"The Useless Hand" is the ninth episode of the fifth season of the American anthology black comedy–crime drama television series Fargo. It is the 50th overall episode of the series and was written by series creator Noah Hawley, and directed by co-executive producer Thomas Bezucha. It originally aired on FX on January 9, 2024.
The season is set in Minnesota and North Dakota in the fall of 2019, and follows Dorothy "Dot" Lyon, a seemingly typical Midwestern housewife living in Scandia, Minnesota, whose mysterious past comes back to haunt her after she lands in hot water with the authorities. One of those authorities is North Dakota Sheriff Roy Tillman, who has been searching for Dot for a long time. In the episode, Dot prepares to escape the ranch, while Roy sets out a militia as he awaits the arrival of authorities.
According to Nielsen Media Research, the episode was seen by an estimated 0.517 million household viewers and gained a 0.10 ratings share among adults aged 18–49. The episode received critical acclaim, with critics praising the acting, directing, character development, tension and pacing.
"TheUselessHand" is the ninth episode of the fifth season of the American anthology black comedy–crime drama television series Fargo. It is the 50th...
Thigpen, the attorney general of Minnesota, who is a friend of Lorraine Conrad Coates as Bowman, foreman of the Tillman Ranch and Roy's right-hand man Sally...
Hawley. The show is inspired by the 1996 film of the same name written and directed by the Coen brothers, who serve as executive producers on the series...
is the tenth episode and season finale of the fifth season of the American anthology black comedy–crime drama television series Fargo. It is the 51st...
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So-hyun were in talks for the role of the male and female protagonists in the drama Useless Lies, and was later confirmed for the role in November. Filming...
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the laughs it had hoped for". On the other hand, Amanda Mazzillo of Film Inquiry gave a positive review, concluding that the "very aspect of Useless Humans...
Nugan Hand Bank was an Australian merchant bank that collapsed in 1980 after the suicide of one of its founders, Australian lawyer Francis John Nugan,...
bona fide defector and the individual he purported to be." After three weeks, the CIA – believing Stashynsky to be useless – handed him over to West German...
The Life of a Useless Man (pre-reform Russian: Жизнь ненужнаго человѣка; post-reform Russian: Жизнь ненужного человека, romanized: Zhizn' nenuzhnogo cheloveka...
The Barber of Seville, or TheUseless Precaution (Italian: Il barbiere di Siviglia, ossia L'inutile precauzione [il barˈbjɛːre di siˈviʎʎa osˈsiːa liˈnuːtile...
excavations were simply the largely purposeless folly of an eccentric man. However, while Stonehouse called the works "stupendously useless", Hand concluded that...
(starting with being swept at thehands of the cross-town White Sox in mid-June) and finished in the bottom of the division for the next two seasons. Despite...
does not necessarily mean that such measures are useless in reducing harm, only that they fall short of the goal of reducing exposure completely to zero....
attached to him, it would become useless. He has, therefore, concluded the only way to prevent its falling into the wrong hands is to keep and protect it. Hellboy...
(1991) "The Lovers That Never Were" and "Mistress and Maid" from McCartney's Off the Ground (1993). "Shallow Grave" from Costello's All This Useless Beauty...
from Pitchfork. The second single from the album was "Stay Useless," released December 9, 2011. Like "No Future/No Past," "Stay Useless" received a Best...
jobs are useless. It also does not show that the jobs are objectively useless, merely that the respondents feel this. Gallup's "State of the Global Workplace:...
example of a useless, time-wasting activity. Thumb twiddling can be used as a simple test for manual dexterity. Contra-rotation involves moving the thumbs in...
identifiable as the modern clip-on—"a novel method for making up the tie [...] [eliminating] the neckband of the tie, which is useless and uncomfortable...