This. Gator seemed to know more about what happened to Linda than Dot did. I don’t get my jollies from seeing people tortured, but if Gator backs Roy to some kind of end and then Roy turns on him because that’s what Roy always was, and Gator knew it...that’s just storytelling.

You knew he was a snake all along, Gator.

some of what she says to Linda in the car (“he would have killed you”) and what she said in the puppet show (“she was gone for a while and then she was back”, “one day she was just gone”) makes that a very likely scenario.

He has two roads - renounce Roy (and probably be killed by him) or embrace Roy (and be killed by Dorothy, Olmstead, Farr or Munch). Two roads with the same likely destination.

If she’s anywhere near Stark County when whatever accident happened, they’d put it on the wire and the car was registered to either her or Wayne, both of whom Roy would recognize. I’d allow it under rules of the show.

When he came into the hospital room, it reminded me of Randall Flagg approaching Nadine Cross in “The Stand” (the 1994 series, aka The Good One).

Ever since the UFO I’ve been no longer surprised at Fargo’s little side trips, but in this case as said elsewhere, I agree that the puppet show was at least in part creative artifice so Jon Hamm didn’t have to act out beating and assaulting a teenager.

AirTag is a product placement that Apple was probably not likely to sign off on. Plus Gator cobbling something together himself is more in character.

The Macy’s ad belongs here. Not specifically Christmas but close enough and freaking hilarious, especially the kid giggling while Heidi and Mikey bicker.

Name your gee-isn’t-he-terrible-but-it’s-what-you-tune-in-for protagonist.

Walter White. Tony Soprano. Don Draper. Scarface.

I could see Mr. Wrench being Munch’s guy-you-bring-for-the-tiger. But this is 2019, 12 years (?) after his season, so maybe it doesn’t work timeline-wise and we’ll see Molly Solversted or Gus Grimly.

This is set in 2019 so Malvo is dead unless they have a flashback. 

He is the Lancer, the Big Bad’s flawed second-in-command. He will be the final obstacle for the heroine (Indira or Dorothy) to overcome to get at Tillman. Ole Munch might take him out but I’m betting more on a confrontation between Gator and either Indira or the ND state trooper.

I don’t think “buying her out” is the right way to put that - more like _leveraging_ someone useful, as she does with debtors, with Danish, with the SEC chairman. She uses people like tools, and Indira is a smart, motivated tool who sees the truth of things so she’s a desireable acquistion.

Conservatism takes different forms. Lorraine is horrific in her own ways and lining up against Tillman for her own reasons. Hawley went out of his way to humanize her in this episode, with her smile at Scotty and Wayne’s reunion and the way she took Danish’s arm.

It probably Seemed Like A Good Idea At The Time.

The interesting flawed people aren’t the cartoon baddies like Tillman or Gator - marinating in that culture and isolation, they never really had much of choice about how they were going to turn out unless they were exceptionally strong like Dorothy (she gets to keep her…

DMZ was fun because co-op but the rest of it sucked and now they’ve dropped DMZ for more zombies crap. I’m sure it reduced the complexity to have enemies no longer shooting aside from throwing dead sh*t like a monkey, but the game is not as much fun.

If you liked Aliens, you can see nearly the entire cast in Near Dark, which is a nice vampire story.

The Constitution is, some times for better and sometimes for worse, the start and not the end.

You should also mention Libby and Hoopla, two services available through local libraries.

This looks really cool! Surprised our corporate overlords haven’t bought a federal law reserving copyright in perpetuity yet.