Fargo: Season 1, Episode 4 “Eating the Blame” (A-)
This is the last of the show’s episodes that I received early as part of a press kit sent by FX, and I had planned to watch it some time ago before other shows got in the way. I’m glad I waited, since it gave me plenty of time to forget just how good this show is and to truly ease back into its particular tone and mood. This episode started with a magnificent and unexpected flashback, explaining how Stavros found the money at just the right time and then subsequently made his fortune. Being tormented with plagues is pretty miserable, and that, combined with all of his duplicity in this episode, makes Lorne seem like a truly evil person. Billy Bob Thornton was incredible in this episode, donning an entirely different persona to fool Schmidt and Bill, exonerating himself completely as a suspect and damaging Gus’ reputation in the same way Molly’s has already been tarnished. Lester getting himself arrested after escaping from Mr. Numbers and Mr. Wrench was a smart play, but that quick thinking was immediately overshadowed by the look of resigned dread on his face when they got into a brawl at a bar and got themselves arrested, thrown into the very same cell in which poor Lester was waiting. His misfortune is comic in nature, though it could get real and deadly fast, though he also seems to be smarter than might be expected, knowing that telling his brother that he was taken won’t him much help and that he’ll have to rely on his own wits to get out of a tough and very dangerous situation.
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