Just listen to his speech about the dog, it's clear he's a "might makes right" guy, who just happens to also be adept at blending in, probably because he understands what he is NOT…

I keep watching his face to see if there's a hint of Chigurh there, but right now he strikes me as more of an amiable opportunist than an unhinged amoralist.

All right Fargo, THAT'S how you make some female characters part of the action. Lou was practically playing second fiddle to his wife, and Floyd talking with Dodd was a perfect introduction to the character.

He compared it to having a really beautiful child with a severely deformed arm.

"I smell an Oscar!"

See, Rick's key character component is that he's been around the universe so long that he basically always knows more than everyone around him, which just happens to be the depressing knowledge that trying to help and care about people is losing battle, therefore he doesn't and other people suffer because of it. He is…

Well now we know.

Okay, that's fair.

No, that's called manipulation. And while it can be active i don't know enough about her yet to call her Roxie Hart.

You're going an awful long way to tell me "If you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all" for a place that is specifically about expression opinions and having discussions…

I detest perfection. I strive for analysis and always doing better.
If you can't handle me saying things about a show because you think my ideas are "petty," that seems to show you care more about protecting your own idea of it then embracing the flaws and how to make it better.

Yes, but it was clear to me that Molly was going to supersede him.

I meant when a female character (and their problems) is treated as something that must be avoided or "solved" usually by the male one.

I hope so too.

Yes it does. Because the number of women with speaking parts on here appears to be roughly one to every three men.

Huh. Maybe that's why my criticism was of the EPISODE, not the STORY.

Well now

Oh geez…

We get a wife with cancer to show her husband is dealing hard, a judge who is shot and murdered, and a waitress who most likely has no face because there is no kill like a loser gangster trying to prove something.

So I like the analysis, but it sort of skims over the fact that not many of the characters or things that happen are that compelling. Like the crime family is etablished not by what they DO, but on their reputation that we really have no reason to believe or disbelieve.