FX Renews "Fargo"
by NELLIE ANDREEVA
July 21, 2014


It was a risky proposition, but Noah Hawley’s take on the Coen brothers classic Fargo was deemed a critical success, landing 18 Emmy nominations, and it drew a sizable total audience when time-shifted viewing and encores are factored in.

Not surprisingly, FX is ordering a second 10-episode installment, with Hawley back as writer/executive producer for MGM TV and FX Prods. The new chapter will feature an all-new cast of characters, a brand new cast, a new time period and a new “true crime” story, and it may be filmed in the same location in Calgary.



“Noah’s audacious, bordering on hubristic riff on my favorite Coen brothers film earned 18 Emmy nominations – the most for a single program in our history,” FX Networks CEO John Landgraf.

While Ryan Murphy has been using a core group of actors in multiple installments of "American Horror Story", “Fargo demands a different level of realism, and we felt we couldn’t introduce these actors as new characters.”

http://www.deadline.com/2014/07/fargo-renewed-second-season-louie-season-five-fx/

i read the headline and thought - what the heck?!?1

#nospoilers but - most of the main characters get it by the end of the first season - I'm assuming because everyone assumed it would be a one-and-done limited series.

I wonder how they will handle a 2nd series - it would have to be a completely different story...

Billy Bob Thornton will be hard to replace, he made the first season so enjoyable with his funny psycho killer character.

Billy Bob Thornton will be hard to replace, he made the first season so enjoyable with his funny psycho killer character.

There were so many good characters...it's going to be tough to beat the first season, but taking it back to the 70's will be interesting.

Kristen Dunst and Jesse Plemons didn't start dating until a year and a half after filming Fargo (https://twitter.com/kylebuchanan/status/1301591112864296960)

Dunst tells The New York Times "I knew he would be in my life forever" after filming Fargo Season 2, but it would take time for them to connect romantically. "It was one of those connections where you just know," she adds. "But we're also very respectful people, and we were mindful of the fact that we were working together intensely. After we were done with the show, we'd FaceTime now and then, and I just missed him. I missed being around him. And he did, too. We didn't get together until the following March, when we'd had the time to realize how much we wanted to be in each others' lives. You're always careful about set romance stuff -- it can be so fleeting. We respected each other so much and had such a bond that it took more time, because there was so much love there." ALSO: Plemons on Landry and Tyra killing a man on Friday Night Lights: "Yeah, I think you gotta follow up with the writers of that season." (https://twitter.com/justinkirkland4/status/1301514663310643208)