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LeanLoner

Anyone feel like season 1 was on a whole different level?

I saw the first 3 seasons, and it's like the first one is a whole different show. Watching it felt like I was watching the perfect TV show to me. All the characters are extremely interesting and their motivations are well explained. The villain is very believable. It's grounded (no aliens lol). It feels so gritty but then it breaks it up

I'm not saying the other ones are bad, it's quality TV. But in my mind, they have no business even being compared. The first one just has that magic.

Is this an unpopular opinion?

Posted Sep 29, 2020, 6:32 AM UTC

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staaamos•

I think season 2 is on a whole different level and that season 1 doesn't come close to touching the quality. And I really like season 1.

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I'm with you. I like all the seasons, but 2 may be the best season of TV to come from the FX network.

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GutzMurphy2099•

Season 1 is like really high quality, velvet-smooth vanilla ice cream. It's close to perfect and a proof of concept for everything that follows. The others are different flavors and therefore naturally more polarizing--3 is darker, 2 is more whimsical with a retro twist, 4 is shaping up pretty dark but also with an old-timey setting. Everyone can agree on vanilla, it's the baseline. But it gets boring if that's all there is. The other seasons are where we see different takes on that core Fargo concept, which is the ice cream itself.

Personally, I'm just thrilled to get to keep trying new flavors of such a high quality scoop. I don't bother myself too much with needing one to be better than the other or whatever. The differences are what make them all unique.

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VincentKings•

Im definitly using that gellato metaphor, its pretty revealing to the polarezing behavior that the different seasons have caused. And you explained it pretty nicely.

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GutzMurphy2099•

Heh, thanks! Feel free to use it to your heart's content!

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Loploproosterprince•

That’s the popular opinion. I know people who stopped watching Fargo mid way through season 2. I think the first season was more direct while season 2 and 3 took more creative risks, but honestly, that makes them more rewarding imo.

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l3reezer•

S2 is the best IMO and is generally the most critically acclaimed. S1 follows after by a slim margin. S3 is still great but inhibited by the more deviated and experimental format. S4 I'm personally still waiting for to knock it out of the park after 2 episodes

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TheHangedKing•

Season one is generally the most well-liked but it’s far from universal. I’d say a roughly equal amount of people favor season 2 from what I’ve seen. Hell, I think I like season three a hair more.

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LeanLonerOP•

I could never really get behind Varga as a villain. One person going crazy could fuck up his whole empire at any time, yet it never happens because like 99% of the people he interacts with are complete pushovers. I wish that season had more "disasters" happening he could fix. Never saw him unprepared, so I felt like he just has massive plot armor.

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Datdude_717•

Him taking advantage of pushovers is his whole thing, so I wouldn't call that plot armor necessarily. I really enjoyed the unstoppable feeling he gave as a villain. Like this guy's way too powerful for an everyday cop or a civilian to take down.

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AnselLovesNuts•

You’re one of those people that say popular opinions as unpopular for karma huh

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LeanLonerOP•

yeah the 6 karma i got is making me rich.

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vonnegutenbergbible•

Probably not an unpopular opinion in general, but likely a less-than-popular opinion here, if only because of its general ubiquity.

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yougotthesilver12•

I’d say the whole different level part might be out of the realm but season 1 was fantastic. It’s just tough to choose between any of the three for me so I would never say season 1 is clearly the best. That’s just my opinion though.

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TheFriffin2•

S1 is my favorite because I love Malvo and the Lester storyline, but S2 is definitely up there with it in terms of quality. Can definitely see people preferring S2 (as they often do)

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SemperSalam•

Season 2 for me was the best for me. I loved Milligan and Hanzee as well as a lot of the other supporting characters. I was really hyped for this season because of Chris rock and seeing how the black mob vs mafia would play out but I gotta say this is the first time I haven’t been captivated by a Fargo season.

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Funky_Nonsense•

Totally agree. Season 1 was thoroughly enjoyable, perfect television. Martin Freeman and Billy Bob Thornton were excellent. I personally like the dysfunctional marriage and "crap I accidentally killed someone" plotlines of Season 2 and 3 . I'm not so in to these mobster plotlines and that's the entirety of Season 4. Fargo has morphed into something entirely different. I'm still here for it but it's not as magical.

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Zmey2•

Previous seasons left some space for ambiguity and demanded some effort and imagination to capture all aspects of the story. For 2 episodes of season 4 released so far i feel like everything is explained and served on your play, which, in my opinion, is quality TV, but no business to be compared with S2-S3)

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Crumbsplash•

It’s not you. From what I’ve seen see far it goes in order imo. 3 had the bowling alley stuff which I cared for not at all. I got about 25 minutes thru first episode of 4 until a completely horrible scene. I’ll try again at some point but if it were a new show, I’d never put it on again

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Snowontherange•

Season 1 is great. I personally didn't find malvo that believable. He kills people in public view and no one does anything about it? No one at the police station matched his finger prints or anything in the system? I really loved the casting of Season 1 though. Martin Freeman played an excellent Jerry Lundergaard type. I'm sure William H. Macy wpuld be satisfied.

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evilhamstero•

Well season 1 where kind of a remake of the movie with some things changed out so yeah it should be on another level

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