"Fargo"

Picked up on this anthology series last year, with season 4.  That took place in the 1920s.  This year's "completely true" story (they aren't true) takes place in 2019.  This season's twisted tale is about a woman trying to escape a really really really bad ex.  There is also a 500 year old man with a bizarre spin on the world and a few other mystical elements.  Part of me swears that some of the story was lifted from the original Rapunzel.  In any case, "Fargo", at least the two seasons I've seen, is quite good.  But it's problematic.  There is visceral violence throughout.  I tend to listen to the episodes more than watch them, distracting my eyes with something like online puzzles.  At least this series breaks the current trend of having a lot of characters I can't begin to care about.  The show has good guys.  And medium guys.  And really really really bad guys.  So, this is the thing.  You end up rooting for the good guys.  To bash in the heads of the really bad guys.  Is this a good thing?  That you end up, time and time again, wanting the good guys to utterly destroy the bad guys.  The show is structured that way.  To get you to hate.  To want retribution.  And it does this very well.  Very effectively.  Every once in a while there is a truly good character.  They usually end up dead.  The lesson here is clear.  To be the good guy, you have to fight back.  You have to be as bad as the people who are destroying your life.  Now I have to ask ... is there a danger in that?  "Fargo" is tight, and quirky, and occasionally very very funny.  But it touches a dark streak in humanity.  And I'm not sure if I want to keep going back to that well.