FX's FARGO Discussion Thread

[riddleofsteel]

My only problem with that is it would display a level of concern for others that Lester clearly didn't have. He would never buy life insurance, ironically.

I figured he would have purchased some to get over some sales goal. Know he would have had a policy on the wife.

 

[riddleofsteel]

A lot of the series is unrealistic, so there isn't really a point in trying to defend the Malvo killing. I don't think the show aimed at being flawless at believability.

Exactly. Quite the opposite. That's why it's so ironic to put that "true story" blurb at the start. People just want to over analyze it rather than enjoy it for what it is.

Reason I'm going on about malvo's shooting is that a poster put that as being so unrealistic; the show has been unrealistic since the beginning. After the sheriff was murdered the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension would have been called in and Lester would have easily been caught. There would be no show "in the real world".

 

[Crono139]

Hello, Season 2!

Grab your mittens and button down your ear flaps: FX on Monday announced that it has ordered a second season of its Emmy-nominated series Fargo.

Per the cabler, the new 10-episode chapter (to launch in Fall 2015 at the earliest) will feature all-new characters (played by all-new actors), a new period of time and a new true crime story.

http://tvline.com/2014/07/21/fargo-season-2-renewal-cast/

 

[CubicleGangster]

Definitely interested in a season 2

hope Malvo has a small appearance somehow

 

[Crono139]

All those tapes...

 

[JadeOwl]

All those tapes...

The first thing that came to mind.

 

[Dragonlordxxxxx]

I want to see Peter Stormare in season 2.

 

[Dragonlordxxxxx]

Update: July 21, 2014

FARGO Season 2 Will Be a Prequel, Bringing Back Lou Solverson

A rare example of instant gratification: Producers of FX's Fargo outlined details of the miniseries' 2015 return just a few hours after the network picked it up for another season. Noah Hawley and Warren Littlefield appeared at the Television Critics Association on Monday evening

 

[DizzyYeahYeah]

Nice. Sounds interesting. I will miss Billy Bob.

 

[Tankeray]

I dunno. I just don't like prequels much at all. Hard to get excited about them.

 

[k1ngjester]

 

[Crono139]

5:02 p.m. Littlefield says that Billy Bob Thornton's presence gave them permission to play in this Coen Brothers world. "I think a lot of people are going to want to be around and are going to want to play in the 'Fargo' sandbox in Season 2," Littlefield says. "They might be household names," Littlefield suggests, noting that all manner of stars are interested in TV for 10 hours. "We're very close to landing Colin Farrell for a role in the second season," Hawley cracks.

5:04 p.m. "It's the Best of America versus the Worst of America. Yes, we have problems, but look who's solving them," Hawley says of his original pitch on what the DNA of "Fargo" is. "What's exciting is not having those boundaries or rules," he says. FX won't dictate needing a Billy Bob Role or a Molly. "Hopefully what was exciting about watching that first season was not being able to predict" what was going to happen on a plot level or a structure level, Hawley says. "I think the most important element to our DNA is tone," Littlefield says, calling that more important than weather or whatever.

5:06 p.m. "There was that sense, I think, that this war had come home with people and the violence and brutality of it," Hawley says of the new "Fargo" time period, that Lou's character went to war and brought the war back with him.

5:12 p.m. Will they be back in Calgary to shoot? "We will be going back to Calgary and that's where we'll be based. We really have quite a large area in and around Calgary to explore that we haven't explored," Littlefield promises. The base will be Calgary and they'll create a world in and around that.

5:13 p.m. "She should be in everything anybody ever makes as far as I'm concerned," Hawley says of Tolman. He calls the idea of Tolman playing Molly's mother might be a little gimmicky, but he isn't ruling it out.

http://www.hitfix.com/the-fien-print/fargo-season-2-renewal-press-tour-live-blog

 

[fingercuffs]

Farrell in Fargo AND True Detective?

 

[blokeybloke]

Carradine's been brilliant in both Dexter and Fargo. I stuck with Fargo and am pleased I did.

Freeman & Tolman were proper standouts. Surprised she didn't receive an Emmy nomination.

 

[blokeybloke]

oops wrong thread

 

[Crono139]

The robbery scene that we never got to see: http://391780.tumblr.com/post/98270722361/makeyouanocean-for-those-who-dont-have-the

Amazing.

 

[Dragonlordxxxxx]

Update: December 4, 2014

Jeffrey Donovan Joins FARGO Season 2; Nick Offerman Eyed

Jeffrey Donovan is packing his bags for Fargo, and Nick Offerman could be joining him. Burn Notice star Donovan is nearing a deal to join the second season of FX's anthology series Fargo, while Parks and Recreation star Offerman has an offer to join the cast, though he's not currently in negotiations, multiple individuals with knowledge of the castings told TheWrap on Wednesday.

Donovan, whose credits also include Crossing Jordan and Law & Order, has been cast in the role of Dodd. The second season of the adaptation of the Coen Brothers’ iconic film will also feature Rachel Keller, who will play the role of Simone in the Noah Hawley-created series. In addition to the castings of Donovan and Keller, another individual with knowledge of the situation told TheWrap that Mike Bradecich (Mighty Med) and Allan Dobrescu are also in contention for roles in the series. Should Offerman join the cast, he would play the role of Carl.

As Hawley revealed at the Television Critics Association press tour in July, the second iteration of Fargo will take place in 1979 and feature a young Lou Solverson (played by Keith Carradine in the first season) as a 33-year-old veteran who recently arrived home from the Vietnam war.


Jeffrey Donovan JoinsFARGO Season 2; Nick Offerman Sought for Role (Exclusive)

 

[Dragonlordxxxxx]

Update: December 10, 2014

Jesse Plemons and Kirsten Dunst to Star in FARGO Season 2

FX has found its new Fargo leading duo. Kirsten Dunst and Jesse Plemons will topline the second season of Noah Hawley's FX anthology, The Hollywood Reporter has learned. Production will begin in Calgary in January with the 10-episode series set to premiere next fall on FX. Hawley will return as showrunner with exec producers including Joel and Ethan Coen, Warren Littlefield and John Cameron. Additional castings are expected to be announced soon.

The sophomore season will revisit the 1979 Sioux Falls incident referenced in the freshman run's "A Fox, a Rabbit, and a Cabbage" episode when Molly's (Allison Tolman) father Lou Solverson (Keith Carradine) was still a state trooper. Season two will take place in Fargo, N.D., Sioux Falls, S.D., and Luverne, Minn., Hawley said, with a new actor coming in to play the younger Lou character.

Dunst will star as Peggy Blomquist, a beautician with big-city dreams who is trying to figure out who she really is and what she really wants as she struggles with societal expectations. Plemons will play Ed, Peggy's husband and a butcher's assistant who wants to be supportive of his wife's self-discovery

 

[HuntersCreed]

Todd is going to fuck this all up. Everyone is going to end up strung out on meth and Todd will be rich. I can see it now.

 

[Andersons Foot]

Hopefully season 2 can match the awesomeness of season 1.