Just watched last night's show. The UFO thing was...weird. But if you recall, they had a couple "supernatural" elements last season, as well. Rmember the dead fish falling from the sky? It makes me wonder if, even though these seasons are more or less self-contained, there's not some common thread linking them together. Aliens, demons, something.
Fargo's showrunner Noah Hawley has been a revelation. Before this, his best known work was "Bones". So this has been quite a step up in quality and gravitas. I would say that through almost two seasons, Fargo has been up there in the rareified air with Breaking Bad. But the limited run format prevents me from getting as "invested" as I would in a full-blown serialized drama like that. I'd like to see Hawley create his own TV drama and sell it to FX, AMC, HBO, Netflix or the like. I think he can be TV's next superstar showrunner.
I don't even know what to say about the UFO deal. I'm trying to remember if anything close to that ever came up in a Coen bros movie. I think Hawley's whole Coen Bros fanboy thing is what really ties the whole series together, so to speak. I'm going to have to watch both seasons again & again to catch all the Coen Bros references - some are subtle, some are not. I think it would be a great idea to do a Big Lebowski prequel in a TV show format. Offerman has already proven he could do a great Walter Sobchak.
