Fargo

Finally, after a couple of restarts, I completed watching Fargo, serialised in ten parts on Channel 4 last April to June, and lurking with menace on the PVR over the summer awaiting its time, the dark evenings when my wife is out and there are no distractions, and each episode can be savoured (a week apart, I think gorging on several episodes at a sitting detracts from the pleasure); the plot was pleasingly complex, the performances of Billy Bob Thornton and Martin Freeman were characteristically excellent, as was that of Alison Holman (a new face to me), but every single character was beautifully written and played, and every scene was shot with cinematic style and panache - just brilliant.