Genre: TV Series
Grade: A-
Notable People: Juno Temple, Jennifer Jason Leigh, David Rysdahl, Joe Keery, LaMorne Morris, Sam Spruell, Jon Hamm, Created by: Noah Hawley
Title: Fargo
Review: By far the best season since the initial season and though it does certainly not match the chops of the original Francis McDormand film, it has the Coen brothers stamp all over it. Hamm has a career resuscitating role as a very bad religious zealot/crazed all powerful rural and controlling sheriff (and father/husband) and serial abuser- after his stuck as Mad Men hiatus and Spruell is the character you’d expect from every Coen brother’s effort.
Temple is magnificent (how did she manage that accent), and unrecognizable from her wonderful stint in Ted Lasso. The merging of sweet, passive and lilting classic Minnesota personalities combined with the underlying evil and violence is just too good- Hawley and the Coens are masters at this. Loved this cast, loved the writing, loved the bizarre array of Lutherans. Fargo is the story that shifts like a chameleon, but, thankfully, does not go away