TV Series: Fargo Season 2

Starts tonight. Can't wait.

Last season was very good except for the ending. Hope they correct that this year.
I'm sure it will be much more entertaining than the typical TV crap.

The first episode leads me to think this may be an hilarious season.

Yes, the deadpan humor just slays me: "Yep, that's a shoe."

All the reviews by reviewers who have seen the whole season say #2 is better than #1.

I'm thinking the main plot line this year is going to be the woman (Kirsten Dunst) who dumped the body in her freezer.

Obviously, solving the massacre at the Waffle Hut is going to be a sub-plot.  They already know (essentially) what happened and they'll be looking for the shooter.  But it's unfathomable WHY Dunst would be hiding his body unless she has some whole huge backstory of her own.  I see that unfolding as the season progresses.

Episode 2: Not exactly a wood chipper, bit it works for me. Ha!

Damn loose fingers.

Just one more reason to keep latex gloves on hand. (See what I did there?)

Mrs NoCo and I are both thinking the season has taken a hard right turn into boring.  

We don't care about the characters -- everyone is despicable.  The events are so far predictable and unpleasant.  There is no humor or irony, unlike season one.

It had better improve quickly or we may not finish the season.

NoCoPilot wrote:

We don't care about the characters -- everyone is despicable.

You were expecting maybe Walt Disney?

_Howard wrote:

You were expecting maybe Walt Disney?

I'd settle for Ethan Cohen.

First two episodes of Season 4 were posted yesterday.

How did we miss commenting on Season 3?

Only watched the first episode so far, but my overwhelming impression is that it's dark. Literally and figuratively. I've never seen a TV show where you can't see the actor's faces as much as this one. Absolutely no fill lighting!

And also a lot of people have gotten whacked already without any of the typical "Fargo" ironic humor. There's a strong sense of dread cloaking everything. Oppressively so.

We'll see how the rest of the season develops.

Wikipedia wrote:

Visual style
As with the previous two seasons, the third season had its own distinct visual style, achieved through color grading by removing the blue channel. Noah Hawley described the technique, saying "So you take the blue channel on the digital image and you just dial it out. And what you end up with is a very distinctive look in which colors like red and orange and yellow; they just really pop in a different way. Usually in cold weather you add blue, because blue denotes cold. So it was interesting to take the blue out and see what it did to the image. And once we did that it became clear that it doesn’t look at all like any of the other years, which I really liked."

For Season 4 they removed the color white.

Started, but did not finish episode two.

Will give it another try sometime when I'm feeling relentlessly upbeat and won't mind being brought down a beat or two.