We need a thread for the FARGO TV show yah? Oh, yah!

Hawley has confirmed they're doing Sioux Falls '79 for S2

Came back to this after several weeks where I'd gone on holiday and become busy and forgotten to finish off the series. I think the break really put into perspective what a marvellously plotted shows this is.

Though that falls apart a bit in the finale.

always does with these things. i long for a show that has a satisfying ending. ** spoiler ** even breaking bad felt ever-so-slightly like a cop-out what with the spray gun thing

I'm hoping someone who's not seen the end reads that and thinks it somehow involves Walt and a supersoaker.

Thought the end of BB was absolutely as good as could've been hoped, but that's for another thread.

I liked the ending. It wasn't a big surprise or anything and I felt like there are unanswered questions, but it was satisfying enough for such a good season. I'm assuming that the next season will be about her father in the 1970's and the horrible thing he saw.

Pretty much been confirmed that it is.

It musta been mighty terrible!

Oh, you want new details on Fargo’s second season? You betcha, we got ‘em!

During TCA’s winter press tour, FX CEO John Langraf revealed that Ronald Reagan will figure into the second season of the network’s hit anthology series.

The new chapter travels back to 1979, where a young Lou Solverson (Patrick Wilson, played in the first season by Keith Carradine) returns from Vietnam and begins to investigate a local gang and a mob syndicate.

“It covers something that was referenced in the first installment by Lou Solverson, Molly Solverson’s [Allison Tolman] father,” Langraf said. “It’s a big sprawling, in some ways, more comedic season, though at times, a very serious show. It’s set in the late ’70s against the backdrop of Ronald Reagan’s first campaign for President of the United States. Reagan is a character in it.”

After the panel, Landgraf confided to EW that Fargo will actually be casting the role of Reagan, not using archival footage. “Reagan will be interacting with our characters,” he said, noting that the role has not yet been cast.

Joining Wilson in the second season: Ted Danson as Hank Larsson, Lou’s unflappable father-in-law; Nick Offerman as Karl Weathers, a local lawyer; Jean Smart as Floyd Gerhardt, the matriarch of the Gerhardt crime family; Jeffrey Donovan as her eldest son, Dodd Gerhardt; Angus Sampson as her inarticulate middle son, Bear Gerhardt; Kieran Culkin as her youngest son, Rye Gerhardt; and Kirsten Dunst as small town beautician Peggy Blomquist, and her husband Ed (Jesse Plemons), who attempts to be supportive of his wife’s self-discovery, even if he doesn’t quite understand it.

In that vein, Langrad noted that feminism will play a big role in the second season. “A lot of what it’s about is the cultural transformation that was going on at the time,” Landgraf said. “It’s about the sense that the war has come home. It’s also about feminism, so there are some really significant female characters. It’s a big, sprawling, incredibly ambitious series. Noah just channeled the Coen brothers and tells stories in a way that’s so fresh and so surprising.”

The second season of Fargo is slated to begin production on Monday, with the 10-episode anthology miniseries expected to premiere in the fall.

As long as they keep the humor, I'm in

It’s a big, sprawling, incredibly ambitious series. Noah just channeled the Coen brothers

i love the juxtaposition of these thoughts - the grand ambition of imitating of coens

i also love how these guys talk about the coen brothers like they're dead

sometimes i look at the wind and think, 'what would the coens do?' well, not literally what the coens would do, which is not return my phone calls.

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well it can't be as bad as True Detective S2, right?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFVNi8gUEy4

I haven't watched S1, but I probably should just to get the mood of the show (I realize the two seasons don't appear to be connected except for the Fargo part).

they all look like they're having fun playing dress up

actually Patrick Wilson is playing the younger version of a character from Season 1 JF

this looks fun!

first season was a blast.

the first one was cartoonish but had a sickening layer of horror that ran beneath it all - this one just looks cartoonish tbh

Way up thread someone suggested a show just following BBT's character all over the country. I'd so totally watch that!!

http://www.hitfix.com/whats-alan-watching/review-fargo-winningly-boogies-back-to-the-70s-for-season-2

First ep v good
Lots of 70s brown and tan and some surprising casting

the credits ordering at the end felt like a bit of a spoiler

still, good premiere - no reason to think it won't best s1

Now that you mention it, yeah. But i wouldn't expect KD to play a minor role in a tv show anyway.

The breaking bad alum was cool to see too.

Very promising! Nothing else on TV has this tone.

The visual affectations were kind of all over the place, which could be a red flag in terms of having the discipline to resolve its many threads satisfyingly (definitely an issue with s1 for me). But the many threads they kicked off were intriguing, and its a GREAT cast for a TV show. Going in with fingers crossed this doesn't become AHS: Midwestern Mob.

jeffrey donovan is hilarious to me

Totally couldn't place that guy! But I really only know him from the occasional five minutes I've seen of burn notice.

Intriguing first ep. It felt like it veered into Spike Jonez ish territory at times with the split screening and stuff, but didnt distract me too much.

LOL seeing Angus Sampson in so much US TV and film lately.

BTW was the mention of McCain a goof? Was he known that long ago?

the scoring and music supervision on this easily the best thing about it imo

I'm already starting to have some of the same misgivings that I had about season 1. As encapsulated by the dog eating human ears out of a bucket.

BTW was the mention of McCain a goof? Was he known that long ago?

― I checked Snoops , and it is for real (Trayce)

I think he was maybe famous as a war hero before he became a politician?

My friend Dan is in this show now!!!!

You call Ted Danson "Dan"?

I think he was maybe famous as a war hero before he became a politician?

I figured that but was he a known figure back as far as 79... I wouldnt know tbh.

If only there were some way of finding out...

This is already infinity percent better than the first one on account of no Martin Freeman.

My one minor complaint so far is that Bokeem Woodbine's character is a little 'quirky but menacing assassin' by numbers.

What was the prog track playing after the scene in the typewriter shop, assuming it was riffing off the "we sound like a prog band" joke? Sounded like Tangerine Dream or somethin.

in general, the music this year (both original and period) has been excellent.
show is making me nervous in the more intense moments. the "get in the hole" bit got me weirdly anxious

loving these first three episodes so far.

I figured that but was he a known figure back as far as 79... I wouldnt know tbh.

which Vietnam War did you think he was a POW in?

I'm aware of when that was. I didnt think he'd be known to the average joe as a politician/political figure back then is all.

His father was a well known admiral and his captivity made the news. When he returned home it was fairly newsworthy and he did talk shows, etc.

http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2008/01/28/john-mccain-prisoner-of-war-a-first-person-account

I feel like Nick Offerman's jacket in this episode would probably cost at least a thousand dollars today

McCain has said that Fargo is his favorite movie, so it's possible the shoutout was inspired by that