A fate worse than getting whacked.

I don’t remember Malvo ever trying to impress anyone. Mephisto. One of the three prime evils. Vs man and all his weaknesses.

And that is how Stanley was born

This scene really hurt me. It's so depressing.

Pretty sure Fargo is about school, university, and how you approach them. The UFO scene is the call to the academic path.

Nice box.

Mike milligan suffered the same fate as robert baratheon. He conquered the enemy, lost his romantic interest in the process, and then some old man told him he has to sit in some chair and manage paperwork instead of doing what he likes: fighting.

For some reason I find the idea of the mafia having a HR department hilarious. Like we're running an organised crime racket, but we need some guys to take complaints and send out pay checks

"Someday this war is going to end, " Robert Duvall's line in Apocalypse Now was a foreshadow of this. There are men out there who can't handle peace.

Are you kidding me with The Office theme?

“You did it”

The irony of the _typewriter._

Watching this again, I wonder if the analogy is to going through school with all its colour and strife, "winning", and finding the reward to be... this. Mike did exactly what he was told. He wore his authority with pride, but he was fundamentally overestimating his value and achievement. His imagined new name for 'king' is something like 'the most intelligent', but he has failed to realise both that he does not exist in such a system, and also that, even if he did live in such a system, the simplistic path he's taken does not give him credit. With no character other than the one he has derived from his organisation, he is punished, unlike Solverson who has found meaning outside of his job, his situation, and the roads life is trying to push him along.

Anyone getting vibes of the Shield series finale?

it’s beautiful

This man rough rambled like a true-blue cowboy and took out an entire crime family; and he was rewarded with a broom closet of an office and a 401k. Man, talk about hollow victories... Oddly enough, it reminds me of an article that I read in the last couple of years about some members of the Taliban. Apparently, a lot of them have started to report feelings of depression ever since the US withdrew from the country. For over 20 years, they fought and struggled together against, in their minds, an oppressive invading force; and now that they actually won and had to start doing the hard work of running a country, many of them are stuck in 9-5 office jobs, dealing with daily commutes, traffic jams, and not having enough time in the day to visit with old friends. For a lot of them, it seems that the social alienation and overwhelming sense of meaninglessness in our modern administrative society is more soul-crushing than the darkest days of hiding out in caves and struggling against a colonial power ever were.

This is how our beloved Stanley was born

So this is Stanley's past huh

this is so beatiful i had to come back an year later

The thing about being a soldier is that it is about 10% killing and 90% mental. Just like everything else in life.

No handover? FFS what do I do? where are the files? I need access to the LAN? did they have computers then? Where is a copy of last months report? If they are so careless I would not even do any reports for the 13th, I'll wait, then when they ask, I'll say, ok now we can start the handover. No wonder people turn to crime, "Office Stress" drives people to insanity!!!! I had this with a Gov a department, no handover, then after 1 month of huge stress I picked it up then later they asked why I didn't apply for an ongoing role. Who the hell wants to work with people so careless??

He was about to give another one of his deep poetic speeches and just got interrupted, like it no longer means anything in the new corporate world he's now entering.

I think you guys took this the wrong way. Scene is supposed to show how the mob is fading away. Like in the Sopranos when an announcer of a tour bus in Little Italy says "this neighborhood has now been reduced to one block of stores and restaurants"

After a week of this he snapped and started killing people?

I love thst character

It's like Foghorn Leghorn once said, "There must a been some way I coulda lost!"

0:28 This is the beginning how Mike Millgan became to Stanley Hudson.

Is that the same man who is behind the projector?

He lost by winning

This doesnt make sense. The guys a criminal and a killer. Why would they they he could or would want to do this job?

Vic Mackey treatment

ahah didnt expect the office to enter

B-b-but they gave him a window office with a fancy typewriter. Nowadays, you get a tiny cubicle and a buggy Dell laptop with a slow, undersized hard drive.

Steven Isbell

Kind of fitting and ironic while being just like the corporate world. Working under the authority of people less competent than you, relegating a brilliant employee to mundane bs beneath their capability, making you conform to petty corporate code and social expectations. He thought he was 'sovereign' and a king but realized in that moment hes just a peasant too. I think this is *almost* a worst fate than death for a person like this whos so ambitious and used to living by their own wits, initiative and purpose. A tiger stuck in a cage.

Dead and “promoted” to hell.

This smells like 2010

The rumor is that to this day, Mike still sits in that office, putting out quarterly projections and revenue statements.

its a shame this show turned into trash

I've been him in that tiny room, waiting for a faceless HR drone to get around to bringing some forms. I needed the money and lasted 9-months in that soul-crushing tiny room. -C

This scene shows how blue collar crime became corporatised into white collar crime.

Is the Kitchen brother working in the mailroom?

ayt

Why would you put an operator like that in a cubicle?

So who exactly was he working for?

I bet Mike died a worse death than all of the shows combine I knew as soon as that music started playing

The Wire did the same thing with Marlo Stansfield. Someone that wanted kingship on the streets locked into a middling, bureaucratic existence.

Just like Zelmare said. Even if it wasnt directed towards Satchel. It still rings true. Just because you're a "bad guy" doesnt mean you're an outlaw. Just means you still play the game, just differently.

Why are they all 100 gecs

Some people kind of misunderstand this scene, because it is technically a pretty neat promotion. Mike was just so caught up in the theatrics of mob life that he didn't realize how the crime syndicate is slowly turning into a corporate syndicate.