It set up the entire theme of the season. Truth is a relative concept. Just because something is TRUE true doesn't mean people (the guy in charge in East Berlin or Gloria's stupid boss, for example) are going to believe it or even consider it if lies (that this is Yuri Gurka even though it isn't, everything out of…

I looked up the name Fargo to see where the word came from, and I got the answer that it is a topographical name taken from the Spanish word… Varga. Maybe Varga is the malevolent spirit of Fargo itself, the evil in the place that has to be there so we know good exists. Not sure what that had to do with our Wandering…

They were set with their assignments (who was who among the Peterand the Wolf characters) in the episode that opened with that and used the musical cues for them. Mr. Wrench wasn't around then and didn't get a role, but Ray was the duck, Nikki was the cat, Sy was the grandfather, Gloria was Peter and Varga was the…

I'd love it if the Widow Goldfarb were the one pulling all the strings. We've had Kansas City mobsters come in and try to pull shenanigans before. Maybe now it's St. Louis mobsters' turn, in the guise of the Widow Goldfarb. It's a little inconvenient that Varga is anti-Semitic, however, if she is his employer.

I remember people first talking about Danson because of The Onion Field, curiously a 1979 movie. (Curious because that's when this season of Fargo is set and it's about crime and criminals, like Fargo.) I think people were like, whoa, he's really good and really makes a big impression as this bagpipe-playing cop. The…