The Box Set: "Fargo."

Deconstructing Ep. 4: "Insolubilia."

These Box Set deconstructions contain spoilers and should be read after you’ve watched the episode.

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As more of these excellent “Fargo” episodes roll out the more we fully understand how much creator Noah Hawley is biting off to tell an all-encompassing story — debt, both fiscal and biblical; MAGA extremism; an emerging refutation in the assumption that America is the land of the free; the whole concept of lying and what that might mean to people and, of course, a Coen Brothers touchstone itself, the complicated weight of “paradox.”

Which, in short, is a helluva lot.

But watching this compelling and oddly constructed fourth episode, the first thing I thought was something echoed here before — when “Fargo” is on its game, there’s few series that can match it (and another reason people who didn’t like S4 are pointing to S5 as a return to form).

But before digging deeper into “Insolubilia” and its continuing connections to “The Paradox Of Intermediate Transactions” and multiple other mind-bending strands, first I have one word for you:

“Pancakes.”