In the sixth episode of Fargo: Season 2, Lou tells Bear, "This kind of thing didn't work in Westerns and it's not going to work tonight." But "Rhinoceros" was the episode where Fargo fully embraced its Western roots, and offered incredibly tense showdown after incredibly tense showdown, all with fantastic payoff.
Full spoilers in the "Rhinoceros" review below.
Fargo grabbed you by the gut and didn't let go for the entire length of this week's episode. It's a credit to Jeffrey Reiner's directing that the scenes where loaded conversations between two characters were just as tense as scenes where guns were pointed directly in characters' faces. "Rhinoceros" punctuated these moments with brief flashes of humor, but still ratcheted up the drama until that final quiet scene.
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Full spoilers in the "Rhinoceros" review below.
Fargo grabbed you by the gut and didn't let go for the entire length of this week's episode. It's a credit to Jeffrey Reiner's directing that the scenes where loaded conversations between two characters were just as tense as scenes where guns were pointed directly in characters' faces. "Rhinoceros" punctuated these moments with brief flashes of humor, but still ratcheted up the drama until that final quiet scene.
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