This episode is done pretty well, perhaps holding more importance for the contemporary US audience, dealing with hope that is needed, more so self-belief. This is dealt finely in the last few minutes, adding more relevance to my favorite the third episode. I had written earlier hopefully the mystical part isn't overdone, but it does feel in place in this episode. Some real good work by Carrie Coon and Olivia Sandoval in those scenes. Emmet, again got an opportunity and took it, by giving himself up, but then for some reason decides to go back to Varga when the opportunity arises. For what end? We'll know in next episode perhaps. Nikki and Varga though...the scene in lobby was pretty memorable and was highlight of this episode. They had to use the time element since Nikki needed to get back on her feet and Mr. Wrench from the Fargo Mythos, if that is what it can be called, taken upon himself to assist her. For far too often we've seen the clinical, emotionless Varga having the upper-hand exploiting the weaknesses of lesser (or whom he feels to be lesser than him) mortals, however, it is one of the lesser mortals who decides to rise up against Varga and does get to him in the end. Varga, is playing games, whether he admits it or not. Calculated risks. But they are at a cost. He being the complete capitalist is after profit. That is his motivation, and he tries to give the same meaning to Emmet by telling him of how the stocks are rising and his reputation too. This is when Emmet has lost pretty much everything in his personal life. Nikki uses this very weakness against him. Her main aim is to destroy Varga and that she's doing by making him assume that she's playing the same game as him. Money motive. He keeps on adding zeroes to her 'fictitious' job, but she's unmoved. It's not for the first time that she's been misunderstood. The 'Captain America' sheriff does a schlub-pub- seduction-deduction on her and Ray's relationship, however it has been long established that though scheming, Nikki was heads over heels in her love for Ray. And that's another tip in the hat of fargo, well-developed characters such as Ray, Mobley, Gloria, Nikki, Varga. That's what makes it a success already for me.
Review of Aporia
