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

I'm A-R-R-N.

And today we're talking about season 4 episode 10, happy.

A-R-R-O-R-O-R-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-S. I'm Tohler-O-O-G. happy with this episode?

I'm tolerably, okay.

Oh boy.

You're the Leon of this episode.

No, no, no, I'm trying to be apologetic

because I do see, feel like that this is kind of you know one of them divisive

seasons of some of the television that we watch where it's like you know people

start Balkanizing I'm seen in the forum the not the forums but but in the Reddit, like people, like if there's well-meaning,

people want to discuss their issues and problems with some of the messiness of this season,

they're starting to be shouted down, the people that are praising are starting to get, you know, downvoted comments

shitting all over like every aspect of it. So I want to take a step back and say that like

I think that this season of Fargo is messy. It's doing a lot of really heavy lifting over a huge cast of

characters. Some big bold ideas and I always always want to support filmmakers when they're swinging for the fences and I think Holly was doing so in this season.

However, between the shutdown and him deciding to you know try to steal scenes from three or four other episodes to make a middle episode for some pacing reason,

for him kind of jettising the plot to go for a really big bravara, you know, artistic showpiece last episode.

I do think this this season feels a little bit more stitched together and

piecemeal and it does it's done violence to some of the main characters like

Ethel Rita has been lost for three weeks.

Yeah. And she's in here almost as a deosex Macana to like, you know, resolve everything in a final, a finale episode that's not even 40 minutes long next week,

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