Malvo obviously gets his name from Fargo's TV rating: MA-LV. (Maybe the final episode is rated MA-LVO for language, violence, and, um, onanism?)

I have a real love/hate relationship with this episode. I am a HS teacher who works in a deeply dysfunctional school district. As is the case in education and in so many other fields, the hardest working and most competent people (e.g. teachers) are low on the totem pole, and those who can't handle the "real" work get…