Fargo - Season 3, Episode 04: The Narrow Escape Problem
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Ray is getting fizzled out with Forever living in his more successful brother's shadow, and now the Parking Lot King of Minnesota, who sees himself as an American success story will have to deal with the rivalry heat.
The acting here is as good as the writing, and the visuals - built, as with season one, around the isolated snow and ice of the Midwest - are like paintings that move.
For me, the beauty of this show is the fact it is about ordinary people, doing ordinary things, who get drawn into extraordinary situations through a series of wrong but understandable decisions.
Though there are signs the series has slipped into narrative replication, Hawley's compositional inventiveness and willingness to embrace inscrutability at times makes the third installment of Fargo a captivating and stylish addition.
Watching Hawley slowly shred that veneer to reveal the ugliness below just might be the most rewarding part of visiting this fictional slice of North Dakota for a third time.
This is simply the classiest piece of TV drama around. It's instantly entertaining, even if you've never seen any of it before and have never heard of the Coen brothers or that movie called Fargo.
