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Yeah of course. When I say Fargo season 3 was pretty focused the whole way through, I mean this in two ways. First, there isn't really a midseason tonal shift. You have this in season 1 after Malvo kills off the blackmailer, the grocery store plotline is more or less dropped, and now you have Key and Peele investigating a ghost. Season 2 also has this huge shift, but it happens much later with Hanzee betraying the family. The last episode was very, very anticlimactic and unsatisfying in my opinion. I know there is some deeper meaning behind season 2 that I am missing, but I can't bring myself to care too much despite thinking the first 8 or 9 episodes were some of the best TV ever. Fargo season 3, however, was much more focused. There isn't really any point of a huge tonal shift. Even after Ray dies the fallout feels very natural. Same thing with Nicky teaming up with Mr. Hands. It all seems like relatively natural progressions that, while shocking, didn't leave you scratching your head.

I would also argue that the major theme of season 3, bending reality until it becomes what you make of it, was incredibly well done. I think a lot of the qualms with season 3 arise from the viewer being in the dark regarding who Varga is, what his plan is, why things are happening, and so on, especially in the early episodes. Everything is cryptic bullshit. But, that's kind of the point. Varga is nothing but bullshit. Everything he spouts is bullshit. Arguably, all the main characters besides Carrie Coon are bullshit and shaping reality as they see fit. This is probably best exemplified in the excursion to LA episode where she realizes that her father was living a lie (of sorts). Everyone in this season is just total bullshit besides Carrie Coon. She is transparent in her motives and thoughts-- something hit upon to good comedic effect with her not being seen by sensors because she's 'transparent'. Like her, the viewer is thrown into this world where everyone is shaping reality to be what they want. Even Emitt and Ray are trying to alter the reality of their past to justify their present feud. It isn't an easy watch until the last couple of episodes, but everything clicks marvelously well.

Or so I thought. Sorry if that reads like stream of conscious-- it is, I'm writing it in between multitasking at work. Hopefully it kind of conveys my thoughts.

EDIT- Spoiler tagged some huge spoilers that I somehow forgot to.
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