Fargo Second Season to take place in 1979
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STAN JONES
Fire John Harbaugh
so theyre gonna do the story Solversons father was talking about? 
Uncle_Ruckus
We The North
I gotta take in season one pronto. Already got it downloaded.
R.E.N. Spells Ren
Veteran
Budget must've increased
When Solverson told that story, I always pictured a young Lorne Malvo being involved. I can't wait to see how everything unfolds. I was wondering how they were going to proceed with future seasons of Fargo after everything that transpired. My theory was that those tapes that Malvo left behind would be explored from season to season. Each tape representing someone he'd killed or "helped" and those tapes being the anchor point for the story arc that season. But they went another way. I'm cool with that. I bet they still revisit those cassettes at some point though.
my body is ready 
Fargo coming back for a 2nd season? 
WaddupDoe!
Steez.
We back Bruhs.
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'Fargo' Producer Warren Littlefield Teases Second Season Details
by Etan Vlessing
6/9/2015 11:09am PDT
The Kansas City mob is coming to Sioux Falls, South Dakota.
Fargo producer Warren Littlefield, attending the Banff World Media Festival, teased the upcomingsecond season of Noah Hawley'santhology series for FX and MGM as it goes back to 1979 and a post-Vietnam America.
"The second season is really is about the corporatization of America. It's the difference between a mom and pop family business and a Walmart," Littlefield told The Hollywood Reporter after delivering a master class.
Fargo will critique corporate America with a "true crime" storyline over 10 new episodes. "It's the Kansas City mob basically looking to do a hostile takeover of the Gerhard crime family. In the middle, we have a couple, Ed and Peggy Blomquist, and they get caught in the middle of a war between these two crime factions," Littlefield said.
As Fargo goes back to 1979, the second season will include Ronald Reagan starting out on the presidential campaign trail. "America is seeking a healing time," Littlefield said.
The sophomore season will see Patrick Wilson play Lou Solverson, a clean cut Minnesota State Patrolman, four years back from Vietnam, while Ted Danson will play the role of Hank Larsson, a Second World War veteran and sheriff of Rock County, Minnesota.
Littlefileld also touted his new cable model with FX's Fargo anthology series, which gives the former NBC president creative control and innovation rarely known during his U.S. network tenure. "With Fargo, it's strong content. We don't do melodrama. We don't build at the end of an episode. We have never show the network a script with an ad break in it. We figure it out in the edit suite," Littlefield explained during his master class.
Fargo also delivers a new stand-alone season only when the producers, FX and MGM deem the time is right for a return, not necessarily every fall as with network series. "We don't go back to any sets. We don't go back to actors. We just start fresh" with each new season, Littlefield said. The irony is he didn't see the value of the cable model during his Must See NBC years.
"Cable lived off of network re-runs. They didn't want to spend money the way we were spending money," Littlefield said. Now he sees the value of the smaller-budget, niche dramas and comedies that John Landgraf's FX has allowed with Fargo, and other premium cable channels have done to usher in the golden age of TV.
"If you have a breakthrough show on a network, that's an attractive financial model. But on Fargo, we said this works for us," Littlefield insisted.
by Etan Vlessing
6/9/2015 11:09am PDT
The Kansas City mob is coming to Sioux Falls, South Dakota.
Fargo producer Warren Littlefield, attending the Banff World Media Festival, teased the upcomingsecond season of Noah Hawley'santhology series for FX and MGM as it goes back to 1979 and a post-Vietnam America.
"The second season is really is about the corporatization of America. It's the difference between a mom and pop family business and a Walmart," Littlefield told The Hollywood Reporter after delivering a master class.
Fargo will critique corporate America with a "true crime" storyline over 10 new episodes. "It's the Kansas City mob basically looking to do a hostile takeover of the Gerhard crime family. In the middle, we have a couple, Ed and Peggy Blomquist, and they get caught in the middle of a war between these two crime factions," Littlefield said.
As Fargo goes back to 1979, the second season will include Ronald Reagan starting out on the presidential campaign trail. "America is seeking a healing time," Littlefield said.
The sophomore season will see Patrick Wilson play Lou Solverson, a clean cut Minnesota State Patrolman, four years back from Vietnam, while Ted Danson will play the role of Hank Larsson, a Second World War veteran and sheriff of Rock County, Minnesota.
Littlefileld also touted his new cable model with FX's Fargo anthology series, which gives the former NBC president creative control and innovation rarely known during his U.S. network tenure. "With Fargo, it's strong content. We don't do melodrama. We don't build at the end of an episode. We have never show the network a script with an ad break in it. We figure it out in the edit suite," Littlefield explained during his master class.
Fargo also delivers a new stand-alone season only when the producers, FX and MGM deem the time is right for a return, not necessarily every fall as with network series. "We don't go back to any sets. We don't go back to actors. We just start fresh" with each new season, Littlefield said. The irony is he didn't see the value of the cable model during his Must See NBC years.
"Cable lived off of network re-runs. They didn't want to spend money the way we were spending money," Littlefield said. Now he sees the value of the smaller-budget, niche dramas and comedies that John Landgraf's FX has allowed with Fargo, and other premium cable channels have done to usher in the golden age of TV.
"If you have a breakthrough show on a network, that's an attractive financial model. But on Fargo, we said this works for us," Littlefield insisted.