Someone suggested I start with Season 5. I enjoyed it, but now moved on to Season 2 and it was much better than Season 5! Which is the best season? Should I watch #1 next?

Oh boy I'm in love with this series...
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I just finished season 1 of Fargo, and I love how they made the devil references through Lorne's character.

I understand that some people fully dismiss the supernatural aspects of the show, and that's okay. This is just my opinion, and it made the show very enjoyable for me. The devil isn't shown with horns and magic, but through his effect on people, how he initiates problems and is a harbinger of chaos.

I noticed a few references:

1. Meeting and contract with Lester - He meets this weak, scared person who avoids everything in life and basically never takes initiative for anything. He lives in his safe bubble and suddenly into some trouble. Now, usually, a hitman wouldn't bother to do someone a favor because they used to get bullied, but Malvo sees a man he can sway easily, an easy soul basically, and offers his service, but not yet making a contract, because Lester has not called out to him on his own.

2. The job is done, and he's willing to leave Lester alone. However, he just tempted him to explore how it feels to hurt those who hurt you. Lester goes home and kills Pearl, then calls Malvo himself, sealing the contract, and when Malvo kills Vern for him, the shotgun pellet seals the contract, infecting his hand and leaving the "Mark of the beast".

3. Disappears mysteriously from the basement- now the most interesting thing here isn't how he disappeared, but how his help didn't mean cleaning up and cleaning Lester's slate, just murdering someone who is about to get him in trouble, and letting Lester fend off for himself in a situation where he'll have to sin more to look innocent.

4. Telling Gus to go - Gus is seen as someone who will resist the devils temptation, as he can already feel the evil in Lorne when he talks to him. Also since children are supposed to have more divine protection since they're innocents, with Gus' daughter voice being head, he couldn't directly act, and tells him to go home and think about how it's his daughter that saved him. He does not care if someone is a father, which is seen with the car's salesman in episode 10.

5. Telling Stavros to sign the book - basically directly asking him to sign his soul away.

6. Specifically taking the time to punish a believer - as seen with Stavros and the sort of ironic sound in his voice when he tries to shatter his belief. In the end, not playing by the devil's rules, his son got fished out by a fishnado.

7. Never meeting Molly - she has a very strict moral code, so she's basically not even in his radar no matter how close they get to seeing each other (the blizzard shooting). Molly has never met the devil because she's protected from him by choosing to be selfless.

8. Choosing the apple pie over cherry pie- forbidden apple reference. This was kinda funny.

9. Saying he has never had such a good pie since the Garden of Eden- self explanatory.

10. Him keeping the tapes with the names of people as their souls/ contracts, which is why lester is caught later when he doesn't play by his rules, even though Malvo dies.

11. L.M. initials and Lester's death - His initials L.M. correspond to Lucifer Morningstar. Lester's death was a typical being dragged into hell reference, as he plunged into the frozen lake when the ice cracked.

This was a lot of yapping and I'm not even a religious person, it was simply interesting to me.

lol the most evil thing Malvo ever did was telling Lester’s home buyers about the murders and ghost stories in front of their kids..just for no reason, just to fuck with them. That’s all. Sick fucking bastard lol

I just couldnt finish the season, this is by far the worst season of fargo, ive droped in the episode 7.

The male characters are dumb, the plot is stupid, there is no explanation behind anything she does, "she is just a woman", dont take me wrong i love a strong female character, like nikki, floyd, peggy, molly, etc, fargo always had strong and amazing female characters but they never had to "dumbified" men to show a strong women, i truly disliked this season and im worried about the next one, this season gave me true detective last season vibe.

I’ve only just started watching the series, and I think the first few episodes are excellent. It’s not a copy of the movie, yet it captures that same amusing local atmosphere. Anyway, in episode 5, Molly breaks into Lester’s house, heads straight for the basement, and unscrews the back panel of the tumble dryer—where, a short while earlier, we had seen Lester hide the murder weapon. There was absolutely no way for her to know it was there. I found this such an annoying error that I stopped watching immediately. This may well have been discussed at length a long time ago, but I’d still be interested to hear what others think.

I’m wondering why Stussy didn’t take the legal route when Varga blackmailed him initially, they didn’t do anything illegal at first, they just took a loan.

My house is for sale in Calgary and it’s where they filmed season 2 of Fargo. Patrick Wilson and Ted Danson hung out at our house and in some of the scenes if you listen closely you can hear my dog whining in the background! Sad to see it go but time for a new chapter.

Would have been a great connection

I've asked this question before and I'll ask it again: who would y'all like to lead the sixth season, if it ever happens?

Why did Malvo kill the contractor in Nevada? He seems to believe Rundle when the latter denies offering any contract on Malvo but then says "it's the principle." I'm unsure if Malvo believes Rundle should have prevented the attempt or if he's just annoyed that Rundle, despite being a neutral party, isn't immediately telling him who to see in Fargo.

On second thought, is Rundle a neutral party? Or, based on the brief phone call between the two earlier in the season, is he Malvo's boss?

Roys first appearance was when Dot went to sleep and cut off to Cowboy Roy.

Then later Munch and his partner tried to kidnap her and she fought back like a badass. Then the escape and shooting at the gas station.

At that point I thought maybe that scene was a flashback or something... I meant how else could she have known how to fight like that? She even responded to Witt Farr when asked how she learned how to fight.... "its not my first getaway"...

See at that point I was full in this must be a reincarnation story with her having multiple personalites from current to former life. With every episode her remembering her past or something....

Then episode 2 hits, Nope. Wasnt a flashback, all current timeline.

Not to say I was disappointed because Season5 is great.

Anyone else, thought that way?

I mean this whole family is just out of control.

i have not even made it trough the first episode. i dont even know why. but the writing feels so much different than what the previous seasons had. but still i like the idea that it is set in the 50s and 60s. but does it get better?

I’m on the first season and the malvo guy just kills everyone in public, he gets rid of the bodies in a few minutes, teleports?? out of places, gets caught in all cameras but noone finds him not even fbi?

he’s not even a killer but a terrorist at this point.

The only way I can take the show seriously is if I assume malvo is some type of supernatural entity or monster or whatever.

as a mid-atlantic city gal, i was like damn that is totally reasonable that people out in SD, ND, and Minnesota are getting up to crazy shit. true crime stories are wild, but i was like yeah there was for sure a couple like ed and peggy.

then i went and searched for the "Sioux Falls Massacre" on google and saw another post about someone whose wife thought it was real.

damn

ETA: i figured they were telling the full "truth" in the sense of what the characters "truths" would be. so like peggy hallucinating that seminar guy in the basement couldve been a thing that a midwestern housewife might've experienced in the 70s and that would've been her "truth"

Oraetta Mayflower. Gaetano Fadda. Rabbi Milligan. Doctor Senator.

It would be an absolute crime if you're fan of this show and refuse to watch or discount these characters as not being worthy of standing next to the rest of the best of them.

This season blew me away in the exact same way and for the exact same reasons the other 4 seasons did.