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Fargo - S05E01-2 - Tragedy of the Commons, Trials and Tribulations

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Tv & Film, Film Reviews

4.5942 Ratings

🗓️ 1 December 2023

⏱️ 113 minutes

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Summary

Fargo comes to your small screen with a two episode premiere of season 5! Jim and A.Ron are here to take you back to the not-so-distant past of 2019 where dumb cops, supernatural entities and copious amounts of violence descend on a Midwestern town. This grim version of Home Alone didn’t pack laughs, but its potential for mayhem is tantalizing. Don’t forget to set your traps! Send your feedback to [email protected]! Hey there! Check out https://support.baldmove.com/ to find out how you can gain access to ALL of our premium content, as well as ad-free versions of the podcasts, for just $5 a month! Join the Club! Join the discussion: Email | Discord | Reddit | Forums Follow us: Twitch | YouTube | Twitter | Instagram | Facebook Leave Us A Review on Apple Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

The Oh, Welcome to the Fargo Podcast, the Fargo Podcast, I'm Jim.

0:28.7

Welcome to the Fargo Podcast, the officially unofficial podcast for Fargo on FX slash Hulu. I'm Jim. I'm Aron. And today we're talking about Fargo season one season five episode one and episode two. We're gonna get them both in here because they released on the same day

0:44.9

for people you know a hundred years from now listening to this podcast came out the same day

0:50.0

tragedy of the Commons and trials and Tribulations are the titles of those episodes

0:55.4

A. Ron, it's been a long time since we've

0:58.3

covered Fargo. I remember Fargo being pretty good most seasons, being funny, being exciting.

1:05.6

Did you find that this season so far has been that?

1:08.4

Or what was your take on it?

1:10.1

It's

1:13.7

noaholly. Ohholly got a lot of complaints from the customer base about season

1:17.7

four. So the text responded by factory formatting

1:22.3

Fargo back to its original settings.

1:26.2

It's fully back to the season one, season two

1:29.5

kind of era Fargo in terms of its sensibilities and maybe a little bit of season 3 mixed in.

1:37.3

Here's the thing I was a little taken aback because I was expecting this season to be a lot funnier it's I can't really detect it. There was a couple of laughs,

1:53.7

there was a couple of visual gags,

1:55.2

like there is the ridiculousness of John Ham's character,

2:00.4

his law man, his constitutional sheriff Roy

2:03.4

Roy, but like I don't know he's not a very funny guy

2:08.4

You know no

2:09.8

Not at all it's it's a weird it's it's a weird it's I don't know I don't know how you do

2:16.9

Parity I don't know how you parody a culture that you're living in it's like when we

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