We hadnвЂ™t seen Milligan and Satchel since the botched hit job sent them on the lam together, so it was a treat to spend some quality time with them before their fates were literally cast to the wind. That one hiccup aside, the episode is both a conceptual marvel and an example of how big ensemble shows can benefit from focusing on a couple of characters and sending the rest of the cast on vacation. The show is aware of this fact, most plainly in the co-opting of LoyвЂ™s credit card idea by white bankers, and yet hereвЂ™s that Russell quote anyway, preceding an episode that doesnвЂ™t have much to do with it. The Irish and the Italians may take that route to broad cultural acceptance, but thereвЂ™s nothing an exceptionally clever leader like Loy Cannon can do to advance his race from oppressed to oppressor, even if he succeeds in his war against the Faddas.

The one sticking point to that cynical thinking, which the show has expressed since the changing-of-the-guard sequences in the season premiere, is that Black people are an exception to the rule. ItвЂ™s preceded by this line: вЂњPeople seem good while they are oppressed, but they only wish to become oppressors in their turn.вЂќ This has been the showвЂ™s understanding of American power from the beginning, as a relentless tribalism in which entire ethnic and racial classes start at the bottom, gain legitimacy and then take it out on next disfavored group. вЂњLife is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victimвЂќ is actually a piece of a quote from a letter the philosopher wrote to his lover, Ottoline Morrell. The Bertrand Russell quote that opens the episode speaks to the arc of the whole season. It needed an audacious, standalone hour like this weekвЂ™s episode to reassert itself again. The fourth season has fallen into that mid-season trap a little, sacrificing the thematic purposefulness of the early episodes for a little too much plate-spinning. One of the challenges of serialized television shows, especially plot-heavy thrillers like вЂњFargo,вЂќ is that the demands of moving the various subplots forward can keep individual episodes from having their own distinct flavor.

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