Well, would you look at that!

I'm pretty sure casual show viewers who aren't interested in book theories can work out that the R is a Targaryen. Why would the finest swordsmen in the Targaryen kingsguard be guarding a child who is the son of a Stark woman and an unnamed man?

I'm glad it wasn't just me who went there.

Hodor never spooooke muuuch,
buuut heeee had his oooown touch.
Dragging aaarooound,
that Staaaaark booooooy.
Big ooold lovely Hodor
We bid you gooooodbyeeeeeee
Ooo-wee-oooooh.
Buzzzzzzzzzzzz…..

"Sansa, I'm out. I'm done fighting. I just can't do it anymore."

Best episode of the season so far - everything is in place across the entire map now.

Considering how much plot development took place in 53 minutes, the pacing of this episode was absolutely on-point and a huge improvement from last week - lots of careful tension and release in huge scenes.

I just watched this episode again and the first thing that came into my head was this comment. The greatest thing ever posted on the Internet.

Yeah that's fair enough. What I essentially meant was that all the death and tragedy for these families was utterly pointless and the final episode displayed that pretty perfectly.

Did you not think that the long, still shots of Mike in the office, Ed dead on the floor of the freezer and Peggy in the back of the car (plus the dozens of Gerhardts scattered across the Motor Motel) seemed to say "And for what? For a little bit of money?" Because that seems to be the overriding message at the…

"Then it fell victim to the classic serialized drama trap of filler episodes with "big moments" to sate audiences/critics."

I think, with Milligan & Thing Two driving up to the Motor Motel, spotting the scattered bodies and departing post-haste, we may finally have a .gif rival to Abe Simpson's u-turn at the Maison Derriére,

To be fair, I'm not American, I just - shall we say - "acquire" the next episode a week earlier than the rest of the United Kingdom through - shall we say - "certain methods".

I've been a little concerned about the representation of Hanzee this season.

I think the situation inside the house just slipped Hank's mind.

Was this the first episode of the season not to have a little wink at the possibility of extraterrestrial activity taking place in Fargo?

A stray observation: From the very first moment we met her I've been convinced that Noreen was plucked right out of a Wes Anderson film and her adoration for Camus has convinced me further. More on this as it develops.

Yup. Throughout this season we've essentially heard "What's wrong with this world?" asked through the voices of a handful of quaint, small town people - the only person to have posed this question with any kind of resilience was Milligan, and even his stoicism has now been broken because of the murders of "Thing #2"…

I don't have access to the venn diagram of Rick & Morty fans and Fargo fans but they might be rarer than we think.

"Biblical motifs have been replaced by alien ones for S2, so I'm guessing Mike is meant to represent some sort of alien"