Fargo: Season Two / Awesome

Waiting for Dutch

Side characters they were, you have to give props to Judge Mundt and the Waffle Hut cook for standing up to Rye. The first one is when Mundt recognizes Rye for the idiot he is and tells him off, then sprays bug repellent in his eyes. And despite being shot in shoulder-neck area, she still has the strength to shiv him with a steak knife before he puts her down. In between those two moments, we have the cook try to charge Rye with the first weapon he can find, his frying pan, complete with warrior's scream, before he's put down.
Ed managing to kill Rye in self-defense when the latter surprised him in his garage.

Lou standing up to to the entire Gerhardt mob and refusing to back down, even though he is alone, for all intents and purposes.
Schmidt: We found Rye's prints on the gun.
Dodd: You're gonna find my boot on your neck if you keep talking like that.
Lou: Well to be fair, I’m the one who found the gun, so I think you’re dancing with the wrong girl.
Lou's Mexican Standoff with Mike Milligan and the Kitchen brothers. All the more impressive because everyone keeps their cool.

Hanzee tracking the events at the Waffle Hut back to the Blumquists faster than either the cops or Kansas City were able to. In fact, Hanzee indirectly and unwittingly leads the cops to the Blumquists.
Karl flashing his gun at Hanzee, when the latter is threatening Sonny with a knife.
Floyd gets one when she gives her scathing speech to Joe Bulo. It impresses Bulo enough that even though he has to reject her counteroffer (on the grounds that Dodd's assault of two Kansas City men unprovoked shows Floyd incapable of disciplining her sons), he's willing to give her some time to consider his final offer of unconditional surrender before a declaration of war.

The Kitchen Brothers look like unstoppable badasses, wiping out the Gerhardt mobsters attacking them when Hanzee comes out of nowhere, slits one's throat, and knocks out the other before beheading Joe Bulo and leaving the remaining brother to take it back to Mike.
Ed managing to overpower Virgil, the Gerhardt hitman sent to assassinate him, followed by him and Noreen dragging an unconscious Charlie from the burning butcher shop.

When Dodd is about to take his belt to Bear, and gives him the choice of the strap or the buckle.
Bear: Gimme the buckle, you piece of shit.
Karl facing down Bear and the Gerhardt lynch mob, successfully convincing Bear not to storm in and rescue Charlie or lynch Ed because criminal charges would be levied against Charlie. He played on Bear's love for his son, all while having a shotgun pointed at his face, smoking a cigarello and plainly terrified.
Peggy smashing one of Dodd's men in the head with a sink and then electrocuting Dodd himself with his own cattle-prod.
The ending, with Hanzee silently stalking Ed down a backroad while "Man of Constant Sorrow" starts playing.

Mike taking control of his destiny in spite of his racist boss' plan to send an 'Undertaker' to deal with the Gerhardts. He and Gale Kitchen kill both the Undertaker and his underlings in a matter of seconds.

Peggy actually being more practical than Ed, and thinking to use the taser to prevent Dodd from escaping their capture.
Hanzee shooting two racists in the leg (giving each a Wounded Knee), then shooting the similarly insulting bartender who spat in his drink.
Dodd escaping his bonds, knocking out Peggy, and horrifically hanging Ed.
Peggy outdoing Dodd by crawling up to him, stabbing a knife through his foot and into the floor and then breaking the handle. While she riffles through the cabin for another weapon, Dodd just hurts himself trying to pull out the blade by hand and eventually has to drag his foot up through it. But by that point, Peggy whacks him with a fire poker, apparently crippling him.
Hanzee giving Dodd his long-coming comeuppance by shooting him in the head.

Of all people, Ben Schmidt gets one. During the Sioux Falls massacre, Ben successfully ambushes and kills two Gerhardt men who break into his hotel room, unlike so many other officers who get taken down. Almost immediately undone by getting knocked out by Peggy, but for a moment there, even a raging jerklord like Schmidt had a time to shine.
Peggy and Ed getting the drop on Hanzee with a pot of boiling water and a sucker punch. It seems the two of them are really adapting well to their situation.
Bear's Dying Moment of Awesome during the massacre at the Motor Motel. Having been betrayed by Hanzee (who also brutally murders his mother amidst the violence) and then shot by Lou, he realizes that he's not going to make it out alive and, in a final act of pure adrenaline, charges full force at Lou. Despite taking two more bullets, he doesn't stop and tackles the lawman to the ground and comes very close to strangling him. It's only because he gets distracted by the UFO that Lou manages to gain the upper hand and put him down for good. In his final moments, Bear truly lived up to his name.
The climax: a UFO descends upon the Motor Motel, stunning all parties involved (aside from Peggy). After dancing around it, the paranormal is finally confirmed within Fargo.

Lou tells a story about the evacuation followng the fall of Saigon. A helicopter arrives that's too big to land on the ship; with no other choice, the pilot's family jump from the chopper onto the deck. Once everyone is safely out, the pilot maneuvers away from the ship, rolls the chopper onto its side and crashes it into the water. At the very last minute, he jumps clear and, against all odds, gets out alive. Lou is visibly impressed as he recalls the scene.
Lou completely shuts down Peggy's self-pitying Motive Rant by simply pointing out how people have died because of her actions.