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Season 1-3 great amazing writing fun from first minute to last. Then… Season 4 is just pure out of nowhere social commentary and horrible writing forcing things. Then i hear season 5 is better. And yes Jon Hamm, Dot’s Actress, Joe Keerly (the son). Great cast but…

again the forced social commentary trend of post 2022. Every single show is strong alpha women, now Dot’s actress yes okay thats a cool alright written character but combine it with the cringe of the Mother and every single man is written as some goofy, bad person.

Oh my Lord, just stop it. Weak committee-type social commentary, written seasons back to back after 3 great first seasons, i really think and hope season 6 has to be great or Fargo fell off hard. And you see new hit shows / seasons finally going back to just uniquely written plots and characters so i think it will. Also dont get me wrong i love many shows that have ”woke” and ”strong female” plots and characters. I love the new season of Ted Lasso and that has about 20 strong women and about female sports. Its just the 2019-2022 woke forced racial injustice commentary that every show did and the 2022-2025 forced feminist commentary plots that are so horrible to watch. Anyways my 2 cents, thoughts?

First watch through, and i was wondering why people hated it… then slowly I started hating it. And i was wondering why ? I really think subconsciously the reason why people hate it more than the others is; the rest of the seasons you watch and think “Yeah this COULD happen, would it? No. But it could”

Then season 4 you watch it every single episode its just more and more like “Come the f*ck on, seriously?”.

For example episode 8… yeah those 2 outlaw girls took out an entire train-station + an army of cops… so ridiculously goofy it ruins the immersion. Then she just screams and runs through the last cop and off she goes. Its laughable how ridiculous it is. I totally get why people have a hard time finishing this season lol. Way too far fetched yet supposed be the most realistic plot line. lol. my 2 cents

Fargo: A True Story tells us Meemo and Yuri Gurka were recruited by Varga as children or, more likely, adoloscents - both were orphans on the street. This goes some way towards explaining their loyalty to him. This implies that when Yuri was living in East Berlin and dating Helga Albrecht, he was already working for Varga. Yuri is a bloodthirsty brute, but seems too professional to murder Helga in a fit of anger even if she 'talked too much' while working some kind of covert operation for Varga. My guess is Helga found out about his job and either talked to East Berlin law enforcement ('talked too much') or planned too, so Yuri killed her either on Varga's orders or his own initiative. This also confirms that Varga at least operated his schemes in the Soviet Union before its fall and potentially implies him to have government (likely KGB) connections there - if Helga already 'talked', then the cover-up we see taking place at the start of Season 3 with an innocent man being framed was likely orchestrated by Varga or by state-level contacts for his sake.