“takes advice from Photographs”

I think the thing about this season that disappointed me most was the generic setting. It didn’t look like Kansas City, which, fine, most shows outside of NYC, LA, Miami and Chicago don’t have much sense of the place they claim to be set in and usually aren’t filmed there anyway. But I didn’t get the sense this was a…

They kind of had to because they had Satchel return home, for some reason, which... why? Hell, you could even have him arrive home, see his father dying on the doorstep, and have him leave again because he deems it not safe. The whole name-change situation now just gets confusing. 

Yeah, I would definitely add more >>> between 3 and 4 in AimingforYoko’s ranking.

It was a disaster and a waste, and I kept thinking what a better season it would’ve been if they’d based it on the Bobby Greenlease kidnapping, which occurred in KC right around the same time, and is the sort of story that, if it weren’t true, could’ve easily been written by the Coen Brothers. You could’ve taken that…

“I didn't hate this season" is how I feel as well, and it's the nicest thing I can probably say about it.

Really?  I definitely felt the effects on this episode but the last four?  That's genuinely surprising. 

A lot of people really seem down on 3. I liked it more than most* apparently so I wouldn’t have the gap. But the order is certainly correct.

Like at the start during the first 10 minutes I thought to myself “Wow this is just a pointless side character mop up isn’t it?”

I will echo others when I say it was a fine season but nothing to write home about. Especially for a finale, you kind of hope for something, anything, memorable or different. Would have liked for either Oraetta or Ethelrida to have a bigger storyline. Felt like it was kind of building for one of them to have a moment.

This season had a ton of great character names I'll give it that.  Hawley clearly had fun with the names. 

So, seasons? For me it’s 2>1>>>>>3>4. 2 by a smidge over 1 and 3 by a smidge over 4. A wide gap between the first two and the second two, though.

I liked this season a lot and even I will say, that's it?  39 minutes?  This has to be because of COVID right?  The last shot was B roll footage of season 2.  Not even explaining why he goes by Mike?  I will say Joe Bulo got the best line with laughing off Jostos hasn't there been enough violence line.  Overall I…

Why was this an episode? It was so short and so little happened that had any real impact that they could have just made episode 10 twenty or so minutes longer and nothing would have been missed.

Oh hey, remember the Roach? No sign of him this week. What was the point of that? And why did he save Ethelrida from Oraetta?

It was nice to see Bokeem, but I kinda wish they hadn’t spelled it out so explicitly.

The problem is that (as I have been saying a lot this season) there’s just so many characters to try and keep track of this season. They’re all of some considerable importance to the plot and giving them ample developments really slows the story down to crawling pace. It not all that bad, there’s some nice…

The two presumed leads are the biggest problems, for me. Both Chris Rock and Jason Schwartzman are woefully miscast in their roles and they’ve made both characters completely uninteresting. The rest of the cast and characters are fantastic, so these two just suck the life out of the show whenever they appear on screen.

A mixed bag for me, too. We get some interesting backstory from Gaetano and about the ghost, and a few resolutions, but the elements didn’t click into place so much as feel stuffed in before time runs out. As plenty have said already, this season made strange decisions about which characters and plots to focus on.

The Roach reminded me of The Gentlemen, which reminded me of of the excellent Buffy episode, Hush and that then reminded me of how subpar this season of Fargo has been. Shrug.