FARGO Season 3 Will Be Set After Season 1

I want to take this opportunity to once again implore you to watch the FX original series Fargo. Its second season, which is about to come to a close, is a blood-soaked masterclass from showrunner Noah Hawley, and while I liked the first season just a tiny bit better overall (so far, anyway), I think I'm in the minority on that — nearly everything I've heard from other fans of the show indicates that people love this season, a prequel set in 1979, even more than the first. I'm thankful that Hawley and company will be coming back for a third season, and now we have a little bit more information about what that might entail.

EW spoke with Hawley, who revealed that the new season will take place "a couple years after the first season," which was set in 2006. When asked whether or not we'll see characters from season one pop up again, or maybe even older versions of the characters who survive season two, Hawley simply said, "Potentially."

Allison Tolman's Molly Solverson is a big part of the reason why I fell in love with the first season, so any opportunity to possibly see her and Colin Hanks' Gus Grimly again would be welcome. But if that does happen, I sort of hope it's in a supporting capacity. As EW says, "Hawley has also previously expressed some reluctance to put Molly Solverson through the dramatic wringer again, given her character’s satisfying season 1 arc." Maybe the new season will follow a different character altogether. One thing's for sure: hints are being planted in the current season that we'll notice watching season 3:

“There are going to be connections, the way the first year was connected to the movie and the second year was connected to the first, but I think part of the fun is figuring that stuff out and I wouldn’t want to take that away from anybody,” he said. “There will be definitely things that connect to something in our story.”

I can't recommend this series highly enough, and I can't wait to watch it continue into a third season with Hawley at the helm. He's proven to be a brilliant showrunner, and I'll keep watching this show as long as he's involved.