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.
Despite this being one of the darker episodes, it was also one of my favorites. It progresses the story along nicely while forcing me to develop sympathy for every character, even stinkin' Dodd.
With every episode, we begin to see more emotional overlap in stories that are connected but haven't collided at full speed yet. But this is Fargo. The crash is coming.
We almost expect [Otto] to get up out of his chair and whack every last one of them, physical impossibilites be damned. And he just might, but until then, he remains a quiet force to be reckoned with.
The episode hums with the tension of a powder keg about to go off, so much so that it's difficult to imagine a sweeter agony than this moment before the Gerhardts and Kansas City go to war and the other characters start becoming collateral damage.
If there's one thing you can say about Fargo, it's that the show never lets the plot drag! Fargo Season 2 Episode 4 made serious moves in terms of forwarding the plot and deepening existing characters.
Fargo brought together some of its key storylines, but prioritized the ways they affect its characters over ways they the affect its plot for fantastic results.
"Fear and Trembling," this week's episode, is as gripping an installment as any so far is a testament to how well the stuff that's working is actually working, because not all of it is.
