FX Renews FARGO For Third Season
Noah Hawley's Fargo is one of the best shows on television, and the current second season has more than lived up to the promise of its terrific debut season. The way Hawley captures the tone of a Coen Brothers movie while telling entirely new and compelling stories is fantastic, and there may not be a more beautifully-shot series than this one on the air right now.
FX has announced that they've ordered a third season of the show, and Hawley will return as showrunner. Executive producers Joel and Ethan Coen, Warren Littlefield, and John Cameron will be back as well, so the creative life-force behind the show is going to be preserved for another season. The only bad news is that we don't have any more details than that to go on regarding season three — and that's not even bad news, it just means we're going to have to be patient.
There's no air date or cast in place yet, and we don't even know the time period in which it's going to take place. The first season hinted at the Sioux Falls massacre a handful of times, and season two, a prequel that takes place in 1979, appears to be on the path toward depicting what happened there. But thus far, the second season hasn't dropped many notable references to previous events that seem like they'd be worth exploring in-depth in a third season, so I'm wondering if Hawley is going to return to modern day or if he'll go in a different direction entirely, maybe following a different character outside of the Solverson family.
As far as I'm concerned, all that matters is that Hawley has enough time to craft a story as fulfilling as the ones we've seen so far in the first and second seasons. Give him as long as it takes — if I can wait years between Sherlock seasons, I'm willing to wait for more high quality Fargo episodes. The last thing we want is for FX to impose a strict deadline and for Hawley to have to rush the story like Nic Pizzolatto did with the second season of True Detective over at HBO. I don't think I could take it if Fargo took as bad of a nosedive as True Detective did. This show deserves better, so I'm glad FX seems to be treating it well so far. We'll keep you posted with more updates when we hear them.
What do you think of the second season of Fargo so far? Are you excited about a third season?