Currently the Arcana household is in the grip of Fargo, Season 5 – and a couple of musical masterpieces have shown their hand already.

We didn’t have to wait long, either – the opening scene (no spoilers!) took place against the magnificent backdrop of All Good People by Yes. The directors used it brilliantly, too – the build up from the massive organ chorale was the centrepiece of the scene, which then dropped off the edge of a cliff and into a completely different sonic world. If you watch it you’ll see exactly what I mean, but for now you can enjoy the song in its entirety:

Then, in episode four, a reappearance for Bartók’s Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta, specifically the passage from the third movement Adagio which Stanley Kubrick used in The Shining, when Johnny’s descent into insanity was almost complete:

Here the genius is to follow Bartók almost immediately with a polar opposite, The Prodigy’s Smack My Bitch Up. It works a treat, see what happens when you do the same below!

We await the rest of the series with interest…and it goes without saying there is some superb original music from regular composer Jeff Russo to enjoy as well: