History YMMV / FargoSeasonFive

* JerksAreWorseThanVillains:

* JerksAreWorseThanTheVillains:

* LoveToHate: Roy Tillman is a truly despicable and merciless monster with no redeeming traits but Creator/JonHamm's very convincing performance makes him almost like you for this.

* CompleteMonster: [[HeManWomanHater Roy Tillman]], third-generation owner of the [[Characters/FargoSeriesTillmanFamily Tillman]] Ranch and Sheriff of Stark County, Minnesota, is the [[DirtyCop dirtiest cop]] ''Fargo'' has ever produced. A particularly nasty breed of constitutional sheriff, Tillman runs Stark County [[SmallTownTyrant like his own medieval fiefdom]], disposing of the casualties of his criminal business in a dedicated mass grave on the ranch. After murdering his [[DomesticAbuse long-abused]] first wife, Linda, Roy moved onto a teenage runaway named Nadine Bump, grooming her, marrying her, then raping and abusing her for the next two years before Nadine ran away. Roy obsessively hounds Nadine, now named "Dot" in the present day after remarrying, to place her back under his thumb as he feels is his right; at one point, Roy dispatches minions to capture Dot's innocent husband Wayne so he can torture him, and when his men capture the wrong person by accident, Roy irritably blows his brains out. After federal pressure comes down on him after he impulsively kills the lawyer of Dot's wealthy mother-in-law, Roy whips up a right-wing militia to [[CopKiller kill as many cops]] as possible. Roy has no loyalty to anyone but himself in the end; he abandons his oldest son Gator after the latter is blinded, attempts to murder his third wife Karen after killing her dad--his own father-in-law--and [[DirtyCoward abandons all of his own men]] to die in a suicidal last stand while he sneaks off through a secret escape tunnel. [[{{Hypocrite}} Hypocritical]] in every quality he calls virtuous, Roy is nothing but a despicable coward beneath his macho Creator/JohnWayne image, a bully and a "[[PsychopathicManchild baby]]" who steps on others to make himself feel big.

* HilariousInHindsight: The 33rd season of ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' featured "A Serious Flanders," an AffectionateParody of ''Series/{{Fargo}}'' depicting Ned Flanders terrorized by sinister debt collector Kostas Becker. Two years later, ''Fargo'' features its own sinister debt collector, Lorraine Lyon.

* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: What was Danish’s motivation when he decided to go off on his own to negotiate with Roy? Some viewers interpreted his decision to avoid calling for help as an act of pride, riding the high of his recent humiliation of Roy and thinking he had him fully under his control. Others thought it was because he thought Lorraine might not be willing to negotiate with Roy — or worse, thought she might willingly let Dot die to solve two problems at once. Others thought he simply was treating the situation as a race against the clock where decisive action was needed.

* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: What was Danish’s motivation when he decided to go off on his own to negotiate with Roy? Some viewers interpreted his decision to avoid calling for help as an act of pride, riding the high of his recent humiliation of Roy and thinking he had him fully under his control. Others thought it was because he thought Lorraine might not be willing to negotiate with Roy or worse thought she might willingly let Dot die to solve two problems at once. Others thought he simply was treating the situation as a race against the clock where decisive action was needed.

* CompleteMonster: Sheriff Roy Tillman rules Stark County and his own vast ranch land with an iron hand. A third-generation lawman who considers himself judge, jury, and executioner, he's an openly corrupt cop who mocks Federal law while running guns to a violent militia, hiding behind his status as a Constitutional Sheriff. At home he's comfortable with brutally abusing a (progressively younger) series of wives as well as shaping his son Gator into an equally corrupt, bigoted deputy. When Dot escapes his clutches, Tillman is willing to hunt her down like an animal, believing his divine right as a husband is to punish her (as he did to his previous wife Linda, who he murdered). It's astonishing that, in a world of human monsters like Lorne Malvo, Hanzee Dent, V.M. Varga, and Gaetano Fadda, Tillman easily comes off as the most despicable.
* HilariousInHindsight: The 33rd season of ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' featured "A Serious Flanders," an AffectionateParody of ''Series/{{Fargo}}'' depicting Ned Flanders terrorized by sinister debt collector Kostas Becker. Two years later, ''Fargo'' features its own sinister debt collector, Lorraine Lyon.

* CompleteMonster: Sheriff Roy Tillman rules Stark County and his own vast ranch land with an iron hand. A third-generation lawman who considers himself judge, jury, and executioner, he's an openly corrupt cop who mocks Federal law while running guns to a violent militia, hiding behind his status as a Constitutional Sheriff. At home he's comfortable with brutally abusing a (progressively younger) series of wives as well as shaping his son Gator into an equally corrupt, bigoted deputy. When Dot escapes his clutches, Tillman is willing to hunt her down like an animal, believing his divine right as a husband is to punish her (as he did to his previous wife Linda, who he murdered). It's astonishing that, in a world of human monsters like Lorne Malvo, V.M. Varga, Gaetano Fadda, and Hanzee Dent, Tillman easily comes off as the most despicable.

* CompleteMonster: Sheriff Roy Tillman rules Stark County and his own vast ranch land with an iron hand. A third-generation lawman who considers himself judge, jury, and executioner, he's an openly corrupt cop who mocks Federal law while running guns to a violent militia, hiding behind his status as a Constitutional Sheriff. At home he's comfortable with brutally abusing a (progressively younger) series of wives as well as shaping his son Gator into an equally corrupt, bigoted deputy. When Dot escapes his clutches, Tillman is willing to hunt her down like an animal, believing his divine rught as a husband is to punish her (as he did to his previous wife Linda, who he murdered). It's astonishing that, in a world of human monsters like Lorne Malvo, V.M. Varga, Gaetano Fadda, and Hanzee Dent, Tillman easily comes off as the most despicable.

* HilariousInHindsight: The 33rd season of ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' featured "A Serious Flanders," an AffectionateParody of ''Series/{{Fargo}}'' depicting Ned Flanders terrorized by sinister debt collector Costas Becker. Two years later, ''Fargo'' features its own sinister debt collector, Lorraine Lyon.