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* Considering what Cartels in real life have done to their enemies who have done less than remorselessly murder a boss’ son, it is almost commendable that Camila quickly shot Ruth dead rather than kidnap her and put her through ColdBloodedTorture, did the “CountryMatters-to-Mouth” she threatened Claire on her or even sold her to HumanTraffickers.

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* Considering what Cartels in real life have done to their enemies enemies, including those who have done less than remorselessly murder the son of a boss’ son, Cartel boss, it is almost commendable that of Camila quickly shot to simply shoot Ruth dead rather than kidnap her and put her through ColdBloodedTorture, did do the “CountryMatters-to-Mouth” thing she threatened Claire on to her or even sold sell her to HumanTraffickers.
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* It's unlikely that Jonah really needed to murder Mel. Mel broke the law in stealing the cookie jar from the Byrdes' home, so it's not going to be admissible in court if he takes it with him. And even if the Byrdes are more worried about their reputation than getting charged with murder, they could easily claim ignorance and pin the deed on Ruth, since she bought the cookie jar, gave it to the Byrdes, and is now too dead to defend herself.

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* It's unlikely that Jonah really needed to murder Mel. Mel broke the law in stealing the cookie jar from the Byrdes' home, so it's not going to be admissible in court if he takes it with him. And even if the Byrdes are more worried about their reputation than getting charged with murder, they could easily claim ignorance and pin the deed on Ruth, since she bought the cookie jar, gave it to the Byrdes, and is now too dead to defend herself.herself.
* Considering what Cartels in real life have done to their enemies who have done less than remorselessly murder a boss’ son, it is almost commendable that Camila quickly shot Ruth dead rather than kidnap her and put her through ColdBloodedTorture, did the “CountryMatters-to-Mouth” she threatened Claire on her or even sold her to HumanTraffickers.

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* In the shot of the horse castration, the horse depicted has no penis and had the operation on the floor of its own stall. No wonder the owner was so horrified - the horse was not only castrated (a sometimes elective or medically necessary procedure - if financially damaging here) but had its penis removed and was operated on in an unsanitary environment, meaning it will likely get infected and/or die (assuming that the "surgeon" even created someway for him to urinate). Any horse lover, much less someone who dedicated their life to the animals, would be horrified at the mutilation and disregard for the animal's life.

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* In the shot of the horse castration, the horse depicted has no penis and had the operation on the floor of its own stall. No wonder the owner was so horrified - the horse was not only castrated (a sometimes elective or medically necessary procedure - if financially damaging here) but had its penis removed and was operated on in an unsanitary environment, meaning it will likely get infected and/or die (assuming that the "surgeon" even created someway some way for him to urinate). Any horse lover, much less someone who dedicated urinate).
* It's unlikely that Jonah really needed to murder Mel. Mel broke the law in stealing the cookie jar from the Byrdes' home, so it's not going to be admissible in court if he takes it with him. And even if the Byrdes are more worried about
their life reputation than getting charged with murder, they could easily claim ignorance and pin the deed on Ruth, since she bought the cookie jar, gave it to the animals, would be horrified at the mutilation Byrdes, and disregard for the animal's life.is now too dead to defend herself.
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* Having lured Russ on with promises of love and a fly fishing shop, it's fitting that Petty met his end with a tackle box.
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* Rachel [[spoiler:running off is not only to protect herself from Marty's criminal connections, but after the accident, the Blue Cat would have lost business and faced investigations and inspections (the latter a major plot line in Season 2).]]

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* Rachel [[spoiler:running running off is not only to protect herself from Marty's criminal connections, but after the accident, the Blue Cat would have lost business and faced investigations and inspections (the latter a major plot line in Season 2).]]
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* Rachel [[spoiler:running off is not only to protect herself from Marty's criminal connections, but after the accident, the Blue Cat would have lost business and faced investigations and inspections (the latter a major plot line in Season 2).]]
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* In the first two seasons, there's a RunningGag where Marty will use InsistentTerminology to say that the cartel he's working for is the ''second''-largest in Mexico. In the third season, the plot is largely driven by the fact that the cartel is losing a war with another. Being only the second-largest has suddenly become pretty important.

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* In the first two seasons, there's a RunningGag where Marty will use InsistentTerminology to say that the cartel he's working for is the ''second''-largest in Mexico. In the third season, the plot is largely driven by the fact that the cartel is losing a war with against another. Being only the second-largest has suddenly become pretty important.

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This isn't really fridge brilliance. The fact that the Snells are local crimelords who are getting muscled out by the cartel is surface-level plot.


* The Snells are absolutely terrifying in season one. But by season two, [[BadassDecay they spend much of the series on the defensive.]] As large as the Lake of the Ozarks is, they're big fish in a small pond, and they don't fare well when they start getting tough with a multinational cartel.
** It's a bit less "decay" and more "getting put into context". The Snells don't stop being their scary selves. But, a freshwater pike is always going to run into trouble when facing bullsharks who ''can'' work out how to deal with fresh or salty, wherever they are.
** Darlene is also suffering SanitySlippage due to the death of her adopted son.

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* The Snells are absolutely terrifying in season one. But by season two, [[BadassDecay they spend much of the series on the defensive.]] As large as the Lake of the Ozarks is, they're big fish in a small pond, and they don't fare well when they start getting tough with a multinational cartel.
** It's a bit less "decay" and more "getting put into context". The Snells don't stop being their scary selves. But, a freshwater pike is always going to run into trouble when facing bullsharks who ''can'' work out how to deal with fresh or salty, wherever they are.
** Darlene is also suffering SanitySlippage due to the death of her adopted son.
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** Darlene is also suffering SanitySlippage due to the death of her adopted son.

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** Darlene is also suffering SanitySlippage due to the death of her adopted son.son.

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* In the shot of the horse castration, the horse depicted has no penis and had the operation on the floor of its own stall. No wonder the owner was so horrified - the horse was not only castrated (a sometimes elective or medically necessary procedure - if financially damaging here) but had its penis removed and was operated on in an unsanitary environment, meaning it will likely get infected and/or die (assuming that the "surgeon" even created someway for him to urinate). Any horse lover, much less someone who dedicated their life to the animals, would be horrified at the mutilation and disregard for the animal's life.

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* In the first two seasons, there's a RunningGag where Marty will use InsistentTerminology to say that the cartel he's working for is the ''second''-largest in Mexico. In the third season, the plot is largely driven by the fact that the cartel is losing a war with another. Being only the second-largest has suddenly become pretty important.

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* In the first two seasons, there's a RunningGag where Marty will use InsistentTerminology to say that the cartel he's working for is the ''second''-largest in Mexico. In the third season, the plot is largely driven by the fact that the cartel is losing a war with another. Being only the second-largest has suddenly become pretty important.important.
* The Snells are absolutely terrifying in season one. But by season two, [[BadassDecay they spend much of the series on the defensive.]] As large as the Lake of the Ozarks is, they're big fish in a small pond, and they don't fare well when they start getting tough with a multinational cartel.
** It's a bit less "decay" and more "getting put into context". The Snells don't stop being their scary selves. But, a freshwater pike is always going to run into trouble when facing bullsharks who ''can'' work out how to deal with fresh or salty, wherever they are.
** Darlene is also suffering SanitySlippage due to the death of her adopted son.
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* In the first two seasons, there's a RunningGag where Marty will use InsistentTerminology to say that the cartel he's working for is the ''second''-largest in Mexico. In the third season, the plot is largely driven by the fact that the cartel is losing a war with another. Being only the second-largest has suddenly become pretty important.

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This is more an analytical reading than fridge brilliance. As the natter says, the comparison also doesn't work out very well.


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* Mason Young calling Marty [[{{Satan}} The Devil]], appears as him showing how much he hates the money launderer for ruining his life, but when you think about it, he has a good point. Marty seems to make the lives of everyone around him [[DoomMagnet worse]] when he comes around. Rachel, Mason, even criminals like Del and the Cartel, The Snells, Politicians, Residents, and now the Kansas City Mob. It seems like things were going either great or normal for them until Marty shows up, then all kinds of problems happen. Even his own family suffers because of this. Darlin Snell calls this out several times but is ignored by her husband Jacob. There is also the concept of the show about making choices and the consequences afterwards especially if you made the wrong one. Marty makes it clear several times that he doesn't fell sorry for the people he indirectly hurts, because they made a choice and therefore chose their fate. Lastly, Marty presents himself as an ''Angel'' investor who makes promises of turning failing businesses around and making the people rich so he can use them as a cover for his laundering, something Mason calls out by admitting that he let Marty temp him with the promise of a church, playing on his pride.
* Interesting idea. However. the Devil intentionally sets out to ruin people, and uses temptation as a means to an end (corrupting your soul). Marty has no such intentions and often works very hard to avoid (and fix, to everyone's benfit) the problems that show up. If anything, his amorality exposes the immorality of everyone else - he's here to make money with as little fuss as possible, and if everyone else would quit being idiots, everything would be just fine. Wendy, on the other hand, definitely becomes enamored with being the Villian Protagonist, and seems to revel more and more with embracing being a criminal.

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!!FridgeBrilliance

* Mason Young calling Marty [[{{Satan}} The Devil]], appears as him showing how much he hates the money launderer for ruining his life, but when you think about it, he has a good point. Marty seems to make the lives of everyone around him [[DoomMagnet worse]] when he comes around. Rachel, Mason, even criminals like Del and the Cartel, The Snells, Politicians, Residents, and now the Kansas City Mob. It seems like things were going either great or normal for them until Marty shows up, then all kinds of problems happen. Even his own family suffers because of this. Darlin Snell calls this out several times but is ignored by her husband Jacob. There is also the concept of the show about making choices and the consequences afterwards especially if you made the wrong one. Marty makes it clear several times that he doesn't fell sorry for the people he indirectly hurts, because they made a choice and therefore chose their fate. Lastly, Marty presents himself as an ''Angel'' investor who makes promises of turning failing businesses around and making the people rich so he can use them as a cover for his laundering, something Mason calls out by admitting that he let Marty temp him with the promise of a church, playing on his pride.
* Interesting idea. However. the Devil intentionally sets out to ruin people, and uses temptation as a means to an end (corrupting your soul). Marty has no such intentions and often works very hard to avoid (and fix, to everyone's benfit) the problems that show up. If anything, his amorality exposes the immorality of everyone else - he's here to make money with as little fuss as possible, and if everyone else would quit being idiots, everything would be just fine. Wendy, on the other hand, definitely becomes enamored with being the Villian Protagonist, and seems to revel more and more with embracing being a criminal.

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This isn't really fridge horror. It's stated pretty openly in dialogue. The Snells threaten to cut the baby out of her, and then the baby arrives and Grace is dead.


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Mason Young calling Marty [[{{Satan}} The Devil]], appears as him showing how much he hates the money launderer for ruining his life, but when you think about it, he has a good point. Marty seems to make the lives of everyone around him [[DoomMagnet worse]] when he comes around. Rachel, Mason, even criminals like Del and the Cartel, The Snells, Politicians, Residents, and now the Kansas City Mob. It seems like things were going either great or normal for them until Marty shows up, then all kinds of problems happen. Even his own family suffers because of this. Darlin Snell calls this out several times but is ignored by her husband Jacob. There is also the concept of the show about making choices and the consequences afterwards especially if you made the wrong one. Marty makes it clear several times that he doesn't fell sorry for the people he indirectly hurts, because they made a choice and therefore chose their fate. Lastly, Marty presents himself as an ''Angel'' investor who makes promises of turning failing businesses around and making the people rich so he can use them as a cover for his laundering, something Mason calls out by admitting that he let Marty temp him with the promise of a church, playing on his pride.
* Interesting idea. However. the Devil intentionally sets out to ruin people, and uses temptation as a means to an end (corrupting your soul). Marty has no such intentions and often works very hard to avoid (and fix, to everyone's benfit) the problems that show up. If anything, his amorality exposes the immorality of everyone else - he's here to make money with as little fuss as possible, and if everyone else would quit being idiots, everything would be just fine. Wendy, on the other hand, definitely becomes enamored with being the Villian Protagonist, and seems to revel more and more with embracing being a criminal.

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What the Snells did to Grace, with Darlene mentioning she did the 'delivering'.

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Mason Young calling Marty [[{{Satan}} The Devil]], appears as him showing how much he hates the money launderer for ruining his life, but when you think about it, he has a good point. Marty seems to make the lives of everyone around him [[DoomMagnet worse]] when he comes around. Rachel, Mason, even criminals like Del and the Cartel, The Snells, Politicians, Residents, and now the Kansas City Mob. It seems like things were going either great or normal for them until Marty shows up, then all kinds of problems happen. Even his own family suffers because of this. Darlin Snell calls this out several times but is ignored by her husband Jacob. There is also the concept of the show about making choices and the consequences afterwards especially if you made the wrong one. Marty makes it clear several times that he doesn't fell sorry for the people he indirectly hurts, because they made a choice and therefore chose their fate. Lastly, Marty presents himself as an ''Angel'' investor who makes promises of turning failing businesses around and making the people rich so he can use them as a cover for his laundering, something Mason calls out by admitting that he let Marty temp him with the promise of a church, playing on his pride.
* Interesting idea. However. the Devil intentionally sets out to ruin people, and uses temptation as a means to an end (corrupting your soul). Marty has no such intentions and often works very hard to avoid (and fix, to everyone's benfit) the problems that show up. If anything, his amorality exposes the immorality of everyone else - he's here to make money with as little fuss as possible, and if everyone else would quit being idiots, everything would be just fine. Wendy, on the other hand, definitely becomes enamored with being the Villian Protagonist, and seems to revel more and more with embracing being a criminal.

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What the Snells did to Grace, with Darlene mentioning she did the 'delivering'.
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* Interesting idea. However. the Devil intentionally sets out to ruin people, and uses temptation as a means to an end (corrupting your soul). Marty has no such intentions and often works very hard to avoid (and fix, to everyone's benfit) the problems that show up. If anything, his amorality exposes the immorality of everyone else - he's here to make money with as little fuss as possible, and if everyone else would quit being idiots, everything would be just fine. Wendy, on the other hand, definitely becomes enamored with being the Villian Protagonist, and seems to revel more and more with embracing being a criminal.

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* Interesting idea. However. the Devil intentionally sets out to ruin people, and uses temptation as a means to an end (corrupting your soul). Marty has no such intentions and often works very hard to avoid (and fix, to everyone's benfit) the problems that show up. If anything, his amorality exposes the immorality of everyone else - he's here to make money with as little fuss as possible, and if everyone else would quit being idiots, everything would be just fine. Wendy, on the other hand, definitely becomes enamored with being the Villian Protagonist, and seems to revel more and more with embracing being a criminal.criminal.

!FridgeHorror

What the Snells did to Grace, with Darlene mentioning she did the 'delivering'.
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* Interesting idea. However. the Devil intentionally sets out to ruin people, and uses temptation as a means to an end (corrupting your soul). Marty has no such intentions and often works very hard to avoid the problems that show up. If anything, his amorality exposes the immorality of everyone else - he's here to make money with as little fuss as possible, and if everyone else would quit being idiots, everything would be just fine. Wendy, on the other hand, definitely becomes enamored with being the Villian Protagonist, and seems to revel more and more with embracing being a criminal.

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* Interesting idea. However. the Devil intentionally sets out to ruin people, and uses temptation as a means to an end (corrupting your soul). Marty has no such intentions and often works very hard to avoid (and fix, to everyone's benfit) the problems that show up. If anything, his amorality exposes the immorality of everyone else - he's here to make money with as little fuss as possible, and if everyone else would quit being idiots, everything would be just fine. Wendy, on the other hand, definitely becomes enamored with being the Villian Protagonist, and seems to revel more and more with embracing being a criminal.
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" interesting idea. however. the Devil intentionally sets out to ruin people, and uses temptation as a means to an end (corrupting your soul). Marty has no such intentions and often works very hard to avoid the problems that show up. If anything, his amorality exposes the immorality of everyone else - he's here to make money with as little fuss as possible, and if every one else would quit being idiots, everything would be just fine. Wendy, on the other hand, definitely becomes enamored with being the Villian Protagonist, and seems to revel more and more with embracing being a criminal.

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" interesting * Interesting idea. however.However. the Devil intentionally sets out to ruin people, and uses temptation as a means to an end (corrupting your soul). Marty has no such intentions and often works very hard to avoid the problems that show up. If anything, his amorality exposes the immorality of everyone else - he's here to make money with as little fuss as possible, and if every one everyone else would quit being idiots, everything would be just fine. Wendy, on the other hand, definitely becomes enamored with being the Villian Protagonist, and seems to revel more and more with embracing being a criminal.
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Mason Young calling Marty [[{{Satan}} The Devil]], appears as him showing how much he hates the money launderer for ruining his life, but when you think about it, he has a good point. Marty seems to make the lives of everyone around him [[DoomMagnet worse]] when he comes around. Rachel, Mason, even criminals like Del and the Cartel, The Snells, Politicians, Residents, and now the Kansas City Mob. It seems like things were going either great or normal for them until Marty shows up, then all kinds of problems happen. Even his own family suffers because of this. Darlin Snell calls this out several times but is ignored by her husband Jacob. There is also the concept of the show about making choices and the consequences afterwards especially if you made the wrong one. Marty makes it clear several times that he doesn't fell sorry for the people he indirectly hurts, because they made a choice and therefore chose their fate. Lastly, Marty presents himself as an ''Angel'' investor who makes promises of turning failing businesses around and making the people rich so he can use them as a cover for his laundering, something Mason calls out by admitting that he let Marty temp him with the promise of a church, playing on his pride.

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Mason Young calling Marty [[{{Satan}} The Devil]], appears as him showing how much he hates the money launderer for ruining his life, but when you think about it, he has a good point. Marty seems to make the lives of everyone around him [[DoomMagnet worse]] when he comes around. Rachel, Mason, even criminals like Del and the Cartel, The Snells, Politicians, Residents, and now the Kansas City Mob. It seems like things were going either great or normal for them until Marty shows up, then all kinds of problems happen. Even his own family suffers because of this. Darlin Snell calls this out several times but is ignored by her husband Jacob. There is also the concept of the show about making choices and the consequences afterwards especially if you made the wrong one. Marty makes it clear several times that he doesn't fell sorry for the people he indirectly hurts, because they made a choice and therefore chose their fate. Lastly, Marty presents himself as an ''Angel'' investor who makes promises of turning failing businesses around and making the people rich so he can use them as a cover for his laundering, something Mason calls out by admitting that he let Marty temp him with the promise of a church, playing on his pride.pride.
" interesting idea. however. the Devil intentionally sets out to ruin people, and uses temptation as a means to an end (corrupting your soul). Marty has no such intentions and often works very hard to avoid the problems that show up. If anything, his amorality exposes the immorality of everyone else - he's here to make money with as little fuss as possible, and if every one else would quit being idiots, everything would be just fine. Wendy, on the other hand, definitely becomes enamored with being the Villian Protagonist, and seems to revel more and more with embracing being a criminal.
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Mason Young calling Marty [[{{Satan}} The Devil]], appears as him showing how much he hates the money launderer for ruining his life, but when you think about it, he has a good point. Marty seems to make the lives of everyone around him [[DoomMagnet worse]] when he comes around. Rachel, Mason, even criminals like Del and the Cartel, The Snells, Politicians, Residents, and now the Kansas City Mob. It seems like things were going either great or normal for them until Marty shows up, then all kinds of problems happen. Even his own family suffers because of this. Darlin Snell calls this out several times but is ignored by her husband Jacob. There is also the concept of the show about making choices and the consequences afterwards especially if you made the wrong one. Marty makes it clear several times that he doesn't fell sorry for the people he indirectly hurts, because they made a choice and therefore chose their fate. Lastly, Marty presents himself as an ''Angel'' investor who makes promises of turning failing businesses around and making the people rich so he can use them as a cover for his laundering, something Mason calls out by admitting that he let Marty temp him with the promise of a church, playing on his pride.

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