In commenting about this elsewhere, I elaborated, as I should have done here. I'm talking about the fact that he left the place, and then just tried to go into work, not even acting concerned when he started to feel nauseous. He acted like someone who would have no reason to think they might have been poisoned, when…

I'm somewhere in between. I liked it better than the reviewer, but no way was it the best episode of the season or even close. One problem not mentioned was Sy going back to being stupid (the tea). And I'm not sure I'm down with their going quite that surreal (especially since it isn't done as well as the current…

I really thought they were going to end on the "Pat homicidal cliffhanger" as you say, and like you I'm so glad they didn't. How annoying that would have been!

I guess she *wasn't* supposed to be pregnant (horrifyingly, I thought, by Pat)? I thought it looked like she was, but I don't see anyone saying anything about it.

Yeah, that was just for plot's sake. Even still, what they showed indicated safe zones in Utah and Oklahoma, maybe others.

What about in the first season, when he was scamming for ways to get laid? Much better and more relatable, I thought.

I actually really liked him when he was scamming for ways to get between the sheets of as many women as possible. But there was widespread antipathy to his being a "skunk", and they made him an OTT doofus instead, alas.

"Tailspin"…too soon? ;-)

And the instant change to Melissa's face to disgust.

That's true. But what really happened was not murder.

Ohhh…I forgot about the handcuffs. Good point! Although maybe he could accuse Gloria?

And he got Ray fired.

Sy can be kind of dumb sometimes, and an asshole; but I really liked his rant about how the plot his partner was imagining made no sense, to "turn millions into thousands".

The original movie only had one short scene in Fargo—the rest took place in Minnesota.

This season would definitely seem significantly better if it were the second or especially the first season, or you hadn't watched the earlier ones. There is, as you note, a certain formula underneath the variations that becomes more apparent over time.

For two of the three, assuming this is the first season you watched, face blindness is not the problem. DJ Qualls did not previously appear that I can recall. The guy sitting next to her on the bus is Mr. Wrench, a deaf hitman who did indeed appear in the first season (and, as a child, had a cameo in the second).

I was disgruntled by the incorrect use of "murder" also. But I think you are making a version of the same mistake by treating "murder/homicide" as the same thing. I see this all the time, and it is not only wrong, it makes the language poorer. We already have the word "homicide" (the killing of a person by another…

Yes, and the way Coop and Kevin both had to navigate their way back to our Earth through surreal, dreamlike environments and impediments (though Cooper's were more bizarre than Kevin's, which someone who watched only this show would probably find hard to imagine).

Nor on HBO Go.

Has anyone made a video slowing down the quick flash of images that came early in the episode?