It looks like Noah Hawley’s Fargo series on FX isn’t going to be ending anytime soon. He and the rest of the creative team are just having too much fun telling these wild, weird, and quirky crime stories. While at the premiere of Season 5, Deadline asked Hawley if he had more seasons planned and he said:
“I mean, who are we kidding? I’d be lying if I said this is not the most fun I have in my year making this show. I haven’t run out of ways to tell these stories. Why wouldn’t I keep going?”
Executive Steve Stark then added that there’s a lot more craziness to explore in Minnesota and teased other eras that they’d like to play in, saying: “We’ve covered every decade except the ’60s and the ’90s. So maybe the 60s and 90s.”
Hawley specifically mentioned “the ’80s” as a possibility and joked, “We’ll do our Stranger Things crossover.”
Fargo Season 5 is set in 2019 in Minnesota and North Dakota. In the story, “After an unexpected series of events lands Dorothy ‘Dot’ Lyon (Juno Temple) in hot water with the authorities, this seemingly typical Midwestern housewife is suddenly plunged back into a life she thought she had left behind.”
The story is set against a 2019 backdrop of red state vs. blue state and when talked about the reason he wanted to set the story in this era, he said that the ”show is always an exploration of America.” He added:
“If you’re going to explore contemporary America, you have to be real about it. One of the things that I think in my head, all the major characters in this story are Republican. They’re aspects of the Republican voters. Some old school. Jennifer Jason Leigh’s (character) represents big money, and power; how the world works.
“Jon Hamm’s (character) is on the far right; even Juno’s (character) and her husband are fiscally conservative; it’s not some polemic.
“It’s really looking at what the last few years have done to the language: When you say ‘freedom’, and I say ‘freedom’, what are we talking about? We can’t speak the same language. Fargo is always a tragedy about how people can’t communicate.
“It’s getting harder for people to communicate with each other.”
Jon Hamm plays North Dakota Sheriff Roy Tillman, who “has been searching for Dot for a long time. A rancher, preacher and a constitutional lawman, Roy believes that he is the law and therefore is above the law.”
At his side is “his loyal but feckless son, Gator (Joe Keery), who is desperate to prove himself to his larger-than-life father. Too bad he’s hopeless. So, when it comes to hunting Dot, Roy enlists Ole Munch (Sam Spruell), a shadowy drifter of mysterious origin.”
It’s explained that “Dot attempts to shield her family from her past, but her doting, well-meaning husband Wayne (David Rysdahl) keeps running to his mother, Lorraine Lyon (Jennifer Jason Leigh), for help. CEO of the largest Debt Collection Agency in the country, the ‘Queen of Debt’ is unimpressed with her son’s choice in a wife and spares no opportunity to voice her disapproval.”
It was previously explained that “when Dot’s unusual behavior catches the attention of Minnesota Police Deputy Indira Olmstead (Richa Moorjani) and North Dakota Deputy Witt Farr (Lamorne Morris), Lorraine appoints her in-house counsel and primary advisor, Danish Graves (Dave Foley) to aid her daughter-in-law. After all, family is family. But Dot has an uncanny knack for survival. And with her back to the wall, she’s about to show why one should never provoke a mother Lyon.”
Fargo Season 5 will consist of 10 episodes. It’s set to premiere on Tuesday, November 21st.
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