The Fargo Saga Continues

The premiere of the second season of Fargo begins on FX tonight. The first season with Billy Bob Thornton playing the bad guy from out of town and Martin Freeman playing the simple duped guy from inside the town was a well-played yet horribly deadly story. And now we begin again with a new cast in a new period with a new tale. 

While it will be hard to top the first season, I am eager to see the what FX has cooked up. With a fine cast including Patrick Wilson, Kirsten Dunst, Ted Danson, Nick Offerman, and many others, FX is sparing no expense to bring you great drama. 

This story again involves organized crime and a small town with many violent small players, though it appears this organized crime takes center stage rather than being a peripheral story. Yes, the innocence of South Dakota and Minnesota will be shattered again. And you will also find a link with the earlier season since tonight's story takes place in the past and sheds light on characters we now know and love. Enough said. Time to watch.

Update: I'm not engaged just yet after watching the pilot. The show introduced too many new characters at once, as if to wow viewers, but made little attempt to provide context. This was particularly true with the death of what you presumed to be a main character. And (spoiler alert) the idea of someone driving home with a dead body on the hood of her car was a little too much. Are we trying to say the population in this part of the country is nothing but morons? The show is so impressed with its stars, 70s nostalgia, and regional accents that it appears to have spent too little time on the script. I will watch some more, but I am already getting a True Detective season two feeling.