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Originally posted by Sailor1911:
Well, that was interesting. And, the young girl is Francesca Eastwood, Clint's daughter. Her mother was Frances Fisher who played the girl all grown up. And, was Strawberry Alice in Unforgiven.

Well we got an answer to the question "what the hell is the deal with those books under the floor boards". Although interesting it's now on to the meat and potatoes of the story.

Though interesting, (Ex)Chief Burgle's trip to Hollywood didn't add anything to the main plot. Tracing Ennis' past wouldn't have helped solve the crime. Whose murder wasn't part of any conspiracy, but the work of a lazy and inept stick-up man.

I wouldn't mind it so much, except it used up an episode from a short ten episode season.

I gotta drop the kids off at the pool.

You got kids?

I gotta take a shit.

This damn show just keeps getting stranger and stranger, but better every week.

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Originally posted by Todd Huffman:
This damn show just keeps getting stranger and stranger, but better every week.

Yep. Seems like there's some real action in the works. Varga is creepy... I can't get the image of his bulimia out of my head. I'll bet he stinks, as does Sy's mustache at this point.

I do love the music selections.

Yep, getting better every week.

Yikes things are about to heat up..

Paraphrasing liberally -- Some days you get the cat, some days the cat gets you. A bowling alley no less.

Kind of surprised this show isn't getting more attention here. Season 3 has maybe been the best ride, a very good story and a larger, more memorable cast of characters.

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Originally posted by Ripley:
... A bowling alley no less. ...

Straight out of The Big Lebowski.

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Kind of surprised this show isn't getting more attention here. Season 3 has maybe been the best ride, a very good story and a larger, more memorable cast of characters.

This season has had so many twists and turns with so many diverse characters and subplots, that sometimes the story line gets lost. It almost seems like the writers are trying to one up the last shocking scene.

I do like it though and take if for what it's worth. I have a hard time believing this is based on a true story though, whereas other seasons were more believable.

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Originally posted by NavyGuy:
I have a hard time believing this is based on a true story though....

I had to laugh at the opening of one of the recent episodes. The on-screen graphic reads "This is a true story". "true" fades out leaving "This is a story".

It helps to know your Coen Brothers filmography.

Gotta think that the last episode was more story than true.
Especially the bowling alley scenes.

I love this series.

I'm not sure anything is true except for maybe the movie. They just kind of use that as a tag line like the movie did. After season 2 I tried looking up the shootout in the woods and couldn't find anything about it. So I would say it is mostly story. Still must watch TV though.

Last season I could have done without the UFO, and this season the bowling alley scene. But in a way the bowling alley scene fits, whereas the UFO did not.

Still, love the music, love the story, love the characters, and love the accents. Years ago I had a roommate from Prior Lake, MN who talked like they do. I used to laugh at his accent and swear no one talked that way (even after watching the Fargo movie). Then one ball his mom, aunt, and sister came and holy cow! They DO talk like that! To be fair he made fun of my Boston accent also lol.

FWIW the film was just a story too. The Coens have changed their story from based on fact to completely made up.

I can't say it doesn't matter to me. It does, I don't want the movie or the series to be true because you know dramatic license would be taken. Just tell a good story and that they've been doing. I too love this show.

From the movie's Wikipedia page -- https://sigforum.com/eve/forums...935/m/1670000324/p/2

Multiple accounts exist regarding the factual (or fictional) basis for Fargo. The film opens with the following text:

This is a true story. The events depicted in this film took place in Minnesota in 1987. At the request of the survivors, the names have been changed. Out of respect for the dead, the rest has been told exactly as it occurred.

Closing credits, however, bear the standard "all persons fictitious" disclaimer for a work of fiction.

To resolve this apparent discrepancy, the Coen brothers explained that they based their script on an actual criminal event, but wrote a fictional story around it. "We weren't interested in that kind of fidelity," Joel Coen said. "The basic events are the same as in the real case, but the characterizations are fully imagined ... If an audience believes that something's based on a real event, it gives you permission to do things they might otherwise not accept."

The brothers have modified their explanation more than once. In 1996, Joel Coen told a reporter that—contrary to the opening graphic—the actual murders were not committed in Minnesota. Many Minnesotans speculated that the story was inspired by T. Eugene Thompson, a St. Paul attorney who was convicted of hiring a man to murder his wife in 1963, near the Coens' hometown of St. Louis Park; but the Coens claimed that they had never heard of Thompson. After Thompson's death in 2015, Joel Coen changed the explanation again: “[The story was] completely made up. Or, as we like to say, the only thing true about it is that it’s a story.”

The film's special edition DVD contains yet another account, that the film was inspired by the infamous 1986 murder of Helle Crafts from Connecticut at the hands of her husband, Richard, who disposed of her body through a wood chipper.

Fargo's patchwork quilt graphic explains it all.

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Originally posted by f2:
Fargo's patchwork quilt graphic explains it all.

This pretty much explains it. Very true.

You see, you got cocky. Forgot to count all the pieces on the board. The cards I'm not showing.

Jeez, that English guy creeps me out. And, sure glad my last name isn't Stussy!