According to Nielsen Media Research, the episode was seen by an estimated 0.601 million household viewers and gained a 0.11 ratings share among adults aged 18–49.
Roy (Jon Hamm) is mocked by his father-in-law Odin for failing to catch Dot (Juno Temple), not disciplining his wife Karen (Rebecca Liddiard) and leading everyone into the current situation.
Escaping the dugout, Roy is arrested by the FBI, with agents Meyer (Jessica Pohly) and Joaquin (Nick Gomez) revealing that Gator gave him away.
She is devastated upon learning of Witt's death and reunites with Wayne (David Rysdahl), Scotty (Sienna King) and Lorraine (Jennifer Jason Leigh), the latter allowing Dot an uncharacteristic hug and admitting that she is proud of her.
Roy is serving his prison sentence in Illinois, where he has fully embraced the ideologies of the Aryan Brotherhood and is visited by Lorraine and Indira.
After he gloats over his rise in the prison hierarchy, Lorraine smugly reveals that she has used her immense power in the Federalist Society to ensure that the judges give him a very long sentence.
She also reveals that she has created a private fund that will receive monthly payments to help prisoners pay off their debts, and that most of Roy's fellow inmates are indebted; in return for the money, his cellmates will sexually and physically assault him but keep him alive, as Lorraine wants him to experience the suffering he put upon his wives.
In December 2023, it was reported that the tenth and final episode of the season would be titled "Bisquik", and was to be written by series creator Noah Hawley, and directed by co-executive producer Thomas Bezucha.
"[3] For the final scene, Hawley wanted to answer to the "mutual injury" which befell Munch: "They reach this place, and it's a very tense back and forth over many minutes as to whether he's going to harm this family or she's going to win out.
"[5] In its original American broadcast, "Bisquik" was seen by an estimated 0.601 million household viewers and gained a 0.11 ratings share among adults aged 18–49, according to Nielsen Media Research.
Club gave the episode an "A–" grade and wrote, "This has been my favorite season since the first, getting back to the 'wicked and playful' vibe that escaped the lesser entries in the middle there.
"[7] Alan Sepinwall of Rolling Stone wrote, "After that underwhelming fourth installment, Season Five had a lot of work to do to argue that Hawley still had interesting stories to tell in this ongoing shuffled Coen brothers playlist.
"[9] Scott Tobias of The New York Times wrote, "The ending is the kind of sentimental moment that would be anathema to the Coens, but it's not out of place philosophically with the original Fargo.
When Marge Gunderson has one of the kidnappers in the back of her squad car and talks to him about the shame of what has happened over 'a little bit of money,' she is asserting the same bedrock values that Dot is expressing here.
The site wrote, "He launched into a sprawling, verbose monologue about his younger days eating the bitter sins of men, with Spruell spinning a web of vividly weird imagery.