A young state trooper in connection with his Sheriff father in law become obsessed with investigating the family of a major mob syndicate of which somehow somehow a small town beautician and her husband get caught up in the mix.
There's no doubt Fargo's second season has been a sophisticated piece of television, warm, funny, dark and thrilling -- it's a joy to watch, from the acting to the split screen cinematography, the excellent soundtrack and lines.
Fargo Season 2 Episode 10 was a lovely and low-key ending to Fargo Season 2. It provided a great amount of closure on all the major plot points, while refusing the typical narrative tendency to wrap everything up cleanly and as expected.
Story-wise, [Noah] Hawley's fully capable of telling a fleshed-out character-driven story in 10 episodes but as a viewer it's painful to say goodbye to his characters.
There has been considerable change over these past few weeks, and the final episode finds everyone, if not in a definitive place, at least in one that makes sense for them as an ending.
The most pressing impediment to hailing the Fargo Season 2 finale as "great" (let alone comparable to the superb Season 1 kicker) is that most of the action was either already complete or abundantly obvious.
