Not sure if I agree. Law enforcement knew that Malvo was in town (via Lou Solverson's ID), and Pepper and Budge were waiting and hoping that Malvo would come to Lester Nygaard's so they could take him. Malvo came exactly as they expected, and he still killed them both. If Gus had called he could not have known where…

There should be more exposition about what the FBI is doing, maybe. My guess is that the FBI's theory would likely default to: "One 'family' made a power move on another 'family', whoever stands to gain the most is the organization responsible."

I understand the "God as a storyteller" angle in assessing Fargo, but there is another angle as well.

"Molly does not know the circumstances of his arrest" - actually yo do not have enough information from the narrative to make that assertion. You are assuming that no one has filled her in what has happened.

I agree. Like a sonnet, structural limitations can be an opportunity for disciplined creativity.

(1) Seeing that Mr. Wrench is already under arrest and has presumably been Mirandized (he is handcuffed to his gurney), and seeing that he is well aware that she is a police officer, Deputy Solverson did not violate his Constitutional rights.

I understand that you have deep personal feelings about this, but to speak realistically, Young Ortega was derailed from his dream of being the next Castro by the failure of the Soviet Union, not by any distaste for dictatorship (after all, the original "election" had him winning by 90%).

What amazes me about The Americans is that Larrick is the "big bad" but he is also the good guy in the traditional sense. Other than his romantic preferences, there could have been an action movie in the 1980s about a Navy SEAL who - while risking his life to overthrow a totalitarian dictatorship in Nicaragua - learns…

That was bizarre. You can never predict what an angry teenager is liable to do or say. I guess they were hoping that a renegade teen would never encounter any reaction besides: "Oh, your folks are Russian spies? OK, dude."

THERE BE SPOILERS HERE. What drove me crazy was not just the convenient death and the unimaginable response of the Mosby children, not just the tease of meeting the mother just to make her only a minor and tragic figure after eight seasons of buildup, it was the hollow conceit of the "bottle season" structure. All…

Excellent point. That could be the least Albarn-y Blur song that Blur ever recorded.

Will her role be as pointless as Bob Saget's? At the end of HIMYM future Ted was just Radnor in makeup, not Saget. One of the more minor disappointments in that finale.

Jingoism in reverse is not analysis. This show deserves much better from its critics.

You didn't come on too strong at all. We're here to discuss art we care about. I think this show is going from strength to strength in both plot and characterization - it's very difficult to do both.

I agree with both points you make:

Exactly. The show gives us a picture of a US intelligence community whose most important domestic counterintelligence agent (Stan) is being run, against his knowledge, by a Russian secretary (Neena) and whose department is being observed on a daily basis by its own administrative assistant (Martha) against her…

Genevieve, I 've got to strongly disagree with your analysis. You've completely missed the point of the sophisticated writing. "it's a very American mentality, truth be told" is a deeply silly comment. First, it should be blindingly clear that there was no such plan to plant false technology. Oleg makes it explicit:…