Anyone seen this show "Fargo"?

RX ^ | 4/11/14 | Coen Brothers

[mylife]

The Coens have done it again.

[SilvieWaldorfMD]

Silvie: Remind me NOT to come over to your house for anything.

Would it help my case at all if I told you that I'm a huge fans of all "Real Housewives" franchises on BravoTV?

(You won't believe this, but my husband bought me a bottle of Bianco wine last night called "Murder On My Mind"... I guess that after 15 years of marriage he finally realizes that 'if I can't beat 'em, join 'em!') LOL

[morphing libertarian]

Elmore Leonard died a few months ago. They announced that next year will be the last for Justified. Great dialogue, Fargo is similar. It’s different dialogue style but fun and interesting to hear.

Olyfant was great in Deadwood, very good in Damages and now what a star turn in Justified.

Loved Goggins in the Shield and as Crowder in Justified.

[SilvieWaldorfMD]

Since you mentioned Goggins, I thought I’d ‘name drop’ the fact that I actually spoke with Kenny Johnson once — the guy who played Lem on “The Shield”. I asked him [paraphrasing]: “What did you think about being killed off on The Shield?” and he went on about how upset he was and that, according to him, it was “the beginning of the end of [creator] Shawn Ryan”.

He’s on “Bates Motel” now — Norman Bates’ uncle.

[morphing libertarian]

Thanx. I saw the episode a few weeks ago when he arrived in town.

The Shield was a landmark for the non-premium cable networks for my money.

[morphing libertarian]

PS. I think The Shield was winding down anyway. So, his character may had died, but it seemed to fit the plot lines to me and was near the end of the line for the “team.”

[re_nortex]

That bit of dialog was indeed from the movie. Several years ago, while doing some multi-tasking, I had only the soundtrack of Fargo playing while doing other things. The dialog alone can carry the film.

[SilvieWaldorfMD]

I watched The Shield religiously every week from the start (in April 2002, I think) up until the Strike Team was dealing with the whole Albanian (or Armenian, can’t recall which) gang thing.... that’s when they ‘jumped the shark’ for me....

[Ditter]

I have read most of the replies on this thread and I guess I am the only one who didn’t like it. I saw Fargo the movie and thought it was great but after watching the first little bit of this TV program I had to leave the room.

I found it very disturbing, maybe because I had a major headache that had just crept into my head. Any way I will give it another chance when I am not in some serious pain.

[morphing libertarian]

I don’t know how they keep these shows “fresh” year after year.

[expat1000]

Here you go... The full movie “Fargo”

http://putlocker.bz/watch-fargo-online-free-putlocker.html

Got the torrent download now, but thanks a lot. I didn't know about that site. Has it been around for very long?

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[wittyone]

yes and her daughter has a similar look and affect.

That's actually her younger sister. Check out http://www.imdb.com/name/nm3920288/?ref_=tt_cl_t7.

[morphing libertarian]

Oops

Thanx

[re_nortex]

Here's one more of my favorite scenes from Fargo, the film, with outstanding dialog...err, monologue, since Carl does nearly all of the yammering:

Carl: Hey, look at that. Twin Cities. That's the IDS Building, the big glass one. 
Tallest skyscraper in the Midwest - after the uh, Sears, in, uh, Chicago, or John Hancock Building, whatever. 
You ever been to Minneapolis?
Grimsrud: Nope.
Carl: Would it kill you to say something?
Grimsrud: I did.
Carl: "No." That's the first thing you've said in the last four hours. That's a, that's a fountain of conversation, man. 
That's a geyser. I mean, whoa, daddy, stand back, man. 
You know I'm sittin' here drivin', doin' all the drivin', man, the whole *****' way from Brainerd, drivin', just tryin' to chat, 
you know, keep our spirits up, fight the boredom of the road, 
and you can't say one *****' thing just in the way of conversation? Well, **** it. 
I don't have to talk either, man. See how you like it. [Pause] Just total *****' silence. Two can play at that game, smart guy. 
We'll just see how you like it. Total silence.

And of course Margie's scene toward the end as she's in the police car with Gaear is utter perfection.

[expat1000]

I just finished watching it. There’s another classic bit at 1:14. I enjoyed it, but the TV show more.

Particularly the movie reminded me a lot of Lillehammer. Not just the setting, background music and scenery although the female investigating cop, and the dumb male cop with the Scandinavian accent were eerie co-incidences (or not?). Something about the dialog and the pacing, I guess as well as compared to just about all movies today, the heavy reliance on both and virtual absence of special effects of any kind.

[re_nortex]

I enjoyed it, but the TV show more.

Thanks for the response and to mylife for this thread. I was totally unaware of the Fargo television series, but it looks it will go on my rather small and selective list ("The Shield", "24", "Breaking Bad" and "The Sopranos") as appointment television.

[expat1000]

"The Shield", "24", "Breaking Bad" and "The Sopranos" as appointment television....

The Shield definitely moved the bar up from the previous level, which was the Sopranos. I don't watch much more than that myself, but The Walking Dead? You don't watch it? Tell me it isn't so! :-)

Personally I enjoy the Sons of Anarchy also. The new series, "Turn", shows promise.

[re_nortex]

The Walking Dead? You don't watch it? Tell me it isn't so! :-)

I haven't seen it but from what I've read, "The Walking Dead" deals with the aftermath of a zombie apocalypse and is classified as in the horror genre. My tastes when it comes to secular entertainment fall into the realm of the real (or at least plausible). Special effects, monsters, space creatures and robots have never interested me. I tend toward entertainment that's either dialog-driven or has rich character development, ideally both.

For some reason, my DNA is wired such that science fiction, horror and fantasy just don't strike me as fascinating. I am quite possibly the only person on the planet who has never seen a nanosecond of either "Star Wars" or "Star Trek". I've heard great things about both the film as well as the television series and I like William Shatner's acting going back to "Judgment at Nuremberg" but have never invested the time to view either of those iconic parts of our pop culture.

Tastes vary and in my wheelhouse for musical enjoyment are hard-core traditional country (Roy Acuff, Ernest Tubb, Webb Pierce and so on) as well as Southern Gospel (Happy Goodman Family, The Kingsmen, Florida Boys and the like). I've never acquired a taste for rock of any sort from the old R&B of the 50s to the Beatles, Led Zeppelin, etc. Clearly, although I'm something of a square, I don't consider all rock music to be sinful, it just doesn't appeal to me.

And unlike President George H. Bush, I do like broccoli! :)

[wardaddy]

Lol

Stereotypes?

Try being a Southerner with roots all the way back to Jamestown.

We’ve been a target of derision since 1866

[expat1000]

Don’t believe everything you read. ;-) The Walking Dead (TWD) does not belong to the horror genre, nor is it science fiction. Yes, it has a fair amount of violence, but the character development is exceptional, as is the acting.

What gives it some spice is the examination of how people can be torn between survival and doing what is right; how small groups organize themselves in the complete absence of a central government or authority; the potentially corrupting effect of violence; how people can deal not only with the death of a loved one, but that loved one immediately transforming into a deadly enemy.

Regarding plausibility, with the way the country and the world is going, unfortunately, except for the last bit and of course the absence of zombies, I think the rest is entirely plausible - one reason I find it so fascinating. In the series, zombies in fact are quite easy to defend against and are not the real danger - other humans are.

Give it a trial viewing sometime!

[PJ-Comix]

But did anybody really feel sorry for Hess?