I thought it was great. Excellent work by the Always Sunny guy. Zero screen time devoted to Ewan McGregor's duelling waterheads plots. The sci-fi writer backstory stuff was reminiscent of Kurt Vonnegut material.
Seems like a couple of casting choices are themselves easter eggs? First we get east german from Deutschland 83 basically reprising his role, then we get the dude from Coen's existential A Serious Man in a very existential episode.
It was 50 minutes of totally irrelevant backstory for a character whose only purpose was to be a random mistaken death, and it was absolutely wonderful from start to finish.
This episode illustrates Zimmerman's quantum theory of collisions and how Thaddeus' choices of accepting the soda, getting conned, beating Zimmerman and throwing up in the toilet led to his murder by mis-identification.
As a nitpick his age and that of the waitress don't match in the present and flashback.
when i first watched fargo season 1, i liked it, but for some reason didn't really want to watch it. i eventually went back to it and loved it! then with season 2, i didn't like it at first, but by the time i finished i thought it was one of the best seasons of television ever.
so far i think season 3 is good, but not even close to seasons 1 or 2. im still hoping it gets better.
Rewatching s1 too since the gf hasn't seen it yet. Man I never realized how much of a **** molly is. From our perspective she doesn't seem bad because we know Lester killed his wife, but she constantly harassed him even though he told her he didn't want to talk to her. Going to his work, approaching him at the pharmacy, following him out to his car, illegally searching his home, and every time Lester told her he didn't want to talk she just repeated her yeah but I got questions. Just because you suspect someone doesn't mean you get to constantly harass them.
I liked the animated parts of this ep, I'd prob watch a whole show about the innocent little robot.
Show is still excellent, I don't find it quite up to the level of the first 2 seasons (on a scale of 1-10, Season 1 is probably a 9.5, S2 a 10, this season is around an 8 so far). I'm finding it hard to care much about the Ewan McGregor characters, Carrie ****'s character is far more compelling and I think the more the show focuses on her, the more I'll like it.
I've enjoyed the first 2 episodes alot. Havent got around to the 3rd episode yet, maybe tomorrow. I dont know if ill like it more then season 1 but i think it could beat out season 2 for me.
Add me to the S1>S2 ranks, although they're both great. S2 will very likely go down in history as the better season, but I enjoyed watching S1 more and thought the S1 individual performances were the best on average.