You know, I feel like an actual Coens spin on this season would probably have Loraine be in Ole’s place at the end, calling in Indira’s debts instead of Dot’s, with the younger Lyonses trying their courtesy routine to save Indira and just bricking it because Loraine isn’t some whimsical man-child embodying the vague concept of debt, she …
You know, I feel like an actual Coens spin on this season would probably have Loraine be in Ole’s place at the end, calling in Indira’s debts instead of Dot’s, with the younger Lyonses trying their courtesy routine to save Indira and just bricking it because Loraine isn’t some whimsical man-child embodying the vague concept of debt, she is an actual debt collector. I feel like in that version, Indira would lose all her possessions, the Lyons would feel bad but big mama wouldn’t, so they’d just eat dinner and get on with their lives.
What I guess we get instead is… idk, a paean to the coalition-building power of contempt for vulgar men, with Loraine spiking the ball for the good guys? A vision of big business conservatives bringing belligerent fascists to heel instead of finding common ideological cause with them? This aired the day after the 2024 Iowa caucuses (if you’re reading this from the future -- yes, we should have done more), and suffice to say I think Loraine is more of a magical character than Ole Munch. She even personally lifts Indira up as a job creator! Fuckin Willy Wonka over here.
I have no idea why you’d go this saccharine with a franchise which is meant to pay tribute to the least sentimental of popular American filmmakers. They laugh for the same reasons Kafka laughed: because when faced with cruelty it’s that or crying. There isn’t much to be thankful for in those stories.
You know, I feel like an actual Coens spin on this season would probably have Loraine be in Ole’s place at the end, calling in Indira’s debts instead of Dot’s, with the younger Lyonses trying their courtesy routine to save Indira and just bricking it because Loraine isn’t some whimsical man-child embodying the vague concept of debt, she is an actual debt collector. I feel like in that version, Indira would lose all her possessions, the Lyons would feel bad but big mama wouldn’t, so they’d just eat dinner and get on with their lives.
What I guess we get instead is… idk, a paean to the coalition-building power of contempt for vulgar men, with Loraine spiking the ball for the good guys? A vision of big business conservatives bringing belligerent fascists to heel instead of finding common ideological cause with them? This aired the day after the 2024 Iowa caucuses (if you’re reading this from the future -- yes, we should have done more), and suffice to say I think Loraine is more of a magical character than Ole Munch. She even personally lifts Indira up as a job creator! Fuckin Willy Wonka over here.
I have no idea why you’d go this saccharine with a franchise which is meant to pay tribute to the least sentimental of popular American filmmakers. They laugh for the same reasons Kafka laughed: because when faced with cruelty it’s that or crying. There isn’t much to be thankful for in those stories.