Fargo

  1. Episode 10 Morton’s Fork
    Fargo Season Finale Recap: Frozen Dope It’s all fun and games until a bear trap comes into play.
  2. Episode 9 A Fox, a Rabbit, and a Cabbage
    Fargo Recap: Canton Fodder As Fargo warms up for its finale, time is of the essence.
  3. Episode 8 The Heap
    Fargo Recap: Back to the Suture So we’re moving forward, then, huh?
  4. Episode 7 Who Shaves the Barber?
    Fargo Recap: Chazz No-No Meanwhile, after the blizzard shootout …
  5. Episode 6 Buridan’s Ass
  6. Episode 5 The Six Ungraspables
    Fargo Recap: Parable for the Course Gloomy and grotesque, just how we like it.
  7. Episode 4 Eating the Blame
    Fargo Recap: Briefcase of Insanity Ever wonder what happened to that buried briefcase from the Fargo movie?
  8. Episode 3 A Muddy Road
    Fargo Recap: Thornton in My Side Bo Munk. Don Chumph. Gus Grimly. This show has some seriously great names.
  9. Episode 2 The Rooster Prince
    Fargo Recap: Tutti and the Blowfish “Devils with dead eyes and shark smiles.”
  10. Episode 1 The Crocodile’s Dilemma
    Fargo Recap: Lester’s Bangs The Coen brothers on TV? Ya sure, ya betcha. Well, sorta.
  1. Episode 10 Palindrome
    Fargo Finale Recap: An Act of Cruelty This is a near-perfect piece of television.
  2. Episode 9 The Castle
    Fargo Recap: The Massacre at Sioux Falls “You’ve been lucky, but that luck’s gonna run out.”
  3. Episode 8 Loplop
    Fargo Recap: Fully Actualized “Do you understand the difference between thinking and being?”
  4. Episode 7 Did You Do This? No, You Did It!
    Fargo Recap: Different Journeys, Same Destination “It doesn’t matter what you mean, it’s what you do.”
  5. Episode 6 Rhinoceros
    Fargo Recap: Kiss My Grits “I can fill a steamer trunk with the amount of stupid I think you are.”
  6. Episode 5 The Gift of the Magi
    Fargo Recap: Rendezvous With Destiny This episode features one of the most violent sequences in the history of Fargo.
  7. Episode 4 Fear and Trembling
    Fargo Recap: Already Dead It’s this simple: If you don’t like this episode, you just don’t like the show at all.
  8. Episode 3 The Myth of Sisyphus
    Fargo Recap: The Caretaker to the Zoo Who is the Sisyphus of Fargo, pushing a boulder up a hill over and over again, to the point of futility?
  9. Episode 2 Before the Law
    Fargo Recap: Go Finger “Before the Law” is chock-a-block with encounters that come to a simmering tension without boiling over. 
  10. Episode 1 Waiting for Dutch
    Fargo Season Two Premiere Recap: Griddle Me This Fargo 2.0 is, thus far, more black than bleak comedy.
  1. Episode 10 Somebody to Love
    Fargo Season Finale Recap: The Great American Experiment Gloria Burgle finally gets her showdown with V.M. Varga.
  2. Episode 9 Aporia
    Fargo Recap: The Mad Stussy Killer Who will make it out of this season alive?
  3. Episode 8 Who Rules the Land of Denial?
    Fargo Recap: Lost Souls No other show on television blends influences quite like Fargo.
  4. Episode 7 The Law of Inevitability
    Fargo Recap: Laughing in the Dark “The world is wrong. It looks like my world, but everything’s different.”
  5. Episode 6 The Lord of No Mercy
    Fargo Recap: A Shark in a Suit On Fargo, truth is in the eye of the beholder.
  6. Episode 5 The House of Special Purpose
    Fargo Recap: It’s a Shame About Ray A fantastic, tense, and very dark episode.
  7. Episode 4 The Narrow Escape Problem
    Fargo Recap: Into the Fire “The Narrow Escape Problem” is an episode about predators and prey.
  8. Episode 3 The Law of Non-Contradiction
    Fargo Recap: La La Land Gloria heads to Los Angeles to investigate her stepfather’s murder.
  9. Episode 2 The Principle of Restricted Choice
    Fargo Recap: The Inescapable Reality Who was Thaddeus Mobley?
  10. Episode 1 The Law of Vacant Places
    Fargo Season-Premiere Recap: Game Over Welcome back to the world of Fargo, a place where crime most certainly does not pay.
  1. Episode 11 Storia Americana
    Fargo Season Finale Recap: Peace in Our Time If there’s a moral to this season it’s not that crime doesn’t pay — it’s that crime only pays for some.
  2. Episode 10 Happy
    Fargo Recap: Saved By the Ghost Slaver Who saw that coming? No, seriously, could anyone have seen that coming?
  3. Episode 9 East/West
    Fargo Recap: Under the Rainbow Season four’s oddest episode is as wild a departure as this series has ever attempted.
  4. Episode 8 The Nadir
    Fargo Recap: The Bull and the Python An episode filled with origin stories finds all sorts of ways to complicate our feelings toward its colorful criminals.
  5. Episode 7 Lay Away
    Fargo Recap: Gaetano Unchained The drama between the Faddas and the Cannons is getting more complicated by the minute.
  6. Episode 6 Camp Elegance
    Fargo Recap: Chasing the Tornado Loy may like to monologue, but he’s not just talk.
  7. Episode 5 The Birthplace of Civilization
    Fargo Recap: Crime Jazz An episode that feels like a tipping point delivers the first high-level casualty of the Fadda-Cannon conflict.
  8. Episode 4 The Pretend War
    Fargo Recap: A Burning Ring of Fire While Loy sits and makes plans, Josto’s staying busy, albeit in ways that may not benefit his long-term survival.
  9. Episode 3 Raddoppiarlo
    Fargo Recap: Say That Again Will Doctor be able to keep the operation together in the war that’s about to arrive? Will anyone?
  10. Episode 2 The Land of Talking and Killing
    Fargo Recap: Slaughterhouse Mine We’ve now gotten the first small volley in what’s shaping up to be a full-on war between the Faddas and the Cannons.
  11. Episode 1 Welcome to the Alternate Economy
    Fargo Season Premiere Recap: Benvenuto in Famiglia A dense kickoff episode delivers a new setting, new characters, new conflicts, and some new (old) Coens reference points.
  1. Episode 10 Bisquik
    Fargo Season-Finale Recap: That’s My Girl An action-packed finale puts nearly everything in the right place in what might be Fargo’s best season.
  2. Episode 9 The Useless Hand
    Fargo Recap: Showdown at the Tillman Ranch Corral No one is going down without a fight.
  3. Episode 8 Blanket
    Fargo Recap: What’s in a Name? There’s a price to be paid for making Roy Tillman look like a fool.
  4. Episode 7 Linda
    Fargo Recap: Into the Woods Puppets and Lindas abound in an episode that slows down the pace while raising the stakes.
  5. Episode 6 The Tender Trap
    Fargo Recap: Tit for That Lorraine and Indira have both seen some nonsense in their time, and it just keeps coming.
  6. Episode 5 The Tiger
    Fargo Recap: The Great Escapes Dot is no stranger to going on the lam, but this time she finally has a real ally watching her back.
  7. Episode 4 Insolubilia
    Fargo Recap: Faulty Wiring All in all, not a good night for parties on either side of this confrontation.
  8. Episode 3 The Paradox of Intermediate Transactions
    Fargo Recap: Sin-Eating for Fun and Profit Things are getting tense, aren’t they?
  9. Episode 2 Trials and Tribulations
    Fargo Recap: A Few Hard Men Roy Tillman (Jon Hamm) has a philosophy and plan — getting his wife back.
  10. Episode 1 The Tragedy of the Commons
    Fargo Season-Premiere Recap: The Disappearance of Dot Lyon We’re back in Fargo, Minnesota, with a new story that raises a bunch of questions. The biggest: “Who is Dot?”

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    Fargo Claimed to Be a True Story, But the Coen Brothers’ Touches Made It Great Twenty-five years later, we still happily vouch for this Minnesotan classic.