One man's bland is another's bliss, don't ya know. That's certainly the case with the third season of Noah Hawley's Fargo franchise, with its delicious recipe of quirky humanism and chilling, shocking violence unaltered by a year's hiatus. [1-14 May 2017, p.19]

Season three maintains Fargo’s unconventional feel but in a way that’s even more engaging than previous seasons.

The writing in each scene, from extended banter to declarative sentence, is utterly masterful.

As always, however, the pleasures of Fargo derive from the variety of the characters and the clever wordplay they indulge in. ... Coon and Hawley quickly establish the distinctiveness of Gloria’s character: she’s not as polite as Allison Tolman’s Deputy Molly Solverson in season one, nor as tight-lipped serene as Patrick Wilson’s Trooper Lou Solverson in season two.

Giving McGregor two roles seems at first like an oddball casting choice for a show that doesn’t need any more weirdness. Two episodes aren’t enough to say whether it is justified as more than Emmy bait for McGregor. Of the two roles, he seems more convincing as Ray. Thewlis oozes menace and charm as a mobster who has seen the world. ... Pack light. Fargo moves fast.

The show’s reputation continues to attract a variety of actors you wouldn’t necessarily put in a room together. Fortunately, McGregor underplays the dual role, avoiding caricature and subtly altering his Minnesota accent to suggest Ray and Emmit have had two completely different lives.

In the early going, the third season of Fargo, which is set in 2010, offers a sprinkling of skillful characterization, dialogue, and production design without providing enough psychologically compelling components to balance out the largely dry and even perfunctory aspects of the drama. The elements viewers have come to expect are accounted for, as if by checklist.

Hawley es un guionista de televisión brillante. Creador de Fargo serie. La primera temporada nos sorprendió a todos. La segunda lo superó. La tercera, ¡VUELVE HACERLO! Parecía imposible superar la S02 pero este genio lo hizo, lo que ya no es casualidad y le convierte en uno de los grandes del medio. Para mí, esta es la MEJOR temporada de Fargo. ¿Porqué? No porque la trama sea mejor ni mole más sino simplemente porque contando lo mismo que las otras dos, tratando la condición humana, lo peor del ser esta temporada lo cuenta todavía de forma más madura, oscura y dura. Esta temporada he acabado algunos episodios reventado y tremendamente dolido, porque hay escenas en esta tercera que duelen, que como espectador te duelen profundamente y eso lo consiguen pocas series/películas. Algunos capítulos como el tercero, el quinto o el octavo son buen ejemplo de ello. Los personajes son fascinantes y el ¿antagonista? no es mejor que Malmo pero es muy inquietante y a la vez fascinante y repulsivo. Yo he vibrado con pocas, poquisimas temporadas más que con esta tercera de Fargo. Porque sí, esto es mucha CANELA.

[SPOILER ALERT: This review contains spoilers.]

I am a fan of shows that attempt different goals in every season but this is an example of going too far off the rails. This season attempts to be ultra-artistic, bringing out very obscure moments and scenes, even the entirety of episode 3, that feel like a waste of time. Side stories and random moments that never fall into place and instead fade out of existence doesn't make great entertainment nor art for that matter. If I wanted to look at some obscure films or tv shows, I would pay to watch those, I didn't expect that to be the main staple of a suspenseful franchise with colorful characters and dark humor. Along with being obscure, this season is bland, in color and in feeling, in fact it strove to make me feel uncomfortable a lot. All the fun and comedic irony I know Fargo for is stripped out, there are no chuckles and no silliness in either the story or characters, all that's left is the location and the accent in people's voices. The ending too is a decide-for-yourself moment and I did like that because it made me think and ties in with the plot, unlike all the preceding, random decide-for-yourself moments. The acting is superb, especially by David Thewlis who plays a despicable antagonist and Ewan McGregor who is playing two brothers. The acting is a pillar that held my interest. The montages are stylish and captivating but most of them empty because they serve little purpose to the plot and at times they are overdone. Even with all the issues present, I would still be able to enjoy the season and think that it's just the weaker one but there is a more glaring problem. There is no character that is truly likable besides for a side police character. There was Nicki Swango, but her story wraps up so disappointingly that it makes it pointless to think back on her. The main protagonist is bland beyond belief, with plainness and dedication being her main personality traits. There is no light or darkness in her, in fact the symbolism used to portray her is that of a person that doesn't exist as she cannot be detected by technology and is juxtaposed with a repetitive robot that nobody cares about. I like when shows try to do something new in a season and if in this season they set out to have everything follow a theme of blandness: bland characters, bland colors, bland artsy moments, then they have achieved it immensely, otherwise whatever they were trying to achieve wound up to be scattered, disconnected bits of shallow glory that were irrelevant to the plot.

Dnf, I unfortunately found this season of Fargo a little too repetitive in its tone to previous seasons. Whilst the story is (obviously) different it just feels like its treading the same old steps. I do think that part of the reason I feel this is that Fargo is just not that great of a show to binge watch. The plots, themes and ideas start to merge together to form one big messy amalgamation. Add to that fact that the characters in this season are a far cry from the peak of S2 and you have a recipe for disappointment. I will probably get round to watching S5 at some point as I've heard its got high praise and the advantage of Fargo being an anthology is that I can hop right back in but, for now, I'll be giving the show a break.

Not even close to the previous two seasons , at times it drags and is boring beyond belief. The McGregor characters are not very interesting. Too bad as I loved the first two.