FX’s “Fargo” is back in the running again after three years with its fifth season by creator Noah Hawley that will compete at the 2024 Emmy Awards. This latest installment that premiered late September returns to the current decade – having alternated between modern and period time frames in the Midwest – taking place in 2019 in Minnesota and North Dakota. It stars Juno Temple, Jon Hamm and Jennifer Jason Leigh and tells the story of a housewife who has to come to terms with her past as she is being hunted down. Past seasons of “Fargo” have done exceedingly well at the Emmy Awards, nabbing a total of 55 nominations and six wins, including a Best Limited Series victory for its debut. Let’s examine past categories and races it has competed in the last four seasons to determine potential nominations for the current outing.
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- 5/15/2024
- by Christopher Tsang
- Gold Derby
Spoiler Alert: This article and video have spoilers for the Season 5.
“The canvas is unlike any other,” reveals David Rysdahl about “Fargo.” In our recent webchat he adds, “You can do extremely funny and there’s extremely dark. It’s like a sheet of music. Getting these scripts feels very lyrical.” Watch our exclusive video interview above.
“Fargo” is the FX anthology series created by Noah Hawley that was inspired by the 1996 Coen brothers film. Each season takes a darkly comedic look at characters dealing with life and crime in the Midwest. The series’ fifth installment tells the story of Dot, played by Juno Temple, whose normal life is disrupted when her abusive ex-husband discovers her whereabouts. Rysdahl plays Dot’s husband Wayne, who now has his life and family in jeopardy.
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“The canvas is unlike any other,” reveals David Rysdahl about “Fargo.” In our recent webchat he adds, “You can do extremely funny and there’s extremely dark. It’s like a sheet of music. Getting these scripts feels very lyrical.” Watch our exclusive video interview above.
“Fargo” is the FX anthology series created by Noah Hawley that was inspired by the 1996 Coen brothers film. Each season takes a darkly comedic look at characters dealing with life and crime in the Midwest. The series’ fifth installment tells the story of Dot, played by Juno Temple, whose normal life is disrupted when her abusive ex-husband discovers her whereabouts. Rysdahl plays Dot’s husband Wayne, who now has his life and family in jeopardy.
See‘Fargo’ and ‘True Detective’ are on track for the Emmy face-off we were denied 10 years ago
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- 4/26/2024
- by Matt Noble
- Gold Derby
The number of Gold Derby readers predicting the 2024 Primetime Emmy nominations in 16 major categories has risen above 2,000 even with the nominations announcement still three months away. Our predicted lineups have changed significantly within the last week alone, indicating increased support for some programs and greater apathy toward others.
Four new predicted acting nominees have emerged since April 1. The only one hailing from a continuing series is Theo James (“The Gentlemen”), who grabbed the fifth comedy lead actor spot from Kelsey Grammer (“Frasier”). The other three are TV movie star Tony Shalhoub (“Mr. Monk’s Last Case”) and limited series actresses Anna Sawai (lead; “Shōgun”) and Fiona Shaw (supporting; “True Detective: Night Country”) who displace Michael Douglas (“Franklin”), Naomi Watts (“Feud: Capote vs. The Swans”), and Andrea Riseborough (“The Regime”) respectively.
“Shōgun” had a great week in general, as it maintained its third place position in the Best Limited Series race and...
Four new predicted acting nominees have emerged since April 1. The only one hailing from a continuing series is Theo James (“The Gentlemen”), who grabbed the fifth comedy lead actor spot from Kelsey Grammer (“Frasier”). The other three are TV movie star Tony Shalhoub (“Mr. Monk’s Last Case”) and limited series actresses Anna Sawai (lead; “Shōgun”) and Fiona Shaw (supporting; “True Detective: Night Country”) who displace Michael Douglas (“Franklin”), Naomi Watts (“Feud: Capote vs. The Swans”), and Andrea Riseborough (“The Regime”) respectively.
“Shōgun” had a great week in general, as it maintained its third place position in the Best Limited Series race and...
- 4/9/2024
- by Matthew Stewart
- Gold Derby
Fargo Season 5 ended on a major note that has ties to No Country for Old Men.
Season 5's ending showed a pivotal confrontation between tenacious and strong-willed woman Dot (played by Juno Temple) and a menacing immortal killer named Ole Munch (Sam Spruell).
Following the fall of Roy Tillman, Dot held a family chili night, but an unexpected guest came to visit in the form of the sin-eater Ole Munch.
Read full article on The Direct.
Season 5's ending showed a pivotal confrontation between tenacious and strong-willed woman Dot (played by Juno Temple) and a menacing immortal killer named Ole Munch (Sam Spruell).
Following the fall of Roy Tillman, Dot held a family chili night, but an unexpected guest came to visit in the form of the sin-eater Ole Munch.
Read full article on The Direct.
- 1/24/2024
- by Aeron Mer Eclarinal
- The Direct
FX’s hit television show Fargo just wrapped up its fifth season. Fargo loosely based on the 1996 movie of the same name first debuted on the network way back in 2014. Each season of the show follows a mostly new cast of characters who get involved with murder investigations in different Midwestern towns. Each crime is somehow connected.
Season five was no different from the past seasons. The fifth season of Fargo follows It stars Juno Temple as Dorothy “Dot” Lyon, a seemingly typical Midwestern housewife living in Scandia, Minnesota, whose mysterious past comes back to haunt her after she lands in hot water with the authorities. Season five also stars Jennifer Jason Leigh, Jon Hamm, Joe Keery, Lamorne Morris, Dave Foley, and Sam Spruell.
The cast and the stories may change throughout the seasons of Fargo, but there has been one person from the beginning that we owe a big thank you to.
Season five was no different from the past seasons. The fifth season of Fargo follows It stars Juno Temple as Dorothy “Dot” Lyon, a seemingly typical Midwestern housewife living in Scandia, Minnesota, whose mysterious past comes back to haunt her after she lands in hot water with the authorities. Season five also stars Jennifer Jason Leigh, Jon Hamm, Joe Keery, Lamorne Morris, Dave Foley, and Sam Spruell.
The cast and the stories may change throughout the seasons of Fargo, but there has been one person from the beginning that we owe a big thank you to.
- 1/22/2024
- by Stephen Nepa
- Age of the Nerd
[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.]
When speaking about the essence of Fargo, show creator Noah Hawley says every season only needs two things: an element of crime, and decency. Few characters embodied those ideas better in season five than Witt Farr, the more than decent state trooper bravely battling a criminal element all season long to help out Juno Temple’s Dorothy Lyon.
Played by New Girl and Woke alum Lamorne Morris, Farr barely made it out of the season premiere alive, when Sam Spruell’s menacing Ole Munch came knocking on Dot’s door. Unfortunately, Farr was not able to cheat death twice. Morris’ straight-and-narrow state trooper was the major casualty in the season five finale, killed by Jon Hamm’s menacing Roy Tillman. Farr pursued a fleeing Tillman into a tunnel, and had the man dead to rights, but decided he could not shoot in cold blood. That decent decision costs Farr his life,...
When speaking about the essence of Fargo, show creator Noah Hawley says every season only needs two things: an element of crime, and decency. Few characters embodied those ideas better in season five than Witt Farr, the more than decent state trooper bravely battling a criminal element all season long to help out Juno Temple’s Dorothy Lyon.
Played by New Girl and Woke alum Lamorne Morris, Farr barely made it out of the season premiere alive, when Sam Spruell’s menacing Ole Munch came knocking on Dot’s door. Unfortunately, Farr was not able to cheat death twice. Morris’ straight-and-narrow state trooper was the major casualty in the season five finale, killed by Jon Hamm’s menacing Roy Tillman. Farr pursued a fleeing Tillman into a tunnel, and had the man dead to rights, but decided he could not shoot in cold blood. That decent decision costs Farr his life,...
- 1/17/2024
- by Josh Wigler
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
[Editor’s Note: The following interview contains spoilers for “Fargo” Season 5, Episode 10, including the ending.]
Amid the dead bodies (R.I.P. State Trooper Witt Farr) and scorched faces (remember Donald Ireland?), it can be hard to keep track of all the grievances, allegiances, and debts incurred in “Fargo.” But Mr. Munch (Sam Spruell) doesn’t forget. Like an elephant with the shortest nose and worst haircut you’ve ever seen, the assassin once hired to kidnap Dorothy “Dot” Lyon (Juno Temple) returns to her home well over a year after he first broke in. Then, he lost a lot of blood (not to mention his partner) in the ensuing skirmish, and now, he would like to see his debt of “flesh” repaid.
“Why,” Dot asks him. “Why must debt be paid? I understand keeping a promise, but people always say, ‘Debt must be paid.’ Except… what if you can’t? If you’re too poor or you lose your job,...
Amid the dead bodies (R.I.P. State Trooper Witt Farr) and scorched faces (remember Donald Ireland?), it can be hard to keep track of all the grievances, allegiances, and debts incurred in “Fargo.” But Mr. Munch (Sam Spruell) doesn’t forget. Like an elephant with the shortest nose and worst haircut you’ve ever seen, the assassin once hired to kidnap Dorothy “Dot” Lyon (Juno Temple) returns to her home well over a year after he first broke in. Then, he lost a lot of blood (not to mention his partner) in the ensuing skirmish, and now, he would like to see his debt of “flesh” repaid.
“Why,” Dot asks him. “Why must debt be paid? I understand keeping a promise, but people always say, ‘Debt must be paid.’ Except… what if you can’t? If you’re too poor or you lose your job,...
- 1/17/2024
- by Ben Travers
- Indiewire
[Warning: The below contains Major spoilers for Fargo Year 5, Episode 10, “Bisquik.”] Fargo‘s fifth year has finally come to a close, and it didn’t stray from the strange as the last shot of the finale episode, “Bisquik,” closed on the face of Sam Spruell’s Ole Munch, the centuries-old sin eater who sought payment for the debt he believed Dot (Juno Temple) owed him. But before the action led him to her front door a year after the raid at Tillman Ranch, Dot’s quest to rid her life of Roy (Jon Hamm) finally came to fruition. Surprising him with a shotgun on the front porch of his farmhouse, Dot shoots Roy, but that’s also the moment Witt Farr (Lamorne Morris) and the raiding authorities reach the property, sparking a fire fight. Witt pulls Dot to the ground, shielding her with his body, but in the chaos of it all, Roy manages to get away,...
- 1/17/2024
- TV Insider
[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
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?
But 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.
Who knew a TV series based on an iconic Oscar-winning Coen Brothers noir movie had so much juice in it five seasons out?
But 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.
- 1/17/2024
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
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
This post contains spoilers for the season finale of Fargo, now available on FX and streaming tomorrow on Hulu.
At the end of Fargo the movie, justice is mostly done. The kidnapping orchestrated by Jerry Lundegaard, and carried out by Carl Showalter and Gaear Grimsrud, results in a lot of deaths and heartbreak. But Gaear kills Carl (and feeds his body into a wood chipper), Jerry gets arrested, and Marge Gunderson — as morally upright a person as you’ll find in a Coen brothers movie — catches Gaear. As she drives him to jail,...
At the end of Fargo the movie, justice is mostly done. The kidnapping orchestrated by Jerry Lundegaard, and carried out by Carl Showalter and Gaear Grimsrud, results in a lot of deaths and heartbreak. But Gaear kills Carl (and feeds his body into a wood chipper), Jerry gets arrested, and Marge Gunderson — as morally upright a person as you’ll find in a Coen brothers movie — catches Gaear. As she drives him to jail,...
- 1/17/2024
- by Alan Sepinwall
- Rollingstone.com
Director Felipe Gálvez in his debut feature, The Settlers (Los Colonos) has made a brutal, breathtaking and bold Chilean western film that not only enlightens but keeps the audience engaged till the credits roll. Filmed with a 1.50:1 aspect ratio, the director wants us to focus on the characters rather than get distracted by the stunning landscapes Chile is known for. The colors of this film are very stark and at times over-saturated giving out a retro style that fits well with a film in the Western genre. Most Westerns are made with a story based in the United States but this one takes place in Chile which adds a unique feel when watching the film as it is different from the typical surroundings one would expect from an American western film. The film is not made on a huge scale but that does not deter it from being anything short of an epic.
- 1/15/2024
- by Prem
- Talking Films
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 9, “The Useless Hand.”] Fargo‘s Year 5 end is near, and just as circumstances began to appear as bleak as possible for protagonist Dot Lyon (Juno Temple) in Episode 9’s final moments, she had an unlikely savior in Sam Spruell‘s sin eater, Ole Munch. Kicking off the installment, “The Useless Hand,” with a little punishment for hot-shot deputy Gator Tillman (Joe Keery), Munch seeks revenge for the accidental killing of his “mama,” but he doesn’t kill. “Ole Munch… is quite Old Testament,” Spruell tells TV Insider. Ultimately, the mysterious figure presumably pokes Gator’s eyes out with a burning hot knife, which, thankfully, viewers’ eyes were saved from having to see. “[It’s] an eye for an eye is in terms of a debt paid, which is a theme the show has taken to its most extreme,” Spruell clarifies. “Also [it’s] not allowing Jon Hamm‘s character, Roy ...
- 1/10/2024
- 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
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
Rarely if ever has a show spun away from its source material as creatively and consistently as "Fargo." Across the FX show's five seasons and counting, "Fargo" has changed locations, casts, and plotlines time after time, keeping only a few core tenets: a teasing love of all things Midwestern, a knack for pitch-black comedy and startling violence, and a coterie of familiar character archetypes including the smarter-than-average small-town cop and the near-superpowered killer.
These elements originated with Joel and Ethan Coen's 1996 film of the same name, from which "Fargo" has at times pulled threads of its plot or recreated scenes -- always with a twist, as when two assassins came for housewife Dot (Juno Temple) in the latest season. Yet by now, "Fargo" has become a true anthology, stringing together largely unrelated season-long arcs and creating a rich world all its own.
In ranking the seasons of "Fargo" by quality,...
These elements originated with Joel and Ethan Coen's 1996 film of the same name, from which "Fargo" has at times pulled threads of its plot or recreated scenes -- always with a twist, as when two assassins came for housewife Dot (Juno Temple) in the latest season. Yet by now, "Fargo" has become a true anthology, stringing together largely unrelated season-long arcs and creating a rich world all its own.
In ranking the seasons of "Fargo" by quality,...
- 12/10/2023
- by Valerie Ettenhofer
- Slash Film
Fargo Season 5 Review: Fargo Returns With An Excellent Inversion Of The Original Film(Photo Credit –YouTube)
FX makes Fargo comeback with an amazing season full of twists and turns and many comebacks to the original film. This is a back-to-form season that also dares to do something new.
Fargo Season 5 Review: Star Rating:
Cast: Juno Temple, Jennifer Jason Leigh, David Rysdahl
Creator: Noah Hawley
Director: Noah Hawley, Donald Murphy
Streaming On: FX, Hulu
Language: English
Runtime: 10 Episodes, Around 1 Hour Each.
Fargo Season 5 Review: Fargo Returns With An Excellent Inversion Of The Original Film(Photo Credit –YouTube) Fargo Season 5 Review: What’s It About:
Fargo returns to FX after a long absence, and it brings all of its signature quirkiness, delightful humor, and bizarre violence. The fifth season of the show comes from the mind of Noah Hawley, who has been the brainchild of the operation since the beginning. In this new season,...
FX makes Fargo comeback with an amazing season full of twists and turns and many comebacks to the original film. This is a back-to-form season that also dares to do something new.
Fargo Season 5 Review: Star Rating:
Cast: Juno Temple, Jennifer Jason Leigh, David Rysdahl
Creator: Noah Hawley
Director: Noah Hawley, Donald Murphy
Streaming On: FX, Hulu
Language: English
Runtime: 10 Episodes, Around 1 Hour Each.
Fargo Season 5 Review: Fargo Returns With An Excellent Inversion Of The Original Film(Photo Credit –YouTube) Fargo Season 5 Review: What’s It About:
Fargo returns to FX after a long absence, and it brings all of its signature quirkiness, delightful humor, and bizarre violence. The fifth season of the show comes from the mind of Noah Hawley, who has been the brainchild of the operation since the beginning. In this new season,...
- 12/8/2023
- by Nelson Acosta
- KoiMoi
Sheriff Roy Tillman believes he's above the law in the fifth season of the Fargo TV show on FX. As we all know, Nielsen ratings typically play a big role in determining whether a TV show like Fargo is cancelled or renewed for season six. Unfortunately, most of us do not live in Nielsen households. Because many viewers feel frustrated when their viewing habits and opinions aren't considered, we invite you to rate all of the fifth season episodes of Fargo here.
An FX anthology drama series, the fifth season of the Fargo TV show stars Juno Temple, Jon Hamm, Joe Keery, Jennifer Jason Leigh, David Rysdahl, Lamorne Morris, Sam Spruell, Richa Moorjani, and Dave Foley. The story begins in 2019 and is set in Minnesota and North Dakota. After an unexpected series of events lands Dorothy 'Dot' Lyon (Temple) in hot...
An FX anthology drama series, the fifth season of the Fargo TV show stars Juno Temple, Jon Hamm, Joe Keery, Jennifer Jason Leigh, David Rysdahl, Lamorne Morris, Sam Spruell, Richa Moorjani, and Dave Foley. The story begins in 2019 and is set in Minnesota and North Dakota. After an unexpected series of events lands Dorothy 'Dot' Lyon (Temple) in hot...
- 11/30/2023
- by TVSeriesFinale.com
- TVSeriesFinale.com
[Warning: The below contains Major spoilers for Fargo Year 5, Episode 3, “The Paradox of Intermediate Transactions.”] Fargo has never shied away from the strange, so it shouldn’t come as a surprise that the anthology’s fifth installment would lean into something unusual. In this case, that oddity comes in the form of Sam Spruell‘s Ole Munch who is revealed to be a centuries-old sin eater in the third episode, “The Paradox of Intermediate Transactions.” Defined by Webster’s Dictionary as “a person formerly hired to assume the sins of a dead person by eating food placed near the corpse,” viewers are shown this ritual in a flashback featuring Munch, who in hindsight is aptly named. Settling into the home of a Bismark, North Dakota woman, he declares, “I live here now,” before the scene shifts to “500 years earlier” in Wales, Kingdom of England in 1522. There, Munch is paid to devour a meal over a corpse, assuming their sins.
- 11/29/2023
- TV Insider
Exclusive: The BBC is returning for more of The Gold.
We can reveal a second season of the gold heist drama has been ordered, based on the infamous real-life events of the Brink’s-Mat robbery and the decades-long chain of events that followed.
Season one was for UK pubcaster the BBC and Paramount+. We understand Paramount isn’t on board season 2.
We revealed the main cast last year in April, and returning cast Hugh Bonneville, Charlotte Spencer, Emun Elliott, Tom Cullen, Stefanie Martini and Sam Spruell are confirmed for season 2. Further casting is set to follow at a later date with filming set to begin in January 2024. Season one also starred the likes of Jack Lowdon and Dominic Cooper.
Spoiler Alert: The season 2 plot will follow what happened to the half of the Brinks-Mat gold stolen in the daring 1983 raid, after police realise those they convicted didn’t have all of it.
We can reveal a second season of the gold heist drama has been ordered, based on the infamous real-life events of the Brink’s-Mat robbery and the decades-long chain of events that followed.
Season one was for UK pubcaster the BBC and Paramount+. We understand Paramount isn’t on board season 2.
We revealed the main cast last year in April, and returning cast Hugh Bonneville, Charlotte Spencer, Emun Elliott, Tom Cullen, Stefanie Martini and Sam Spruell are confirmed for season 2. Further casting is set to follow at a later date with filming set to begin in January 2024. Season one also starred the likes of Jack Lowdon and Dominic Cooper.
Spoiler Alert: The season 2 plot will follow what happened to the half of the Brinks-Mat gold stolen in the daring 1983 raid, after police realise those they convicted didn’t have all of it.
- 11/29/2023
- by Jesse Whittock
- Deadline Film + TV
Joe Keery as Gator Tillman and Jon Hamm as Roy Tillman in ‘Fargo’ season 5 episode 3 (Photo Cr: Michelle Faye/FX)
Sheriff Roy Tillman (Jon Hamm) is listening to “Sixteen Tons” on the radio while he rolls up to the murder scene/gas station as FX’s Fargo season five episode three gets underway. For once, his son Gator (Joe Keery) has done the right thing by not broadcasting the fact Ole Munch killed his partner and left a menacing sign on his dead body. So far, only Roy’s aware the gas station’s upped its body count by one.
Gator praises Ole Munch’s big balls, and Roy points out Munch has altered the size of Gator’s. They’ve gotten smaller.
Roy orders Gator to dig up all the info he can on Ole Munch. And he warns his son to sleep with his gun cocked until the situation’s handled.
Sheriff Roy Tillman (Jon Hamm) is listening to “Sixteen Tons” on the radio while he rolls up to the murder scene/gas station as FX’s Fargo season five episode three gets underway. For once, his son Gator (Joe Keery) has done the right thing by not broadcasting the fact Ole Munch killed his partner and left a menacing sign on his dead body. So far, only Roy’s aware the gas station’s upped its body count by one.
Gator praises Ole Munch’s big balls, and Roy points out Munch has altered the size of Gator’s. They’ve gotten smaller.
Roy orders Gator to dig up all the info he can on Ole Munch. And he warns his son to sleep with his gun cocked until the situation’s handled.
- 11/29/2023
- by Rebecca Murray
- Showbiz Junkies
This article contains spoilers for Fargo season 5 episode 3.
After a fourth season set in the 1950s, Fargo has returned to the present for season 5 … or at least as close to the present as Fargo can get.
Since every season of show is purported to be based on a true story (but not really), some narrative distance is necessary. Still, the 2019 of Fargo season 5 feels about as close to modern day as possible. How so? Well, everyone is angry, you see – even the normally calm and genteel Minnesotans and Montanans who give the franchise its Midwestern nice vibe. For one brief scene in episode 3, however, Fargo season 5 takes its plot a little further back in the past. Five hundred years back in the past to be precise.
Roughly 16 minutes in to “The Paradox of Intermediate Transactions,” Fargo catches up with injured assassin Ole Munch (Sam Spruell). After his close call with...
After a fourth season set in the 1950s, Fargo has returned to the present for season 5 … or at least as close to the present as Fargo can get.
Since every season of show is purported to be based on a true story (but not really), some narrative distance is necessary. Still, the 2019 of Fargo season 5 feels about as close to modern day as possible. How so? Well, everyone is angry, you see – even the normally calm and genteel Minnesotans and Montanans who give the franchise its Midwestern nice vibe. For one brief scene in episode 3, however, Fargo season 5 takes its plot a little further back in the past. Five hundred years back in the past to be precise.
Roughly 16 minutes in to “The Paradox of Intermediate Transactions,” Fargo catches up with injured assassin Ole Munch (Sam Spruell). After his close call with...
- 11/29/2023
- by Alec Bojalad
- Den of Geek
The fifth season of Fargo debuted on FX last week and the man behind the series sees no end in sight for the anthology drama. Series creator/director/writer Noah Hawley recently spoke about the series' future at the season five premiere.
Starring Juno Temple, Jon Hamm, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Joe Keery, Lamorne Morris, Sam Spruell, David Rysdahl, Jessica Pohly, Nick Gomez, and Dave Foley, the current season of the series is set in 2019. It follows a North Dakota sheriff (Hamm) on his search for a seemingly ordinary Midwestern housewife named Dorothy 'Dot' Lyon (Temple).
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Starring Juno Temple, Jon Hamm, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Joe Keery, Lamorne Morris, Sam Spruell, David Rysdahl, Jessica Pohly, Nick Gomez, and Dave Foley, the current season of the series is set in 2019. It follows a North Dakota sheriff (Hamm) on his search for a seemingly ordinary Midwestern housewife named Dorothy 'Dot' Lyon (Temple).
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- 11/27/2023
- by TVSeriesFinale.com
- TVSeriesFinale.com
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After three years, this anthology series is back. Has the Fargo TV show been cancelled or renewed for a sixth season on FX? The television vulture is watching all the latest cancellation and renewal news, so this page is the place to track the status of Fargo, season six. Bookmark it, or subscribe for the latest updates. Remember, the television vulture is watching your shows. Are you?
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An anthology drama series airing on the FX cable channel, the fifth season of the Fargo TV show stars Juno Temple, Jon Hamm, Joe Keery, Jennifer Jason Leigh, David Rysdahl, Lamorne Morris, Sam Spruell, Richa Moorjani, and Dave Foley. The story begins in 2019 and is set in Minnesota and North Dakota. After an unexpected series of events lands Dorothy 'Dot' Lyon (Temple) in hot water with the...
After three years, this anthology series is back. Has the Fargo TV show been cancelled or renewed for a sixth season on FX? The television vulture is watching all the latest cancellation and renewal news, so this page is the place to track the status of Fargo, season six. Bookmark it, or subscribe for the latest updates. Remember, the television vulture is watching your shows. Are you?
What's This TV Show About?
An anthology drama series airing on the FX cable channel, the fifth season of the Fargo TV show stars Juno Temple, Jon Hamm, Joe Keery, Jennifer Jason Leigh, David Rysdahl, Lamorne Morris, Sam Spruell, Richa Moorjani, and Dave Foley. The story begins in 2019 and is set in Minnesota and North Dakota. After an unexpected series of events lands Dorothy 'Dot' Lyon (Temple) in hot water with the...
- 11/26/2023
- by TVSeriesFinale.com
- TVSeriesFinale.com
It's been three years since the end of the fourth season of the Fargo TV series. While the show appears to be a prestige project for FX, lower ratings put any series in danger of being cancelled. The fourth season of this Noah Hawley-created show saw a big drop so will the numbers improve? Will Fargo be cancelled or renewed for season six? Stay tuned.
An anthology drama series, the fifth season of the Fargo TV show stars Juno Temple, Jon Hamm, Joe Keery, Jennifer Jason Leigh, David Rysdahl, Lamorne Morris, Sam Spruell, Richa Moorjani, and Dave Foley. The story begins in 2019 and is set in Minnesota and North Dakota. After an unexpected series of events lands Dorothy 'Dot' Lyon (Temple) in hot water with the authorities, this seemingly typical Midwestern housewife is suddenly plunged back into a life she thought she had left...
An anthology drama series, the fifth season of the Fargo TV show stars Juno Temple, Jon Hamm, Joe Keery, Jennifer Jason Leigh, David Rysdahl, Lamorne Morris, Sam Spruell, Richa Moorjani, and Dave Foley. The story begins in 2019 and is set in Minnesota and North Dakota. After an unexpected series of events lands Dorothy 'Dot' Lyon (Temple) in hot water with the authorities, this seemingly typical Midwestern housewife is suddenly plunged back into a life she thought she had left...
- 11/26/2023
- by TVSeriesFinale.com
- TVSeriesFinale.com
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
Plot: The latest installment of Fargo is set in Minnesota and North Dakota, 2019. After an unexpected series of events lands Dorothy ‘Dot’ Lyon in hot water with the authorities, this seemingly typical Midwestern housewife is suddenly plunged back into a life she thought she had left behind.
Review: Before the first season of Fargo premiered in 2014, I thought it was a bad idea. It should have been a clue that Noah Hawley’s series would be a masterpiece since it came with The Coen Brothers’ approval. A decade later, the fifth entry in the anthology series is arriving, set in the pre-pandemic year of 2019. Following the series alternating historical and contemporary timelines, the new season trades period settings of the 1970s and 1920s for a familiar-looking world anchored in the political divide of liberals and conservatives that raged those four long years ago. But, rather than being a story about politics,...
Review: Before the first season of Fargo premiered in 2014, I thought it was a bad idea. It should have been a clue that Noah Hawley’s series would be a masterpiece since it came with The Coen Brothers’ approval. A decade later, the fifth entry in the anthology series is arriving, set in the pre-pandemic year of 2019. Following the series alternating historical and contemporary timelines, the new season trades period settings of the 1970s and 1920s for a familiar-looking world anchored in the political divide of liberals and conservatives that raged those four long years ago. But, rather than being a story about politics,...
- 11/23/2023
- by Alex Maidy
- JoBlo.com
Almost three years to the day that “Fargo” wrapped its fourth installment, which starred Chris Rock and featured an acclaimed performance by future Oscar-nominee Jessie Buckley, its highly-anticipated fifth has finally arrived. Noah Hawley’s FX anthology series debuted almost a decade ago in 2014 and has been alternating between contemporary and period-set seasons. Since the last set of episodes took place in the 1950s and explored the war between Kansas City crime syndicates, the new season is set in 2019 and centers on Juno Temple’s character, whose happy home life conceals a dangerous past.
After its fourth installment failed to live up to the high expectations that the Emmy Award-winning series had previously set, this new season finds the show back as strong as ever. As of this writing, it has an 80 score on Metacritic, indicating “generally favorable” reviews. Even better, it has a perfect 100% freshness score on Rotten Tomatoes,...
After its fourth installment failed to live up to the high expectations that the Emmy Award-winning series had previously set, this new season finds the show back as strong as ever. As of this writing, it has an 80 score on Metacritic, indicating “generally favorable” reviews. Even better, it has a perfect 100% freshness score on Rotten Tomatoes,...
- 11/22/2023
- by David Buchanan
- Gold Derby
Jon Hamm as Roy Tillman in ‘Fargo’ season 5 episode 2 (Photo Cr: Michelle Faye/FX)
FX’s Fargo season five episode two opens with the introduction of a new key player. Sheriff Roy Tillman (Jon Hamm) admires himself on a billboard as his voice-over drops a few pertinent facts. The Tillmans have a history in law enforcement. Roy believes Jesus was a bearded man and that women should be seen, not heard, kept pregnant and in the kitchen.
Plus, they should come to their wedding bed virgins.
It turns out he’s dropping these pearls of wisdom on a young couple. The husband is an abuser, but the wife tries to play it off that she’s just clumsy. Hubby learns a lesson the hard way when Roy has his deputy place him in a chokehold. Oh wait, the lesson didn’t sink in, and Roy tosses a cup of scalding...
FX’s Fargo season five episode two opens with the introduction of a new key player. Sheriff Roy Tillman (Jon Hamm) admires himself on a billboard as his voice-over drops a few pertinent facts. The Tillmans have a history in law enforcement. Roy believes Jesus was a bearded man and that women should be seen, not heard, kept pregnant and in the kitchen.
Plus, they should come to their wedding bed virgins.
It turns out he’s dropping these pearls of wisdom on a young couple. The husband is an abuser, but the wife tries to play it off that she’s just clumsy. Hubby learns a lesson the hard way when Roy has his deputy place him in a chokehold. Oh wait, the lesson didn’t sink in, and Roy tosses a cup of scalding...
- 11/22/2023
- by Rebecca Murray
- Showbiz Junkies
This article contains spoilers for Fargo season 5 episodes 1 and 2.
Fargo season 5 opens in as immediate fashion as possible. As the curtains rise on episode 1 “The Tragedy of the Commons,” punches are already being thrown. It’s a chaotic, yet familiar scene in the U.S. in which a community meeting at a high school auditorium has devolved into desultory violence.
Our protagonist Dorothy “Dot” Lyon (Ted Lasso‘s Juno Temple) shields her daughter from the melee as adults act a fool at the Fall Festival Planning Committee. Dot is drawn into the fray when her daughter’s math teacher comes barreling down the aisle screaming “No one’s listening to me!” Dot tases him in self defense and is booked at the local police station, kickstarting the real events of the season.
Fargo, both the classic 1996 Coen Brothers film and the FX series inspired by it, has a distinct knack...
Fargo season 5 opens in as immediate fashion as possible. As the curtains rise on episode 1 “The Tragedy of the Commons,” punches are already being thrown. It’s a chaotic, yet familiar scene in the U.S. in which a community meeting at a high school auditorium has devolved into desultory violence.
Our protagonist Dorothy “Dot” Lyon (Ted Lasso‘s Juno Temple) shields her daughter from the melee as adults act a fool at the Fall Festival Planning Committee. Dot is drawn into the fray when her daughter’s math teacher comes barreling down the aisle screaming “No one’s listening to me!” Dot tases him in self defense and is booked at the local police station, kickstarting the real events of the season.
Fargo, both the classic 1996 Coen Brothers film and the FX series inspired by it, has a distinct knack...
- 11/22/2023
- by Alec Bojalad
- Den of Geek
Fargo’s Dot Lyon just wants to make pancakes for her daughter, but instead, she gets caught up in a whirlwind of guns-blazing action in Tuesday’s Season 5 premiere — and she more than holds her own.
When we meet Dot (played by Ted Lasso’s Juno Temple), she’s shielding her daughter Scotty from a school board meeting that turned into an all-out brawl. On her way out, she’s grabbed from behind and turns around to hit the guy with a stun gun — and it turns out he’s a cop. Dot is put in handcuffs and hauled away in a police cruiser,...
When we meet Dot (played by Ted Lasso’s Juno Temple), she’s shielding her daughter Scotty from a school board meeting that turned into an all-out brawl. On her way out, she’s grabbed from behind and turns around to hit the guy with a stun gun — and it turns out he’s a cop. Dot is put in handcuffs and hauled away in a police cruiser,...
- 11/22/2023
- by Dave Nemetz
- TVLine.com
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
The typical season of “Fargo” starts at a simmer. Thanks to the famous opening disclaimer (“at the request of the survivors”; “out of respect for the dead”), borrowed wholesale from the Coen Brothers’ original masterpiece, the audience knows violence is in the offing. In translating “Fargo” into an anthology series, an interpretive exercise that now spans five different installments over nearly a decade, creator Noah Hawley has stuck to this structure. “Fargo” may hopscotch across time, points of view, and the Greater Midwest, but Hawley uses a loose and shifting set of signatures to identify the multiplying parts of the franchise as part of a greater whole — the pace heretofore among them.
The latest “Fargo” story, however, starts in media res. We’re in suburban Minnesota circa 2019, and a local school board meeting has descended into chaos. This isn’t a record-scratch-freeze-frame situation, either; in the six episodes provided to critics in advance,...
The latest “Fargo” story, however, starts in media res. We’re in suburban Minnesota circa 2019, and a local school board meeting has descended into chaos. This isn’t a record-scratch-freeze-frame situation, either; in the six episodes provided to critics in advance,...
- 11/21/2023
- by Alison Herman
- Variety Film + TV
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
Fargo has had its fair share of peculiar characters throughout the FX anthology’s run, but even longtime fans may be taken aback by Sam Spruell‘s Ole Munch. When we caught up with the star on set in Calgary earlier this year, Spruell did his best to describe the odd fellow who takes on a bit of a specific kidnapping role when the fifth installment of Noah Hawley‘s hit kicks off. “He exists in the darker side of the world, and once could say he’s kind of trapped in sin,” Spruell says. (Credit: Michelle Faye/FX) “Fargo has a history of truth-sayers that sit slightly outside of the story, that become kind of woven into the story,” he elaborates. Enlisted to kidnap Dot (Juno Temple), Ole Munch is pulled into the story by North Dakota sheriff Roy Tillman (Jon Hamm). “The dynamic begins with Roy,” Spruell notes.
- 11/20/2023
- TV Insider
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
Here’s a look at this week’s biggest premieres, parties and openings in Los Angeles and New York, including Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, Trolls Band Together, The Crown, Saltburn and May December.
The Crown premiere
Elizabeth Debicki, Jonathan Pryce, Khalid Abdalla, Rufus Kampa, Fflyn Edwards, Ed McVey, Luther Ford and Meg Bellamy walked the red carpet on Sunday for the Los Angeles premiere of the sixth and final season.
Peter Morgan and Elizabeth Debicki Luther Ford, Khalid Abdalla and Ed McVey
Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes premiere
Rachel Zegler, Tom Blyth, Hunter Schafer, Josh Andrés Rivera, Viola Davis, Peter Dinklage and Jason Schwartzman attended the Los Angeles premiere of their Hunger Games prequel on Monday, with support from Olivia Rodrigo, who has a song in the film. On Wednesday, the cast attended another premiere event in NYC.
Peter Dinklage, Viola Davis, Josh Andrés Rivera,...
The Crown premiere
Elizabeth Debicki, Jonathan Pryce, Khalid Abdalla, Rufus Kampa, Fflyn Edwards, Ed McVey, Luther Ford and Meg Bellamy walked the red carpet on Sunday for the Los Angeles premiere of the sixth and final season.
Peter Morgan and Elizabeth Debicki Luther Ford, Khalid Abdalla and Ed McVey
Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes premiere
Rachel Zegler, Tom Blyth, Hunter Schafer, Josh Andrés Rivera, Viola Davis, Peter Dinklage and Jason Schwartzman attended the Los Angeles premiere of their Hunger Games prequel on Monday, with support from Olivia Rodrigo, who has a song in the film. On Wednesday, the cast attended another premiere event in NYC.
Peter Dinklage, Viola Davis, Josh Andrés Rivera,...
- 11/17/2023
- by Kirsten Chuba
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Jon Hamm joins Noah Hawley’s “Fargo” universe for the anthology series’ fifth installment, playing the self-righteous Sheriff Roy Tillman.
“Noah can really balance that tone of the dark, very violent, dramatic aspects of the show with the incredibly absurd comedic moments that also exist,” Hamm told Variety at the FX series premiere on Wednesday in Los Angeles. “I was less pleased about going to Calgary in -10 F weather.”
Hamm’s performance as the new villain is already drawing comparisons to his Emmy-winning work as Don Draper in “Mad Men.”
“Don holds a very special place in my heart and my career,” Hamm said before pivoting back to the recent raves for the new “Fargo” drama. “I’m thrilled to be able to act in all aspects of what we get to do comedy and drama, dark and light, and play all the 64 colors in the Crayola box. I...
“Noah can really balance that tone of the dark, very violent, dramatic aspects of the show with the incredibly absurd comedic moments that also exist,” Hamm told Variety at the FX series premiere on Wednesday in Los Angeles. “I was less pleased about going to Calgary in -10 F weather.”
Hamm’s performance as the new villain is already drawing comparisons to his Emmy-winning work as Don Draper in “Mad Men.”
“Don holds a very special place in my heart and my career,” Hamm said before pivoting back to the recent raves for the new “Fargo” drama. “I’m thrilled to be able to act in all aspects of what we get to do comedy and drama, dark and light, and play all the 64 colors in the Crayola box. I...
- 11/16/2023
- by Angelique Jackson
- Variety Film + TV
Juno Temple is discussing her connection to one of horror's most iconic locations.
The Ted Lasso alum appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live! Tuesday night and opened up about her childhood.
In one of the most surprising interviews in Jimmy Kimmel's history, Temple revealed that she grew up in the original Michael Myers House from the Halloween movie.
"So my parents were living out here, and I was born actually in the U.K., but then I came back here until I was about 5," she dished.
"And I actually grew up in, this is an interesting place to grow up, my parents bought a house without realizing until Halloween came around, and there was a tour bus that it was the original Michael Myers house from the Halloween movie!"
Temple said she didn't really understand the location's past because she was five years old.
The actress opened up about Halloween...
The Ted Lasso alum appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live! Tuesday night and opened up about her childhood.
In one of the most surprising interviews in Jimmy Kimmel's history, Temple revealed that she grew up in the original Michael Myers House from the Halloween movie.
"So my parents were living out here, and I was born actually in the U.K., but then I came back here until I was about 5," she dished.
"And I actually grew up in, this is an interesting place to grow up, my parents bought a house without realizing until Halloween came around, and there was a tour bus that it was the original Michael Myers house from the Halloween movie!"
Temple said she didn't really understand the location's past because she was five years old.
The actress opened up about Halloween...
- 11/15/2023
- by Paul Dailly
- TVfanatic
Fargo returns to FX for its long-awaited fifth season next month, and viewers are being given a preview of the upcoming episodes. The anthology series was created by Noah Hawley, and the fourth season concluded in November 2020.
Starring Juno Temple, Jon Hamm, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Joe Keery, Lamorne Morris, Sam Spruell, David Rysdahl, Jessica Pohly, Nick Gomez, and Dave Foley, season five of the comedy crime drama series is set in Minnesota and North Dakota in 2019. Lukas Gage recurs.
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Starring Juno Temple, Jon Hamm, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Joe Keery, Lamorne Morris, Sam Spruell, David Rysdahl, Jessica Pohly, Nick Gomez, and Dave Foley, season five of the comedy crime drama series is set in Minnesota and North Dakota in 2019. Lukas Gage recurs.
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- 10/26/2023
- by TVSeriesFinale.com
- TVSeriesFinale.com
Crime! Comedy! Midwestern American accents! An all-star cast! Why, that can only mean one thing – Noah Hawley’s Fargo is coming back to our screens, friends. And for its eagerly awaited fifth instalment, the anthology series – a spin-off of the Coen Brothers’ 1996 classic – is set to see :a[Mad Men]{href='https://www.empireonline.com/movies/features/ten-great-mad-men-moments/' target='_blank' rel='noreferrer noopener'}'s Jon Hamm on law enforcement and :a[Ted Lasso]{href='https://www.empireonline.com/tv/reviews/ted-lasso-season-3/' target='_blank' rel='noreferrer noopener'} star Juno Temple on the lam as her double-life comes undone. Check out the trailer below.
The new teaser kicks off with milquetoast Wayne Lyon (David Rysdahl) learning that his wife Dot (Temple) “isn’t who she says she is”. So, who is she then? Well, based on her handiness with a nail-studded baseball bat, proclivity for improvised flamethrowers, and the two...
The new teaser kicks off with milquetoast Wayne Lyon (David Rysdahl) learning that his wife Dot (Temple) “isn’t who she says she is”. So, who is she then? Well, based on her handiness with a nail-studded baseball bat, proclivity for improvised flamethrowers, and the two...
- 10/26/2023
- by Jordan King
- Empire - TV
Take a look at more footage from Season 5 of the "Fargo" TV series, starring Jennifer Jason Leigh, Juno Temple, Jon Hamm, Joe Keery, Lamorne Morris, Richa Moorjani, David Rysdahl, Sam Spruell, Jessica Pohly, Nick Gomez, Dave Foley and Lukas Gage, streaming November 21, 2023 on FX and streaming on Hulu:
"... when is a kidnapping, not a kidnapping – and what if your wife isn't yours?"
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"... when is a kidnapping, not a kidnapping – and what if your wife isn't yours?"
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- 10/25/2023
- by Unknown
- SneakPeek
FX’s official trailer for the long-awaited fifth season of Fargo reveals Ted Lasso‘s Juno Temple is front and center as a woman who isn’t who she claims to be. The new season will involve lies, betrayals, kidnappings and, of course, murder – everything fans have come to expect from the critically acclaimed drama.
Inspired by Joel and Ethan Coen’s film, the first season of the anthology series debuted in April 2014 and starred Billy Bob Thornton, Allison Tolman, Colin Hanks, Martin Freeman, and Keith Carradine. Season two arrived in October 2015 with Kirsten Dunst, Patrick Wilson, Jesse Plemons, and Jean Smart in starring roles. Ewan McGregor, Carrie Coon, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, David Thewlis, and Michael Stuhlbarg led the cast of season three which launched in April 2017.
Season four with Chris Rock, Jessie Buckley, Jason Schwartzman, and Ben Whishaw aired in September 2020. Season five has set a November 21, 2023 premiere date for the first two episodes,...
Inspired by Joel and Ethan Coen’s film, the first season of the anthology series debuted in April 2014 and starred Billy Bob Thornton, Allison Tolman, Colin Hanks, Martin Freeman, and Keith Carradine. Season two arrived in October 2015 with Kirsten Dunst, Patrick Wilson, Jesse Plemons, and Jean Smart in starring roles. Ewan McGregor, Carrie Coon, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, David Thewlis, and Michael Stuhlbarg led the cast of season three which launched in April 2017.
Season four with Chris Rock, Jessie Buckley, Jason Schwartzman, and Ben Whishaw aired in September 2020. Season five has set a November 21, 2023 premiere date for the first two episodes,...
- 10/25/2023
- by Rebecca Murray
- Showbiz Junkies
Prepare to see Jon Hamm like you’ve never seen him before: sporting nipple rings and a cowboy hat while lounging in a hot tub. That’s just one of the head-scratching moments buried in the trailer for “Fargo” Year 5.
The trailer starts with two cops telling Wayne Lyon (David Rysdahl) that his wife isn’t who she says she is. It then shifts to clips of Juno Temple as Dot Lyon fighting and scheming for her life.
“Let me tell you what I see. I see a woman who outsmarted two kidnappers,” Richa Moorjani, who plays Deputy Indira Olmstead, says in the trailer.
As much fun as it is to watch Temple strategically place ice cubes and play with flamethrowers as she “Home Alones” her way through the season, the real star of this first trailer is Jon Hamm’s Sheriff Roy Tillman. The first time his character appears,...
The trailer starts with two cops telling Wayne Lyon (David Rysdahl) that his wife isn’t who she says she is. It then shifts to clips of Juno Temple as Dot Lyon fighting and scheming for her life.
“Let me tell you what I see. I see a woman who outsmarted two kidnappers,” Richa Moorjani, who plays Deputy Indira Olmstead, says in the trailer.
As much fun as it is to watch Temple strategically place ice cubes and play with flamethrowers as she “Home Alones” her way through the season, the real star of this first trailer is Jon Hamm’s Sheriff Roy Tillman. The first time his character appears,...
- 10/25/2023
- by Kayla Cobb
- The Wrap
FX has released the first official trailer for “Fargo” Season 5.
As previously announced, the cast for the season of the critically acclaimed anthology series includes: Juno Temple, Jon Hamm, Joe Keery, Sam Spruell, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Lamorne Morris, David Rysdahl, Richa Moorjani, and Dave Foley.
See the full trailer below.
FX has also revealed a detailed plot synopsis for the new season for the first time, which reads: “The latest installment of ‘Fargo’ is set in Minnesota and North Dakota, 2019. After an unexpected series of events lands “Dorothy ‘Dot’ Lyon” (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. North Dakota Sheriff Roy Tillman (Hamm) 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.
As previously announced, the cast for the season of the critically acclaimed anthology series includes: Juno Temple, Jon Hamm, Joe Keery, Sam Spruell, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Lamorne Morris, David Rysdahl, Richa Moorjani, and Dave Foley.
See the full trailer below.
FX has also revealed a detailed plot synopsis for the new season for the first time, which reads: “The latest installment of ‘Fargo’ is set in Minnesota and North Dakota, 2019. After an unexpected series of events lands “Dorothy ‘Dot’ Lyon” (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. North Dakota Sheriff Roy Tillman (Hamm) 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.
- 10/25/2023
- by Joe Otterson
- Variety Film + TV
Trouble is coming to Minnesota and North Dakota all over again -- and, this time, it's in the deceptively pint-sized form of Juno Temple's Dorothy "Dot" Lyon. To this point, FX's Emmy-winning anthology series "Fargo" has never set the action as recently as season 5, which will take place in 2019 and feature one of its most fascinating storylines yet. The key to the show's success thus far, of course, has been its willingness to shake up its own formula with each and every installment. In the span of five seasons, it has taken viewers from the early aughts in its debut season to 1979 in season 2 to, most surprisingly, a battle between two crime syndicates in the 1950s in season 4. Despite originally taking inspiration from the Coen brothers' 1996 film, "Fargo" has forged its own identity as a pitch-dark comedy crime drama, led by series creator Noah Hawley. Season 5, to say the absolute least,...
- 10/25/2023
- by Jeremy Mathai
- Slash Film
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