaming while sitting at the diner table.
That’s what I originally thought, but the vibe in the diner was so strange and the semi crash so out of the blue, I think that she fell asleep at the wheel before ever getting to the diner.
That may be the case. I hadn’t thought of that.
I hadn’t either until this morning. That episode stuck with me.
I keep thinking Wayne is going to surprise us all and show a backbone of steel when it comes to finding and protecting his wife. Waiting for it.
This show has made me realize just how spoiled I am by shows I can binge. Waiting for forward momentum is almost unbearable. This week’s show was fantastic, but also incredibly frustrating because the exposition was almost entirely static or backward-facing.
One of the recaps I saw mentioned his cheating. But was this explicit in the show or just implied?
He was putting on cologne before his appointment with his “physical therapist”, so it’s strongly implied, but not explicitly shown.
And after complaining to Indira that he wasn’t getting enough sex.
I thought the daydream started and ended as shown, right at the diner booth. I liked all the daydream elements scattered beforehand. The “I’m your puppet” song being the last thing she heard before pulling into the diner. A Camp Utopia postcard on the counter rack. And the bulletin board with the Chicken Picata recipe and the doll show notice. I think the Ole Munch and Wayne scenes were real and all happened outside the dream.
So the cowardly Lyon will rescue Dorothy?
We’ll see. I think that when she was dozing off in the car, she fell asleep and was hit by the semi, with the song influencing her dreams while unconscious.
:standing ovation:
In his defense, he’d be a little more useful if his wife hadn’t booby trapped the window of his house.
But this season is about strong women; Lorraine called sheriff Tillman a baby for wanting privilege without responsibility, and other men are shown as being incredibly childish. Wayne’s father is shown playing with literal toys in one scene. It will be the women who resolve this.