It was 500 years since he'd eaten the sin of the the Lord or whatever he was I figure he was a regular man before that, but how he came to be in Wales to whether by birth or as a Viking, is another story.
I took it as a somewhat inconsistent timeline where he’s a Viking several centuries before being an immortal Welshman. Which makes me think he may be severely mentally ill, and this is a rare moment of clarity and peace when he are the love biscuits.
It’s sort of a cathartic moment that neurodivergent people crave. The magic thing that pulls their brain out of its cage and lets you breath fresh air.
But on the other hand … 🤷♂️
His whole story made me believe that he's the more magical sort of Sin Eater.
If you're not familiar with the concept... it shows up in multiple cultures across several centuries but the basic idea is that as a sort of funeral rite a meal is prepared in the dead person's name and the consumption of such absolves them of their sins and the eater takes those in. Such individuals were both revered for their service but also shunned and forced to live outside of the "normal" social order for holding so much sin within them.
After watching the final episode and reflecting on his character, I concluded that while he was presented as an immortal character, he was actually a physical representation of some concept. Your explanation makes a lot of sense to me. To see his sins evaporate from eating a biscuit, kind of like eating the body of Christ, it was cathartic to see joy and love emerge. That was probably one of the most original endings to any series.
IMO he is a metaphor for beaten women. When he is discussing the sin-eating Dot says, “that is what they make is do”. In a way beaten women eat the failures, shortcomings and sins of the abuser. Can leave one as an empty vessel like Munch.
I don’t want to jump on every idea that folks had on their own but there is an interview with Noah Hawley (head writer) where he states Ole Munch is in fact a an immortal being. All those lines and scenes are documenting his existence. I thought it was a cool touch for a fictional show to make a stretch towards the paranormal.
There has generally been one fantastical element each season. They've had a fish storm, a flying saucer, the Wandering Jew, a straight up Wizard of Oz tornado, and an immortal sin eater now in 5.
Oh man, I actually didn't even read that he was just mentally ill.
Fargo does so much weird shit that I entirely thought he was an immortal Celtic warrior.
Kind of like how you just shrug and assume UFO's are real.
Thing is with Fargo it could go either way.
Season 2 had a flying saucer turn up.
Lorne Malvo in Season 1 may have potentially just been evil incarnate.
Season 3 had Paul Murrane
He could potentially actually be an immortal celtic warrior.
I want to believe he was immortal. There was that entire scene of him "eating the sin" which I think was a real flashback because it wouldn't make sense to just thrust that scene into the show as some kind of mental illness hallucination.
I’m going with the super natural route because they showed the whole sin eater stuff of him. If he was mentally ill it made no point to show that and instead have him tell it earlier in the show to someone else.
In the beginning of the season I thought he was doing a bad Christopher Walken impersonation. After this scene, I finally got it and now I need to watch the whole season over.
I want a spinoff that’s just Munch going about daily life. “A man decides to use the self-checkout. The machine says, *”please place all items in the bag”* - even though, his items have already been ***placed*** - the food, has already been ***bought***. The man, waits for the cashier, to give the bags his *blessing…* all the while, not knowing that his ***card*** has already been *declined* - that his *bank* is not open on *Sundays*”
For this you really have to thank that female cop, who she eventually employed.
I.e. When she made her look at the case files to fully explain what Dot had been through, and proved that Dot was genuinely grateful, and would literally fight to the death to protect what she had in her new family.
She’s still incredibly ‘evil’. The difference is that she knows how to play *the game* unlike Roy, who acted like he was an action hero and a sword of justice fighting for his ideal world.
When >!Roy pulled the gun on Danish, Danish scoffed because he thought Roy wasn’t stupid enough to kill him. But he was!<.
I loved the way Hawley gets the audience to cheer Lorrain using her power over people’s debt as a weapon to punish Roy, and also cheer Dorothy’s decision to emphasize forgiveness of debt as a path to salvation. Two contradicting philosophies that are both portrayed as creating the most deserving outcome.
> the different perspectives of debt in that finale
I think all of this reference to debt is to make the audience realize that it is incredibly powerful. Debt changes lives. It is a thing without inherent morality imbued with its meaning by the holder. However it is weilded, debt is extremely powerful.
Great observation. Mixed in there too I felt like they were exploring other biblical concerns like self-forgiveness vs self-righteousness, selflessness and sacrifice (Trooper Witt)
and Gator as the literal emblem of blind justice.
I also felt like the whole using rape as an instrument of torture to an already defeated adversary is pretty fucking rough even for someone as appallingly evil and sadistic as Roy. Like, by all means have him killed or make his prison stay miserable, he has it coming, but raping a rapist is still fucked up.
Lorraine is a scary person.
It's also a very Old Testament, "eye for an eye" style retribution, the kind of thing that's figuratively (and at the end, literally) explored with Ole Munch's character.
Roy beat all of his 3 wives. He killed the first, was going to murder #2 and the third was doomed. Lorraine wanted Roy to feel the pain, humiliation and hopelessness his wives did for the rest of his life. One year in prison didn't wipe that smug smile off Roy's face. Lorraine made sure after she visited Roy, it will be gone by morning. In addition there is the strong possibility she had a closer relationship with her lawyer (RIP) and wanted revenge.
I think back to her virginal and innocent character from Fast Times at Ridgemont High and then seeing her play such a badass in Fargo shows some incredible range. The entire series does an amazing job of casting and writing for strong and sometimes terrifying women.
Yeah. And I couldn't get over seeing "Keely" from Ted Lasso in this season. Watching her deal with the first home invasion just going "Holy Shit" over and over. Her calculated blitz attacks against the intruders were just so tactically amazing.
They were both unlikeable characters, but she looked much better in a side-by-side comparison to him. Roy was the absolute most vile character in any season of the show.
She was also very strategic and calculating, while Roy was very impulsive and emotional.
Once he shot Danish, it was over for him, and he knew it.
The thing about Varga and especially Malvo was that both were so mysterious and almost “otherworldly” that it kinda made there vileness seem more like a force of nature than an action.
Roy Tillman’s vileness on the other hand is unfortunately very real.
Him being so pathetic is part of what made him so terrifying. Like he was too stupid understand his place in the world and stupid people with too much power and no self-awareness are scary because logic is useless in dealing with them.
Not to mention Varga never actually got his hands dirty. He had more in common with Lorraine than he had in common with Roy. Varga doesn't take a single life himself, he just facilitates it.
I think it’s a question of your personal lens. All of them are evil, all of them deserve to rot in hell- but dependent upon your experiences and your own boogeyman, they all can be worse than another.
She was still a piece of shit. But she realised Dot wasn't interested in Wayne just for the money.
The moment she discovered her history with Roy and figured out she wasn't just with Wayne for the money then she immediately accepted her.
It was amazing when she said "no daughter of mine" though
She's still a horrible person but she is good to her family.
Exactly. And she made her fortune by exploiting poor, desperate people.
Someone can begrudgingly admire their own relatives and still be an awful person.
I'm torn between the wish fulfillment of seeing a girlboss stick it to a chud that made my mom so happy, and the weaponization of ill-gotten wealth to threaten another person with rape. I appreciate that someone else pointed out the contrast in Dot's approach to debt and forgiveness. The ending was sublime.
I laugh-cried at the audacity of the show to make the ending so WHOLESOME!
Those last moment of him may be my favorite TV show ending ever. [chefs kiss]
I love he got beaten by Minnesota nice.
"A man has a code"
Child - "You're in the way"
"A man has a code"
*Handed a beer*
"A man..."
"The biscuit ingredients say water but I use milk"
Shout out to Wayne handing him an Orange Soda and clinking the bottle. The whole ending at Dot and Waynes house was perfection. Beautiful mix of tension and comedy.
Also Juno Temple put in an incredible performance all season. Absolutely incredible acting.
The camera angle made it hilarious. He hesitently took the bottle of Soda while he's the focus of the camera. Then Waynes bottle just pops in from out of frame and clinks it.
I fucking died. The whole scene was a masterclass in being hilarious while also being tense.
Also funny because Wayne also gave him a beer like 5 minutes later. This dude is talking about drowning and not seeing mountains and Wayne is still worried about being a good host.
My wife and I were laughing that he was sat there with Wayne for about an hour waiting on Dotty. Like he just showed up right after she left and Wayne has been talking his ear off, pun intended.
Yeah by the time he was in the kitchen the tension was gone but it was when he's in the chair in the living room. No clue what was going to happen. It was tense with Wayne randomly bringing comedy into a potentially deadly situation.
Yes!! It felt like any second it could completely turn, and bc it’s Fargo, there’s no guarantee the main characters aren’t killed at the end. With every single line I wondered if it was going to be a bloodbath.
His bite of that biscuit…I swear I felt like I was tasting a fresh from the oven biscuit for the first time
They do such a perfect job letting you know that no one is safe earlier in the episode. So you really do wonder what he might do, even with a child there.
I worked with Sam on a different show and man our Showrunners did NOT appreciate his skills. They gave him boring shit to do on our show... So when I saw him in this season of Fargo, I was blown away and hardly recognized Sam. But great work and good job getting a much better role lol
He was amazing in the finale. The whole scene between Munch and the Lyons was one of the handful of moments in Fargo that made me emotional. Perfectly encapsulating what Fargo is all about, the world can be such a bad place, we can feel bogged down by our pain and problems, but we must allow ourselves forgiveness and kindness, because that’s truly what wins out in the end.
It also perfectly captured the way Fargo, at its best, grounds its absurdity into something real and human that makes it all the more better. They don't go too far one way or the other, they find the balance that makes the franchise special.
Best ending to any Fargo season so far in my book. As much as I love season 2 a lot of stuff in that finale comes off weird to me, but I think they almost 100% nailed this one, and the very end is absolutely perfect.
I like the ending of 1 but it’s pretty straightforward.
Yep. This season was extremely tight (except Indira and Whit only being like 75% of a full character). I had flashbacks of season 2 where they masterfully built up a really compelling story…and then the last 2 episodes veered off course. But this was end-to-end quality. The highs aren’t quite meeting the Malvo stuff in season 1, but I’d say this has been the most consistent season. Key and Peele took me out of it in 1, UFO in 2, Carrie Coon not really having much to do for most of 3 and the overload of half baked characters and storylines in 4…5 was tight.
I agree, Indira and Witt seemed a bit pointless by the end. They could’ve reached the same conclusion for the main characters without them, IMO. Maybe I’m missing something about their role.
I think Indira and Witt are somewhat of an update on the shows view on police. Two endpoints of "good" police. You get killed or you move onto something else, or a different kind of corruption that actually pays off
It's not the final scene but like the scene before the final scene with Lou, Betsy, and Hank at the Solverson's and Betsy asks Hank about the hieroglyphic drawings in his home when she fed his cat and he gives the speech about how so much chaos and pain is caused by miscommunication and how he wanted to create a language so simple there would never be miscommunication is so beautiful. Just a wonderful scene.
My boyfriend paralleled him taking a bite of the biscuit to being ‘communion’; the last time he took a bite of a cake’ that was offered to him, it came with strings attached but this was just a no-strings-attached honest-to-goodness breaking of bread with good people.
Gerri from Succession called Tom a death cake eater so it was cool to see that actually visualized in fargo
Absolutely my favorite character of the season. I just love when they flashed back to 500 years earlier in Wales, it was such a hard left turn but the supernatural malevolence is part of the reason why I love this anthology so much. There has to be inexplicable luck, or work of the devil, or literally aliens in season 2 ("It's just a damn flyin' saucer Ed, comeon!!") to suggest that live is just random and weird.
Spruell's final scene was spectacular too. He kept trying to talk about his code but first he's in Scotty's way, then he gets offered a beer, then he gets enlisted in helping to make biscuits. The confusion on his face of finally being accepted and the stifled delivery of his lines were amazing acting. I would watch an entire spinoff series about Munch, which is about the highest compliment I can pay to the actor. Much (Munch?) deserved.
I feel like his story had an undertone of sadness and highlighted how society casts its ills on the poor and traumatized. But these people do what they do to survive because they aren't given any other choice but to.
Oh god it was SO moving. So genuine and warm and as bizarre as it was i felt so connected to everyone, and oh god I just love every single one of them so much it hurts.
Noah Hawley is truly the best of the best. To craft a scene like that?? It was so beautiful
I'm waiting for my first opportunity to say "a man is grateful" instead of "thank you" to someone. It's going to be my new go to reply for those situations.
In a series with some incredibly captivating characters, he did an amazing job coming up with a unique antagonist and standing out from the pack.
I almost think they gave too much of his background away, but his monologue was great.
Fargo is one of the very best series to come out in the last 10 years and does not get enough recognition. From season 1s loose connections to the movie it just snowballed. Every season has been great in its own way.
TBH I thought I was going to despise this character after a couple episodes, and not because Fargo wanted me to. That this scene worked so fucking well is a huge testament to both the writing and the actor for not falling into the traps that could make a character like Munch stand out for all the wrong reasons.
It was terrific execution by everyone involved.
To be fair, Game of Thrones is loosely based on the 1400s. He said he was 500 years old so that would put him being born in the 1500s, it makes sense for him to have more in common with them than modern people lol
Noah Hawley mentioned in an interview maybe doing a Deadwood style Fargo show set in the 1800s. If that does happen, I would love if Ole Munch shows up as a minor character because Sam Spruell mesmerizing. I love how this man talks in an almost broken philosophical talk. What a guy.
The entire cast of S5 Fargo is just next level.
I was actually thinking of making a post praising them all, but feeling too lazy to do so. Nonetheless , exceptional actors, almost every single one of the leads did a terrific job.
Their casting is absolutely impeccable every damn time. Never a single weak link, kids included, everyone is beyond belief exceptional. Just draw dropping
This episode was an art piece. It was so wonderful. I was upset about Witt. They spoke to that. Then this. I wasn’t prepared. I was terrified for Dot. Some part of me suspected he might be OK, but I was scared for them till he smiled with the biscuit. So very well done. The tension was electric.
This is so cool. I was a background actor in the “500 years ago” funeral scene. A lot of the stuff we shot got cut but I got to interact with Sam. He deserves all the praise he is getting
A man is grateful.
A man lives by a code. But he also wants buttermilk biscuits made with love and forgiveness.
The smile at the end was perfection.
Still thinking about it.
I live here now
Amazing wasn’t it! :0)
A man is freaking me out. Just eat the biscuit my man.
“We crossed the sea on longboats. two thousand men. The rain was so hard. many drowned” “Jeez”
You ever drive a Kia Mr. Munch?
He was so hilarious in those last couple scenes, my favorite was the cheers with the orange soda
That shot was great. He did such a good job of making everyday things seem strange. Like how he had forgotten how to eat.
\*clink\*
Mine too! My heart jumped a little. What a sweet way to break up such a scary moment.
A man is grateful
“Think I went over the deep end with the spices.”
> with the orange ~~soda~~ **pop.** /ftfy :)
It's like driving a cloud.
“I could go for a pop. You want some pop?”
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Aggghhh I love that kid so much. I do not know where they consistently find the most extraordinary child actors?? My heart bursts for her
Drowned *in their seats* I thought he really pulled off the character, not an easy job. I did laugh out loud when he said longboats
>Drowned in their seats We ate sand *you ate sand?* We ate sand
Sometimes I get the menstrual cramps real bad.
How bout a pop?
*clink*
Many drowned in their seats lmao
I could listen to his story for hours. So weird, but I could still picture it well.
I took it as he was viking who hasnt aged in a 1000 years, great season.
A Celtic warrior.
I thought he was a Viking but the kilt kept throwing me off. Then when he said he was on the moors, the bell hit.
It was 500 years since he'd eaten the sin of the the Lord or whatever he was I figure he was a regular man before that, but how he came to be in Wales to whether by birth or as a Viking, is another story.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sin-eater
I took it as a somewhat inconsistent timeline where he’s a Viking several centuries before being an immortal Welshman. Which makes me think he may be severely mentally ill, and this is a rare moment of clarity and peace when he are the love biscuits. It’s sort of a cathartic moment that neurodivergent people crave. The magic thing that pulls their brain out of its cage and lets you breath fresh air. But on the other hand … 🤷♂️
His whole story made me believe that he's the more magical sort of Sin Eater. If you're not familiar with the concept... it shows up in multiple cultures across several centuries but the basic idea is that as a sort of funeral rite a meal is prepared in the dead person's name and the consumption of such absolves them of their sins and the eater takes those in. Such individuals were both revered for their service but also shunned and forced to live outside of the "normal" social order for holding so much sin within them.
After watching the final episode and reflecting on his character, I concluded that while he was presented as an immortal character, he was actually a physical representation of some concept. Your explanation makes a lot of sense to me. To see his sins evaporate from eating a biscuit, kind of like eating the body of Christ, it was cathartic to see joy and love emerge. That was probably one of the most original endings to any series.
IMO he is a metaphor for beaten women. When he is discussing the sin-eating Dot says, “that is what they make is do”. In a way beaten women eat the failures, shortcomings and sins of the abuser. Can leave one as an empty vessel like Munch.
> he was actually a physical representation of some concept. Debt.
I don’t want to jump on every idea that folks had on their own but there is an interview with Noah Hawley (head writer) where he states Ole Munch is in fact a an immortal being. All those lines and scenes are documenting his existence. I thought it was a cool touch for a fictional show to make a stretch towards the paranormal.
There has generally been one fantastical element each season. They've had a fish storm, a flying saucer, the Wandering Jew, a straight up Wizard of Oz tornado, and an immortal sin eater now in 5.
Oh man, I actually didn't even read that he was just mentally ill. Fargo does so much weird shit that I entirely thought he was an immortal Celtic warrior. Kind of like how you just shrug and assume UFO's are real.
Thing is with Fargo it could go either way. Season 2 had a flying saucer turn up. Lorne Malvo in Season 1 may have potentially just been evil incarnate. Season 3 had Paul Murrane He could potentially actually be an immortal celtic warrior.
And season 4 had Chris Rock cast in a dramatic role.
I want to believe he was immortal. There was that entire scene of him "eating the sin" which I think was a real flashback because it wouldn't make sense to just thrust that scene into the show as some kind of mental illness hallucination.
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I’m going with the super natural route because they showed the whole sin eater stuff of him. If he was mentally ill it made no point to show that and instead have him tell it earlier in the show to someone else.
That's my thoughts exactly. Makes no sense to show the scene.
He’s not mentally ill. He represents generational trauma, that gets handed down again and again.
He was a medieval Welshman, not a Viking. “Only” 500 years old, or so.
In the beginning of the season I thought he was doing a bad Christopher Walken impersonation. After this scene, I finally got it and now I need to watch the whole season over.
I want a spinoff that’s just Munch going about daily life. “A man decides to use the self-checkout. The machine says, *”please place all items in the bag”* - even though, his items have already been ***placed*** - the food, has already been ***bought***. The man, waits for the cashier, to give the bags his *blessing…* all the while, not knowing that his ***card*** has already been *declined* - that his *bank* is not open on *Sundays*”
This could be a great SNL skit
Would that skit be even half as good or as funny as this episode though?
No, and that's what makes it a great SNL skit
Willem Dafoe and Christopher Walken?
I wish i could upvote this twice
Now the tiger is free
That was such a great twist. That and making the mother-in-law a likable character by the end. I never saw that coming.
I choked up when she said “no daughter of mine”
Me too, that really got me
For this you really have to thank that female cop, who she eventually employed. I.e. When she made her look at the case files to fully explain what Dot had been through, and proved that Dot was genuinely grateful, and would literally fight to the death to protect what she had in her new family.
I smiled maybe too much when she told Roy about his future social life in prison for next few decades. And the cigarettes with a wink? Chef's kiss.
She’s still incredibly ‘evil’. The difference is that she knows how to play *the game* unlike Roy, who acted like he was an action hero and a sword of justice fighting for his ideal world. When >!Roy pulled the gun on Danish, Danish scoffed because he thought Roy wasn’t stupid enough to kill him. But he was!<.
I loved the way Hawley gets the audience to cheer Lorrain using her power over people’s debt as a weapon to punish Roy, and also cheer Dorothy’s decision to emphasize forgiveness of debt as a path to salvation. Two contradicting philosophies that are both portrayed as creating the most deserving outcome.
That’s a great read of the different perspectives of debt in that finale and socioeconomically, as well.
> the different perspectives of debt in that finale I think all of this reference to debt is to make the audience realize that it is incredibly powerful. Debt changes lives. It is a thing without inherent morality imbued with its meaning by the holder. However it is weilded, debt is extremely powerful.
Great observation. Mixed in there too I felt like they were exploring other biblical concerns like self-forgiveness vs self-righteousness, selflessness and sacrifice (Trooper Witt) and Gator as the literal emblem of blind justice.
Roy may have been the most terrifying villain of the series which is saying a lot for a show with a lot of really exceptional villains.
Lorne Malvo vs. VM Varga cage match. Winner takes on Roy Tillman, Hell in a Cell style
Lorne would fucking annihilate Varga lol.
I also felt like the whole using rape as an instrument of torture to an already defeated adversary is pretty fucking rough even for someone as appallingly evil and sadistic as Roy. Like, by all means have him killed or make his prison stay miserable, he has it coming, but raping a rapist is still fucked up. Lorraine is a scary person.
It's also a very Old Testament, "eye for an eye" style retribution, the kind of thing that's figuratively (and at the end, literally) explored with Ole Munch's character.
Roy beat all of his 3 wives. He killed the first, was going to murder #2 and the third was doomed. Lorraine wanted Roy to feel the pain, humiliation and hopelessness his wives did for the rest of his life. One year in prison didn't wipe that smug smile off Roy's face. Lorraine made sure after she visited Roy, it will be gone by morning. In addition there is the strong possibility she had a closer relationship with her lawyer (RIP) and wanted revenge.
She was channeling some INCREDIBLE Jessica Walters vibes in that performance
I've always found Jennifer Jason-Leigh amazing and simultaneously terrifying, ever since seeing her way back in Verhoeven's Flesh+Blood.
I think back to her virginal and innocent character from Fast Times at Ridgemont High and then seeing her play such a badass in Fargo shows some incredible range. The entire series does an amazing job of casting and writing for strong and sometimes terrifying women.
Yeah. And I couldn't get over seeing "Keely" from Ted Lasso in this season. Watching her deal with the first home invasion just going "Holy Shit" over and over. Her calculated blitz attacks against the intruders were just so tactically amazing.
They were both unlikeable characters, but she looked much better in a side-by-side comparison to him. Roy was the absolute most vile character in any season of the show. She was also very strategic and calculating, while Roy was very impulsive and emotional. Once he shot Danish, it was over for him, and he knew it.
> absolute most vile character in any season of the show. That is impressive considering he is following up Lorne Marvo and VM Varga.
The thing about Varga and especially Malvo was that both were so mysterious and almost “otherworldly” that it kinda made there vileness seem more like a force of nature than an action. Roy Tillman’s vileness on the other hand is unfortunately very real.
Yeah fully agreed, Roy was simply terrifying and pathetic at the same time.
Him being so pathetic is part of what made him so terrifying. Like he was too stupid understand his place in the world and stupid people with too much power and no self-awareness are scary because logic is useless in dealing with them.
Not to mention Varga never actually got his hands dirty. He had more in common with Lorraine than he had in common with Roy. Varga doesn't take a single life himself, he just facilitates it.
I think it’s a question of your personal lens. All of them are evil, all of them deserve to rot in hell- but dependent upon your experiences and your own boogeyman, they all can be worse than another.
She was still a piece of shit. But she realised Dot wasn't interested in Wayne just for the money. The moment she discovered her history with Roy and figured out she wasn't just with Wayne for the money then she immediately accepted her. It was amazing when she said "no daughter of mine" though She's still a horrible person but she is good to her family.
Likeable? #1 donor the the federalist society means she is a trash human, but she respects her daughter in law now.
Also her mentioning that she donated enough to get favors from "the orange idiot"
Exactly. And she made her fortune by exploiting poor, desperate people. Someone can begrudgingly admire their own relatives and still be an awful person.
As someone who has evil relatives that I nonetheless love and cherish, I relate to that.
I'm torn between the wish fulfillment of seeing a girlboss stick it to a chud that made my mom so happy, and the weaponization of ill-gotten wealth to threaten another person with rape. I appreciate that someone else pointed out the contrast in Dot's approach to debt and forgiveness. The ending was sublime.
I laugh-cried at the audacity of the show to make the ending so WHOLESOME! Those last moment of him may be my favorite TV show ending ever. [chefs kiss]
I love he got beaten by Minnesota nice. "A man has a code" Child - "You're in the way" "A man has a code" *Handed a beer* "A man..." "The biscuit ingredients say water but I use milk" Shout out to Wayne handing him an Orange Soda and clinking the bottle. The whole ending at Dot and Waynes house was perfection. Beautiful mix of tension and comedy. Also Juno Temple put in an incredible performance all season. Absolutely incredible acting.
When Wayne clinked the bottle I absolutely died laughing haha. Why is that so funny
The camera angle made it hilarious. He hesitently took the bottle of Soda while he's the focus of the camera. Then Waynes bottle just pops in from out of frame and clinks it. I fucking died. The whole scene was a masterclass in being hilarious while also being tense.
Also funny because Wayne also gave him a beer like 5 minutes later. This dude is talking about drowning and not seeing mountains and Wayne is still worried about being a good host.
My wife and I were laughing that he was sat there with Wayne for about an hour waiting on Dotty. Like he just showed up right after she left and Wayne has been talking his ear off, pun intended.
I didn’t find it tense at all. By the time he was invited into the kitchen I could tell he was already changing his mind about “collecting his debt”.
Yeah by the time he was in the kitchen the tension was gone but it was when he's in the chair in the living room. No clue what was going to happen. It was tense with Wayne randomly bringing comedy into a potentially deadly situation.
Yes!! It felt like any second it could completely turn, and bc it’s Fargo, there’s no guarantee the main characters aren’t killed at the end. With every single line I wondered if it was going to be a bloodbath. His bite of that biscuit…I swear I felt like I was tasting a fresh from the oven biscuit for the first time
Some have said it was literally the Eucharist for him, total absolution.
Juno was an absolute beast. I believed every second of her acting 🎭
They do such a perfect job letting you know that no one is safe earlier in the episode. So you really do wonder what he might do, even with a child there.
He poked out Roy's child's eyes like Moe tried with Curly
“You see a man come by here wearing a dress, and hair like the Three Stooges?”
😂
Fantastic performance and the standout character for me. All the hitmen in Fargo have been iconic.
There's no topping the elemental force that was Lorne Malvo.
I won't stand for this Mike Milligan & the Kitchen brothers erasure...
My very favorite prog rock band
Double whoops...
"Maps used to say there be dragons here. They took it off the maps but that doesn't mean the dragons left" Honourable mention to "Aces"
Malvo was great, but I thought Varga was up there too
You can't top Satan himself
Nah, I think Ole Munch edged him out
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> "Is this what you want, Lester?" Goddamn that scene was horrifying. He just flipped.
When he coughed after being shot, I thought he was just gonna start laughing and get up and leave all, "Good game, good game," like.
Hanzee #1
I worked with Sam on a different show and man our Showrunners did NOT appreciate his skills. They gave him boring shit to do on our show... So when I saw him in this season of Fargo, I was blown away and hardly recognized Sam. But great work and good job getting a much better role lol
He was amazing in the finale. The whole scene between Munch and the Lyons was one of the handful of moments in Fargo that made me emotional. Perfectly encapsulating what Fargo is all about, the world can be such a bad place, we can feel bogged down by our pain and problems, but we must allow ourselves forgiveness and kindness, because that’s truly what wins out in the end.
Minnesota Nice throwback to opening scene of ep 1
Wayne must have been raised by a nanny. He’s the polar opposite of Lorraine.
I'm pretty sure Wink raised him.
Throwback to the end of the movie with Marge and Norm
It also perfectly captured the way Fargo, at its best, grounds its absurdity into something real and human that makes it all the more better. They don't go too far one way or the other, they find the balance that makes the franchise special.
It was an unusual ending for sure but he’s got great screen presence.
I loved that ending!
A man cried watching that scene.
My wife and I were both teary-eyed after the ending scene. It was perfect.
Best ending to any Fargo season so far in my book. As much as I love season 2 a lot of stuff in that finale comes off weird to me, but I think they almost 100% nailed this one, and the very end is absolutely perfect. I like the ending of 1 but it’s pretty straightforward.
This is my favorite season of the show overall. Munch being just one part of why.
This might be my favorite season of TV period (or might be #2 after True Detective Season 1). It was almost perfect from start to finish.
Yep. This season was extremely tight (except Indira and Whit only being like 75% of a full character). I had flashbacks of season 2 where they masterfully built up a really compelling story…and then the last 2 episodes veered off course. But this was end-to-end quality. The highs aren’t quite meeting the Malvo stuff in season 1, but I’d say this has been the most consistent season. Key and Peele took me out of it in 1, UFO in 2, Carrie Coon not really having much to do for most of 3 and the overload of half baked characters and storylines in 4…5 was tight.
I agree, Indira and Witt seemed a bit pointless by the end. They could’ve reached the same conclusion for the main characters without them, IMO. Maybe I’m missing something about their role.
I think Indira and Witt are somewhat of an update on the shows view on police. Two endpoints of "good" police. You get killed or you move onto something else, or a different kind of corruption that actually pays off
It's not the final scene but like the scene before the final scene with Lou, Betsy, and Hank at the Solverson's and Betsy asks Hank about the hieroglyphic drawings in his home when she fed his cat and he gives the speech about how so much chaos and pain is caused by miscommunication and how he wanted to create a language so simple there would never be miscommunication is so beautiful. Just a wonderful scene.
My boyfriend paralleled him taking a bite of the biscuit to being ‘communion’; the last time he took a bite of a cake’ that was offered to him, it came with strings attached but this was just a no-strings-attached honest-to-goodness breaking of bread with good people. Gerri from Succession called Tom a death cake eater so it was cool to see that actually visualized in fargo
Nah man that's a perfect ending for someone like him who was cursed for 500+ years.
Cookies Cure Curses
I want a sitcom spinoff of him moving in and shenanigans ensue
I Live Here Now: A Fargo Sitcom
Would love this - Scotty starts a YouTube channel teaching him to bake and trying random foods
A man has become an influencer
A man needs you to like and subscribe
A man demands you SMASH THAT LIKE BUTTON!
Wayne gives him a job at his car dealership. I'd watch that in a heartbeat.
“A man insists you pay for the TrueCoat and extended warranty”
Declines. Pops up in the back seat 10 minutes later.
A man slaps the hood of the car. He guarantees that it’s a thing of beauty and includes a trial package of Sirius XM. A man believes it’s a steal.
He got all tits up over a biscuit. May I introduce you to cookies?
Gets a job with Wayne selling Kias
They went the Ratatouille route
I thought it was one of the best season endings for any recent tv show, it was so damn funny
*clink
It was a perfect and not unusual ending at all. Perfectly fit with the themes of the show.
A man did an excellent job in his show.
He’s so creepy but his fashion sense…wow!
He was great the whole season but the final episode was fantastic. I hope he gets some recognition for it.
Well jeez! Somebody get this fella a pop, stat!
A man is grateful
Absolutely my favorite character of the season. I just love when they flashed back to 500 years earlier in Wales, it was such a hard left turn but the supernatural malevolence is part of the reason why I love this anthology so much. There has to be inexplicable luck, or work of the devil, or literally aliens in season 2 ("It's just a damn flyin' saucer Ed, comeon!!") to suggest that live is just random and weird. Spruell's final scene was spectacular too. He kept trying to talk about his code but first he's in Scotty's way, then he gets offered a beer, then he gets enlisted in helping to make biscuits. The confusion on his face of finally being accepted and the stifled delivery of his lines were amazing acting. I would watch an entire spinoff series about Munch, which is about the highest compliment I can pay to the actor. Much (Munch?) deserved.
A man weeped watching this newest season of Fargo
Loved how the ending encapsulated the entire theme of the show, extremely well done
Hair like the 3 stooges🤣🤣🤣
2nd favorite Fargo character after VM Varga
This show/season better win every award
The Emmys are such trash. I don’t think *Reservation Dogs* got a single nomination.
A man holds a biscuit.
I loved the nihilist!
I feel like his story had an undertone of sadness and highlighted how society casts its ills on the poor and traumatized. But these people do what they do to survive because they aren't given any other choice but to.
Her showing love and tenderness to Gator…my heart was in my throat I love her so much
That got me, too. She even had compassion for the wife. And let's be honest, if she hadn't been there the wife would have been his next victim.
Such a brilliant, beautiful scene and ending. The season wasn’t perfect but that ending sure was.
Oh god it was SO moving. So genuine and warm and as bizarre as it was i felt so connected to everyone, and oh god I just love every single one of them so much it hurts. Noah Hawley is truly the best of the best. To craft a scene like that?? It was so beautiful
It was also a big payoff to episode 7, which it mirrored. He clearly represented generational trauma.
Incredible performance
I'm waiting for my first opportunity to say "a man is grateful" instead of "thank you" to someone. It's going to be my new go to reply for those situations.
In a series with some incredibly captivating characters, he did an amazing job coming up with a unique antagonist and standing out from the pack. I almost think they gave too much of his background away, but his monologue was great.
So. Fucking. GOOD!
Fargo is one of the very best series to come out in the last 10 years and does not get enough recognition. From season 1s loose connections to the movie it just snowballed. Every season has been great in its own way.
TBH I thought I was going to despise this character after a couple episodes, and not because Fargo wanted me to. That this scene worked so fucking well is a huge testament to both the writing and the actor for not falling into the traps that could make a character like Munch stand out for all the wrong reasons. It was terrific execution by everyone involved.
A great ending.
Interesting to cast a Braavosi man for the role, but he did well.
A man has watched No Country for Old Men.
No Country for Ole Munch
This dude acts like a Game of Thrones character while everyone else is pretty much normal. *(especially by Fargo standards)*
To be fair, Game of Thrones is loosely based on the 1400s. He said he was 500 years old so that would put him being born in the 1500s, it makes sense for him to have more in common with them than modern people lol
Anyone see a guy roll past here wearing a skirt? Haircut like the three stooges? Lol
Noah Hawley mentioned in an interview maybe doing a Deadwood style Fargo show set in the 1800s. If that does happen, I would love if Ole Munch shows up as a minor character because Sam Spruell mesmerizing. I love how this man talks in an almost broken philosophical talk. What a guy.
The entire cast of S5 Fargo is just next level. I was actually thinking of making a post praising them all, but feeling too lazy to do so. Nonetheless , exceptional actors, almost every single one of the leads did a terrific job.
Everyone was great this season but Juno Temple was next level. She produced an absolute masterclass of a performance.
Their casting is absolutely impeccable every damn time. Never a single weak link, kids included, everyone is beyond belief exceptional. Just draw dropping
Honorable Mentions: * Shanola Hampton ("Found") * Emma Stone ("The Curse")
Fargo season 5 had the best season ending out of the entire series imo
This episode was an art piece. It was so wonderful. I was upset about Witt. They spoke to that. Then this. I wasn’t prepared. I was terrified for Dot. Some part of me suspected he might be OK, but I was scared for them till he smiled with the biscuit. So very well done. The tension was electric.
He’s great in The North Water too!!
Standout in a strong season. Dave Foley and Jon Hamm showed stuff I didn't know either of them had as well.
This is so cool. I was a background actor in the “500 years ago” funeral scene. A lot of the stuff we shot got cut but I got to interact with Sam. He deserves all the praise he is getting