Waiting for Dutch Waiting for Dutch "Waiting for Dutch" is second season premiere episode of the FX anthology series "Fargo", and the eleventh episode of the series overall. It was written by series creator and showrunner Noah Hawley and directed by Michael Uppendahl and Randall Einhorn, making it the only episode in the series with two directors. The title refers to the Samuel Beckett play "Waiting for Godot", and to Ronald Reagan, occasionally nicknamed "Dutch", who appears via archival footage. As each season of "Fargo" follows its own self-contained narrative, "Waiting for Dutch", set in 1979, introduces a new storyline and cast, along
Krapp's Last Tape gratification of those very bodily appetites that, earlier, he had resolved should be out of his life. Eating bananas and drinking have become a [daily routine]. Of the physical activities that he once considered excesses only sex has come to play a reduced part in his lonely existence" in the form of periodic visits from an old prostitute. Although this is a play about memory, the sixty-nine-year-old Krapp himself remembers very little. Virtually all the recollections come from the tape. As evidenced most clearly in the novel "Murphy", Beckett had a decent understanding of a variety of mental illnesses including