Jeri Jacquin
Nominated for Six Emmy Awards including Outstanding Series on
DVD from Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment is the amazing FX series FARGO : Year 3.
In St. Cloud ,
Minnesota
These two brothers have even deeper problems when Ray, a
parole officer, decides he will enlist the help of Maurice (Scoot McNairy), a
parolee to get back at Emmitt by taking what was first Ray’s anyway. This is
where things get even more twisted because Maurice doesn’t really remember the
address of Emmit’s house and ends up in another Stussy house!
Emmit’s problems come from a shade business dealing with
Varga (David Thewlis) and a two year old loan. Now Emmit worries about his
business and has Varga investigated which only causes a journey off a parking
garage.
Back at the address Maurice did go to, turns out it is the
home of Ennis (Scott Hylands) Stussy of Eden Valley. To add insult to injury,
temporary police chief Gloria Burgle (Carrie Coon) discovers the body of relative
by marriage and their home all messed up. Of course when the new police chief
shows up and dealing with a funeral, Gloria learns something about her
stepfather that she never knew. But that is a side note as she begins to
investigate the murder.
Ray and Nikki try to figure out how they are going to get
the stamp which is a moot point when Nikki discovers it has been moved. Emmit
tells Sy (Michael Stuhlbarg) the stamp is being reframed and Sy says Ray better
stay away and to make his point there is a little fender bender.
Thaddeus Mobley (Thomas Mann) writes a novel called The Planet Wyn in 1975 which catches the
attention of Los Angeles
producer Howard Zimmerman (Fred Melamed). Mobley also meets Vivian Lord
(Francesca Eastwood) who tries to seduce him into a deal. He doesn’t fall for
it and lets it be known he isn’t a sucker for Hollywood .
Gloria wants to know more about the Mobley story and heads
to L.A. to
discover that both Zimmerman and Vivian are still around with their own story
to tell. In a weird time travel moment, the name Dennis Stussy takes on new
meaning for Gloria.
Gloria’s partner Marshman (Mark Forward) let’s her know that
a man named Maurice has been found dead add more mystery to her life. Discovering
Ray is his parole officer, it’s time for a visit from the local law. But before
that Ray does a little brotherly costuming to get his hands on Emmitt’s money.
Officer Winnie Lopez (Olivia Sandoval) is investigating a case against Sy and
meets Gloria when the two piece together the weird coincidence about the
slightly different addresses and names of Emmit and Ray.
Ray continues with his farce disguising himself as Emmit and
it finally hits home. Ray moves his life along as a wedding is being prepared.
Varga and Sy are not seeing eye to eye about the police nosing around but it
gets more conflicted when someone wants to buy Stussy Lots in the form of Ruby
Goldfarb (Mary McDonnell).
Gloria and Winnie get their hands on Ray to question him
about Ennis’ murder but the new police chief thinks there is nothing there and
lets him go. He gets home to find Nikki in a shocking state at the hands of
thugs Yuri (Goran Bogdan) and Memo (Andy Yu). Wanting revenge is what will
bring two brothers together one final time.
Gloria and Winnie are about to expand their investigation
even further when it’s brought to a halt just as quickly. Winnie’s boss puts
her back on traffic duty and tells Gloria to get out of town. Gloria isn’t
taking it at all and in a fluke actually saves Nikki’s life from Golem (DJ
Qualls) but breaking her parole she has to head off to prison.
Now Yuri, Meemo and Golem are on the hunt to get Nikki but
fail once again as she finds herself attached to Mr. Wrench (Russell Harvard)
running through the woods. All of this has Gloria demoted and everyone still on
the run while Varga has expanded the business.
Emmit isn’t free from suspicion as the police are still
close by but freaking him out even more is his office has been broken into and,
well, tagged with a photo of a certain stamp. Varga sees how this is all
affecting him trying to keep him calm. Unable to deal with it Emmitt decides
there is only one thing he can do.
In St. Cloud
two more Stussy’s are killed and Emmitt is talking to Gloria about the issues
he had with his brother. Varga freaks out and wants Meemo to get him out of
their immediately but Nikki and Mr. Wrench have other plans. Nikki makes Varga
an offer he can’t refuse – or can he?
When IRS agent Dollard (Hamish Linklater) gets to his office
there is a mysterious package waiting for him along with Gloria’s telephone
number. Waiting for some good news, Dollard tells Gloria that there is a tax
scam going on at Stussy Lots. Emmitt returns only to discover he is responsible
for all the debts of the business and Nikki takes one to many chances.
But it all comes together when Gloria finds her place at the
Department of Homeland Security but is still dealing with Varga and a chance
that things will once again change!
McGregor as Emmitt and Ray Stussy does an insanely incredible
job of playing brothers who may seem different but when it comes to being
greedy and vengeful – are exactly the same. I just love the way he portrays
them both to uniquely that I forget McGregor is doing both parts. Love when
that happens. He is also the voice of the Captain which means this was a busy
season that I’m sure McGregor isn’t likely to forget
Coon as Gloria is such a joy to watch as she is involved in
a little family mystery of her own brought to her by the Stussy brothers. She
takes everything in stride where as I probably wouldn’t have been so calm.
That’s what makes Coon riveting to watch and I can’t wait to see her again!
Winstead as Nikki is just a gorgeous wild child who loves
her man and when things go south, she is only going to visit before returning
north. Oh yes, she isn’t about to let anyone or anything get in the way of her
revenge.
Thewlis as Varga gets a chance to be as bad as he wants to
be. Of course I knew he had it in him and if you have seen the 1996 film
DRAGONHEART and his psycho role of King Einon, I’d say it was good training for
the crazy of Varga.
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The DVD of FARGO: Year 3 contains 4-discs with all ten
episodes that include: The Law of Vacant
Places, The Principles of Restricted Choice, The Law of Non-Contradiction, The
Narrow Escape Problem, The House of Special Purpose, The Lord of No Mercy, The
Law of Inevitability, Who Rules the Land of Denial?, Aporia and Somebody to Love.
There are also Special Features that include First Look, Ray and Nikki, Emmit Stussy and
Sy Feltz, One Actor Two Characters, Gloria Burgle, Varga, Anatomy of a Scene,
The Digital Age, Connectivity and References, Locations and Noah Hawley.
So that begs the question, will there be another season of FARGO ? Well, FX Chief
John Landgraf has said, “We haven’t heard the idea from Noah Hawley for what
the fourth season would be. What we’ve encouraged Noah to do is think about it
and make sure he has an idea he’s excited about.”
As vague as that may seem, I’m going to keep my hopes high
and my love of FARGO open for another season no matter how long it takes.
That’s how the fans I’ve spoken to feel about their FARGO fix.
In the meantime, add FARGO :
Year 3 to your home entertainment library along with the first two seasons of
the amazing series that has kept us all thrilled!
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