Arrested Development by Thomas Pynchon

[jesse gooch]

It’s hard for me to think of a better show than the first season of Fargo. There a few I’ve enjoyed just as much, but nothing I can really place above it. Also, I grew up in Bemidji Minnesota. The show is completely inaccurate as far as geography (wasn’t actually filmed there) and the way the police and the jail are portrayed (the drug task force for the entire northern half of the state operates from Bemidji, the cops, sadly, are nowhere near that dim) but there are a few fun references. I feel like it did my hometown proud.
The new season seems fun, but I’ve only had the time to watch the first 4 of them so far. 

> On Jun 19, 2017, at 6:17 PM, Smoke Teff <smoketeff at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Fargo the tv show also has the ability to occasionally zoom out to some higher perspective and offer hard-won Omni-directional awareness in the Pynchon can. It also has this understanding--notably in season 1; the poster--that everyone is operating with uniquely and equally insane senses of the world, some of which cohere with one another and make status quo, others of which resist status quo (to various amounts/kinds/directions of suffering). Respects the fragility and malleability of the individual and collective human minds, in addition to the weird power of that fact. It features--then resists so as to highlight--the world as a humanly interpreted thing.
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> I haven't seen season three but season one is occasionally about as good as tv tends to get. I believe. 
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> On Jun 19, 2017, at 8:44 AM, rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com <mailto:richard.romeo at gmail.com>> wrote:
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>> Fargo has very offbeat characters (ala big lebowski), usually a protagonist that throws the natural order out of whack--billy bob thornton's character. eg in season 1; Varga in season 3 (a wonderful David Thewliss). the doofus parole officer in season 3 played by ewan macgregor is very much like a Zoyd-type schlub there's the general vibe of outside forces (the underworld, aliens, corporate interests, government/law enforcement) closing in on average people caught up in events larger than what they're used to.
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>> rich
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>> On Sat, Jun 17, 2017 at 11:39 PM, Lex Alfonso <alfonsoandtheargonauts at gmail.com <mailto:alfonsoandtheargonauts at gmail.com>> wrote:
>> Oh? I haven't seen it yet.
>> 
>> Do tell
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>> On Thu, Jun 15, 2017 at 10:44 PM, rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com <mailto:richard.romeo at gmail.com>> wrote:
>> there are some Pynchonian elements to Noah Hawley's fab show, Fargo
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>> On Thu, Jun 15, 2017 at 7:33 AM, Keith Davis <kbob42 at gmail.com <mailto:kbob42 at gmail.com>> wrote:
>> Funniest show ever...
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>> > On Jun 15, 2017, at 6:55 AM, Lex Alfonso <alfonsoandtheargonauts at gmail.com <mailto:alfonsoandtheargonauts at gmail.com>> wrote:
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>> > been thinking about arrested development
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>> > newly renewed for a fifth season
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>> > non-linear narrative
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>> > large cast of eccentrics with telling names
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>> > intertextuality and metatextuality
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>> > satire of american culture as perceived through esoteric interests (close up magic, maritime law, amateur theatre)
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>> > historical events as framing devices (iraq war, 08 housing crash)
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>> > post-industrial civilisation under the microscope
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>> > i dunno, i feel it
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