Eh, I suppose maybe I was selectively hearing. Ah well.

My sources have not brought me up to date in this matter.

Which, like Carl's perspective in the original movie, is utterly impossible considering this is a "true story" - unless the both of them were keeping an incredibly detailed diary right before their horrible deaths.

Yup, when Lester sent his wife to die in the penultimate ep.

That, and it's a nice reflection of the "morality play" aspect of the whole series - these people are self-deluding that they are the good guys, the rational ones throughout the awful things that are happening, while we dispassionate observers watch them and come to our own conclusions…

#BurlIvesmatters

And why not. Not like anyone else is doing it.

I'm wondering if this season will have a "Mike Yanagita Moment" - an instance which grounds the show in reality and helps add to the characters' journeys but has little or nothing to do with the plot whatsoever, to the extent that it seems like it was only put in to help create the illusion of a true story. There were…

Oh, I'm not disputing. Just surprised.

*Possibly* it was the balloon. The fact that the message it had was painful and ironic to Betsy might imply that someone or something left it deliberately.

I did not think it was Rye's…thought it belonged to an abductee. Interesting!

You'll also note Peggy's insecurity the next time we see her - because she feels vulnerable since her boss now has possible suspicions, or because she's doing a little bit of self-reflection, identity-questioning…?

Ah, I was not made aware. I feel like that fireplace scene, apart from adding pathos and the little plot detail of that unburnable belt buckle, might have been a little present for those guys and gals who prefer a more teddy-bear-ish fella. I'm told they're a welcome presence in bed during winter-times.

Also also, wow, Meth Damon went from 0 to Hannibal reaaaal quick.

Also: I love the little easter egg that little Molly calls the snowman "Billy-Bob" - after the actor who starred in the film this season is partly based on (The Man Who Wasn't There), and portrayed the man who she will spend a year trying to catch in the last season.

I'm still struggling to find the Miller's Crossing parallels - except for Rye being analogous to Bernie Bernbaum as the man everyone is looking for, and maybe Dodd and Indian Joe being somewhat equivalent to Kaspar and the Dane as the guy who thinks he ought to be on top and the silent muscle who hangs around with him.

What ho!

American Horror Story tried and failed with it, and in their second season too. But Fargo has been adept enough with the magical realism element of the story so far that it's far more likely the aliens will have even more of a background influence than they did in AHS. If it's following the pattern of "The Man Who…

On a second viewing, I note the lovely way in which the Patriarch of the Gerhardt family begins saying the line "I'll grind his bones to make my bread", ala the giant in "Jack and the Beanstalk", and then the following shots actually *make* him a Giant - standing so that he towers over the others, shaking the table as…

The influence on their arc would appear to be "The Man Who Wasn't There", another story about a man whose wife pressures him into making a ton of bad decisions. But with a "Fargo" glaze over it.