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Fargo - Season 1
In 1996, a manipulative drifter preys upon a small-town insurance salesman in the opener of this adaptation. Deputy Molly Solverson and Duluth police officer Gus Grimly team up to solve a series of murders they believe may be linked to Malvo and Nygaard. Fargo features a new “true crime” story and new characters, all entrenched in the humor, murder and “Minnesota nice” that made the film a classic.
8 November 1978, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
20 August 1947, Akron, Ohio, USA
31 August 1981, Oakville, Ontario, Canada
31 March 1971, Perth, Perthshire, Scotland, UK
29 May 1958, Silver Spring, Maryland, USA
April 15, 2014
The TV Fargo establishes itself as its own wonderful thing that is connected to the movie without being a recreation of it, and that doesn't seem unworthy of the name.
April 14, 2014
Fargo has a few things in common with their 1996 film of the same name: the frigid small-town setting, a plucky female cop, a desperate man, a twisted sense of humor and a rising body count.
April 15, 2014
The acting and directing are uniformly strong, and the script, by Noah Hawley, proves that everyone who has ever described the Coen brothers' sensibility as "inimitable" was wrong.
April 15, 2014
All of the performances here, from Billy Bob Thornton to Martin Freeman to Colin Hanks to newcomer Allison Tolman, are strong enough to almost make you forget the original altogether (especially if it's been way too long since your last viewing).
April 15, 2014
There's a considered cleverness and kindness to his [Hawley] scripts that would never fit into the tight margins of a motion picture; it lights this Fargo from within.
April 15, 2014
Dark drama brings evil and violence to a small town.
April 15, 2014
The series, is funnier than the film, more bleakly so. The Coens got brilliant performances out of their film actors and they do here as well -- Thornton especially, who is a magnificent sociopath-monster. Freeman simply reminds everyone how good he is.
April 15, 2014
There is at least one significant link - you'll hoot in recognition - that could be the linchpin of the anthology. We're looking forward plenty of long, cold winters.
April 15, 2014
Wrap a snowmobile suit around that thin skin of yours, and relish one of the best darn series of the year.
April 15, 2014
He [Hawley] makes us care about a wildly exaggerated situation involving characters who, by themselves, would be either 1) dull, 2) psychotic or 3) dumb as a stack of snowballs.