I feel like we’ve seen someone drinking orange soda earlier but can’t remember who. Maybe Lorraine. The house he’s sitting in looks like Dot’s original house from the beginning, but that burned down so probably not it.

I think Roy leaves a weapon above the door frame...just in case.

This is a few years later than the latest chronological season (Season 3 set in 2016 world I think) and most of the participants in that season are dead (waves hand around in general motion indicating pretty much everyone), in hiding (VM Varga), or not in the area any longer (Gloria Burgle working for DHS).

I loved the little reactions - Jon Hamm on the horse when SAC said “can’t do it, slick” - you could see him resolve himself to the end. Lorraine’s reaction when Dot confirmed Danish was murdered. Dot when Dorothy actually encouraged her.

Fargo is usually a show with a lot of big broad stereotypes but this season has so…

More likely that FX standards and practices, in their byzantine world, wouldn’t allow prolonged scenes of post-eye mutiliation on camera.

^^^ this. Also, the “gritty reboot” of _Galactica 2004_ could also be pronounced “9/11 version”.

I’d prefer to see Roy arrested and sent off to federal prison to spend 20 years meeting some real alpha males along the lines of Andrew Tate.

He’s a big, ruthless fish in a very small and flat pond. His killing was also up to this point that we saw either someone he had isolated like Linda or someone he could pass off in the line of duty like that wretch who beat his wife (not thar Roy shot him for that, he shot him so he could blame the wretch for the…

Many, many people are desperate for someone to give them something to believe in.

Musk and Trump do that right now, following in the steps of Bezos, Jobs, Gates, Buffett, <random political leader>, <random social media disease culture>.

To their followers, it doesn’t really matter what they really are as long as they…

Could also replace that i with an a and have some pretty descriptive terms for the content and the posters (with a very few real exceptions).

I’m going to hang on to the Scotty might be Roy’s child for a bit longer - Dot would say anything to Roy, and maybe throwing him off the scent of Scotty being his issue (and therefore subject to the same property rights Roy sees himself having over her) was her goal. Not likely, but still possible.

She married her father. Growing up in that culture, what were the chances she’d ever turn out differently?

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.

Getting tougher to be a Muskrat these days.

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.