The Oh, Welcome to the Fargo Podcast, the officially unofficial podcast for Fargo on FX.

I'm Jim.

I'm A-ron.

And today we're talking about season 4, episode 5, the birthplace of civilization.

A-R-R-on, we're halfway through the season at this point, I think. civilization. through next week's episode will be halfway through the season. We're in a rational

number of the way through this episode. I've never been good at math. What did you

think of this episode? I thought this was a great this is a great episode of Fargo.

You know for mid-season this is about the highest stakes you can possibly imagine the

show having and I've got to really, I mean,

the death of Dr. Senator,

who is a character who has delighted

and informed me throughout the season.

Like I was so bummed out and angry and got like a genuine reaction

because I thought they're gonna play.

It's like, well, these guys are crazy,

but they're not this fucking crazy. Nope, they're going to play it's like well these guys are crazy but they're not this fucking crazy nope there are this type they're this type of self-destructive crazy

character yeah and and where it got Loy's canon character which I thought just as profoundly arresting as well

it's got me feeling as twins like goddamn you bastard why did you do this to the show

but also boy this this was a big chip to cash in narratively what what are the

stakes going to be three episodes from now I'm like excited I'm invested I yeah I thought it was incredible what do you think I did

too I so I have some slight problems with the episode and they're mostly centered

around what I think is everyone's

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