Bisquik proves to be a lackluster finale to an otherwise creative season.
The episode suffers from some odd pacing discussions, and over analyzes certain character interactions while leaving other more interesting answer completely glossed over.
Rather than building up to an expected climax with Dot confronting and revenging herself on Roy, this is quickly resolved in the first 5 minutes of the episode. The focus of the episode rather appears to be a dedication to wrapping up the finales of characters, including the interactions of what feel like secondary characters such as Roy and Witt's confrontation. Much time is focused on Dot and Munch's baking scene where the idea of debt and forgiveness is somewhat clumsy applied.
Some more interesting questions that remained unanswered where:
How does Gator react to the information that Roy murdered his mother?
How does Karen confront Roy after being witness to more of his nature and the murder of her father?
How does the town and the followers of Roy's tyranny fill the power vacuum created by his absence?
The oddest choice is how non-Fargo the ending feels compared to all the other seasons. All other seasons appear to follow a motif that; Justice is grey, all those involved are in someway scarred, not everything is answered and that evil gets away. Instead, everything appears to be wrapped up with a happy ending. Dot is fully reunited with her family and is free from a double-life. Roy is forced to experience the perpetual harm he so self-righteously and willingly inflicts on others. Lorraine has been turned from an antagonistic mother-in-law to a protective grandmother. Even Munch, who would have been a much more interesting bogey-man hiding in the shadows, drops his century's old philosophy of an eye for an eye instead turning into a weird uncle like figure over the course of a single dinner.
4/10.
The episode suffers from some odd pacing discussions, and over analyzes certain character interactions while leaving other more interesting answer completely glossed over.
Rather than building up to an expected climax with Dot confronting and revenging herself on Roy, this is quickly resolved in the first 5 minutes of the episode. The focus of the episode rather appears to be a dedication to wrapping up the finales of characters, including the interactions of what feel like secondary characters such as Roy and Witt's confrontation. Much time is focused on Dot and Munch's baking scene where the idea of debt and forgiveness is somewhat clumsy applied.
Some more interesting questions that remained unanswered where:
How does Gator react to the information that Roy murdered his mother?
How does Karen confront Roy after being witness to more of his nature and the murder of her father?
How does the town and the followers of Roy's tyranny fill the power vacuum created by his absence?
The oddest choice is how non-Fargo the ending feels compared to all the other seasons. All other seasons appear to follow a motif that; Justice is grey, all those involved are in someway scarred, not everything is answered and that evil gets away. Instead, everything appears to be wrapped up with a happy ending. Dot is fully reunited with her family and is free from a double-life. Roy is forced to experience the perpetual harm he so self-righteously and willingly inflicts on others. Lorraine has been turned from an antagonistic mother-in-law to a protective grandmother. Even Munch, who would have been a much more interesting bogey-man hiding in the shadows, drops his century's old philosophy of an eye for an eye instead turning into a weird uncle like figure over the course of a single dinner.
4/10.