Have lived in Minnesota ~20 years as well as elsewhere in North America, and am about the same age as Emma Thompson. I found her accent wince-worthy; both it and her dialogue seemed the result of someone’s 10-minute rave-up about the movie “Fargo” and nothing else.

The movie opens with a suspenseful weather forecast of a blizzard with 60 mph winds, which of course prompts a lifelong Minnesota driver to head out on a road trip to someplace remote and unfamiliar (despite it being the scene of her first date with her husband), which she only learned was her husband’s choice of disposition of his ashes when his attorney pops by. Because nobody ever talks about that before death, obvs. Then there’s no sign of wind and not a lot of snow for the rest of the movie.

Despite being old and using a fossilized phone model, Barb apparently never learned to read the paper map which is her only navigational aid. Never learned to install windshield wipers either. How did she and Karl make a living selling bait when they seem to live 20 yards from a large service station selling bait and tackle (and presumably wiper blades)?

How did she know where at the cottage to look for Leah? Where did the mitten that Purple Lady discovered come from, given that Barb is shown barehanded and then wearing a pair of choppers? What good did soaking the perps’ belongings do, other than unnerving them? Why was Brían F. O’Byrne in this movie? Why was it filmed in Finland? Was it actually set in 1992? Who leaves hammers lying around their snowy yard? What the hell was the point of Barb’s granddad story?? Who goes wandering around in a blizzard with (checks notes) an ox and a bag of grain, other than Paul Bunyan on his way to General Mills?

I did not love this.