Jesse Plemons broke through on Breaking Bad, as the rather twisted Todd, aka Meth Damon. Given his performance it was exciting to see what he'd do next, and when he was announced for Fargo it was easy to imagine him being a similarly dark and violent character. Well, he couldn't be more different. Instead, as Ed, he's all Minnesota manners and gentlemanly kindness, and he sits down to dinner with his wife Peggy (Kirsten Dunst) in a scene that could be from the 1950s rather than 1979. She's cooked her husband the meal, and he is full of pleases and thank-yous. Then we start hearing a banging coming from another room (the garage, it turns out). The mystery of what exactly this is slowly builds, as Peggy becomes increasingly desperate to stop Ed from finding out what his causing the noise. When he sees the car, covered in blood and with a smashed windscreen, she tells him that she hit a deer. When it's clear that there's something still moving around in the garage, he brilliantly asks: "Did you bring the deer home with you?" Then, out of the darkness, springs Rye. It was Peggy who hit him with the car, and rather than leaving him for dead, or taking him to the hospital, she chose hidden option C - bring the man you think you've just killed home with you. That worked out really well. Ed inadvertently stabs Rye in the ensuing fight, which appears to have definitely killed him this time. The last we see of him he's stuffed into their big ice-box, and they're going to be keeping that murder to themselves for now. Presumably it won't stay secret for too much longer.
NCTJ-qualified journalist. Most definitely not a racing driver. Drink too much tea; eat too much peanut butter; watch too much TV. Sadly only the latter paying off so far.
A mix of wise-old man in a young man's body with a child-like wonder about him and a great otherworldly sensibility.
