Fear and Trembling

Episode aired Nov 2, 2015
TV-MA
52m

IMDb RATING

8.7/10

7.7K

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Crime Drama Thriller

The Gerhardts respond to Kansas City's proposal, while Hanzee finds a new lead in Rye's disappearance. Lou questions Ed and Peggy.The Gerhardts respond to Kansas City's proposal, while Hanzee finds a new lead in Rye's disappearance. Lou questions Ed and Peggy.The Gerhardts respond to Kansas City's proposal, while Hanzee finds a new lead in Rye's disappearance. Lou questions Ed and Peggy.

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IMDb RATING

8.7/10

7.7K

YOUR RATING

See production info at IMDbPro

Trivia
"Moonbase Freedom" is the second of three fictional Ronald Reagan movies in this season. The clip actually shown in the theater scene is from Edgar G. Ulmer's The Man from Planet X (1951), which was indeed released in 1951.

Goofs
Hanzee finds a piece of broken headlight in the road, which he then conveniently matches up with Ed and Peggy's car. But the police previously spoke about finding broken glass in the street, and they would've taken said glass as evidence. It's extremely unlikely they would've missed a piece as large as the one Hanzee found, but even if they had, roads get plowed when it snows. It was snowing the night of the murder and the road had clearly been plowed at least once in the days between the crime and Hanzee finding the glass. It's simply not plausible for that piece of headlight to still be lying in the road so many days after the hit and run.

Quotes
Lou Solverson: You didn't fight, did you, Ed - in the war?
Ed Blumquist: No, sir. 4-F on account I got the one kidney.
Lou Solverson: So... There's a look a boy gets when he's been shot or a - or a land mine takes off his legs, and he's laying there in the mud, trying to get up, 'cause he doesn't feel it yet.
Ed Blumquist: I, uh, don't...
Lou Solverson: His - his brain hasn't caught up with the reality, which is... he's already dead.
Peggy Blumquist: Ed. He's scaring me.
Lou Solverson: But we see it, the rest of us. And we lie. We say, "Lay still. You're gonna be fine." If you'd been to war, you'd know the look. See, you and Peggy, you got the look.

Connections
Featured in The 68th Primetime Emmy Awards (2016)

Soundtracks
Das Lied von der Erde
Written by Gustav Mahler

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10/10

the beginning of the end

One of the more tense moments in television history. We knew early there is an inevitably harsh future ahead for more than a few characters. This is when these things begin to happen. A turning point in the 4th episode out of 10. A true cascade of terror.

The sense of dread begins here, in a potent, upsetting, heartless, sick, way. Like you just know something terrible is going to happen. And you're going to have to watch it in the soulless yet comical Fargo style way. Which can be a difficult style to watch.

This episode just falls off a cliff of unending suffering. I feel bad for all characters- brutal and scary, yet scared themselves, characters.