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Fargo 5.10 "Bisquik"

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You’re doing the world a service 🫡

Random question time--does anyone want a list of all the accounts who would rather have Tillman Prime kill Dot than for Tillman 2.0 to NOT be the center of attention just aren't paying attention to the narrative...?

Because I might be able to help everyone else NOT have to wade through a gator-infested swamp to get to the content they want to see...but yeah.

Thought I should ask first.

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The gruesome twosome 2 electric boogaloo

Nikki Swango & Wes Wrench  🤝 Dot Lyon & Ole Munch

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Someone get this man pancakes

munch's monologue from 5x04 (w/subtitles)

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So deserved.

Congratulations for the nominees for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Television Movie or Limited Series SAG Awards.

Roy Tillman is scary and repulsive, but Jon Hamm's acting is excellent!

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AMEN

genuinely I'm at the point where if I see a fargo post that even just involves gator I block the op

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This seasons soundtrack is so left field and I am living for it. YMCA and Toxic?? I’m in.

not the village people playing when roy’s boys showed up to the ranch.

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I’m never going to emotionally recover from this

that episode of fargo….

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NOT A DRILL

we are on 24/7 Munch Lockdown shut the fuck up

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munch preparing to put the orange soda into his body after 500 years of sustaining himself on puddles & river water

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munch in the lyon household: i live here now.

wayne:

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The best scene I think I may have ever witnessed of anything ever. Going to be thinking about this for weeks.

The tiger can come out now.

Fargo 5.09 "The Useless Hand"

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Fargo 5x07 vs. Fargo 5x09

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Fargo: S05E09 - "The Useless Hand"

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Roy Tillman needs to catch a bullet. I think he’s going to, and that Gator is going to be the one to serve it to him. Warnings ahead for spoilers through episode 9.

First let me just get my initial reaction out of the way: SCREAAAAAAAAMS. Y’all when I tell you I had my tv paused at the two minute mark trying to gird my loins to get through what I knew was coming. 😆 I mean I knew it was coming but I didn’t expect them to just throw us in like that. So it seems they were not overstating the parallels between Gator and Oedipus. There was lots of talk this episode about choosing paths and digging ditches when it would be wiser to change course - and for his failure to change course, for his sins, Munch has taken Gator’s eyesight.

He has made Gator useless in the eyes of his father (who although worried about him in some distant fashion when he goes missing) abandons him in the mist after delivering the parting message that ‘if he ever had a point’, it is surely gone now. Gator is blind, orphaned and exiled. On the other end of the spectrum there is Dot, who has been in exile since she was a child, running from wolves. She tried to carve out her own space and build the family she wanted, but the wolves came back. She’s at her wits end, back against the wall - but she’s finding that she is no longer alone. Her husband and child are waiting for her and thanks to Indira, Lorraine has finally looked past her own bias and seen her for who she is. With Witt and a swat team rallying to save her and Munch arriving just in time to save her from the grave she’s been fleeing all these years it is reinforced over and over: Dorthy Lyon has finally been seen. And with that support she is finally able to stop running.

This was such beautiful storytelling and I cannot 🥹 say enough how much I love this show for telling it. I am even fairly confident now that Gator is going to survive the series, and here is why. Firstly, if there was ever a moment for him to pay for his sins through death the moment feels past us. At this point his death would just be superfluous. This narrative is really big on themes and when certain seeds are planted we know they’ll be paid off in some fashion or another.

Thematically Gator has been likened to both Jack Skellington and Oedipus Rex, and as I’ve said before these are both tragic hereos who make selfish, reckless impulsive decisions that bring about destruction. They both however survive their enlightenment and seek to right their wrongs.

Dot has three times now plead with a fellow victim to stand with her against Roy. First Linda in her dream, then Gator in the shed, and finally Karen in her old bedroom. Linda was just a dream and is already dead, so there can be no taking back there. Gator initially refused and told Dot he wasn’t going anywhere - that he was staying on the path he was on. Karen didn’t say it so explicitly but she chose the same. But by leaving Gator alive and opening his eyes to the depth of his father’s disregard, Munch has left Gator with the opportunity to change his course - one last opportunity.

Dot has already planted the seed of doubt in Gator’s mind that Roy never loved him and that he may have taken away the one person who did (Linda). And now that Roy has abandoned him and proven her point, I think that in the end Gator will choose to protect Dot end up being the one who kills Roy.

He has devoted his entire life to measuring up to trying to make Roy proud. But Roy never was. For all the times that Gator has told himself and Roy that he’s a “winner” Roy has only ever rejected the notion that he is. He once asked Gator how he’s supposed to teach him to be a winner if he keeps losing all the time, the implication therein that Roy is waiting on evidence that Gator has the right stuff to win at all.

Gator frequently swears up and down to Roy that he does have the right stuff, reminding him of his skills specifically as a marksman. He once told Roy he could have smoked Munch like in High Noon, but the conversation that really resonates with me is the one they had after the botched Wayne kidnapping.

Because when Roy starts in on him about his “bad luck problem” aka his inability to win, Gator straight up tells him the reasons why he thinks Roy should be proud of him. The point of Gator = All state QB, crack shot, knocking pins down every time. “That’s your boy”.

I’ve lost track of the amount of times Gator has bragged and or threatened to shoot someone between the eyes or whatever, lol, but we know he likes his guns and apparently he’s good with them. When he attempted to murder Munch he did so with a sharp shooters toolbox.

But Roy has never been impressed by Gator’s skills. Every time Gator reminds him of his success in this area Roy dismisses him. First by telling Gator life is not like the movies - which, fair enough - and secondly by outright saying he didn’t care and was ready to take luck out of the equation. Aka, he’s taking Gator out of the equation. Which was a big ouch for Gator’s pride and led him to try and prove his point, killing “Munch” with a single shot.

Dorthy Lyon has finally been seen and is ready to take down Roy, and running parallel to that is Gator who maybe finally sees himself and his father clearly. I’m not sure if it will come down to a gunshot, but I definitely think Gator is going to play a role in how Roy dies. 😆 Time will tell!

**Edit to add that Dot is also the only one to ever see Gator clearly.

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help them all Oraetta

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I think the funny thing about munch in season 5 of fargo is that he never goes after dot again (pre episode 9, something may change) and that he purely goes after gator and roy for crossing him after he told them bluntly what happened with Dot and they tried to kill him rather than pay him. He respects/is intimidated by a small house wife that nearly killed him enough to leave her alone rather than the men who have way more resources at hand because they tried to cross an immortal(?) criminal rather than just pay him to fuck off