The following contains spoilers for Fargo season 5, episode 10
Series creator Noah Hawley explains the Fargo season 5 finale ending with Ole Munch and Dot.
With the stunning Fargo season 5 finale now in the books, creator Hawley spoke about the episode’s surprising conversation between Ole (Sam Spruell) and Dot (Juno Temple), and what he was trying to convey about the present state of the world. Check out what he said below (via Variety):
Where it ended up for me was struggling with this question that a lot of us are struggling with, which is how are we going to get past this polarization and this sense of mutual injury? I landed on the idea of forgiveness, which Dot is saying to Munch, “Look, you took a job, and the job had risk and you can’t be mad at the risk. I was just trying to save my life so I could be a mother to my children.” They reach this place, and it’s a very tense back and forth over many minutes as to whether he’s going to harm this family or she’s going to win out. And in the end, she wins out, because she tells him that there’s forgiveness there for him and that he feels dirty because all he’s been doing is sinning for a long time, and now all he feels is the sin. She says, “Well, yes, we can be made to feel that way. But the only way to move past this is you gotta forgive yourself and be forgiving.”
More to come…
