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  • sounds like the movie to me, which is one of my favorites.

    i mean who doesn't love the brother coens' movies?

    just can't get over that bad hair piece being worn by thornton. i mean i hope they aren't trying to make it look like it's his real hair, if so: epic fail.

  • miktoxicM miktoxic

    sounds like the movie to me, which is one of my favorites.

    i mean who doesn't love the brother coens' movies?

    just can't get over that bad hair piece being worn by thornton. i mean i hope they aren't trying to make it look like it's his real hair, if so: epic fail.

    Had to dredge up this oldie...

    @miktoxic said:

    sounds like the movie to me, which is one of my favorites.

    It was, but it wasn't... Thoroughly enjoyed season 1. CAtch it if you can.

    And now season 2 has started... another "true story" set in Minniesotah. One episode in and I am hooked for the duration.

    Basically shaping up as a local mob vs. outside mob battle with innocents drawn in.

    Cast which is getting rave reviews includes:

    Ted Danson is the local Sheriff.

    Kirsten Dunst and Jessie Plemons (from Breaking Bad... think the apprentice "cook" who shot the kid on the bicycle)) as a married couple of innocents sucked into it, but don't know it yet.

    Brad Garrett (Everybody Loves Raymond) as outside mobster.

    "When you have a shared vision it is a lot easier to make unpopular decisions." - Paul DePodesta "When you win, say nothing. When you lose, say less." - Paul Brown Complete 2017 Browns Board Mock: http://thebrownsboard.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=46196

  • yes. ended up watching the whole 'billy bob' version of fargo season 1 and thoroughly enjoyed it.

    started now on the 'ted danson' version of fargo (how can they call it season 2 if it's the same story....or is it?).

    like the characters and the story and it seems like it's an off-shoot somehow.

    how much 'true crime' can happen in a little shit hole like fargo?

  • New season, same as True Detective...

    Also new story...

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  • fargo?

    remind me never to wander up that way.

  • miktoxicM miktoxic

    fargo?

    remind me never to wander up that way.

    @miktoxic said:

    fargo?

    remind me never to wander up that way.

    Actually, Fargo had little or nothing to do with either the movie or the First season's TV show.

    In the movie, the action all took place in either Brainerd MN or the Twin Cities don'tcha know.

    In the first season it all took place around Bemidji and Duluth....though there was one scene in Fargo (which was actually shot in Calgary AB).

    And this season I understand that the action takes place around Sioux Falls.

  • just sayin' when you think of crime you'd don't think of the northern midwest.

    BUT 2 of the most notorious degenerate serial killers of this country ed gein (who the character leatherface is based upon) and dahmer are 2 that were from that region.

    it's just kinda dumb to keep basing stories (although different) with the same title from something made famous from one incident.

    The GipperT 1 Reply

  • Yeah, because name ID in a TV show is a bad thing???

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  • it's like having 2 black dykes and a homo housekeeper and 6 adopted asian kids and calling it the brady bunch.

    Tour2maT 1 Reply
  • miktoxicM miktoxic

    just sayin' when you think of crime you'd don't think of the northern midwest.

    BUT 2 of the most notorious degenerate serial killers of this country ed gein (who the character leatherface is based upon) and dahmer are 2 that were from that region.

    it's just kinda dumb to keep basing stories (although different) with the same title from something made famous from one incident.

    @miktoxic said:

    just sayin' when you think of crime you'd don't think of the northern midwest.

    BUT 2 of the most notorious degenerate serial killers of this country ed gein (who the character leatherface is based upon) and dahmer are 2 that were from that region.

    it's just kinda dumb to keep basing stories (although different) with the same title from something made famous from one incident.

    Actually, Dahmer grew up right here in Northeast Ohio. Lived on Bath Road, graduated from Revere HS. His first kill happened here, apparently after an Easy Street (Westside Steve) concert that he and the victim attended. (and at which I too may have been present)

    Also, the most notorious (degenerate) serial killer of another Midwest city: Kansas City, grew up right here in the Akron area, in Cuyahoga Falls. And he was my client as I knew both his mother and stepfather....who passed away recently. Robert Berdella.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Berdella

    The brother, Dan, mentioned in the article, was also a client, but he later committed suicide. There is still another younger half brother still alive.

  • So.. Westside Steve now has a six degrees of separation link to Dahmer

    Early man walked away as modern man took control. Their minds weren't all the same and to conquer was their goal. So He built his great empires and he slaughtered his own kind, and he died a confused man and killed himself in his own mind...
    The GipperT 1 Reply

  • I'd go on to bet that BTK was a much more notorious Kansas City killer

    Edit my bad btk was in Wichita

    Early man walked away as modern man took control. Their minds weren't all the same and to conquer was their goal. So He built his great empires and he slaughtered his own kind, and he died a confused man and killed himself in his own mind...
  • T The Cysko Kid

    So.. Westside Steve now has a six degrees of separation link to Dahmer

    @the-cysko-kid said:

    So.. Westside Steve now has a six degrees of separation link to Dahmer

    One degree?

    FYI, both he and I can do six degrees of Kevin Bacon.

    and here is how:

    He and I were both in a movie called One Trick Pony starring Paul Simon.

    Simon was in the video called You Can Call Me Al with Chevy Chase.

    Chevy Chase was in Caddyshack with Bill Murray

    Bill Murray was in Ghost Busters with Dan Ackroyd

    Dan Ackroyd was in The Blues Brothers with John Belushi.

    John Belushi was in Animal House with: Kevin Bacon.

    (I could probably narrow the steps down...but I wanted to get in all 6 degrees and all those classic movies)

  • miktoxicM miktoxic

    it's like having 2 black dykes and a homo housekeeper and 6 adopted asian kids and calling it the brady bunch.

    @miktoxic said:

    it's like having 2 black dykes and a homo housekeeper and 6 adopted asian kids and calling it the brady bunch.

    Sounds like a strong candidate for a CBS summer replacement show...

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