The Narrow Escape Problem
- Episode aired May 10, 2017
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- 52m
Emmit and Sy try to sort things out; Nikki and Ray track down some collateral; Gloria learns more about Maurice.Emmit and Sy try to sort things out; Nikki and Ray track down some collateral; Gloria learns more about Maurice.Emmit and Sy try to sort things out; Nikki and Ray track down some collateral; Gloria learns more about Maurice.
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- TriviaBilly Bob Thornton narrates using lines from Peter and the Wolf (1946), which was narrated by Sterling Holloway. Thornton's character in the first season of 'Fargo' was often associated with wolves.
- GoofsYuri Gurka claims Vladimir Putin grew up with a photo of "Berzhin" by his bed, saying, "Berzhin, who squats in 1920 dirt, gives birth of GRU, later KGB. Godfather." However, Leon Trotsky founded the GRU in 1918, and the GRU was not the predecessor of the KGB. They existed simultaneously with different areas of focus (similar to the CIA and FBI). The name "Berzhin" seems to be a combination of Yan Bergin, who was promoted to head of the GRU in 1920, and Felix Dzerzhinsky, founder of the Cheka, one of the preceding agencies of the KGB, and who is considered the "Godfather" of the KGB.
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Winnie Lopez: I got about 100 pounds of TP crammed in there. Been cranky as a female dog since breakfast, and now I know why... We've been trying, me and Jerry, for months now. Yeah. Like those old Road Runner cartoons with the wolf and the sheep dog, how you punch a clock to go to work?... It's mostly missionary, if I'm being honest. We used to spice it up, but now it's about the shortest distance between two points... He'd pop faster from the back, if I'm being honest, but I think it's important to look each other in the eyes when it comes to making babies.
- ConnectionsFeatured in The 69th Primetime Emmy Awards (2017)
Just as Martin Freeman did last season, Billy Bob Thornton returned to record some weird voice-over the episode. Leave it to Fargo to apply an animal and an instrument to each character on the show. For example, Ray, being the clumsy and sometimes grumpy guy that he is, was given the designation of a duck. This, largely taken from the "Peter and the Wolf" symphonic fairytale, added some context to the most clichéd Fargo episode yet. I say cliché in the most admirable way possible, considering this felt like classic Fargo at its best, and still unlike anything else on TV.
The thing I'm enjoying the most about this season is watching the Stussy brothers continue to fail in their respected occupations. Ewan McGregor brilliantly draws the line between two charismatic characters, but two characters who are generally not good people. Looking at the history of this show, that's quite a common thing for Noah Hawley to be able to pull off.
Perhaps even more so than that part of the show is watching each character progressively get closer and closer to the truth. I've always taken particular interest in the cops for the seasons and how twisted the case ends up getting before inevitably coming to the truth. Just the mere fact that we know everything about the case, and cops know close to nothing. It's very Hitchcockian in that way. The thrills don't come from reveals, they come from the suspense building up to those reveals. Love it.
8.4/10
- ThomasDrufke
- May 11, 2017
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- Runtime52 minutes
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- Aspect ratio
- 1.78 : 1
- 2.00 : 1