Now that I think of it, Poe was pretty good at the ol' "This Is A True Story" idea…look at "Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar", for instance.

**Makes "Has senpai noticed me?" eyes**

Whereas I hail from the sunny shores of England, where you can get from coast to coast in a day provided you've got a rail-pass (or don't mind hiding in the toilets between stations).

Another "Palindrome" - Mike, a man used to thrills, chaos and murder, finds himself stuck in a soulless office environment, with years of meetings and profit projections and sucking-up to the boss to look forward to.

Thing is though, I'm a literature graduate *checks fingernails smugly*, and the way I've always approached it is the abstract idea of "Truth" hinted at by Plato, Miguel de Cervantes, Hunter S Thompson, Armando Iannucci and others.

I'm pretty sure that's meant to be actually happening in Fargo itself, since they refer to them generally as "That Syndicate Outta Fargo". But who knows, maybe they were a division of Kansas City controlling the general midwest area.

Oh dear oh dear…sorry to hear that.

You'll note that Adam Arkin's character uses a lot of simialr terms to that of the other bald, bespectacled mob accountant in that one scene in Fargo S1 - e.g. "assets" referring to people - maybe implying that rather than just slaughter them all, Hanzee/Tripoli just made a deal with them under his new identity and…

I honestly thought after Bear was dead that Tripoli would turn out to be Gale Kitchen. Everyone in the room seemed to be intimidated by the moment when he talked in S1 - wouldn't that be more scary coming from the mouth of a man usually taciturn?

That dialogue's been mulled over plenty, but in-particular is the disparity regarding Molly's age (she's 6 in this series, but says she's 31 in 2006, meaning she should have been 4 in 1979 - perhaps they couldn't get any good 4-year-old actresses); also, what he's talking about. The aliens? The 'savagery' he referred…

Which would make the journey a little more trivial. Rather than one Malvo-type eventually being killed by another Malvo-type, it's just some fixer who decided "Hey, maybe *I* should have a gang."

Boy oh boy, was I ever wrong about Hank/Betsy getting abducted.

Not to mention Judge Munt's comments about Job. Take the Gerhardts as a familial stand-in for Job himself (remember Floyd's comment to Ben that they were "beset on all sides"?), and Mike/Kansas City as the Devil. At the end, the last Gerhardt, Hanzee (I think the line about 'Otto's kid with the maid' implies he really…

In terms of "Palindrome", though, think about that opening scene all the way back in the first episode, ten weeks ago. Talking about an entirely different massacre at Sioux Falls, the one assistant director (or whatever) says:

I doubt I'll get the time to scroll through the whole comment section, so: did anyone else note Lou inadvertently makes another Lewis Carroll reference with his final advice to Ben?

Hank's efforts to help communication seemed to me parallel with efforts made by the more malevolent Peter Stillman Sr., in Paul Auster's "City of Glass", another 'true' story that makes great sport with miscommunication. In that story, of course, the language is never heard nor seen, only spoken about.

I like the ultimate irony that Hanzee, an Anton Chigurh-type, ends up getting offed in 2006 by Malvo, another Anton Chigurh-type.

Never fret, Mike! In a few years Terry Gilliam will make a film that describes exactly what you're going through.

I do know what you mean.

Sooo Mr. Numbers and Mr. Wrench were real brothers, or just childhood pals?