Fargo 3×10 Review: “Somebody to Love”

Somehow, Fargo’s final episode, “Somebody to Love,” manages to be both stupidly excessive and disappointingly anti-climactic. The ending, which pits the show’s two defiant moral figures sitting face to face, is perhaps its one inspired moment, but everything that precedes it…

Fargo 3×09 Review: “Aporia”

In the second to last episode of the season, Fargo experiences an overwhelming drop in quality from episode eight’s twisted and colorful odyssey of violence. “Aporia” continues to unroll Noah Hawley’s endless disappointment in humanity. Yet without the unobtrusive optimism which made…

Fargo 3×08 Review: “Who Rules the Land of Denial?”

The first half of “Who Rules the Land of Denial?” feels like the result of an idle and unassertive showrunner. Unsure of what to do with its characters, the episode spends the entire first thirty minutes absorbed in a fever-dream foot…

TV Review: Fargo 3×05 “The House of Special Purpose”

The fifth episode of Fargo’s third season seems to be about boundary pushing and it’s well timed. We’re halfway through the season, and though plenty has happened, our characters’ journeys, intertwined under the absurd laws of the universe, haven’t yet…

TV Review: Fargo 3×04 “The Narrow Escape Problem”

Fargo’s fourth episode opens with Billy Bob Thornton reading Peter and the Wolf, a symphonic fairy tale told primarily through musical expression and voice-over narration. With Gloria as the heroic Peter and Varga as the villainous Wolf, the allegory between…

TV Review: Fargo 3×03 “The Law of Non-Contradiction”

Fargo’s third episode is going to be a hard one to top (a surprise considering Hawley’s absence from the writer’s credits). Not only is it a deeply powerful character study “The Law of Non-Contradiction” is also an existential tract as…

TV Review: Fargo 3×02 “The Principle of Restricted Choice”

The second episode, a marginal improvement over the first, has the benefit of playing with what the first episode strenuously lays out. It’s looser, more unpredictable and explores character in-depth. The title (“The Principle of Restricted Choice”), a reference to…