The FX limited series Fargo is well-known for surprising viewers with poignant, striking diversions within the main narrative of a season — think Season 2’s UFO invasion or Season 3’s sojourn in L.A. for Carrie Coon’s Gloria Burgle. But the ninth episode of Season 4 — the primarily black-and-white visual feast titled “East/West” — took this model to an entirely new level.
“In the first two episodes, you see what we did that the mugshots in black-and-white”, says Gonzales, “and that was an inspiration in a weird way. Just showing how important mugshots were as a kind of a badge of honor for getting your photo taken, even if you were a criminal, back in the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s. And then bringing in the whole Wizard of Oz-like storyline, where the transformations from color to black-and-white were very important to the story, was really exciting.”
Unlike most of the ensemble-packed...
“In the first two episodes, you see what we did that the mugshots in black-and-white”, says Gonzales, “and that was an inspiration in a weird way. Just showing how important mugshots were as a kind of a badge of honor for getting your photo taken, even if you were a criminal, back in the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s. And then bringing in the whole Wizard of Oz-like storyline, where the transformations from color to black-and-white were very important to the story, was really exciting.”
Unlike most of the ensemble-packed...
- 6/10/2021
- by Jason Clark
- The Wrap
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