Hence my pointed qualification of "the glaringly obvious" and "scratching their collective heads" in direct response to the headline "…sure does signify… something".

After this whole season has now been said and done, along with this final review and all 600+ comments, I'm fairly astonished to find not ONE single reference by either the reviewer nor these many hundreds of commenters to the season’s most definitive symbol of the absurdity of human life: the postage stamp’s graphic…

Not to mention UFOs in Season 2, let alone fish falling from the sky in Season 1, notwithstanding the explanation of a conveniently intense blizzard. As Noah Hawley has pointedly addressed any number of times and places: "The world of ‘Fargo’ needs those elements; those random, odd, truth-is-stranger-than-fiction…

Not to claim design as any more of a professional qualification so much as to suggest the reason why I'd personally have done all my own framing over forty years rather than, say, pay a framing shop. OK with you?

Tell ya what: how 'bout I smash a sheet of picture frame glass and throw the shards at YOUR neck just to see if we can score lethal blood? Willing to take that shot?

As a designer who's assembled more than a few picture frames in my time to know just how thin picture frame glass actually is, with razor sharp edges, I had no problem at all with the plausible premise of the glass shattering sufficiently upon impact on Ray's face and skull to lodge such a fragment in his neck.

"… a central tenant of the medium …" Um, tenet.

As if this great ep didn't already have as many or more subtle as obvious connections, besides Maya Rudolph's shared history with Fred Armisen on SNL, she also happens to be the longtime partner of Paul Thomas Anderson, who portrayed "Final Transmission" director Harrison Renzi.

Considering Apple had started fully ten years before, absolutely, along with any number of other developers just from IBM's launch of the PC in '81. Not to mention ten years at that stage of the biz altogether seemed to take a helluva lot longer than nowadaze . . .

Touché!

Is the episode title too smart/subtle/clever for its own good?

Fairly huge oversights in both this review and the “It’s Mostly Rock ‘N Roll (But I Like It)“ section of the very obvious connection and import of Iggy and the Stooges, especially in reference to this particular ep's focus on Bowie: notwithstanding the passing mention of "No Fun", the title track of "Raw Power" itself…

"Wild West" certainly sounds more fitting for this epic ep, but the book on the locale was actually titled "The HISTORY of TRUE CRIME in the Midwest".

A blatant nod to Dallas-based Ross Perot, little as most people would know or recall it was actually his original idea to exploit idle time that made him and EDS a billion-dollar success:

"Someone please create a GIF of Russ pantomiming the way his car doors open" (as requested ;- )

Not to get too hung up on tech details in such a glowing review. But given mention in Stray Observations - "Joe’s work printer can’t differentiate between ‘i’ and ‘l,’ which is sort of a handicap when working in the oil industry" - the devil IS in the details: in his humdrum (de)basement, Joe actually says his scanner…