The reviews all say that this one is much better than the last season. I hope that is the case.

It would be impossible for the second series to be better than the first. But if it is as good, we will be in for a grand time.

I thought the first season was fabulous. Actors were wonderful. Can't wait for this season.

Is this a new and different Fargo, or just another season? I'm confused.

Donna, whole new cast for this season. Ted Danson plays one of the lead characters.

Cant wait to watch. Loved the first season. I hope it doesn't disappoint like True Detective.

It's sort of a prequel of Molly's father's old life in the department. 1979. It's yet another matriarchal crime family, which seem to be everywhere following Mags Bennett (Margo Martindale) on Justified. Great for employing great older actresses (such as Grace Zabriskie on Ray Donovan), but overdone. Fargo has Jean Smart, who should be fab, too. There's some great casting in general. I hope it's as sweetly weird and grossly funny as last season.

Is it anything like the movie Fargo? I watched about 1/2 hour of that back then and I absolutely hated it.

Yeah. It's a take off of that. The executive producers are the Coen Brothers, who made the movie, and the series is created and written by Noah Hawley, who is also the showrunner. That is, he wrote the first season. I'm not sure about the new one. The movie is very funny, but very dark and a little weird. The same tone was achieved in the first season, so if you didn't like the movie, it's probably not for you.

Thanks Terilyn and Pillog. I like that it's a kind of prequel, since I never watched the first season. I can watch this season and then catch up with the first one. That makes sense, right?

It does, because it should be a stand alone story.

I watched it tonight and that was the quickest hour I've lived in a long time. There is sooo much going on that's kind of disjointed right now, that I had to play close attention. Loved the premiere!

We loved it! So much going on already. I too could not believe an hour had passed. I knew it was a prequel and the only 2 characters from last season would be Molly and her father, not the same people playing the parts, she is a child and he is a state police. When I saw him reading her the bedtime story it was great. We know that it's going to be dark and twisted, everything that the Coen brothers do is dark and twisted just like them lol. Jasdip you should give it another chance with the understanding that this is the Coen Brothers it's going to be weird but stick it out. In the end it's usually great. It seems people either love them or just don't get them. I think we are off to a fine start! I told my husband as we were watching the beginning with the going back in time, that people who are watching for the first time are probably saying what the um heck?

I was surprised to see Jeffrey Donovan from Burn Notice as a main character. We really liked him in that show. Ted Danson should be great and Jean Smart too. Good group.

Thanks so much for the recommendation. I wasn't aware of this program. I love the Coen brothers work, so I knew I'd enjoy this one. I thoroughly enjoyed last night's program and didn't have any trouble following it even though I hadn't seen it before. Does that mean that I have a twisted and dark mind also???

I chuckled at the scene bedtime scene where she says "Good night, Mr. Sorensen" and he replies "Good night, Mrs. Sorensen. . . and all the ships at sea". I wondered how many viewers would know the reference.

For me, the movie was among the worst/stupidest I've ever seen. Just not my humor, I guess. I wish I could enjoy the series like so many of you do!

LOVED the movie, one of the best movies on my list of movies. NPR TV guy raved about Fargo, the tv show, so I want to watch it. But i didn't watch the first two seasons, went to Netflix to see if I could binge watch to catch up, but they don't have it.

:-(

P.S. Is it even possible to not love anything with Frances McDormand, or Bill Macy, or Steve Buscemi in it?

Wasn't wild about the movie , but really like the TV series. DH and I both like shows with a quirky type of dark and twisted humor. I find shows that are SOOOO serious, boring. Another TV show that had that kind of humor was "Dead Like Me." Loved that show.

NOOOOO! We had our Thanksgiving dinner last night and I forgot to tape it. Off to check the schedule to see if it'll be aired again. I remembered to tape Big Bang but forgot Fargo. Darn!

I am pretty sure that they have the individual episode on the website for viewing, some time it takes a day or two for it to be up.

Yes that episode is already up for viewing, go watch it

Fargo

Tibbrix, there's only one prior season. They're airing season 2 now. Season 1 is on Amazon but it costs. They're sure to show Season 1 again for free if you're patient.

Well, I asked for sweetly weird and grossly funny and I got it. :) The opening sequence was hysterical. :) The thing with the Kirsten Dunst character actually happened around here some time ago. But what's with Jeffrey Donovan's accent? Yeah, his uninflected actor accent slips into Boston regularly, but where everyone else in this show has some form of believable Midwest accent, his is sort of his standard ape mixed with Irish, salted with an underlay of his native Boston. Still, one of the charms of Fargo, movie or series, is a strong sense of place. They've achieved that again, along with a sense of time. The interior of the Waffle Hut was so on point, as was the dreary, split level (trendy at that time) Solverson house. The creators said that they prefer to look at ordinary, decent people when they get in over their heads (that's not an exact quote, just what I remember of what I was reading). I think that's where a lot of evil hides. The trick is, the Fargo crew make that kind of banal evil deliciously funny. :)

"Ok then". Found it through series-cravings.me. So, bizarre and yet so good. "Ok then".

Uh yea OK then! I love that.

Don't like it yet. Where is everyone from last season???

Pawprint, the state police guy is Lou Solverson (Patrick Wilson) and the little girl is Molly. In last season's show they were played by Keith Carradine and Allison Tolman respectively. This season is set in 1979.

not for me

Loved the movie and love the series too!

I loved the movie and really enjoyed (if it's even possible to "enjoy" such bizarreness), the TV series. Hard to believe these stories are based on real events.

Jodi, they're not real. The movie was more or less an amalgam inspired by some things that did happen, but what made it to the screen was purely fiction. According to what I've read, the opening claim about the truth, innocents and guilty was retained for the series as a kind of homage, and as something that gives the writers some kind of direction. Plenty of fiction starts with "this is a true story". Of course, one does get jaded...

Oh good, because after the sequence of events at the diner and later on the road ... well, it felt a little urban legend-ish.

Article about the truth of the true story, no it's not really true. They did take bits and pieces from various sources of bizarre deaths but not one true story.

Truth

Oh, the road part was true...ish. It was in the paper, but it happened in Texas. The homeless guy died, though, and the driver was caught and convicted. Just like with most of the fiction on TV and film, there's a lot of inspiration from the news. Especially like this where it's a truth is stranger than fiction thing. But that's different from the kind of near-truth you see in a docudrama or something, where the story is fictionalized but the facts are mostly preserved.

DH didn't like it. He loved it last season. I think he liked it so much because of Billy Bob Thornton. So far, I like it. Just have to get used to different people.

I think it's funny, I grew up and live in MN, I seldom hear the accents like on all the Fargo shows. Though I remember when I bought my first car in Braham, MN, the dealer said he had a car with fitty tousand miles on it.

joanmn, I may have posted this another Fargo thread, but speaking of Billy Jo Thorton. Do you suppose that's the guy sitting at the desk, in shadow, towards the end of the show, the head of the rival family?? The voice sounded awfully familiar. Especially after reading plllog's post about the program being a prequel.

Schoolhouse, I think that's Adam Arkin. That is, it was announced that he'd be playing the boss, but I didn't notice his voice and don't remember that part of the scene. His voice is distinctive, however, and he does a lot of voice over work, so it would be familiar sounding.

No mention of Billy Bob in this season that I have seen in the lists. I sure wish he was, loved him last year.

I just heard he's in the movie coming out soon with Sandra Bullock about running political campaigns in South America. It's a fictional version of a documentary made a decade ago. Truthier than Fargo, I guess.

Oh, ok. I didn't see that Arkin was starring this season. Thanks.

Another great episode tonight!

PS I may never eat ground meat again, I'm just saying...