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Fargo Season 5 stands out with impressive performances, notably Juno Temple's breathtaking portrayal and Jennifer Jason Leigh's chilling depiction of a hardboiled alpha woman. The narrative delves into themes of toxic masculinity, paleo-spirituality, and the 'American way of life' financed by credit and debt, executed with precision and a touch of sarcasm.

The cast delivers impeccable performances, supported by excellent writing and a well-balanced score. While some critics call for more significant plot development and innovation, others argue that this season surpasses its predecessors. Despite varying opinions on character likability and gender dynamics, the consensus is that Fargo Season 5 maintains its intrigue, offering promises of answers to lingering questions. As a movie buff, I eagerly anticipate the next episode.

Overall, Episode 5 maintains a steady pace and introduces crucial elements, although the absence of Ola Monk is felt. The focus on Lorraine and Dorothy compensates for this, revealing layers of the narrative, including Tillman's shady activities and missing arms. As the season progresses, anticipation builds for answers and further revelations. The upcoming episode appears poised to delve into the enigmatic character of Ola Monk, raising expectations for a more in-depth exploration of the plot. With the season's midpoint reached, the following episodes are anticipated to unravel complexities and provide a more comprehensive understanding of the unfolding narrative.

In summary, Fargo Season 5 Episode 5 continues the series' intriguing storytelling, offering key insights into Lorraine Lyon and Dorothy's characters and leaving room for further exploration of overarching mysteries.

Very frustrating season so far. To me the first half of this season fails to tell a somewhat interesting story. Most of the time I'm infuriated with stupid decisions of almost all the characters, even the ones that are portrayed as 'genius' are making the one crazy choice after the other. Things are outlandishly unrealistic almost all the time. It may entertain some but I firmly believe this season misses the nuanced storytelling that worked so well in the movie and the first maybe 2 seasons.

I think there is for sure room for crazyness in Fargo, but if you're not going to contrast it with some normal/mundane characters/decisions, than your show becomes ungrounded, something that to me just doesn't fit a show like Fargo. I don't care for tension or suspense if it doesn't make any sense. I could sum up dozens of unrealistic behaviors and actions which just fail to set the table for an actual interesting story. I really have trouble swallowing some scenes.

The hospital scenes for example were especially stupid. Not one logical or somewhat believable action here, from anyone.

For example, the FBI agents are completely unresponsive to the fact Dot is stressing out in front of them looking for almost the entire conversation across the hallway? They even say she must be relieved, like she came across relieved? To a trained FBI agent? All the rest Dot did in the Hospital was also impossible or far fetched. How she violently tied a huge dude to the hospital bed and a second later already disappeared? The nurse that enters right away doesn't yell or anything? We just have a shot of Dot walking calmly away from the crime scene and no alarm is really raised. They only address it later by saying there's more security (barely noticable) because of an escaped patient. (For some reason the receptionist mentions she's female?) All very questionable to me.

Also I want to get off my chest how poorly Scotty's dialogue is written. She seems like a Hollywood portrayal of a 4 year old, talking basically the same way Dot's electrocuted husband turned toddler talks.

It's just a shame because this show once knew how to tell a crazy AND interesting story.

Nadine/Dot is way overpowered and makes the story uninteresting. Can she have one flaw at least to shake things up.

There's also some real groaners from Jon Hamm and Jennifer Jason Leigh that solodify them as one-dimensional. The office scene could have been good if their character traits weren't so broad. Subtlety?

Also really dumb decisions from characters like kidnapping the wrong husband. There's no tension when one character is the eponymous "Tiger" and everybody else in the hospital are buffoons.

Plot-wise: 5 eps in and most of the events feel like filler. They keep having set-pieces that don't really go anywhere.

Dot's husband and the cop's husband are embarrassing from a writing standpoint.

Average season compared to first two and trending down.

At this point, Fargo is stripped down to it's bare minimum. You'll only feel the world of Fargo, some character running around nonsensically around a progressive agenda. I guess this is how it starts, the end of Fargo as a masterpiece we loved.

Dot dodges professionals by changing tags. I could swallow it once, but come on, again in a 10-episode season? Is this what we're watching? "A woman escapes fiesty males by changing names on the doors and directions on screens." Spare me please. This is not a serious season anymore, it's "Home Alone" at this stage.

I hope they bring back the depth previous seasons had. That grit and mystery behind characters. Even shock value is at nil now.

It's either the people living here are the dumbest or this is fiction being painted as real. After the first episode, everything else was just ridiculous. How can a police be killed, the witness in the crime is known and yet they don't arrest her for questioning? Esp when she's denying everything that happened? Then she's taken to a hospital where she literally assaults nurses and even a patient and gets away from the FBI? I mean if you have been looking for someone for years, and you finally found her, won't you take her into custody? Then you have a serial killer who is 500 years old? What nonsense is that?

Honestly I have loved all four seasons of Fargo, but this is probably the lousiest and dumbest of them all.

I am still not sold on this season of Fargo, but one thing I will say is that we are finally getting back to the show's signature snark and snappy dialogue. The Lorraine character is slowly growing into a standout and we get a few goofy over the top moments here.

I just do not like Juno Temple in this role at all and her violent tendencies are not connecting with the audience. It is just hard to root for Nadine/Dorothy's journey, even though we now know the harrowing backstory.

Decent enough episode though and one where I was not staring at the watch or the clock and wondering how much longer we had to go.