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Fargo: The Law of Vacant Places (2017) Season 3, Episode 1

Great First Show!

[9/10 · 20 April 2017]

I am most curious how the East German angle is grafted into the story and if the Chief's step-dad is part of that. I wish I could have read who wrote the two books found in the hidden locker?

This looks like another great season; last year's was good, but no where the level of season one. It left too many unanswered questions for me. This one seems back on track.

I'll have look on line for the author's of the novels and see if these secret finds are hidden treasures which will some way of connect the East Germany, Cold War, interrogation seen at the beginning. I love how this show connects what seem unrelated events into a chaotically, absurd reality which by seasons end fits together like a finished, mosaic puzzle.

This my favorite series on TV; it is show well photographed, directed and written. I also love how the show always presents women as forces of nature which men must reckon with.

Pride and Prejudice (1940)

This One Gets Austin

[16 March 2016]

Look, I won't waste time arguing about acting and costumes. What I will state is that no other P&P film has captured the essences of what Austin accomplished in her novel. Folks, P&P is a satire, pure and simple. Huxley, who wrote the screenplay and the actors who played the parts, especially the British actors, understood this. You don't start a Romance novel like this:

"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.

However little known the feelings or views of such a man may be on his first entering a neighborhood, this truth is so well fixed in the minds of the surrounding families, that he is considered the rightful property of someone or other of their daughters."

This is satire gold. It is a hard, hitting punch at middle class moms trying to marry up their daughters, so the she (the mom) will be taken care of in her old age. The novel also rips the upper class for claiming to put substance, character and breeding above all, while at the same time poor Mary Bennett the most accomplished of all the Bennett girls goes it alone because she is an ugly duckling.

This movie gets it; the newer ones have reinterpreted the essence of what Austin was doing in her great novel. So forget about the bad costumes and how it doesn't follow the book scene for scene. This film stands the test of time because it is the only film version which understands Austin's vision and biting humor.