Joseph Campbell was very fond of defining religion as "misunderstood mythology." Symbolic stories that can tell us interesting things about other cultures, but definitely not something you're supposed to take as literal fact. Works for me.

"Magic everywhere in this bitch!"
- Shaggy 2 Pope

Not if you're into lox porn it isn't!

This season's Fargo was, without a doubt, the Worst. Season. Ever.
Rest assured that I was on internet within minutes registering my disgust throughout the world.

A friend of mine noticed that the trooper wasn't dead, at least initially, since an ambulance arrived for him, and the coroner for Nikki. So he may have survived.

I'm sorry but he didn't make it, Father. Pray for his limber soul.

I do Not know Why you are Intermittently capitalizing Random words like That. I disagree With your assumption That v.M. varga represents Globalists, freemasons, The Loominarty, Shape shifting lizard People, et Cetera.

That's exactly the take I had on that speech, it was meant for Varga, not Emmit. It's telling she couldn't get the full biblical quote in. It wasn't meant for him. He never was at that exalted-eagles-nesting-among-stars level.

I'm sure there are other tangential connections, but none really of the physical city of Fargo. Hawley probably just didn't link the city in at all this season, which is fine. Just thought I'd missed something.

You're quite right, I don't know much of anything about the TWJ legend, but that makes complete sense. I kind of skipped over that stuff and jumped right in the wiki wormhole of Rabbi Nachman after ep 8.

Yuri was bleeding out pretty hardcore at the bowling alley. Then, early in the following episode, Varga does mention he's down one man, I think he said something like, "one never came out of the woods" or something to that effect.

We're in a post-catharsis era! You get no catharsis! I get no catharsis! Everyone reading this, gets no catharsis. Really, every sane rational adult gets no more catharsis anymore. In the meantime, there will always be escapism. It sucks, but what can you do? Maybe we'll get catharsis back, or maybe not.
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On a less serious note, while I'm still processing this episode, I have a question.

Yeah this season is going to reward subsequent viewings immensely. It's a perfect tonal read of the unreality of our current reality so if, one can hope, we return to reality and get our shit together somehow, this (at least to me personally), feels like it captures the zeitgeist of the moment. And that's just on…

I tried to upvote and downvote this at the same time, but it didn't work.

I agree with both of you on that specific take on the "thou nest amongst the stars" proclamation was misapplied towards Emmit. When Paul/Ray tells her to say it, I immediately assumed it was something Nikki would say (Sam Jax 'Ezekiel 25:17' style), to say before she blasted him to oblivion. So she used it on the…

Maybe Ardeth worships the Mighty Hawk like Borat

The female millipede, to be specific!

Oh yeah the movie, season one, and season two all incorporated Fargo in them, even if for one scene. We haven't had that one touchstone in S3 yet.

Glad you mentioned the Ah Jeez podcast, that's always one of my favorite things to look forward to on Thursday. Yeah I remember that. Also I remember they noticed that the toy set Sy plays with is a replica of the street in Fargo across from the building where Malvo went on his kill crazy rampage. That was a great…