Hateful 8 (2015) and Fargo season 2 (2015) are similar in more ways than being my favorite

Rating: 10/10 (24 May 2017)

In the next few minutes I will make a play on telling how my favorite TV show and favorite movie align themselves as mirror images of one another. More succinctly I find great similarities between Fargo Season 2 and Quentin Tarantino's Hateful 8. I would point to plagiarism on someone's part however the close proximity to which both were released make it more like a wild coincidence. Then again Partridge Brady. Munsters Adams. These things do happen fast. Rather than put you through the drudgery of reading my lengthy treatise, I will put down my thoughts in note form. Bokeem Woodbine's character is very much like Samuel L. Jackson's character in his preference for the full hairdo and the quoting of brainy ideas..usually right before an execution. I know Hateful 8 and Fargo season 2, so allow me to get back on track. Both Fargo Season 2 and Hateful 8 have colorful villains who are both comic book like and terrifying. Both shows culminate in a bloodbath. Both have murders that take place, but then the scene cuts to the beginning where an unassuming, non-threatening voiced narrator attempts to give clarity or the mystery. The colored, ur... ah, African American gentleman in both features is an anti-hero who has definitive quirks that have allowed him to succeed despite being outnumbered and trifled with at every other turn for being a Colored, Ur..a... I mean...African American gentleman. Both feature a Sheriff who is an old school throw back to by the book law enforcement and modeling of proper behavior which makes their character beyond reproach. Lest not forget, the haunting yet mischievous sneakily running forward beat Soundtrack that netted Hateful an Oscar is heard in short order variation throughout the most pivotal scenes of Fargo Season 2.