‘Fargo’ Trump America Set Season 5 Finale: [Spoiler] Gets Their Due, But With Plenty Of Honey In The End
17.01.2024 - 05:35
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Warning: The following post contains spoilers about tonight’s fifth season finale of FX’s Fargo, “Bisquik”
Who knew a TV series based on an iconic Oscar-winning Coen Brothers noir movie had so much juice in it five seasons out?
However, Fargo series creator Noah Hawley continues to prove that there’s a thousand bodies buried in those Minnesota snow drifts.
Granted, M.A.S.H. ran for 11 seasons; the industry joke being that the CBS show ran longer than the actual three-year Korean War. But similar to how Larry Gelbart pulled a relentless amount of inspiration from that 1970 Robert Altman, Hawley’s mind for ‘true stories’ about folksy Scandinavian-Midwesterners isn’t blank yet like a freshly fallen snow.
Typically, especially in streaming times, a series checks out around season 3, and to see Fargo in a renaissance, testosterone mode this season has even given Hawley a new sense of hope for the FX series. We thought he was about to close the book on these kooky earnest people in exchange for shooting space aliens in Thailand this year, but as the Austin, TX citizen promised at the top of season 5, he’s not done yet with the near-decade old series. He’s just warming up.
“I’d be lying if I said this is not the most fun, I have in my year making this show,” Hawley told us back at the premiere in November, “I haven’t run out of ways to tell these stories. Why wouldn’t I keep going?”
You, betcha.
Having wrapped a racially themed Fargo season 4 set against the 1950s Kansas City mob wars punctuated by a rare dramatic turn by Chris Rock, as well as Jessie Buckley who by 2020 standards won the best portrayal of a ‘Don’t-Cha-Know’ citizen (only to be beat this season by the kickass, ferociousness of Juno Temple’s Dot Lyon),