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[@TKinfinity01]

Dam, that soundtrack is consistently a masterpiece throughout the show.

[@NeverSaySandwich1]

Check out legion as well, same creator and conductor

[@heathkish6901]

My favorite is definitely "One Hour Ahead of the Posse" by Burl Ives in season two!

[@LanceVanceDance84]

Jeff Russo is a godsend.

[@mrj3217]

The Get Shorty tv show has a amazing sound track like this as well . To me the sound track and realism makes these shows work . I like real life , ups and down , normal life for you may not be the same for the underworld.

[@realtacobell]

Season 4's music was a little jarring. I get that it was for the suspense and it was good at that. I just found it abrasive to the ears at times.

[@artaeum7069]

I love the thread of fantasy that runs through all the seasons of Fargo. Its never front and center and it's rarely bought up again, but its always there. The UFO in season 2 is the most overt thread of fantasy, but there's also Malvo's strange omnipresence in season 1, how he disappeared from Lester's basement without a sound and without being noticed by anyone. I'm sure I don't need to talk about the bowling alley in season 3.

[@YouTube-tied]

Please re-fresh my memory about the bowling alley. Season 3 is the only one I haven't re-watched in entirety yet.

[@artaeum7069]

@@KZbin-tied I think it's episode 7 or 8, Nikki and Mr Wrench after escaping from Yri in the woods find a bowling alley just parked awkwardly in the middle of nowhere. The way the reveal scene is shot strongly implies that the bowling alley isn't "earthly". When they get inside, there's nobody about save for a bartender who we only see the shoulder of, and a guy in the background cleaning the isles. Paul Marrane, who Gloria met earlier in the series, appears next to Nikki between shots and imparts a purpose on her to "punish the wicked". After Nikki and Mr. Wrench leave, Yuri turns up at the bowling alley and Marrane also speaks to him, telling him that he has a message for him from Rabbi Nachman and the Cossacks. Yuri then looks towards the camera and sees a vision of the girlfriend he killed back in Russia along with the Rabbi and the Cossacks. Yuri is only mentioned again in passing by Gloria as "That dead Russian guy". To me, the Bowling Alley represents a sort of limbo. When Paul asks Nikki "Have you been to this place before?" she replies with "The bowling alley?", to which Paul replies "Is that what you see?" This is further supported by Paul claiming that "the others" didn't think Mr. Wrench should leave, but he convinced them that Wrench was on a better path.

[@roberthansen4266]

@@KZbin-tiedIt's an homage to the Cohen's as it is the bowling alley from the Big Lebowski and in this story acts as a purgatory, where Ray Wise is either god or the devil

[@darkpassenger9852]

That Leland Palmer guy brought them to the white lodge

[@aaronestano5117]

@@roberthansen4266 Ray wise was the Wandering Jew.. "a legendary person said to have been condemned by Jesus Christ to wander the earth until the Second Coming."

[@ThinWhiteDuke]

I've always loved how people claim Fargo was in Minnesota but as a Minnesotan it always upset me that this town was in North Dakota

[@BMask]

Another true story

[@busylivingnotdying]

Minnesota was a "state of mind" in Fargo (polite, friendly but cold and distant from each other)

[@HeatyFrog]

They just thought Fargo was a better name for a movie than Brainerd

[@makiburgess5733]

The movie and seasons 1 through 3 of the show take place in Minnesota, for the most part. The killers in the movie come from Fargo. Season 4 takes place in Chicago.

[@neilmccarthy5456]

@@makiburgess5733 Mike Mulligan and the Kitchen Bors. - out of KC-MO.

[@cubablue602]

The most sophisticated tv series I’ve ever seen and the large ensemble cast is the best I’ve ever seen. Season 2 is a masterpiece.

[@elmaxo1591]

I think the first season is better tho

[@fidgetssailing4725]

I'm with you - The second season was phenomenal.

[@christostsaggaras1821]

you should check out Better Call Saul also friend!

[@gabriell7640]

Third is best

[@alexthrailkill]

@@gabriell7640 Us season 3 guys are always in the minority :(

[@Creepjacker]

This is my favorite show of all time. The writing just continues to blow my mind every season.

[@fidgetssailing4725]

Agreed - the best series. Although I think the second season was the greatest every put on. The others come close - but that one WOW!

[@keithw453]

I found the 4th season to be pretty mediocre by their standards though.

[@fidgetssailing4725]

@@keithw453 The one that's on now? With Chris Rock? I'm finding it to be ok - but I'm only a few episodes in. If you meant the last one - yeah it seemed they were off their game. However, I'd just watched the second and since that one was so great - they're going to have an extraordinarily hard time topping that.

[@raspberrymilkshake5782]

@@fidgetssailing4725 The forth season is the most recent one. Season 3 gets too much hate IMO, it was def worse than season 2 but even if you put season 1 after it the same thing would happen.

[@johnnyringo5777]

Season 2 was definitely the best tho

[@EC66OK]

Truth is stranger than fiction, because fiction is the product of human minds, and is therefore more amenable to them.

[@luc-405]

yeah well fargo is fiction though unfortunately

[@luc-405]

@callmecatalyst I just wish they wouldn't pretend it wasn't fiction.

[@rjonfully4915]

@@luc-405 why?

[@luc-405]

@@rjonfully4915 cause its misleading. its basically lying. if a show specifically claims to tell a true story and it's not true that's a lie. the reason they give, cause appearently it was sortof based on that movie fargo, is bs. they just wanted to draw viewers by lying imo.

[@rjonfully4915]

@@luc-405 Nah that's definitely not it lol. they don't have to draw people in by lying and that wouldn't work anyway. You're just plain guessing. do some research if u want to know the actual reason.

[@haaamez3145]

That opening was such an awesome moodboard for the whole series, awesome

[@97AsV]

16:21 “When high ground Ewan McGregor...” nice touch there

[@91MoonKnight]

I feel like watching this series again.

[@enkei10]

Poor Sy, can't remember the last time I've felt so much for a character.

[@rocnjoshowjochell3236]

Nhia Vue sy was hilarious!

[@vingram100]

He reminded me of the kidnapped wife from the Fargo film. She was completely innocent and died in a gruesome way for no good reason.

[@jonahmakowky3263]

I don’t know, but I’ve never liked Sy. He reminded me too much of an entitled little kid with his hummer and the way he went to Emmitt like he was his Dad.

[@cosmicheathen1955]

When he cried and said "This world is so wrong" I felt it 😭

[@darkaero]

He was in another Coen Brothers movie called A Serious Man, it's a another kind of a dark comedy like Fargo(the movie) was. Check it out if you haven't watched it. Burn After Reading is another great dark comedy

[@alexcheremisin3596]

"Capturing unremakableness in a remarkable way" hits the spot perfectly for the Coen brothers creations (and the show)

[@clarapilier]

The cops represent the order in a meaningless chaotic world. Fargo is about truth, stories, and chaos. That's why there will always be a cop. (I think.) In Fargo.

[@GlassThirdEye]

I love this show but its gonna be hard to ever top season 2. It was phenomenal.

[@curtisjackson5793]

you really think so? Judging from other comments, I'd say many people like the 2nd season better, while I think its the worst of the 3 (not bad though, just not on the same level of the others)

[@everything777]

I love Fargo. I miss a lot of the themes, some of it goes over my head, but I still think it's great.

[@abhinavhajra]

Professor Lupin really out-did himself in this one. He really merged with his werewolf persona.

[@Teebiscuit12345]

I love that he's the wolf in Peter and the Wolf.

[@eoghanlyng5074]

Potter reference? Why not a Mike Leigh reference?

[@TheAngryAustrian]

Drink up Mr Potter - Lupin after swirling his pipe around the cup

[@CharlieSmith-yr8ox]

This was great to watch and listen to. Just finished a rewatch of the three seasons. One thing I thought about Molly's glove story in season 1 was that the guy on the train was Lester. He lost a glove and someone would find it. As in his bully died and Molly linked it to him. Now people lose gloves all the times, and people die. But then Lester lost a second. He murdered his wife. His first glove getting lost was purely accidental, but now he's lost it, he doesn't want the other, and throws it away in a snap decision. He hits his wife on the head in a heated argument with a hammer. Now Molly has two gloves and why would someone lose two gloves? It's more likely that they were left there and that gives Molly a larger mystery to solve, as to who the gloves are and why they (Lester) left them there. I did love how you tied it in with the two 'puzzles' in the episode and how Lester easily answered the one where there is something to gain from the end of it, and not understanding the one where you lose something at the end. Anyway, thanks again for the video. Subscribed for sure and will check out your others, you betcha! Oookay then.

[@ferise1]

So he’s supposed to confess to both crimes? Makes no sense. He didn’t kill Hess.

[@arterial]

Lester knows the answer to the fox riddle because Ewan told him at the training session in Wernham Hogg. 'Go get the guitar'.

[@davidci]

From that intro, it's so bizarre how so many random things happened that couldn't have possible connected with each other, yet somehow while watching the series, we all got to see how it plays out magnificently.

[@prestongarvey7745]

I’m getting a serious case of deja vu here

[@RedKing12000]

Preston Garvey You can say that again

[@JCOdrjones]

@@RedKing12000 I'm getting a serious case of deja vu here

[@justiceforjoggers2897]

Do you ever walk into a room and think that you've done this before?

[@RedKing12000]

Guy *blinks, massages temples* That makes two- er, THREE of us.

[@ElickFlash]

Oh, you too? Thank god I thought I was going crazy.

[@shrimplypibbles8806]

Emmit and Ray are two years apart, but very good analysis

[@zackhayes1268]

Anyone else think mike Milligan looks and sounds like Dave Chappell and his white guy voice ?

[@usernameiamiamiamiam8713]

Yeah. There is this moment where he lets his real voice slip out. Great character.

[@tuliofilho_]

@@usernameiamiamiamiam8713 Which moment is that? I don't remember this

[@usernameiamiamiamiam8713]

@@tuliofilho_ In the type writer store with the police chief. He talks about how the people in the state are. They seem nice but they aren't, "like you were doing me a favor" is the line when the drops his fake accent.

[@Baconlara727]

I thought I was the only one hearing the white chappelle voice.

[@TheKevinbenoit]

This was my exact thought. In season 4 I had a similar thought with Gaetano Fadda. At first i thought he was Jack Black doing his Nacho Libre voice :D

[@coolpapab]

Well done! Excellent analsys. Season 3 is my favorite and IMO the most creative of the 3 season of Fargo. Can't wait for season 4!

[@ferise1]

Season 4 sucked

[@christophercampbell2929]

I feel like the perfect end scene of Fargo would be a reveal in a bar, airplane or jail cell where the lead character has brief a interaction with Lorne Malvo, years into the future of the show. Just to show Malvo was actually the devil and never died and thay hes still doing what he does... Causing chaos somewhere.

[@vicenteortegarubilar9418]

I love this type of videos from this channel. The Mask of the Phantasm, Hercules, the Venture Brothers's videos are among my favourites.

[@connormcsweeney9489]

Nice job on the video. Your insights are well founded and communicated clearly and as naturally as other channels that do similar styles of story breakdown. Hope you get more subscribers

[@MoonDoods254]

How many subs was he at then?

[@theproducersnote]

The drum beat of the soundtrack is excellent....the acting is world class♥️♥️♥️

[@chalkeygas93]

Just realised: the problem Martin Freeman’s character solves at the end of season 1 is almost exactly the same as in the training day episode of the UK Office (which Freeman starred in). Surely that must be deliberate?

[@koofoo7793]

I liked that they made Kay & Peel play FBI agents. I was expecting jokes every time they were on screen, till the end I was waiting for something funny, even after their end...in vein. Brilliant Cast in every season. Reverting expectations the right way

[@Bebop17]

*vain

[@Sumkneegrow]

Their characters were comedic though just like the characters in their skits or were you expecting knock-knock jokes?

[@CyckOne]

Been wanting to do a Fargo video essay for the longest and now I don’t think I can say anything you haven’t already said. Thanks a lot, B-Mask!

[@CloudMountainJuror]

Watching this made me very happy. Also that first minute was killer.

[@dr.g.o.a.t.ph.d9250]

I’d like to see a shorter follow-up video once season 4 is over, just to see how it ties in

[@stuffsomedumb5665]

The actress that played Molly was absolutely brilliant. Perfect.

[@lindthechaoticheretic8708]

I don't remember Sly 3 looking like this.

[@jayst]

Season 2 and 3 were such masterpieces

[@KG-bt5wl]

"Is it a true story ? -If it's true ? Well it's true that it's a story." -Ed Tom Bell to Carla Jean Moss, No country for old men.

[@A-G-A-G]

“A predictable formula” Fargo is one of the most unpredictable shows I’ve ever seen- along with the leftovers and watchmen

[@rosestone5091]

During my childhood in the South we said, “Telling a story,” instead of saying “lying.” To say someone “lied” was really rude and considered a profanity. Your analysis reminded me of how “story” was not “truth” even synonyms with “lies.” Fargo is about the stories we constructed in our minds as individuals, and stories we construct as a society to rationalize our actions.

[@justincase4812]

This has the best character writing since Pulp Fiction.

[@thenebulasystem8251]

This is video is absolutely amazing and deserves a whole lot more attention! Amazing work, I wish more people would talk and think about this show, it's one of the smartest and most entertaining pieces of media in my opinion.

[@ferise1]

The best thing ever. Movies included.

[@SolariusSnow]

This is excellent. Please keep doing things like this. The organization of ideas and concepts are stellar, as is this content.

[@prod.hxrford3896]

"We want the truth. We're just too damn interested in the story". Excellent quote actually

[@hagbard72]

All *stories" are "true". Anyway I lived in northern Ontario in the late 80s and I do remember a story about a car dealer being involved in the murder of his wife in Minnesota. Hence, I thought the story might be that but the Coen brothers are denying it.

[@johnnyringo5777]

I really like how he cop characters are usually introduced at the end of the 1st episode of each season so you feel like you should be rooting against them until the criminals do something especially terrible and you slowly start to side with the cops

[@Dovahgiinge]

i can't be the only one who still gets hyped as all hell when I hear the Wrench and Numbers theme

[@Wemdiculous]

Many times I have fallen in love with the show because of the dialogue. Then a few episodes later I find out that everyone in that conversation died and no one knows what the hell was said. And then I understand that the trueness is not what I loved and never will be… It’s the story that I care about.

[@shubhamcharlu605]

People here are appreciating Fargo but let's appreciate the creator of this video about how beautifully he has written it. ❤️

[@lablount2910]

I felt like the lost glove was referring to Malvo, in relation to Lester. Nothing to do with generosity.

[@joeanthony4903]

Thanks for gently sharing your very interesting ideas. You’re a fine teacher.

[@rayscotchcoulton]

Serious props to how well cut together the intro to this video is

[@David73490MY]

I've just watched the first two season... IT IS AMAZING! really. Truly special. Terrific characters, amazing performances, error-free writing (the rhythm of each episode and the overall seasons is truly well crafted), wonderful score, delicious (shit, DELICIOUS) photography... not to mention the ironic - noir - humorous touch from Coen Brother's original works. I was doubtful at first since the movie was good enough not to expand, but I've been surprised seeing where they have taken everything and how the movie is very far apart from this work. It's one of those audiovisuals you don't wanna see finished.

[@tbob8212]

I think the East German Stasi officer was the East German Stasi officer Walter Schweppenstette in the TV series Deutschland 83, 86 and 89

[@johnconnorpliskin7184]

I waited to finish up all of Fargo before watch this video and I must say, this was a really good one. I really like your commentary and I agree completely with your assessment. Can’t wait for season 4.

[@morganholladay7433]

Would love to see a video of how these themes carry on through season 4

[@violetr7296]

I think its an absolute feat that they captured something so Coen-Brothers that almost every person i know who watches this thinks that they wrote it

[@petermorris9818]

Lots of input probably as exec producers

[@judeconnor-macintyre9874]

My secret shame is that for most of S1 I thought it was actually a true story.

[@glitchscribe]

This was brilliant, one of THE most introspective videos I have ever scene on the human condition. Where did you learn to analyze like this?

[@ruddha2]

I just discovered this excellent channel, and have been binging through 4-5 videos now. You deserve a lot more subs.

[@askewman37]

I thought it was weird I didn’t remember Lester’s high school bully having the same name as an artist I’ve followed online for years. I just chalked it up to me not seeing that season almost since it aired. Still understandable mistake, and this is still an amazing video.

[@Anybloke]

Interestingly, VM Varga is bulimic. In the Mike Leigh film Life Is Sweet, David Thewlis plays the secret lover of Jane Horrocks' Nicola who is bulimic.

[@KG-bt5wl]

Great stuff. Wish i wasn't as scared to head into the "reasonable" side of fiction, the why it exists, the what in the hell is going on in our world ? I watch movies and shows for the craft and hoping to find either comfort or counterpart for what i think of my life, but i always try to convince myself such deep reflexion belongs to each and everyone of us, and not something as common as fiction. Fargo is an obvious exception, as in front of every episode i find myself trapped in the middle of artistic expression and educated reasoning, and since i've been escaping the latter for too long, i always find my mind blown. but it shouldn't be. fargo should be the standard...

[@hommeldavid]

I always laugh so hard at the line “you have…… a fat wife”. 🤣🤣

[@lost_comment]

I always wondered what the two storytelling scenes in season one was about. I knew it was something important but I never got it until you pointed it out just now. Love the show!

[@SLWJAH]

Season 2 is one of my favorite seasons of any show I've ever watched. My favorite connection in the show is between season 2 and 4, young satchel growing into my man Mike Milligan 😎

[@linda.kopecka.guttfreund]

Fargo is simply one of three BEST series I have ever seen...!!!

[@cangetemall9025]

I have some thoughts about the end of season 3 when Varga and Gloria Burgle talk about what will happen in 5 minutes. I don't feel like its as ambiguous as the show and people have made it out to be. I hope I get confirmation in future season through some easter egg. When V.M Varga lies to people, the person he lies to never finds out what is true. Why would he lie to Gloria just to be proven wrong in 5 minutes? If that time passes and what he said doesn't happen she gets the last laugh and he is screwed.

[@DoctorDogma]

I live in MN and i feel its cursed with bad luck. Ive been in some crazy shit you would not believe.

[@justjaguar2314]

I thought I was just here because of David Thewlis, but this is way cooler than I expected

[@DIN_A8]

Same :)

[@aotphixion]

interestingly season 4 doesnt have a cop protagonist or a normal person doing a horrible crime but its still amazing

[@hansmercredi3636]

“Varga is hugely repulsive, yet utterly compelling, the man has one suit, a series of acutely dreadful habits that scale up in vulgarity, and nothing is consistent with the little he reveals to his new friends.” There has never been a character that is so me, ever

[@crush42mash6]

Such a great series I stumbled upon it a week and a half ago

[@leoos3497]

What a great video! I just watched the season 4 and this video is spot on. Congrats mate

[@Terelon]

We have S4 and S5 now!, do commentary on those too :)

[@1veliay]

best intro I have ever seen for this series

[@redman8903]

Ok so I am not the only one who picked up on VM Vargas variable accent. It's like London, Birmingham and Lancashire all mixed in and changing constantly. I assumed this was a stylistic choice.

[@bobloblaw418]

B-mask you are just great

[@zacka.]

I'm absolutely sure that the creators kept in mind The Master and Margarita , making the season 3. On the whole there are so many references to different known stories etc. (Bible is the most referred one)

[@aha6500]

Yes.

[@AllTheRooks]

Damnit, now I gotta like it AGAIN Can't believe you had to reupload this fuckin' high quality content

[@David73490MY]

2nd season was one of the most enjoyable audiovisual works ever!

[@philnataliecrawford9112]

The events on this film took place in Minnesota 1987. No wonder Minnesota is so messed up now. Certainly explains their political rationale.

[@rorylewis1737]

This is great glad I found your channel!

[@enemyfriend1007]

"We want the truth, we're just too damn interested in the story"

[@christa6200]

Will you sometime make another Venture Bros video essay by the time season 7 is over? I get it if you aren't making another VB video because you don't have much to say, but I honestly really loved your last one. There are so few videos analyzing The Venture Bros and it's one of the best animated shows (in my opinion) with real character development and good stories.

[@JBJREEL]

This is a great analysis but i would have loved if you delved into the religious aspects of the series. How lorne Malvo is like lucifer. " havent had a pie that good since the garden of eden" and then he is reincarnated as Varga

[@rmcq1999]

They should have kept Nikki alive and made a spinoff series called 'Swango and Wrench'.

[@SavagesInMyTown]

season 2 was amazing, i loved it

[@isabellamansfield9961]

I've noticed too how much more colorful seasons that take place further in the past are. Season 3 is almost black and white towards the end.

[@miranteazi]

I found your channel today throught Shammy, loved it, subscribed

[@berrigon2]

Just finished the 4 season right now and came to see this! Love this tv show!! 🇧🇷❤️

[@klausrain111]

I loved the movie, and same goes for the series, esp Season 3, which has some of the best writing and acting I've ever seen. Ewan McGregor and Mary Elizabeth Winstead excel. She's one of the most attractive actresses ever IMO.

[@DigitalDuelist]

This series and the YT original now on Amazon Wayne are the most entertaining TV shows I've ever seen!

[@justinanderson617callme]

This show was so much better than Game of Thrones ultimately... At the time it was more of an under dog show , with broad critical acclaim but not mainstream due to it's dark nature. Really a precursor to the darker shows today

[@DrinkTheKoolAid62]

excellent discussion thank you. I can't help but wonder if a more accurate comment would be that 'we want the truth but often we're too damn blind to see it'.

[@ShawnQuiQui57]

Best show I have never heard another person having watched it

[@alfredjames3780]

hopefully we can get one of these for season 4

[@steruane3723]

excellent vid on fargo

[@christopherbarber5283]

Amazing analysis

[@omamchy]

This intro made me to watch the whole video. It is great. Unfortunately i was not able to catch full sense cos english narration is quite sophisticated and quick. Subtitles would make it much easier. But thanks anyway

[@ectofrost]

This was a really great video.

[@thSubliminalCriminal]

Living here...watching the Asian man cry in the film is the most human thing.

[@zanefriedman2032]

This is a very good video. Subscribed.