Beyond Josto and Oraetta, who are sentenced to death by Ebal Violante(*) for allegedly conspiring to murder Donatello (one of the few crimes this season for which Josto isn’t guilty), the episode’s casualties include Dr.
Harvard and Alderman Gillis (both shot and then lit on fire by a vengeful Josto), Leon and Happy and several of Happy’s soldiers (killed by Loy’s forces after he cuts a deal with Ebal), and finally Loy Cannon himself (stabbed to death by Zelmare Roulette as revenge for telling the cops where to find her and Swanee).
Loy’s death at least feels meaningful, with Zelmare stabbing him while he’s witnessing a blissfully peaceful moment for his reunited family, as if they have come to embody the “Future Is Now” billboard that Satchel passed on the way out of Liberal, Kansas.And in that respect, Loy’s death was one of this season’s most inevitable.
But there’s still a poignancy to it because of how Rock plays it, how the sequence is staged, and how the scene just before with Ebal killed Loy’s dreams even before Zelmare got a chance to kill the man himself.
The idea of Ebal modernizing the Family not only fits with what we saw of the Kansas City syndicate in Season Two, but with this season’s larger arguments about America as a country built to grind down the dreams of individuals and certain groups.Loy’s death hit hard, but Josto and Oraetta were bickering cartoons to the end, while Ethelrida barely appeared at all, even after her renewed prominence gave a big spark to the season’s penultimate episode.
The anthological nature of Fargo means there’s no real baggage for a hypothetical fifth season, which could still be excellent if Hawley has the right inspiration, and executes more strongly than he did here
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