I was wondering who that person could be as well. I was thinking the new Chief?

She was giving me a vibe like she wasn't one to trifle with. She's not good, but just how bad she is remains to be seen. As for the new chief, he's kind of a dick, but it seems like he'll likely just shake Gloria's hand by the time this is over and done with.

I know Sy is in a coma in the hospital, but we saw the nurse write instructions for "tomorrow" on his notes board in his room. We saw Emmit visit and then go to confess. Is it possible that Sy came to and is the one who called Nikki with the info on the second set of books and told her who to contact at the IRS? I know it's a little crazy, but it's Fargo. I'm hoping they give us something in the finale.

@Hank Melluish said:

I'm thinking that Varga and the widow Goldfarb may be in cahoots here.

Well damn. You nailed it.

I did laugh a couple of times at least. When MEW stared at Emmit and said "He's a kitten now ya know, Ray, in case you were interested". And when Varga and crew were in the warehouse slinking down the halls, it was reminiscent of the remake of The Thing starring MEW back about 10 years or so. It was complete with animal noises in the background. Otherwise I thought the whole thing was a bit meh and was left feeling underwhelmed by Hawley and Company. Somebody wheedled away my money for this series, and it wasn't Varga.

I see what Hawley was trying to do. As separate observers in a quantum universe we each see our own reality. We have our own experience with definitions of our own making to explain the absurdities (like Emmit's car suddenly stopping and then starting) that we encounter.

Hawley was actually saying " I don't have to give you anything" just as reality gives us absurdist death out of nowhere with no closure, begging our own explanations. But in a world of multiple observers for this show, his effort did not finish as satisfactory entertainment. Hawley did prove himself to be an excellent capitalist though, lol.

@Kathy said:

I'm hoping they give us something in the finale.

No such luck

Varga worked for no one.

Meeko was not taking orders from anyone just listening to music on his earbuds.

No plausible reason why Gloria had problems with electronics working for her( other than being a homage to her character on The Leftovers)

The Leland Palmer/Ray Wise otherworldy scenes were wasted on this show.

To have Emmit get a happy ending and then take a head shot in the refrigerator...

IMO, this was the worse , most meaningless season.

But in a world of multiple observers for this show, his effort did not finish as satisfactory entertainment.

I agree with this.

@Kathy said:

Hawley was actually saying " I don't have to give you anything"

to him because he succeeded in doing exactly what he intended.

@Kathy said:

Otherwise I thought the whole thing was a bit meh and was left feeling underwhelmed by Hawley and Company. Somebody wheedled away my money for this series, and it wasn't Varga.

ITA

This is becoming a trend, to produce shows that leaves the viewers clueless just because the creators wants to be avantgarde and artistic. There's nothing wrong with that, but sometimes they just need to shut a few doors for closure.

@Jana said:

This is becoming a trend, to produce shows that leaves the viewers clueless just because the creators wants to be avantgarde and artistic.

ITA

There's nothing wrong with that, but sometimes they just need to shut a few doors for closure.

No nothing wrong with it, but maybe they shouldn't always open so many doors in the first place when they know they aren't going to bring anything at all through them.

I felt like the producers/writers everyone said, 'hey, lets all go home right now' and just left. It's like they forgot what they were doing in the middle of it and just gave up.

@Invidia said:

The Leland Palmer/Ray Wise otherworldy scenes were wasted on this show.

On the contrary, his part was one of the MOST INTERESTING roles.

No, I meant they should have EXPANDED on that more- made MORE of that storyline with him. They DID NOT make use of him ENOUGH.

Still don't understand the BOX with the HAND that turns it off though???

Me either. MAYBE it's one of those "open doors".

EMMIT was just as BAD as VARGA.

Yes he was, He was an IDIOT, but I still hated the way they did that, I wanted Nikki to to have shot him out on that highway.

In other words, there's NO PHOTO of RAY there on the FRIDGE,

Yes, I noticed that right off.

and EMMIT is just as PLEASED with himself as VARGA was when GLORIA tells him he's DOOMED and won't WALK AWAY from punishment the way that he thinks he will.

Same situation with EMMIT.

He also thinks he's gotten away with it, but KARMA came calling because the GREEDY EMMIT also didn't deserve a HAPPY ENDING after the way that he treated his TWIN BROTHER.

True, but THEY ALL were ROTTEN-Ray included.

In other words, imo, the HEAD SHOT was a HAPPY ENDING.

True, but the REAL HAPPY ENDING was the deaf guy getting away with ALL that money.

Varga was paying off Nikki not to send his records to the IRS. She did anyway and took Varga's money to boot. That was the money we saw her give to Mr. Wrench (the deaf guy).

Apparently that guy was just an innocent somebody being targeted (as Emmit would later be victimized) by the Stasi police in east Germany for murdering a woman named Helga. Varga's Yuri actually committed that murder when he was younger. Yuri had muttered something about once dealing with a woman named Helga who "wouldn't shut up" so he killed her. Someone told me there was a scene shot but cut out of the show that explained more of how Varga got to where he was. It may be rumor, but it should have been left in if it exists.

Yeah Invidia, I'm guessing that Leland was the Rabbi of the story he told about the innocents being slaughtered. The bowling alley was some other-worldly stop after death where Yuri probably was going to suffer his come-uppence, what ever that would mean. But it was strange that Nikki and Mr. Wrench were left to live and given a VW by the Rabbi to escape, only to completely become chaos personified. What was the point of her killing the innocent cop? And Mr. Wrench waited years for no particular reason to kill Emmit during a dinner. It was an attempt to demonstrate the Coen brothers brand of nihilism and it was junk, I think. On the other had, it was so great seeing Ray Wise with the Lynchian weirdness of just showing up all the time under different circumstances. I wish they'd have kept him on. What the hell, it wouldn't have mattered anyway.