Fargo portrays just about every one of it’s characters as bumbling idiots overcome by events not of their own making.
[[Fargo portrays just about every one of it’s characters as bumbling idiots overcome by events not of their own making.]]
Yeah, it could be just the show sticking to their bumbling idiot mantra where everyone is seen that way- it seems to be the show’s signature- (again, in my opinion, it was fine for one season, but it’s growing a little old for a second season- )
I think maybe they are taking the theme of the show from the Andy Griffith show in Mayberry- everyone being a bumbling idiot- with a foil/straight man with a down home “Aw Shucks” sensibility to provide a small amount of relief to the overwhelming bumbling of the rest of the characters
Mostly true. It depicts virtually all residents of small town Midwest as rubes and dimwits who are constantly bewildered by everything out of the ordinary. Which is probably what left and east coasters think about small town Midwesterners. Strange creatures worthy of a anthropology study.
And a local cop has guns pulled on him by KC and local thugs, and he doesn't call for help from the state to track down and arrest the thugs.