I love the Coen brothers and the Fargo series, up until season 3 that is. For this episode I can only say, "what was that?" So here is the episode, Prisoners being transported on a bus a night. Sure. Crashed by the sons of the pentagram and the Goat's head leader. Coulda figured out they were bad guys without the props. Bad guys invested time and money to create some stupid ramp to turn over the bus. Uh, there are dozens of ways to stop a bus without this needless dramatic flair. "Oh I get it they are going to use a prop to stop the bus". So, they are after this girl, Nikki. Why? She once tried to blackmail Emmitt? They dealt with her then. She has nothing, knows nothing, and is no threat to them. There is no plausible reason they would go through all the trouble to kill her. Okay, so she escapes the crashed bus with (I think it is the deaf hit-man from season 1). If so, It is four years later. The guy is wearing the same coat? Right. So, these two head to Lebowski lanes, and meet up with Sam Elliot like dude. Now in the Big Lebowski, Sam Elliot is clearly providing erst world commentary on the ups and downs of life. In this episode it is just nonsense. See he is some representation of God, here to dispense with the Wicked apparently, and yet he helps two serial killers to escape - presumably to extract revenge on the wicked Varga and Yuri and the dancing Asian for, well, being greedy serial killers. Yuri then shows up, and God then says he knows that he was Boris Badenov or some such in a past life and killed a bunch of people in the Ukraine, blah, blah, blah. Why it took 300+ years to find old Boris as Yuri, isn't clear. Maybe God only can get to people in bowling alleys, and Yuri is a golfer? Anyway, the rest of the episode is equally as boorish. The acting is horrible. The script writing amateur. The plot is mish mash of disconnected Coen brother classic plot lines, scenes and twists executed in a way that remind you of a really bad cover song. There is no likable character in this entire show. There is nothing here people. Save yourself the time. Re-watch season 1 and 2. And pray to the Lords of the bowling alley that season 4 is better.
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