Fargo Recap 10/12/15: Season 2 Episode 1 Premiere “Waiting for Dutch”

Did they come after you for the part or did you seek it out? So the question becomes how do you find cues that are really powerful. Fargo 2.0 is, thus far, more black than bleak comedy.

Fargo will return to FX on Monday night, and the series has a lot of weight on its shoulders. It swept the miniseries awards at both the Golden Globes and the Emmys. Lou’s father-in-law, the local sheriff, is played by Ted Danson.

[Warning: This story contains spoilers from the season two premiere of FX’s Fargo.]. With the lens of Season 2 looking all the way back to 1979, Hawley turns a sharp eye to the moral turmoil of a nation-then and now. “But I just think he was a really wonderful character”. “It was such a odd time”.

Most impressively, Fargo’s second season still feels intimate even as it grows in every possible direction. So Rye follows the judge for a while before they both end up in the same diner, the Waffle Hut, in Luverne, Minnesota. And that was exciting, to go, all right, what is that story? He’s a Mike Milligan advocate”-Woodbine certainly recognized the resonance of his character’s showdown with white men in uniform”. My mom’s cousin still lives there.

And also, music and the way we use music is a huge thing for me. Then the more we were shooting and the more I thought about “What would we do with a second year?” The reality for millions of Americans, particularly in places like Fargo and Luverne, was a restlessness for something good to come their way after offering half a century of blood and sweat to – in Trump-ian parlance – make America great. Jesse Plemons, Kirsten Dunst, Jeffrey Donovan – they’re all worthy of mention, populating a town and a series that rewards you no matter where you look. We’re just back from the war. “Everyone foreign was always a threat”. I was so surprised, not because it isn’t a great show, but just because “True Detective” was so the thing people talked about that year. Wilson is ideal as the pre-Carradine Lou. She’s only 6 years old, as Lou’s daughter. “And then, when Martin Freeman takes that ball-peen hammer and hits his wife square in the head and she has this look of shock, you think for one second that she’s going to yell at him, right?”

For Floyd, it’s “the most challenging time in the history of her family, a life-and-death moment”, he said. You know you’re going to have a death count you’re going to have to deal with.

The year 1979 was also the height of second-wave feminism, a term that even now women are grappling with and learning to embrace. Would they consider themselves feminists? “When I first started talking to FX about making a version of Fargo that wasn’t a remake, that had none of the characters or the story from the movie…” I’m going to watch it, too, as it makes me smile. I didn’t know I was tall till I moved to New York. I’d call it animal. It’s like seeing a f***ing unicorn, to be honest with you. And oh my God, that laugh. A strong woman who is complex and has flaws? Peggy seems hesitant. Well, she knows what’s in the garage.

Culkin’s mother (Jean Smart) has problems of her own – her husband drops over and she’s left to run the family business. [There’s] “it’s-sort-of-cold” weather, and there’s “freezing-I-might-die-in-the-cold”.

A few critics relish the role of the contrarian, but when your colleagues all love something and you don’t, it’s like being at a party where everyone else is out having a great time out on the dance floor and you’re standing off to the side, grumbling, “This music sucks”. I don’t want to see these people in those positions.

Kirsten Dunst is quite a fashion fan. The show is better for it, in the long run.

I think about music a lot. “Do you need more?” Why did I even do this for no money? If no one’s seeing it. TV is the best medium for, I think, actresses especially.

“When I first read it I hadn’t seen the series yet”, he explained.

Here’s an example of exactly what I mean. “It tends to start there, with a catalyst – a character dynamic or a setup for the story”.

Dunst is eager to give Hawley his fair share of the credit. “Together with the music, the color palette-all of that helps bring us to this world that we want to access”. And, all so different too. A lot of that can be credited to writer-executive producer Noah Hawley fine-tuning the balance of slack humor and foreboding. The kind of freedom that we have to present a violent world, and also how Lou stands up to it … And no wonder. The series was not a homage to the story but an entirely new fiction drenched in the original’s tone and then taken to another level. He kills Job’s herds and takes his fields. “Fargo was about this really decent person, not a super cop”.