Fargo (2014)

Fargo (2014) — Season 2 — is a tense, darkly comic crime drama set in the frozen Midwest of 1979. When a routine investigation by young State Trooper Lou Solverson (recently back from Vietnam) and his father-in-law, Sheriff Hank Larsson, uncovers links between a local criminal gang and a growing Kansas City crime syndicate, a small-town moral order unravels. The story follows the violent collision between the Gerhardt crime family — led by matriarch Floyd and her volatile son Dodd, steady middle son Bear, and reckless youngest son Rye — and Joe Bulo’s corporate-minded expansion team, including the smooth but dangerous Mike Milligan and a flowery, disreputable lawyer from Luverne. As loyalties shift and ambitions spiral, ordinary people are swept into a web of deception, murder and escalating chaos. Watching this season you’ll get a moody, meticulously staged period piece: snowbound landscapes and 1970s production design, a slow-burning procedural that punctuates careful tension with bursts of brutal violence and absurd, dark humor. Expect strong performances, moral ambiguity, and a tightly woven plot that rewards attention — a blend of bleak thriller and wryly observed character drama that leads back, in true Fargo fashion, to human consequences more than neat resolutions.

Actors: Billy Bob Thornton, Martin Freeman, Allison Tolman

Genres: Crime, Drama, Thriller

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