That Lyon is a tiger...

“The cut to a seething Roy when he first says ‘kings’ is sublime.”

I agree—you root for her, but I don’t think she’s presented as heroic. More as she’s kind of fucked up—she was straight up trying to murder that dude with the toilet tank lid, and if she is that knowledgeable about serious home booby-traps, she has to know that there’s a solid chance a few of those would be…

I 100% thought he was dead as well and was thinking that was a very dark turn for the show to take.  Certainly not funny.

This season sure does seem to be revolving around the nature of truth, and the way everyone in it is perceiving the reality they have versus...reality. Dot is trying desperately to hold onto hers, while the two people that control reality are destined to face off (JJL and Hamm)—it seems to be building to a showdown…

Roy has to be the Wicked Witch cause he saw the vision, and though Lorraine hates her, Roy’s the Big Bad that’s really after Dorothy, and I think Gator is a better Flying Monkey.

A case could be made for Munch as Tin Man. Witt as the Cowardly Lion?

Roy is the Wicked Witch.

This franchise really likes its non clever FBI agents who absolutely will die. See also Key and Peele in season 1 although they at least knew about the fox rabbit and cabbage question.

Which is funny since season 4 had a lot of Wizard of Oz imagery down to big tornado in Kansas.

I liked Scotty’s slip-up of how “Jack Skellington” was involved; as a parent, I’m going mad at Dot using her daughter to help further her weird refusal to acknowledge the truth, but as a viewer I’m super anxious for it to all come crashing down.

FWIW, the fact that there’s a fancy art movement in Italy in 1519 (assuming that 500 years ago is an exact time jump) and historians are calling it the Early Renaissance Era, doesn’t mean it can’t still be pretty darn medieval in random unsophisticated Welsh backwaters. I mean ... sin eating?

I tend to agree. The notion of a woman traumatized by her abuser, likely have failed before (or seen others fail) when trying to rat Roy out to other authorities is entirely believable. But as it stands Dot is too much of a badass to buy her being so fearful. We could use a helpful flashback to connect those dots…

In your defense, “We’re gonna get Early Renaissance on yer ass” doesn’t spark much fear. 

Blink and miss ‘em, but Coen film homages I noticed:

Dot’s not as endearing as some folks in the Fargo multiverse, to be sure. But the story is still compelling and there’s obviously more to her than meets the eye. I think the fate that awaits might be a reckoning of her true self.

I don’t see her as a straightforward heroic character. I see her as a deeply traumatized one. That’s what’s driving her denial of her past. She both recognizes the need to defend herself but refuses to acknowledge why. I guess I don’t see the show idealizing her as much as you see feel they are doing. Maybe at some…

Hmm. I can see some of what you mean. Like the daughter, just barely seems to care that her father was just electrocuted right in front of her. (and unlike the review, I did not read that scene as comedic at all. It was horrifying. I thought he died.) For the kid, Mommy says it’s fine, so it’s fine. Can I go get a…

“This isn’t a hotel, you have to check in like everybody else”.

I’m having a lot of trouble getting into this season. Prior seasons have had a mix of more grounded characters (Gus Grimly, Molly and Lou Solverson) and heightened characters (Karl Weathers, Oraetta Mayflower, V.M. Varga). This season, none of the main character act like real people, and that makes it very hard for me…