Some people do indeed like that kind of thing. I'm pretty sure Peter isn't one of them. Or at least he's a lot better at not showing it then you'd expect him to be.

Fargo really is quite good. It has one of my favorite female characters ever in Marge Gunderson, who while, like, eight (maybe nine) months pregnant and waddling around Minnesota in the middle of the winter manages to be brilliant and take down two kidnappers pretty much entirely by herself. But there is a lot of blood. Which is why I too had high hopes for Burn After Reading. It got some good reviews from critics I trust and everything.