4.使用最好的电视制作技术 分屏技术、精心构图的特写镜头以及精彩的升降镜头——所有这些都是为了更好地营造悬念和塑造特定环境下的角色特点而不是仅仅为了炫技。而且包括杰弗瑞·雷纳和迈克尔·奥鹏道尔在内的导演团队都表现出了明尼苏达、北达科他州和南达科他州的严寒以及家庭的舒适温暖，尽管那温暖总被家庭里的罪犯所破坏。

　　5.尼克·奥弗曼在今晚的一集中有出色的表现这位在《公园娱乐》中担任联合主演的演员，过去一直以剧中具体地方特色的边缘人物律师卡尔出现。卡尔除了别的事外，总是滔滔不绝地谈论着水门事件中的阴谋论。今晚他被卷入阴谋之中，成为剧中的中心人物。他被路易斯带到当地监狱，成为了格哈德家族解救小查理的核心因素。 除了以上的这些，你还会听见剧中有人引用来自那时的流行情景喜剧《爱丽丝》中的经典台词——“舔老娘的脚丫子”。以及冷冰冰地背诵刘易斯·卡罗尔的诗《无聊》。你怎么能错过呢?

　　We’re halfway through the new season of Fargo, and I’m really surprised this superb edition of the show isn’t more of a hit, more talked-about and discussed. Here are five reasons you ought to be watching, and a preview of tonight’s episode, titled “Rhinoceros.”

　　1. Fargo has everything you love about good TV. Drama, comedy, action, a pleasingly intricate plot that mixes thriller action scenes and a murder mystery. As overseen by producer-writer Noah Hawley, Fargo’s three central plots work together like well-meshed gears: the hopes and nightmares of husband-and-wife Peggy (Kirsten Dunst) and Ed (Jesse Plemons); the internecine squabbles of the crime family the Gerhardts, now headed up by Jean Smart’s Floyd Gerhardt and her eldest son, Dodd (Jeffrey Donovan); and the Kansas City mobsters, who include Bokeem Woodbine’s Mike Milligan and Brad Garrett’s Joe Bulo.

　　2. Wonderful performances by a wide range of actors. In addition to the ones named above, Patrick Wilson is doing an exceptional job of anchoring the show as State Trooper Lou Solverson. He stands his ground in the scenes of danger and menace like a young Gary Cooper in a Western; back at home, he’s infinitely kind and subtle as the husband whose brave wife Betsy (How I Met Your Mother’s Cristin Milioti) is struggling with cancer.

　　3. It's about an America in the midst of change. Last week, we saw Bruce Campbell playing Gov. Ronald Reagan, on the verge of spreading his message of patriotic positivism nationwide. Set in 1979, the show gives us a sense of how the pinched economic times are affecting small towns, as what then-President Jimmy Carter labeled the national “malaise” filters down to ordinary people. This comes across most frequently in Peggy’s confused, sometimes funny, but always sincere desire to make some significant changes in her own life. Her dream of getting out of town and improving herself via the Lifespring seminar — which sounds like a variation on the self-improvement racket pushed by Werner Erhard’s “est” seminars during this period — is poignant.

　　4. It‘s TV filmmaking at its best. The use of split screens, carefully composed close-ups, the occasionally dramatic crane shot — all of this is done to further the suspense and place characters in their physical environment, not as showy effects. Directors including Jeffrey Reiner and Michael Uppendahl have conveyed the harsh cold of Minnesota and North and South Dakota, and the comfy warmth of families’ homes — a warmth that’s always in danger of being destroyed by the criminals in their midst.

　　5. Tonight’s episode features a great showcase for Nick Offerman. The formerParks and Recreation co-star has been popping up along the outer edges of Fargo thus far as local color, the lawyer Karl Weathers, who spouts conspiracy theories about, among other things, the Watergate burglary. Tonight he moves center stage in a plot that has him summoned to the local jail by Lou and finding himself caught in the middle of the Gerhardts’ efforts to free young Charlie.

　　All this, plus you’ll hear someone quote Flo — “Kiss my grits!” — from the then-popular sitcom Alice. And you’ll hear a chilling recitation of Lewis Carroll’s poem “Jabberwocky.” How could you miss that?

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