[This story contains spoilers from Fargo’s season five finale, “Bisquik.”]
For Fargo season five star Juno Temple, nothing was going to get in the way of Dorothy “Dot” Lyon’s mostly happy ending.
When the dust settled on Noah Hawley’s tremendous fifth season of Fargo, Dot finally overcame her wickedly abusive ex-husband Roy Tillman (Jon Hamm), his hired gun who happened to be a 500-year-old sin-eater named Ole Munch (Sam Spruell) and her mistrustful mother-in-law, Lorraine Lyon (Jennifer Jason Leigh). Dot thought her quarrel with Munch was settled when he saved her and freed her at Roy’s ranch so she could put a stop to the latter’s vicious cycle of abuse once and for all, but a year after Roy ended up in handcuffs, Dot and her daughter Scotty (Sienna King) arrived home to see Munch sitting in their living room with their respective, unsuspecting husband and father, Wayne (David Rysdahl...
For Fargo season five star Juno Temple, nothing was going to get in the way of Dorothy “Dot” Lyon’s mostly happy ending.
When the dust settled on Noah Hawley’s tremendous fifth season of Fargo, Dot finally overcame her wickedly abusive ex-husband Roy Tillman (Jon Hamm), his hired gun who happened to be a 500-year-old sin-eater named Ole Munch (Sam Spruell) and her mistrustful mother-in-law, Lorraine Lyon (Jennifer Jason Leigh). Dot thought her quarrel with Munch was settled when he saved her and freed her at Roy’s ranch so she could put a stop to the latter’s vicious cycle of abuse once and for all, but a year after Roy ended up in handcuffs, Dot and her daughter Scotty (Sienna King) arrived home to see Munch sitting in their living room with their respective, unsuspecting husband and father, Wayne (David Rysdahl...
- 1/18/2024
- by Brian Davids
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Note: This story contains spoilers from the “Fargo” Season 5 finale.
As touching as Juno Temple’s role on “Fargo” may have been for fans of the FX anthology series, it’s a relationship that goes both ways. The actress described her time on Noah Hawley’s anthology series as both “terrifying” and “one of the most extraordinary experiences” of her career.
“Characters like Dot [do] not come along very often, definitely not to me. I’m eternally grateful to Noah [Hawley] for having the faith in me to play her,” Temple told TheWrap after the crime-drama’s Season 5 finale on Tuesday. “She’s made me a much, much more aware, insightful, maybe even motherly woman. Also, it was something that challenged me in a way that I want to be challenged. I want to feel terrified every day before I go to work because I want to make people proud. This job did that in spades.
As touching as Juno Temple’s role on “Fargo” may have been for fans of the FX anthology series, it’s a relationship that goes both ways. The actress described her time on Noah Hawley’s anthology series as both “terrifying” and “one of the most extraordinary experiences” of her career.
“Characters like Dot [do] not come along very often, definitely not to me. I’m eternally grateful to Noah [Hawley] for having the faith in me to play her,” Temple told TheWrap after the crime-drama’s Season 5 finale on Tuesday. “She’s made me a much, much more aware, insightful, maybe even motherly woman. Also, it was something that challenged me in a way that I want to be challenged. I want to feel terrified every day before I go to work because I want to make people proud. This job did that in spades.
- 1/18/2024
- by Kayla Cobb
- The Wrap
[This story contains major spoilers from the season five finale of Fargo.]
Antecedently on Fargo season five, Juno Temple’s Dorothy Lyon battled against a centuries-old sin eater named Ole Munch (Sam Spruell), reckoned with her violent ex-husband and current lawman Roy Tillman (Jon Hamm), all while negotiating family politics with her mother-in-law Lorraine (Jennifer Jason Leigh), and receiving assistance from good souls like deputy Indira Olmstead (Richa Moorjani) and state trooper Witt Farr (Lamorne Morris).
Now, all of those characters are done struggling, at least on screen, and one of them is done struggling forever, thanks to a blade in the dark. As always, Fargo concludes with Coenesque violence, but also, with Coenesque questions — this time, the question being: What do we do with debt? Do we owe, or do we forgive?
The question comes to a head in the final sequence of the finale, in which Dot comes home with daughter Scotty (Sienna King), only to find the sin-eating...
Antecedently on Fargo season five, Juno Temple’s Dorothy Lyon battled against a centuries-old sin eater named Ole Munch (Sam Spruell), reckoned with her violent ex-husband and current lawman Roy Tillman (Jon Hamm), all while negotiating family politics with her mother-in-law Lorraine (Jennifer Jason Leigh), and receiving assistance from good souls like deputy Indira Olmstead (Richa Moorjani) and state trooper Witt Farr (Lamorne Morris).
Now, all of those characters are done struggling, at least on screen, and one of them is done struggling forever, thanks to a blade in the dark. As always, Fargo concludes with Coenesque violence, but also, with Coenesque questions — this time, the question being: What do we do with debt? Do we owe, or do we forgive?
The question comes to a head in the final sequence of the finale, in which Dot comes home with daughter Scotty (Sienna King), only to find the sin-eating...
- 1/17/2024
- by Josh Wigler
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
A 10-episode season is far too short a time to spend with Dot, Wayne, Scotty, Lorraine, Witt, Roy, Indira, and, yes, even Gator. Unfortunately, that’s all we get with FX’s Fargo season five as episode 10, “Bisquik,” brings the second-best season of the series to a close.
The season finale opens with the now-blind Gator (Joe Keery) deserted by his dad and left to make it back to the ranch on his own. He whines as he repeatedly falls and then eventually makes it into the secret tunnel almost by accident.
Gator emerges from the tunnel in a field and is immediately spotted by the FBI. He throws up his hands, no longer the arrogant vape-addict we’ve come to know and loathe.
Meanwhile, “patriots” line the ranch’s fence on Roy Tillman’s orders, fully prepared to take on the FBI. North Dakota Deputy Witt Farr (Lamorne Morris...
The season finale opens with the now-blind Gator (Joe Keery) deserted by his dad and left to make it back to the ranch on his own. He whines as he repeatedly falls and then eventually makes it into the secret tunnel almost by accident.
Gator emerges from the tunnel in a field and is immediately spotted by the FBI. He throws up his hands, no longer the arrogant vape-addict we’ve come to know and loathe.
Meanwhile, “patriots” line the ranch’s fence on Roy Tillman’s orders, fully prepared to take on the FBI. North Dakota Deputy Witt Farr (Lamorne Morris...
- 1/17/2024
- by Rebecca Murray
- Showbiz Junkies
This article contains spoilers for Fargo season 5 episode 10 and No Country for Old Men.
After an underwhelming fourth season, FX’s Fargo found excellence again with season 5. The fifth season of this anthology series inspired by the Coen Brothers’ film and created by TV auteur Noah Hawley returned to the “present” (or 2019 at least) for an inspired yarn about family, debt, and the creeping fascistic rot in small town America.
The cast was at the top of their game including Juno Temple (Ted Lasso) as the resourceful Dorothy “Dot” Lyon and Jon Hamm (Mad Men) as “constitutional” sheriff Roy Tillman. Fargo season 5 didn’t need to stick the landing for its 10-episode saga about Dot winning her life back from the abusive Roy to have weight. Still, a good ending would have been one hell of a bonus. That ending arrives in the final episode “Bisquik” and thankfully, it’s a good one.
After an underwhelming fourth season, FX’s Fargo found excellence again with season 5. The fifth season of this anthology series inspired by the Coen Brothers’ film and created by TV auteur Noah Hawley returned to the “present” (or 2019 at least) for an inspired yarn about family, debt, and the creeping fascistic rot in small town America.
The cast was at the top of their game including Juno Temple (Ted Lasso) as the resourceful Dorothy “Dot” Lyon and Jon Hamm (Mad Men) as “constitutional” sheriff Roy Tillman. Fargo season 5 didn’t need to stick the landing for its 10-episode saga about Dot winning her life back from the abusive Roy to have weight. Still, a good ending would have been one hell of a bonus. That ending arrives in the final episode “Bisquik” and thankfully, it’s a good one.
- 1/17/2024
- by Alec Bojalad
- Den of Geek
Juno Temple as Dorothy “Dot” Lyon in ‘Fargo’ season 5 (Photo Cr: Michelle Faye/FX)
FX’s Fargo season five episode eight, the season’s penultimate episode, is one of the series’ finest hours of storytelling. It opens with Ole Munch (Sam Spruell) punishing Gator (Joe Keery) for his innumerable acts of cruelty, topped off by the murder of Ole’s elderly mother.
Gator tries to bribe Ole into letting him go, but Ole doesn’t care one iota about promises of women, weapons, or cash. Tied to a chair, Gator can only whimper and beg as he realizes Ole’s about to take a red-hot knife to his eyes. An eye for an eye, correct? “This for that,” says Ole, adding, “What is taken must be given.”
Over at the Tillman Ranch, Dot (Juno Temple) is back in the game after a brief moment of despair at the end of episode seven.
FX’s Fargo season five episode eight, the season’s penultimate episode, is one of the series’ finest hours of storytelling. It opens with Ole Munch (Sam Spruell) punishing Gator (Joe Keery) for his innumerable acts of cruelty, topped off by the murder of Ole’s elderly mother.
Gator tries to bribe Ole into letting him go, but Ole doesn’t care one iota about promises of women, weapons, or cash. Tied to a chair, Gator can only whimper and beg as he realizes Ole’s about to take a red-hot knife to his eyes. An eye for an eye, correct? “This for that,” says Ole, adding, “What is taken must be given.”
Over at the Tillman Ranch, Dot (Juno Temple) is back in the game after a brief moment of despair at the end of episode seven.
- 1/11/2024
- by Rebecca Murray
- Showbiz Junkies
[Warning: The below contains Major spoilers for Fargo Year 5, Episode 7, “Linda.”] Fargo isn’t new to tackling the surreal, and the latest Year 5 installment, “Linda,” does just that as Dot (Juno Temple) takes a trippy journey down the road to Camp Utopia. As fans will recall, Dot was seen driving away from having dropped off her daughter Scotty (Sienna King) at Indira Olmstead’s (Richa Moorjani) home in Episode 5. She resurfaced in the form of battered photos enclosed in a file presented to Lorraine (Jennifer Jason Leigh) in Episode 6, and now, viewers rejoined Dot on the road. Sleepy and motivated, she keeps inching her way toward a destination we have yet to understand. Upon stopping at a rest area for a bite to eat, Dot smiles down at her stack of pancakes before continuing her “journey.” Following her to a windmill, viewers see Dot dig up a postcard to Camp Utopia with a message from Linda that reads,...
- 12/27/2023
- TV Insider
Sam Spruell as Ole Munch in ‘Fargo’ season 5 episode 7 (Photo Cr: Michelle Faye/FX)
FX’s Fargo season five episode seven begins with the introduction of an obnoxious new character. However, don’t get too attached to the deadbeat dude as Ole Munch (Sam Spruell) decides to wipe him off the face of the earth in an act that’s brutal yet justifiable within the episode’s first five minutes. Can’t say that the jerk didn’t have it coming.
Dot (Juno Temple) is burning the candle at both ends, trying to keep ahead of Roy Tillman and his many minions. She briefly nods off at the wheel but wakes before the car drifts off the road. Dot wisely decides to grab a meal and a coffee at a roadside café.
Poor Dot, she nods off again right at the table, waking to the delivery of smiley face pancakes.
FX’s Fargo season five episode seven begins with the introduction of an obnoxious new character. However, don’t get too attached to the deadbeat dude as Ole Munch (Sam Spruell) decides to wipe him off the face of the earth in an act that’s brutal yet justifiable within the episode’s first five minutes. Can’t say that the jerk didn’t have it coming.
Dot (Juno Temple) is burning the candle at both ends, trying to keep ahead of Roy Tillman and his many minions. She briefly nods off at the wheel but wakes before the car drifts off the road. Dot wisely decides to grab a meal and a coffee at a roadside café.
Poor Dot, she nods off again right at the table, waking to the delivery of smiley face pancakes.
- 12/27/2023
- by Rebecca Murray
- Showbiz Junkies
[Warning: The below contains Major spoilers for Fargo Year 5, Episode 6, “The Tender Trap.”] In the latest episode of Fargo, “The Tender Trap,” the Debt Queen of the Midwest, Lorraine Lyon (Jennifer Jason Leigh), threw her power around but was also rightly humbled by passionate Scandia cop Indira Olmstead (Richa Moorjani) regarding her daughter-in-law Dot (Juno Temple) who has been on the lam since the previous installment. Getting into a political dispute with self-righteous North Dakota Sheriff Roy Tillman (Jon Hamm), Lorraine is driven by her desire to win until Indira delivers her granddaughter Scotty (Sienna King) back home, along with a revealing file filled with photos depicting the abuse Dot was subjected to during her marriage to Roy. Asking Lorraine if she’s ever known Dot to claim herself as a victim, Indira pleads with the powerful woman to start caring. Seeing something special in Indira, Lorraine offers the young woman a job, throwing her a metaphorical...
- 12/20/2023
- TV Insider
Jon Hamm as Roy Tillman in ‘Fargo’ season 5 (Photo Cr: Frank W Ockenfels III/FX)
FX’s Fargo season five episode six immediately reveals the reason behind the episode’s title. Banker Vivian Dugger (Andrew Wheeler) stumbles out of The Tender Trap strip club only to discover Sheriff Roy Tillman (Jon Hamm) waiting outside. Roy points out Vivian’s legally not allowed to be near one of the strippers, and Vivian fumbles for an appropriate response before reminding Roy that he already sent him a re-election donation.
Roy cuts to the chase and orders Vivian to stop all negotiations to sell his bank to Lorraine Lyon.
Dot’s daughter, Scotty (Sienna King), eats her breakfast, oblivious to the fact that her babysitter, Minnesota Police Deputy Indira Olmstead (Richa Moorjani), has had a rough morning that began with a threatening phone call from a debt collector. Indira’s day goes from...
FX’s Fargo season five episode six immediately reveals the reason behind the episode’s title. Banker Vivian Dugger (Andrew Wheeler) stumbles out of The Tender Trap strip club only to discover Sheriff Roy Tillman (Jon Hamm) waiting outside. Roy points out Vivian’s legally not allowed to be near one of the strippers, and Vivian fumbles for an appropriate response before reminding Roy that he already sent him a re-election donation.
Roy cuts to the chase and orders Vivian to stop all negotiations to sell his bank to Lorraine Lyon.
Dot’s daughter, Scotty (Sienna King), eats her breakfast, oblivious to the fact that her babysitter, Minnesota Police Deputy Indira Olmstead (Richa Moorjani), has had a rough morning that began with a threatening phone call from a debt collector. Indira’s day goes from...
- 12/20/2023
- by Rebecca Murray
- Showbiz Junkies
Sienna King as Scotty Lyon and Juno Temple as Dorothy “Dot” Lyon in ‘Fargo’ season 5 episode 5 (Photo Cr: Michelle Faye/FX)
Dot the Tiger (Juno Temple) orders Lorraine Lyon (Jennifer Jason Leigh) out of Wayne’s hospital room as FX’s riveting season five of Fargo continues with episode five. Lorraine’s not used to having her will be thwarted and considers what to do next about the Dot and Wayne situation.
Lorraine knows Dot’s a wolf in sheep’s clothing, but how do you handle a wild animal without getting bitten?
Dot and family have moved into Lorraine’s mansion, and Lorraine wrongly believes she has them under her thumb. Like the tiger, Dot has a cunning and strategic mind. A fact that’s made apparent when Lorraine conspires with her chief counselor, Danish Graves (David Foley), to have Dot locked up in a psychiatric ward.
When the orderlies come to get her,...
Dot the Tiger (Juno Temple) orders Lorraine Lyon (Jennifer Jason Leigh) out of Wayne’s hospital room as FX’s riveting season five of Fargo continues with episode five. Lorraine’s not used to having her will be thwarted and considers what to do next about the Dot and Wayne situation.
Lorraine knows Dot’s a wolf in sheep’s clothing, but how do you handle a wild animal without getting bitten?
Dot and family have moved into Lorraine’s mansion, and Lorraine wrongly believes she has them under her thumb. Like the tiger, Dot has a cunning and strategic mind. A fact that’s made apparent when Lorraine conspires with her chief counselor, Danish Graves (David Foley), to have Dot locked up in a psychiatric ward.
When the orderlies come to get her,...
- 12/13/2023
- by Rebecca Murray
- Showbiz Junkies
[Warning: The below contains Major spoilers for Fargo Year 5 Episode 4, “Insolubilia.”] Fargo‘s fifth year took a terrifying turn for Dot (Juno Temple) and her family in Episode 4, “Insolubilia,” as Gator (Joe Keery) the son of her possessive former husband Roy (Jon Hamm), broke in with intentions to kidnap her. The Halloween-timed scheme unfolds in her booby-trapped home while her husband Wayne (David Rysdahl) and daughter Scotty (Sienna King) take temporary refuge in the attic of their home until their hideaway is uncovered. While Dot takes on the kidnappers single-handedly for the first half of the break-in, soon the whole family is involved as Wayne listens to her instructions but begs for answers as to why this mystery man is calling his wife “Nadine.” Once the immediate threats are neutralized, Dot tells her family to escape down the laundry shoot, but Wayne opts for the trellis out his and Dot’s bedroom window, forgetting that she’s...
- 12/6/2023
- TV Insider
Joe Keery as Gator Tillman in ‘Fargo’ season 5 episode 4 (Photo Cr: Michelle Faye/FX)
Gator (Joe Keery) and his three minions make their move as FX’s Fargo season five episode four, “Insolubilia,” gets underway. The foursome splits into two twosomes and enters the Lyons’ home. Are they surprised to find the doors unlocked? Probably, but it’s impossible to tell because of their Nightmare Before Christmas masks.
Armed with tasers, knives, and guns – and half a brain between them – they slowly make their way through the house. Smoke pours out of the oven and Dot (Juno Temple) watches from inside a closet, waiting to launch her attack.
The tension ratchets up along with the action as the lights go out, a smoke alarm sounds, and a strobe light flashes. It turns out the strobe light’s coming from a plastic jack-o-lantern with a maniacal laugh. While one intruder’s distracted looking at the pumpkin,...
Gator (Joe Keery) and his three minions make their move as FX’s Fargo season five episode four, “Insolubilia,” gets underway. The foursome splits into two twosomes and enters the Lyons’ home. Are they surprised to find the doors unlocked? Probably, but it’s impossible to tell because of their Nightmare Before Christmas masks.
Armed with tasers, knives, and guns – and half a brain between them – they slowly make their way through the house. Smoke pours out of the oven and Dot (Juno Temple) watches from inside a closet, waiting to launch her attack.
The tension ratchets up along with the action as the lights go out, a smoke alarm sounds, and a strobe light flashes. It turns out the strobe light’s coming from a plastic jack-o-lantern with a maniacal laugh. While one intruder’s distracted looking at the pumpkin,...
- 12/6/2023
- by Rebecca Murray
- Showbiz Junkies
[Warning: The below contains Major spoilers for Fargo Year 5, Episodes 1-3.] When it comes to Fargo, the series isn’t one you’d expect to pull blatant influences from other popular culture, but Year 5 is flipping the script a bit with its Nightmare Before Christmas influences. As viewers who tuned into the first three episodes saw, and heard, there is more than one allusion to the Tim Burton stop-motion animated classic. The first tease occurs while Dot (Juno Temple) attempts to sleep after being booked by the police in the first installment, “The Tragedy of the Commons.” Fearful about what might be coming for her, we see a flash of masked individuals donning the likeness of Jack Skellington and other characters from the film. (Credit: FX) And as the second episode, “Trials and Tribulations,” comes to a close, Dot sits down to dinner with her husband Wayne (David Rysdahl) and daughter Scotty (Sienna King) at the moment...
- 11/29/2023
- TV Insider
Fargo is finally back for another season after taking a three year long break. Created by Noah Hawley, the FX’s anthology black comedy–crime drama series is based on a 1996 film of the same name and it revolves around a new set of characters in Minnesota and North Dakota in the fall of 2019. Fargo Season 5 revolves around Dorothy “Dot” Lyon, who at first glance seems to be a typical midwestern wife but when her mysterious past comes back to haunt her she gets in trouble with the law, specifically North Dakota Sheriff Roy Tillman.
Fargo Season 5 – Episode Guide (When are the Episodes Coming Out?) Credit – FX
The latest season of Fargo consists of ten episodes in total. The first two episodes are released on the same day November 21, with the rest of the episodes coming out weekly. Check out the full episode guide below:
Episode 1 “The Tragedy of the...
Fargo Season 5 – Episode Guide (When are the Episodes Coming Out?) Credit – FX
The latest season of Fargo consists of ten episodes in total. The first two episodes are released on the same day November 21, with the rest of the episodes coming out weekly. Check out the full episode guide below:
Episode 1 “The Tragedy of the...
- 11/25/2023
- by Kulwant Singh
- Cinema Blind
[Warning: The below contains Major spoilers for Fargo Year 5 Episode 1 “The Tragedy of the Commons” & Episode 2 “Trials and Tribulations.” ] FX‘s Fargo delivers quite a catfight in its Year 5 two-handed opener as Juno Temple‘s Dot Lyon and Jennifer Jason Leigh‘s Lorraine Lyon go toe-to-toe. As the Debt Queen of the Midwest, Lorraine is intent on protecting her billionaire status, preserving her family, and getting to the bottom of Dot’s story as she learns she doesn’t know her daughter-in-law as well as she once believed. When Dot goes missing after being kidnapped in the premiere episode, she turns up back at her Minnesota home, only to pretend that none of it happened. Seeking some clarity, Lorraine exercises her power by showing up, unannounced, at her son Wayne (David Rysdahl) and daughter-in-law’s home, settling in the kitchen until Dot arrives with her daughter Scotty (Sienna King). Sitting down to chat with Lorraine, Dot gets aggressive,...
- 11/22/2023
- TV Insider
Juno Temple as Dorothy “Dot” Lyon and Sienna King as Scotty Lyon in ‘Fargo’ season 5 episode 1 (Photo Credit: Michelle Faye/FX)
It’s not truly a new season of FX’s Fargo until the fake disclaimer advising this is a true story appears on the screen. That happens three minutes into season five episode one, “The Tragedy of the Commons.”
Before that, Fargo fans are advised that “Minnesota Nice” is an aggressively pleasant demeanor put on no matter how rotten life becomes. And “rotten” is a gentle word to describe the mood at the middle school’s Fall Festival Planning Committee meeting. Punches are thrown, hair is pulled, and the woman we’ll be cheering for this season – Dorothy ‘Dot’ Lyon (Juno Temple) – sits, jaw-dropped, scanning the room. She advises her daughter, Scotty (Sienna King), that it’s time to make an exit and to fight back if anyone chases them.
It’s not truly a new season of FX’s Fargo until the fake disclaimer advising this is a true story appears on the screen. That happens three minutes into season five episode one, “The Tragedy of the Commons.”
Before that, Fargo fans are advised that “Minnesota Nice” is an aggressively pleasant demeanor put on no matter how rotten life becomes. And “rotten” is a gentle word to describe the mood at the middle school’s Fall Festival Planning Committee meeting. Punches are thrown, hair is pulled, and the woman we’ll be cheering for this season – Dorothy ‘Dot’ Lyon (Juno Temple) – sits, jaw-dropped, scanning the room. She advises her daughter, Scotty (Sienna King), that it’s time to make an exit and to fight back if anyone chases them.
- 11/22/2023
- by Rebecca Murray
- Showbiz Junkies
Lorraine Lyon, the CEO of a private debt collection company and matriarch of the Lyon family, is sitting for an interview. Dressed modestly in a black skirt and jacket adorned with gold buttons, yet surrounded by her sleek marble-floored office space, Lorraine (Jennifer Jason Leigh) listens patiently as the reporter asks how her business soared to record profits by buying consumer debt other collectors wrote off as “uncollectible.” “Here’s what you need to understand about Americans,” she says, unperturbed by the question’s doubtful implications. “They don’t want a handout. What they’re looking for is an opportunity to fix it themselves. We give them that.”
Like any good spin artist, Lorraine laces her plainly contemptible conduct with grains of truth. While no sane person would object to the sudden dissolution of their obscene medical bills or interest-inflated credit card debt, they may, in fact, like to fix...
Like any good spin artist, Lorraine laces her plainly contemptible conduct with grains of truth. While no sane person would object to the sudden dissolution of their obscene medical bills or interest-inflated credit card debt, they may, in fact, like to fix...
- 11/21/2023
- by Ben Travers
- Indiewire
When last we saw FX’s Fargo nearly three years ago, its creator, Noah Hawley, had taken the franchise away from its home turf, both physically and demographically. The fourth season roamed hundreds of miles south from the show’s usual Minnesotan stomping grounds for a story set on the mean streets of 1950s Kansas City. And after three seasons of showing all the sins hidden behind the polite veneer of Scandinavian-Americans in the Upper Midwest, this new story focused on a war between Black and Italian mobsters.
It was...
It was...
- 11/21/2023
- by Alan Sepinwall
- Rollingstone.com
After wayward creative detours with the dreary feature film “Lucy in the Sky” and the over-ambitious fourth season of “Fargo,” Noah Hawley gets back on track with the new season of his FX anthology series.
The latest “Fargo” has all the elements writer-producer-showrunner Hawley knows how to deploy. They may be well-worn tropes at this point: chaos agents, deadpan black comedy, hapless hit men, formidable women, hapless feds, a few good cops, perfectly orchestrated bloodshed beats, hapless wrong kidnap victims, Upper Midwest accents you couldn’t cut with a wood chipper and perhaps a supernatural element or two. But they’ve been craftily reimagined.
New in Season 5 is some ongoing criticism of right-wing extremism — both of the economic Darwinian and Christian patriarchal kind — and other hints that it’s politics as much as people’s inherent stupidity that’s tearing America apart. The implicit message is that those factors are...
The latest “Fargo” has all the elements writer-producer-showrunner Hawley knows how to deploy. They may be well-worn tropes at this point: chaos agents, deadpan black comedy, hapless hit men, formidable women, hapless feds, a few good cops, perfectly orchestrated bloodshed beats, hapless wrong kidnap victims, Upper Midwest accents you couldn’t cut with a wood chipper and perhaps a supernatural element or two. But they’ve been craftily reimagined.
New in Season 5 is some ongoing criticism of right-wing extremism — both of the economic Darwinian and Christian patriarchal kind — and other hints that it’s politics as much as people’s inherent stupidity that’s tearing America apart. The implicit message is that those factors are...
- 11/20/2023
- by Bob Strauss
- The Wrap
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