Fargo, S1 Ep1

Fargo, S1 Ep1

Hi everybody, Mary here.

So, now I have started watching Fargo, the 2014 series ! So, without any further ado, let's get started, shall we ?

The Crocodile's Dilemma

So, the three words I've picked for this episode are :

Manipulation : In this episode, we can see a man manipulating people and tricking them into doing illegal things, like the guy at the motel who pissed in the gas tank or Mike Hess who beat up his little brother Moe because he thought all of their dad's possession would go to the youngest child. Also, he managed to convince Lester, our main character, into killing his own wife, and then personnally came to help, killing an expecting father working for the police in the process. But why does this man do it and what will he do next ? We will see quite soon...

Murder : Also, we can see in this episode multiple murders, not only Pearl, Lester's wife, but also Sam Hess, the man owning a truck company but who was also having some affairs with prostitutes. Since Lester said ''yes'' to the woman taking him onto care at the hospital, the killer thought it was for him, since Lester hadn't said no, he took that for a yes and killed Sam. His family will surely miss him, but I think that's IT. Then, there's the policeman, killed because he was about to arrest Lester who had called him for ''a little bit of help''. Then, they faked it so that Lester was presented as the victim, but will he get caught ?

Relationships : Finally, we can also see some working, but also some broken relationships between the characters of this show. The policeman was having a very good relationship with his wife as they were about to have a baby, and there's this policewoman (sorry about the names by the way, I haven't learnt them quite well) and her father who's a bartender. He wants her to go fishing with him, but she decides to go back to work. And then, there's the Hess family, that we don't know a lot about, Lester's brother and his wife who are happy because of mister's promotion that gives him more money, which made Pearl jealous and her relationship with her husband was indeed broken, because telling your significant other that you shouldn't have married them, that they aren't half a human and that they are just incompetent brats is heart-breaking.

Overall impression : A very good series premiere, an excellent first episode, that makes me more interested to watch the rest of the series !

Okay, that's it for today, I hope that you enjoyed this post and I will see you very soon with another one !

And as usual, our last word : KIDNEYS !