The reason Hanzee shot Dod, was because of all the racism he was facing. Then when he got to Dod, he called him a "mongrel" so that was the final disrespect.
Agreed. After the vomit on a Native American plaque site, ordering a drink and getting it with a glob of spit in it, the racist barman and patrons, the patrons making the stereotypical whooping sounds that they think NAs made, I think Dodd labelling Hanzee as a "mongrel" was the final straw and he'd just reached his breaking point. Dodd got what he deserved imo (long overdue!).
Same here. Actually impressed by the brilliance and I can't believe I've forgot about how great it is. I've only watched it once, actually. So it really feels kinda like watching it for the very first time 😋
yuppp only watched the season as it came out and forever I've been saying season 1 was amazing season 2 was more 8/10 kind of thing I feel so different now wish I watched this in full since then 😅
Spoiler: Malvo did kill Hanzee in season 1. S2E10 shows 2 kids at the end doing sign language, they are mr. wrench and mr. numbers. Hanzee trained them and send them over to Fargo in season 1. That shootout in the building S1E7 is where Hanzee gets killed. I also have to say that i refuse to bilieve that but if you watch the details then that is what happend.
This episode is when I try to spoiler free direct people to go back to Season one to listen to Malvo's monologue in the hospital when he let's the mute assassin go.
The great thing about this season is, you've got three to four movies worth of story telling all put together to support each other. Each story could have been it's own movie, the gang war, the accidental murder of a mob family with the couple sent into a telling run away, the initial fargo esq detective plot, and hanze's story. If you look back at the phone booth scene, the hangman answer is supposed to be "Sioux Falls". Again, lots of hidden details worth constant rewatches of these episodes. I used to listen and watch to lots of reviews this season, too pick up everything I missed when watching it as it aired.
"What is wrong with these people?" Hate to say it, but as someone from Sioux Falls they got the extreme anti-Native American racism around there very dead on accurate.
Dodd Gerhardt had a very unpleasant final 24 hours. Also, Stephen King was gushing nonstop on Twitter about this stretch of season 2 (eps 7, 8 and 9). It's a good sign that you've got a banger of a TV show when one of the most successful and prolific writers of all time is a fan.
Goes without saying hanzie is a reference to No Country, the cabin at the lake is a reference to the hideout in Fargo. And I’m pretty sure this episode had the newspaper that flies through the parking lot which is a nod to the hudsucker proxy.
Just started watching this show cause I saw your reactions to it. Finished season 2 already. Started about less than a week ago. I’m loving this series
I love that Hanzee begin the season like an almost background character. Then (some can say that it came from nothing and some can say that it came from centuries ago) he becomes a CHARACTER. With will and his own motivations. I absolutely love this.
Lorne Malvo=Hanzee Dent=Anton Chigurh? All FANTASTIC villains/anti-hero. I think Malvo is my favorite of the three probably because he had more dialogue and was super creepy/funny. Chigurh comes in at a close second for me. Just the absolute definition of an unstoppable malevolent force (It can't be reasoned with, it can't be bargained with...it doesn't feel pity or remorse or fear...and it absolutely will not stop. Ever. Until you are dead.) to borrow a quote. Hanzee is a bit different as I think we feel more sympathetic towards his character than the other 2 but he is super menacing none the less. This anthology is just FUCKING AWESOME in almost every way. One of the best tv series I've seen in probably the last couple of decades. (I will concede that season 1 of True Detective was as equally well written and acted as Fargo...fight me lol). Which remides me @Brandon you do need to check out True Detective as well. Cheers
Great reaction, Brandon! I love Season 1 of Fargo. However, I feel like Season 2 is next-to-perfect. It is brilliant writing, storytelling and "subverting expectations" that doesn't feel....forced.
BEST SEASON EVER “Think or be”. Hanzee, Zahn McClarnon, is a fantastic actor. His performance in season 2 of Westworld was totally worthy of a golden globe & Emmy nomination. He didn’t get one but he should’ve.
Anyone here a Half Life fan? That guy in Peggy’s vision/hallucination would make for an excellent G-Man in a Half Life movie, he’s got the hair, the creepiness, the refined and hard to place but posh American accent, he’s perfect!
"Rhinoceros" is my favorite episode and then this one, "Loplop", then the next one "The Castle". But like I said before my favorite scenes were here in the cabin with Peggy and Dodd. I kinda feel like they should have been a couple. Soulmates even. 🤭
I can’t wait to see your reaction to the last two episodes of this season. I know you have watched OZARK, hopefully we get to see the reactions soon. Just tell me you love it already….
Palindrome should’ve been singularly nominated for one of the great penultimates since Granite State of Breaking Bad and Garveys at their finest of The Leftovers
What Peggy does has nothing to do with shock. She is ill in the head and always has been. She lives in her own world. The compulsion to make a better person out of herself, the collecting mania, her kleptomania with the toilet rolls. The whole basement full of newspapers, all about a better life. And you still didn't come up with the idea that she has a psychological forced cancellation? 😁 This has nothing to do with shock. Anything that doesn't fit into her vision for her own best life is simply faded out or played down "we have kind of a little problem here" . She was not in shock when she drove the Gerhardt half-dead. This event just didn't fit into her vision, so she just passed that over. 😉 What is on TV and she watches also has to do with her mental state. This movie is important for the next episodes. Hanze is just fed up with white racists and people who treat him like shit as well as his people. He has even gone to war for whites. He nevertheless gets no respect. He is a proud man and has followed orders from whites like a dog all his life. That's understandable. What did you see in the intro of the first episode? It was about a battle between native amerikans and whites. In the process, the Native American was deprived of his identity. There was a man in Native American clothing, but that had nothing to do with him anymore. Hanze tried again here with confidence in Peggy, but she stabbed him in the back. He virtually saves their lives and again he is disappointed.
i think that scene with jesse hanging is very hard and exhausting. you have to really do it so it can harm you a little bit. the way they do it is hes hanging by a harness below his jacket. but in combination with his head swelling, and getting red its perfect.
I love me silent or somewhat silent badasses but i feel like me being native may make me a bit biased. Especially when I say the actor that plays hanzee should get an award for his performance haha. In extension Mike Milligan hes incredible. Too many great actors and scenes.
Humble opinion: 1. Mr. Robot 2. Breaking Bad 3. Avatar: The Last Airbender 4. Dark 5. Fargo Not a dull moment. I hope this show, and especially this season, gets more recognition in the future.
I didn't like Svensons always getting saved ,they were to me worse characters than Lester and i liked Lester's and Malvo's dynamic and relationship more.
Ehhh I would lean more Coen brothers. This show is obviously expanded from their movie 'Fargo' (1996). Plus this show has a sh*t ton of easter eggs or nods to past Coen brothers movies.
does Tarantino have something to do with Noah Hawley? The Coen brothers were making movies long before Tarantino. Reservoir Dogs came in 92, Blood Simple in 84.
I get real squeamish watching this episode. The actor playing the bartender is one Gary Chalk, who was the voice of Optimus on Beast Wars in the 90s and in several subsequent Transformers series since then. He's done dozens of notable voice roles, including plenty of villains, but seeing the voice of your childhood in live action playing such a realistically awful human being is rough, yo.
For me season 3 is actually the best of the show so far, and Varga may be one of my favorite villians ever. It may not be as outwardly wild and "eventful" as S1 or 2, but in terms of themes, cinematography, atmosphere, acting, writing and characters it's just astounding.
Love the play on “Wounded Knee” as Hanzee casually busts their kneecaps
Agreed!
The reason Hanzee shot Dod, was because of all the racism he was facing. Then when he got to Dod, he called him a "mongrel" so that was the final disrespect.
Agreed. After the vomit on a Native American plaque site, ordering a drink and getting it with a glob of spit in it, the racist barman and patrons, the patrons making the stereotypical whooping sounds that they think NAs made, I think Dodd labelling Hanzee as a "mongrel" was the final straw and he'd just reached his breaking point. Dodd got what he deserved imo (long overdue!).
THIS!
The straw that broke the camel's back.
@@eighthdoctornot to mention he even gave Dodd one last chance before he called him a mongrel, first was when Dodd calls him half breed
I'm recapping this season alongside you, and tbh I kinda forgot how fucking awesome this was.
I was thinking the same thing. So great!
Same here. Actually impressed by the brilliance and I can't believe I've forgot about how great it is. I've only watched it once, actually. So it really feels kinda like watching it for the very first time 😋
yuppp only watched the season as it came out and forever I've been saying season 1 was amazing season 2 was more 8/10 kind of thing I feel so different now wish I watched this in full since then 😅
people love season 1 but imo season 2 was the real king of this series
The first season was so good and had so many good characters that we kind of forget how great all the seasons are.
Zahn McClarnon deserved an Emmy nomination for Fargo.
Westworld too
@@Rian-zf7ye Yea I had written that in my comment at first but removed it
"Hon, you gotta stop stabbing him."
''Hanzee'' is probably the greatest hitman in the history of film.
Spoiler: Malvo did kill Hanzee in season 1. S2E10 shows 2 kids at the end doing sign language, they are mr. wrench and mr. numbers. Hanzee trained them and send them over to Fargo in season 1. That shootout in the building S1E7 is where Hanzee gets killed. I also have to say that i refuse to bilieve that but if you watch the details then that is what happend.
@@ottokaare5925 LMFAOOOOO sir .. I’m not going to spoil the name but it’s confirmed
@@ottokaare5925 it is though
This episode is when I try to spoiler free direct people to go back to Season one to listen to Malvo's monologue in the hospital when he let's the mute assassin go.
@@vd89198in their primes... it'd be close lol
The cabin Ed and Peggy went to was also the same cabin that Malvo in season 1 got shot in by Molly's Boyfriend
Hapax legomenon
Gus man. Gus.
The going crazy down by the lake line is right out of the movie
The great thing about this season is, you've got three to four movies worth of story telling all put together to support each other. Each story could have been it's own movie, the gang war, the accidental murder of a mob family with the couple sent into a telling run away, the initial fargo esq detective plot, and hanze's story.
If you look back at the phone booth scene, the hangman answer is supposed to be "Sioux Falls". Again, lots of hidden details worth constant rewatches of these episodes. I used to listen and watch to lots of reviews this season, too pick up everything I missed when watching it as it aired.
Yeah Hanzee is like Anton in No Country For Old Men. I think he gives Billy Bob Thornton’s Lorne Malvo a run for his money in Fargo the series.
"What is wrong with these people?" Hate to say it, but as someone from Sioux Falls they got the extreme anti-Native American racism around there very dead on accurate.
The guy who plays the General Store owner (Bob Bainborough) is a regular character on The Red Green show and his character owns an “Everything Store”
Ah, My favorite episode of the series
The Hanzee episode!! I'm really excited about this one! ❤️ Let's go, Brandon 😁
Zahn McClarnon made this season that much more badass! His portrayal of Hanzee is one of my all time favorite characters on TV or Film.
Dodd Gerhardt had a very unpleasant final 24 hours. Also, Stephen King was gushing nonstop on Twitter about this stretch of season 2 (eps 7, 8 and 9). It's a good sign that you've got a banger of a TV show when one of the most successful and prolific writers of all time is a fan.
This season ought to be showed in film school, it is that perfect
Goes without saying hanzie is a reference to No Country, the cabin at the lake is a reference to the hideout in Fargo. And I’m pretty sure this episode had the newspaper that flies through the parking lot which is a nod to the hudsucker proxy.
THAT GUY SHOULD CONSIDER HIMSELF VERY LUCKY
......Brandon just you wait
Evil laughs…
Just started watching this show cause I saw your reactions to it. Finished season 2 already. Started about less than a week ago. I’m loving this series
This is my favourite episode of all 4 seasons. very funny, very tense, excellent acting. 👍👍
Yep, it's an hour long but absolutely flies by.
I love that Hanzee begin the season like an almost background character. Then (some can say that it came from nothing and some can say that it came from centuries ago) he becomes a CHARACTER. With will and his own motivations. I absolutely love this.
Fun Fact: The director of this episode Keith Gordon played the lead Arnie Cunningham in the John Carpenter flick "Christine".
Lorne Malvo=Hanzee Dent=Anton Chigurh? All FANTASTIC villains/anti-hero. I think Malvo is my favorite of the three probably because he had more dialogue and was super creepy/funny. Chigurh comes in at a close second for me. Just the absolute definition of an unstoppable malevolent force (It can't be reasoned with, it can't be bargained with...it doesn't feel pity or remorse or fear...and it absolutely will not stop. Ever. Until you are dead.) to borrow a quote. Hanzee is a bit different as I think we feel more sympathetic towards his character than the other 2 but he is super menacing none the less. This anthology is just FUCKING AWESOME in almost every way. One of the best tv series I've seen in probably the last couple of decades. (I will concede that season 1 of True Detective was as equally well written and acted as Fargo...fight me lol). Which remides me @Brandon you do need to check out True Detective as well. Cheers
The "Going crazy down there at the lake" is a reference to the original Fargo film.
Finally someone mentioned it lol
Great episode
Yes
This is Hanzee breaking point in his life
Maybe the greatest episode on the show even after so many years oh man it was great thank you Brandon!
Great reaction, Brandon! I love Season 1 of Fargo. However, I feel like Season 2 is next-to-perfect. It is brilliant writing, storytelling and "subverting expectations" that doesn't feel....forced.
BEST SEASON EVER
“Think or be”.
Hanzee, Zahn McClarnon, is a fantastic actor. His performance in season 2 of Westworld was totally worthy of a golden globe & Emmy nomination. He didn’t get one but he should’ve.
Anyone here a Half Life fan?
That guy in Peggy’s vision/hallucination would make for an excellent G-Man in a Half Life movie, he’s got the hair, the creepiness, the refined and hard to place but posh American accent, he’s perfect!
Man, am I going crazy down there by the lake
This show really stand out for it’s filmmaking and music! Love it!
"Rhinoceros" is my favorite episode and then this one, "Loplop", then the next one "The Castle". But like I said before my favorite scenes were here in the cabin with Peggy and Dodd. I kinda feel like they should have been a couple. Soulmates even. 🤭
The next episode is BRUTAL FANTASTIC
I can’t wait to see your reaction to the last two episodes of this season. I know you have watched OZARK, hopefully we get to see the reactions soon. Just tell me you love it already….
I cant wait for the episode 9, the best of the season
Palindrome should’ve been singularly nominated for one of the great penultimates since Granite State of Breaking Bad and Garveys at their finest of The Leftovers
Best of the series even, I think. I won't say anything more about it here. We'll discuss it next week haha.
I live where all this was filmed
What Peggy does has nothing to do with shock. She is ill in the head and always has been. She lives in her own world. The compulsion to make a better person out of herself, the collecting mania, her kleptomania with the toilet rolls. The whole basement full of newspapers, all about a better life. And you still didn't come up with the idea that she has a psychological forced cancellation? 😁
This has nothing to do with shock. Anything that doesn't fit into her vision for her own best life is simply faded out or played down "we have kind of a little problem here" . She was not in shock when she drove the Gerhardt half-dead. This event just didn't fit into her vision, so she just passed that over. 😉
What is on TV and she watches also has to do with her mental state. This movie is important for the next episodes.
Hanze is just fed up with white racists and people who treat him like shit as well as his people. He has even gone to war for whites. He nevertheless gets no respect. He is a proud man and has followed orders from whites like a dog all his life. That's understandable. What did you see in the intro of the first episode? It was about a battle between native amerikans and whites. In the process, the Native American was deprived of his identity. There was a man in Native American clothing, but that had nothing to do with him anymore.
Hanze tried again here with confidence in Peggy, but she stabbed him in the back. He virtually saves their lives and again he is disappointed.
So many twists and turns in this show
I think that sign about them killing Indians & being called a Mongrol by Dod might have triggered our Indian friend.
Lake vermilion is a huge lake there are a ton a cabins around it
The music at the end slaps. Also I wonder if he knows who Hanzi is in when it comes to season 1
i think that scene with jesse hanging is very hard and exhausting. you have to really do it so it can harm you a little bit. the way they do it is hes hanging by a harness below his jacket. but in combination with his head swelling, and getting red its perfect.
The *LOLLIPOP* episode 🍭
Please react to Deadwood. You're gonna love it bro, trust me.
"...almost cinema quality stuff..." - Have you seen cinema lately?
Yeah, the Fargo series is miles ahead of the stuff in cinemas these days.
They need to do a "Hanzi and Dodd" prequel/spinoff
I'm going crazy down at the cabin. Remember that line?
all i could think of at the end was red say they went out the back you can catch them if your fast go go go from pineapple express
Hanzee's motivation is centuries old, actually
Zahn is that dude
LETS FUCKING GOOO!!
I love me silent or somewhat silent badasses but i feel like me being native may make me a bit biased. Especially when I say the actor that plays hanzee should get an award for his performance haha. In extension Mike Milligan hes incredible. Too many great actors and scenes.
Not just you i think most people love hanzee
Jesse Plemons and Kirsten Dunst are married in real life because of this show.
Humble opinion:
1. Mr. Robot
2. Breaking Bad
3. Avatar: The Last Airbender
4. Dark
5. Fargo
Not a dull moment. I hope this show, and especially this season, gets more recognition in the future.
Mr. Robot: Bad Father Trope. Utterly jumped the shark when that became clear.
Better Call Saul before Breaking Bad
I HIGHLY recommend The Leftovers if you haven't seen it yet
Um.. No. I would not say Hanzee is out of the picture out of this.
YELLOWSTONE
Yes
Yes, this needs to happen!!!
that show seemed mediocre.
When is the jethro tull episode?
Where’s the early access reaction to 2x10??
I didn't like Svensons always getting saved ,they were to me worse characters than Lester and i liked Lester's and Malvo's dynamic and relationship more.
👍👍👍
Personally, I prefer season 1 overall, but this might be the best episode of the series
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Next episode.
🛸
You should watch the drama Yellowstone, it's on Peacock
Tarantino opened the door for these writers.
tarantino rips off everybody
Ehhh I would lean more Coen brothers. This show is obviously expanded from their movie 'Fargo' (1996). Plus this show has a sh*t ton of easter eggs or nods to past Coen brothers movies.
does Tarantino have something to do with Noah Hawley? The Coen brothers were making movies long before Tarantino. Reservoir Dogs came in 92, Blood Simple in 84.
I get real squeamish watching this episode. The actor playing the bartender is one Gary Chalk, who was the voice of Optimus on Beast Wars in the 90s and in several subsequent Transformers series since then. He's done dozens of notable voice roles, including plenty of villains, but seeing the voice of your childhood in live action playing such a realistically awful human being is rough, yo.
I feel the first 2 seasons were great but the 3rd season was really weak and was just weird.
And kinda boring
Kinda have to disrespectfully disagree with both of you
@@cfbg yes it did have its moments, but compared to the first 2 seasons it certainly was the weakest, the first being the best
For me season 3 is actually the best of the show so far, and Varga may be one of my favorite villians ever. It may not be as outwardly wild and "eventful" as S1 or 2, but in terms of themes, cinematography, atmosphere, acting, writing and characters it's just astounding.