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Originally Posted by frankotank
I don't know...maybe see that the daughter was alive....get a decent thought provoking explanation of the office....see Mike decapitate Alan Alda....err....Adam Arkin....maybe see Hanzee walk into town in the time from season 1 when the daughter is the sherriff.
but what DID happen.....NOTHING! NOTHING HAPPENED!
let's see....hmm....the Solversons had a beer & dinner & a coffee together....oh AND we get the lamest explanation of the office weirdness ever!
Hanzee got a new ID and apparently slit those bullys throats.
the butcher died and psycho girl goes to jail (I thought she'd drive off in his patrol car while he was on the phone but no....nothing happened)
I guess that's about it. it's like episode 9 was actually the finale and episode 10 was a wrap up. a wrap up which could have been done in 10 minutes at the end of episode 9.
I love Breaking Bad and Dexter. two of the greatest shows...IMO. I hated how both of these ended and I'd even go as far as saying I think I coulda done better. 
Fargo is my favorite show right now. I love it. season two episode 10 was a turd. like Seinfeld....an episode about nothing. |
I'd differentiate endings you dislike because they're lazy, and endings you don't like because you disliked their purposeful design.
The title of the episode is palindrome, which is to indicate that they envisioned the season as a ramping up from mundane ordered life, to inexplicable chaos and violence [mob and medical], back to mundane ordered, if slightly altered, life.
EDIT: In the ultimate palindrome, I'd wager that the typewriter Milligan sat down in front of in his new position at the Kansas City office is one of the typewriters the dealer was trying to procure at the outset that set this whole thing off [sending Rye to kill the judge who is holding up the funds].
It also echoed the coda of the pleasures of simple home life that was the ending to the original movie [with Marge congratulating her husband on his duck drawing being chosen for the hunting stamps].
Not thematic, but I also really enjoyed the dream intro and it's echo of Raising Arizona, and how incorporated scenes with the characters we got to know in Season 1.
Raising Arizona Ending ~ (Spoiler) from Jason Teets on Vimeo.
And don't even get me started on Seinfeld finale. Those who hated it, never understood the show, and it blows my mind that so many deride it.
The entire show was about the quartet escaping comeuppance for their insularity and narcissism due to the nature of episodic television [ie, they did loathsome things, but never caught hell for it because they shrugged everything off at the end of the 1/2 hour], and the finale was every single despicable thing they ever did coming back to haunt them at once.