Things on Fargo to get stranger with Joe Keery and new guy Lamorne Morris
The next season of FX's crime anthology takes place in 2019
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There’s nothing quite like FX’s Fargo if you enjoy seeing the names of famous people you like from other things. The anthology nature of Noah Hawley’s crime drama has attracted a lot of cool people over the years, like Billy Bob Thornton, Colin Hanks, Ewan McGregor, Chris Rock, Carrie Coon, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Kirsten Dunst, and Jesse Plemons, with its upcoming fifth season already landing Jon Hamm, Juno Temple, and Jennifer Jason Leigh.
Today, FX announced that the season will also feature Stranger Things’ Joe Keery, New Girl’s Lamorne Morris, and Never Have I Ever’s Richa Moorjani. The official logline for the season is as follows: “Set in 2019, when is a kidnapping not a kidnapping, and what if your wife isn’t yours?” Keery is playing someone named Gator Tillman, Morris is playing someone named Witt Farr, and Moorjani is playing someone named Indira Olmstead.
That’s about all we know about the new season of Fargo, but that setup is certainly curious. Forget the questions there, with the kidnapping that’s not a kidnapping and the wife that isn’t your wife (we ain’t no Sherlock Holmeses over here, solving mysteries for the ineffectual oafs at Scotland Yard), we’re more interested in the fact that it explicitly takes place in 2019. Why? It’s the previous presidency, it’s pre-pandemic… it’s pre-PlayStation 5… Peter Mayhew died… Avengers: Endgame came out…
Most of that probably isn’t relevant, but just wait until there’s a scene where Joe Keery walks into a room and sees Jon Hamm reading a newspaper with the headline “Peter Mayhew Died” and says something relevant to the plot. Everybody will be driving around in vintage 2019 cars like the Toyota RAV4 and Honda CR-V, they’ll talk about going on Instagram to share the hot new photos of Baby Yoda, and instead of saying “sus” they’ll say “suspicious.” It’ll be very weird.
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The weirdest thing about it is choosing that picture for Joe Keery.
Got about 4 episodes into the Chris Rock series and then could go no further. It was too tedious. But we’ll give the next one a go anyway. The first two series were amazing.
There are a couple standout episodes in that season but it does drag a bit more than the others.
I liked the ones set in the late ‘00s and early ‘10s the best, and the one set in the ‘40s the least (with the ‘70s one falling in the middle), so I’m expecting this to be a good one again.
i LOVE the film FARGO, but i can never warm to Noah Hawley projects. Legion is so visually stunning but i could never get into it and it is similar to FARGO. now that Legion is on Disney+ here, i am going to give it another go.
The third season of Legion really falls off a cliff but the first season is an amazing Prisoner homage and the second is psychedelic as hell.
It’s not for everyone though.
i didn’t love Legion, it was plenty of style and not a ton of substance. Love Fargo the series though, aside from the 4th season which had some serious issues, possibly ruined by early covid shooting problems.
If nothing else, and you had to pick only one thing, watch the 2nd season of Fargo. It’s incredible and while the first season was really good and took a lot of storybeat inspiration from the original film, twisting the hitman angle in new ways, the 2nd really takes the time to be something wholly unique and special.
I said the same thing—the sequence in the parking lot alone was dramatically intense perfection, but really the whole season was akin to Cinema on Television from casting to acting, from plot to direction, I wouldn’t have changed a thing.
I concur. The second season of Fargo is one of the best single seasons of television ever.
You should give Fargo another go also, the first two seasons anyway are some of the best TV i’ve ever seen.
I have to say the second season with Plemons, Dunst, Danson Jean Smart and the always terrific Zahn McClarnon, there are sequences so well plotted, shot, acted and directed as to be equal to cinema quality in nature. Honestly as intense, emotional and involving as any on TV. I liked the other seasons as well, but season Two belongs in a class above. Your loss.
Perhaps the show’s timeline only starts in 2019, and the events continue into the start of the pandemic.
or it will just have a lot of winking “I can’t wait until my round the world voyage next year!” jokes.
Just spitballing here, but it probably has something to do with the global pandemic that came the year after…
Someone’s gonna have sex with a pangolin…
Hope this is a return to form. The first two seasons were very good (though the first still stands alone as the best). Third and fourth were pretty tough to get through.The casting for this season is exciting though.
The cast looks good so far but I hope they don’t go with a huge ensemble like S4. Really thought S4 had too many characters and stories and it suffered as a result.
After the last season I would be okay with no more drinks from the Fargo well.
The date may just be for the sake of not having to discuss Covid in any way while still being ‘contemporary.’ But Fargo has always kind of lived in those little moments of specificity so it tracks for me.
I really hope this new season is more focused. The last season felt really aimless and I actually didn’t finish it (even though I loved the first three).