Just announced that it's dropping April 19th. We're getting back to back Noah Hawley on FX (Thank you Based God)

Ewan McGregor is the lead in dual roles with Carrie Coon and Mary Elizabeth Winstead co-staring.

Takes place a few years after Season 1. A few characters from Season 1 will pop up.

Remember guys this is it for a while as he's pulling a Louie with this show.

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Carrie Coon (plays the police chief), David Thewils and Michael Stuhlbarg (the "villains"), Jim Gaffigan, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Jim Gaffigan, Shea Wingham, Scoot McNairy, Karan Soni, Fred Melamed, and Thomas Mann.

Basic descriptions of the other characters are out there, along with minor over-arching plot details.

Regardless, can't wait. Season 2 was my favorite single season of anything not named "The Wire."

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I might put it in their top 5.

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is on the come up. Throw in Wigham and Scoot? Damn. Can't wait. Season 2 was pitch perfect.

I dug what I'd seen so far but wasn't fully engaged and just ended up forgetting about it.

Apparently it's one of the best shows on TV and Season 2 had the gawd Bokeem. I'll definitely rectify my error before April.

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Still don't think they needed the Oliver Platt storyline. But yeah, by the end, it gets really good and then season 2 is top notch.

Also, this is the guy that is doing Legion, which after two episodes is one of my favorite shows on TV right now.

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I'll leave it at that.

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You don't have to see season one to enjoy season two. Season two took place before season one, so take that for what it's worth. Hard for me to compare both seasons because it's been a while since I've seen them, but I will say Bookeem Woodbine and Kirsten Dunst both put on acting clinics in the second season. Plus the storylines in the second season were pretty stellar as well.

"Sean sparks like John Starks, nah, Sean ball like John Wall" - Rest In Power Forever Sean Price.

A couple of references to season 1 but they don't affect the story at all. More "Ooh, that person is related to the guy in season 1." or "So this is what they were referencing."

Might even be better to know the references before season 1.

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>I'll definitely rectify my error before
>April.

Did you definitely rectify your error before April?

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in a looooong time.

Went back and watched season 1 and while it was good I might not have watched until the end if I didn't see season 2 first.


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i want to rewatch. looking forward to season 3.

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I have complete faith in this show after the first two seasons

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because the guy went to do Legion?

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It was Legion but also wrangling the cast since they have people with active movie careers involved.

And he's writing another novel. Dude is working!

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...on the ground, which is why there was a pretty big gap between Season 2 and 3. I'm guessing it would be a lot of cramming to get a new season written and the filming crammed in to have a season 4 ready by April of next year. Plus, now he has Legion and all these shows in development.

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when she first got up nude to distract dumb ass, and then dropped the AC on his head

I was like... i'm in love

The opening scene was great but beyond that nothing really grabbed me. I felt like the accents were more inconsistent than ever.

I still love me some Mary Elizabeth Winstead but it felt like a story that I'd seen before. David Thewlis was intriguing so we'll see where it goes.

Then again, I felt like season 1 was haphazard for the first half but Hawley really brought it home.

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She looked at it and was blown away. Seems like that's the inspiration for the figurine he built for his grand kid but that went over my head. Seems like an important part to the story too.

Laughed out loud when the dumb criminal who was supposed to rob the brother asks him... "stamp? Like... a..... postage?" And he licked his finger.

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Maybe for another alien side-story like last season.

The grandfather gave the kid the sculpture that was based on a sci-fi book that he was hiding, somewhat inexplicably. Not sure we're supposed to know more than that right now.

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Even if they never incorporate it into the story, the East Germany stuff was brilliant.

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"what's a leader if he isn't reluctant"

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really took me out of it.

I know geography on TV shows never really matters, but even as high and forgetful as he was, there's no way Maurice could get that confused unless he had no earthly concept of where Eden Prairie is and was just planning on driving in a random direction until he saw a road sign. Then when Ray yells at him for what's supposed to be a short drive, I had to go back and confirm where he was supposed to be leaving from.

It'll be fine from this point forward, but it confused the hell out of me for no reason.

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>really took me out of it.
>
>I know geography on TV shows never really matters, but even as
>high and forgetful as he was, there's no way Maurice could get
>that confused unless he had no earthly concept of where Eden
>Prairie is and was just planning on driving in a random
>direction until he saw a road sign. Then when Ray yells at him
>for what's supposed to be a short drive, I had to go back and
>confirm where he was supposed to be leaving from.
>
>It'll be fine from this point forward, but it confused the
>hell out of me for no reason.


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"what's a leader if he isn't reluctant"

>really took me out of it.
>
>I know geography on TV shows never really matters, but even as
>high and forgetful as he was, there's no way Maurice could get
>that confused unless he had no earthly concept of where Eden
>Prairie is and was just planning on driving in a random
>direction until he saw a road sign. Then when Ray yells at him
>for what's supposed to be a short drive, I had to go back and
>confirm where he was supposed to be leaving from.
>
>It'll be fine from this point forward, but it confused the
>hell out of me for no reason.


A large crux of your point depends on if Maurice is a long time native of that area like you are. Was it established that he was born and/or raised from Minnesota?

Given that Noah Hawley seems to write and create with great attention to detail, I can see how that would bother you if the two locations are that far apart as it seems from your post.

"Sean sparks like John Starks, nah, Sean ball like John Wall" - Rest In Power Forever Sean Price.

and people in the sticks know all the other little stick towns and developments around them.

unless he had just moved there that week it didn't really make sense.

www.engadgethd.com - the other stuff i'm looking at

they get enough stuff the day after, but they don't get this, or that, or Better Call Saul, so I just have to avoid the entire conversation and wait a year to see what's up.


just finished season 2 two weeks ago, love the characters but I really loved how small season 1 was.


real curious to see how season 3 connects to the previous two and turns out...a year from now.


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(my homeboy told me S2 was the shit, so i watched that first)

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"what's a leader if he isn't reluctant"

...and really dug all the references to S2.

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This season is only 10 episodes, right? Going to be interesting to see how quickly everything ties in together seeing as how this episode was somewhat slow. With the Shea Wigham (sp?) character in the mix, there appears to be a lot of moving parts this season.

Noah Hawley thus far has been undefeated with this prior shows, so I have faith that this will be stellar television.

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Holy shit that was good. I'm going to watch it again.

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Layered and imaginative

Love the animation of the step dads story, all the lil symbolic connections, the amount of small details that connect dots in the plot and character backgrounds.

Just great narrative work

Plus the Diner they were in, i was there last week lol

Fantastic storytelling

When Sy is in front of his hummer just pointing at Ray and then struggles to open the door, gets in, points some more, then drives off, and we see the boots on Ray's car, I was dying

or when Gloria and her new chief are talking about the investigation and he just starts going off about war and ieds and she's like wtf, hilarious

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it feels like it has so much symbolic meaning. I just haven't teased it out yet

Am I the only one?

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There's a ton of plot lines going down, but the show feels as if it isn't moving all that quickly. I'll give the show more time though before I fully stick my thumbs all the way down.

"Sean sparks like John Starks, nah, Sean ball like John Wall" - Rest In Power Forever Sean Price.

i'm not jumping ship or anything but they definitely had me hooked by now in prior seasons and it just hasn't happened yet

There are def some cool scenes and great potential but i'm still not all the way bought in to this storyline

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I didn't love the first half of the season but then everything came together perfectly.

The Sheriff shutting down the murder investigation feels fairly arbitrary and phony. I could see if it was a big city police department and there was a lot of shit but seems like they'd have the time to fully look into the case, ESPECIALLY if someone connected to an officer was involved.

I feel like we finally hit the point of no return for the Stussey Brothers. They still slipped into aw shucks mode a little too often for everything going on but now that their ladies have been attacked, it should be full steam ahead.

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The LA one is the only one i truly loved

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I don't know nor do I really care if I missed a great deal of what I missed either. The story lines for this season are just plain flat out boring me to tears. I'll continue to watch so I can get a sense of closure, and the acting this season isn't bad or anything, but I just don't care that deeply about these characters.

"Sean sparks like John Starks, nah, Sean ball like John Wall" - Rest In Power Forever Sean Price.

also i wonder how the sci-fi this season will play out with the characters, being that Gloria isn't "recognized by sliding doors, and electronic soaps and water faucets.

thing that Gloria explored. Did something from his past come back to haunt her stepdad? Was it even him with a changed name or someone else? That whole thing confused me.

This season took a bit to get going but Varga is a great villain and I can't help but root for Nikki to win.

He left Hollywood after getting played and thinking he killed Zimmerman. He took the name looking at the imprint on the toilet when he was throwing up.

My guess is he ended up in Minnesota

but the first season was very light on sci-fi (from what I remember) and the second wound up pretty heavily, inexplicably sci-fi for a brief moment in each of the last few episodes.

then this season started out with her being unseen by automatic doors that responded to others normally and her step father being a disgraced sci-fi author. so, obviously begs the question, when is the sci-fi going to hit the fan in this season, or was all that a red herring and a wink and a nod to both those who loved the spaceship appearance during the shootout and those who remain utterly perplexed by it.

I'm in the latter camp, and really hope we get an answer for it before this anthology series is over for good.

there is some obvious ties to the theme of Bioshock / Bioshock Infinite ("there's always a lighthouse, there's always a man, there's always a city") in this case it being always a malevolent force, always a police officer apart from the understood ways of the world, always a small town imposed on by larger forces.

the question is where the aliens/sci-fi fit in, and when.

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and she wasn't coming up. while she's obviously a recognizable physical presence, she's faded into the background since coming back from L.A. and putting everything together from her living room while nobody cares, bad or good guys.

It's odd to me that the general tone of this thread is "meh". I think this is really artistic television and probably the most confident from an aesthetic standpoint this show has been. Lot of great shots and moments, and Ewan has been great playing two sides of a coin.

Also a big fan of what Sthulbarg has been doing this season, just his facial reactions have been hilarious.

One thing I will say, though, is I think they're leaning on the stilted dialogue a little hard this year. It feels more transparent than it did the previous two seasons. Almost every sentence out of anyone but Varga's mouth is somehting to the effect of, "I'm talkin' aboot, well, you knooow. And why's it always gotta be about the, what's it, sadomasochism?" It's real hard to impersonate for a good example, lol, but I wonder if anyone else agrees with me that it's a bit over the top and lost a bit of its charm as a result this year. I get these characters are super flummoxed but I wish they'd dial it back just one notch.

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aka the friend with the cleft asshole.

They've been showing it on HBO all the time these past few months, so the connection was fresh in my mind.

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that was in a Cohen Bros. movie that also appeared on the Fargo anthology series?

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there are probably a few others

>that was in a Cohen Bros. movie that also appeared on the
>Fargo anthology series?

Along with Knox Harrington, there's Michael Stuhlbarg and Frederick Melamed, who both appeared in "Serious Man."

Stephen Root was also apparently in Season 1, but I'm having a hard time remembering who he was. I think he was the guy Billy Bob went undercover to kill towards the end of the season.

I don't think anyone from Season 2 has been in a Coen Bros. movie before.

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is one of the best Coen Brothers characters ever. That movie is underrated.

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I don't mind that they killed off Ray. I hate the way they executed it...

Really he was gunna be petty about the brother giving him the stamp finally only to have that silly you take it no you take it "struggle" and the random glass in the neck?

Nah... would've preferred they argued and Emmit just smashed him over the head to death

Ray's death just felt cheap...

Also Lolzers at the gah damn moon landing propaganda from VM, which makes sense cause he a Soviet and they lost the space wars of the 60s

hoping the season ends on a strong note but so far i'm not all that impressed

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and in terms of how they tell the story: fractured, from different POV, with allusion, and then intense small moments of violence, it's still great.

right now its the weakest of the three, but it's still better than anything not named Atlanta or the The Americans

though they're all very good.

uhh Season two of BCS is def NOT better than any of those or adding Mr. Robot, and I doubt highly either of the ones I aint seen are better than the first 4 seasons of the Americans or this. Sorry breh this is next level story telling

Season 2 of The Leftovers is one of the best examples of storytelling on a TV show I've ever seen. It's criminally underwatched, definitely watch the whole series if you get a chance.

Fargo is good but everybody else seems to like it more than me. I wouldn't put it in my top 3 current shows right now. Then again I liked Season 1 much better than Season 2 unlike everybody else.

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She's trying to see Swango, and used the same loophole Qualls used to get into the room undetected..... Didn't seem that far a leap in logic that like the scared cop at the police station, someone created an event to lure dude away from that desk.... Qualls goes in and so does the sheriff who's still trying to figure a way to get in... She notices the guy gone and seizes the opportunity.....

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I enjoyed the most recent episode mainly because of the dinner scene. Spectacular performances all around and I had some huge belly laughs at the way McGregor's character was so transparently awful in reaction to this brother's death.

The one issue I had with the episode last night though was how in the hell did Carrie Coon's character end up getting access to the jail cell? The prior scenes excellently showed the bureaucratic hell she had to put up with in trying to do the right thing for the case, yet she some how is able to show up right in the nick of time to save the witness? I had a huge problem with that since it contradicts what the show expertly established a few scenes ago.

Also, wasn't that Vargas dude opening up the McGregor's character's Christmas gifts when the episode started? Did he unwrap and then re-wrap the gifts when the McGregor character eventually got home? That's not an issue I had with the episode per-say, just something I'm curious about.

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didn't lock the door behind him? She could've been hovering tying to get access to Nikki and noticed that shady copper entering the area and rode along. The new chief, Shea Wiggims (sp?) is killing it. The mashed potato stuff had be dying.

I just need someone to fuck up Varga and his crew. They are too damn smug and I need that to end. Enjoying it.

>I just need someone to fuck up Varga and his crew. They are
>too damn smug and I need that to end. Enjoying it.

Varga and his crew are the same folks from season two that put Bokeem Woodbine's character behind a keyboard, right? I'm assuming as much seeing how brazen and confident they are with their actions.

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they were just there, wrapped up again perfectly. Varga is such a weirdo its great.

I think they tried to do the scene where Billy Bob scares Hanks into not doing anything, with the scene in the police station w the deputy and the Russian guy. didnt really *mind* it, but it was super obvious they tried playing up that dont do anything to stop me bc im a scary villain and youre a nice cop doing your job.

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especially since the previous scene is those cops bascially telling her to fuck off if she doesn't get a signature.

>especially since the previous scene is those cops bascially
>telling her to fuck off if she doesn't get a signature.


If/when the Carrie Coon character successfully takes down either Varga and his crew (not likely) or the living McGregor twin (more likely), I hope it's done plausibly and won't involve too many leaps of logic, similar to how she was able to get to the jail cell right in the nick of time.

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The guy she sat next to on the bus...was he one of the "twins" from season 1? He looked like the tall one and the music queued up when he was revealed.

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It was Mr. Wrench, the deaf hitman, from Season 1.

when they queued up the music, i was like "oh shit!"

>It was Mr. Wrench, the deaf hitman, from Season 1.

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i can't remember if they did it in earlier seasons