I rarely write reviews. This might be my first or second in the 7 years I've been on this site. But I felt compelled to write one for this episode.
First of all, the way the creators of this show put such surgeon- like focus into each episode is astounding and deserves a lot of praise. Each episode is an individual and complete piece of art, and this episode is no exception. You can almost sense how much time they spend coming up with interesting, exciting, and unique ways to tell their story. Each scene is fresh and captivating.
In this episode, we got Martin Freeman narrating the plot, which right away put a huge smile on my face. I said Lester must have survived and moved to the UK.
The lead-up to the massacre had such palpable suspense that it leaves you breathless. Perfectly executed.
The thing I really want to talk about is the sci-fi element. The UFO. Genius. Actual genius. They left bits and pieces of it throughout the show but it's as if everyone just kept avoiding it. And then, BAM! And I'd like to explain why I feel it's genius. Because it breaks the "script" just like real life would. In life, most people have some sort of routine, which turns into a predictable story for themselves, but it's an illusion. Cause life doesn't actually have rules that it follows. And, sometimes it can throw something completely surprising and shocking, which freezes the mind because it doesn't even know how to begin to process it. That's called the OZ Factor. When it happens in life, we don't question it. Why would we? We accept after the fact that life can be unpredictable and go off-script whenever it wants to. But we find it much harder to do that when watching a movie or a TV show, since movies are created by humans, and humans should stick to "script" and established "rules". "Chaos is the law of nature. Order was the dream of man." - Henry Adams
But these geniuses did exactly what nature would do. They threw in the unexpected, and it left the audience questioning and asking WTF, just as they would in real life, and just as the characters in the show did. In that sense, Fargo parallels reality better than anything else on TV, at the very least metaphorically. And that's no easy feat to accomplish.
It reminded me of the movie "From Dusk Till Dawn" with George Clooney and Quentin Tarantino. You begin watching an interesting crime drama, when halfway through the film it turns into a vampire movie. Like, WHAT?? I love that.
10/10 all around.
First of all, the way the creators of this show put such surgeon- like focus into each episode is astounding and deserves a lot of praise. Each episode is an individual and complete piece of art, and this episode is no exception. You can almost sense how much time they spend coming up with interesting, exciting, and unique ways to tell their story. Each scene is fresh and captivating.
In this episode, we got Martin Freeman narrating the plot, which right away put a huge smile on my face. I said Lester must have survived and moved to the UK.
The lead-up to the massacre had such palpable suspense that it leaves you breathless. Perfectly executed.
The thing I really want to talk about is the sci-fi element. The UFO. Genius. Actual genius. They left bits and pieces of it throughout the show but it's as if everyone just kept avoiding it. And then, BAM! And I'd like to explain why I feel it's genius. Because it breaks the "script" just like real life would. In life, most people have some sort of routine, which turns into a predictable story for themselves, but it's an illusion. Cause life doesn't actually have rules that it follows. And, sometimes it can throw something completely surprising and shocking, which freezes the mind because it doesn't even know how to begin to process it. That's called the OZ Factor. When it happens in life, we don't question it. Why would we? We accept after the fact that life can be unpredictable and go off-script whenever it wants to. But we find it much harder to do that when watching a movie or a TV show, since movies are created by humans, and humans should stick to "script" and established "rules". "Chaos is the law of nature. Order was the dream of man." - Henry Adams
But these geniuses did exactly what nature would do. They threw in the unexpected, and it left the audience questioning and asking WTF, just as they would in real life, and just as the characters in the show did. In that sense, Fargo parallels reality better than anything else on TV, at the very least metaphorically. And that's no easy feat to accomplish.
It reminded me of the movie "From Dusk Till Dawn" with George Clooney and Quentin Tarantino. You begin watching an interesting crime drama, when halfway through the film it turns into a vampire movie. Like, WHAT?? I love that.
10/10 all around.