I am a fan of Fargo who was a bit bored by S04 and hopeful for a return to form with S05.
I just finished ep 10 and I am truly grateful to have been given such a richly layered, moving and thought-provoking work of art. This season in particular will hold up to multiple re-watches with new dimensions to be discovered each time.
The acting is terrific and the cinematography is beautiful. The action scenes in the early episodes are among the best choreographed in recent memory. The comedy hits the right notes and the character development is engrossing. All top notch.
But what makes this season really stand out, IMO, is the philosophical, moral and spiritual depths it plumbs. On the one hand this is about power & domination and the material and psychological impact of the crimes committed against the weak by the strong (via systems of colonialism, patriarchy, capitalism, etc.). It is, at this level, also about the inexorable order of karma and justice that must be respected. We must, after all, account for ourselves and our sins. On the other hand, though, it is equally about something miraculous that transcends the grim fatalism of mechanistic karmic consequence- nothing less than the liberation from the (literally) blinding law of Hammurabi's code. In the midst of our enslaved agony, we are reminded, freedom and grace are always as close as a bite of Bisquick properly savored.
Bravo. This is beautiful stuff.
I just finished ep 10 and I am truly grateful to have been given such a richly layered, moving and thought-provoking work of art. This season in particular will hold up to multiple re-watches with new dimensions to be discovered each time.
The acting is terrific and the cinematography is beautiful. The action scenes in the early episodes are among the best choreographed in recent memory. The comedy hits the right notes and the character development is engrossing. All top notch.
But what makes this season really stand out, IMO, is the philosophical, moral and spiritual depths it plumbs. On the one hand this is about power & domination and the material and psychological impact of the crimes committed against the weak by the strong (via systems of colonialism, patriarchy, capitalism, etc.). It is, at this level, also about the inexorable order of karma and justice that must be respected. We must, after all, account for ourselves and our sins. On the other hand, though, it is equally about something miraculous that transcends the grim fatalism of mechanistic karmic consequence- nothing less than the liberation from the (literally) blinding law of Hammurabi's code. In the midst of our enslaved agony, we are reminded, freedom and grace are always as close as a bite of Bisquick properly savored.
Bravo. This is beautiful stuff.