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Fargo: Season 1 Reviews

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The first season in particular is brilliant with Martin Freeman as the gutless Lester Nygaard who is bullied by everyone.

Full Review | Nov 6, 2023

Thematically, existentialism is brought up again and again.

Full Review | Jul 27, 2021

What you expect is an homage to the story, and it isn't there. What you get is an homage to the tone and setting of the movie, and that's why Fargo works as fine TV.

Full Review | Jun 29, 2020

Noah Hawley's adaptation converts the drollery of the Coen brothers film into a mood much more noirish and grotesque...

Full Review | May 9, 2020

Fargo is an attempt to adapt the sensibilities and quirks of its movie counterpart, while creating some sort of fresh dramatic tension that makes the show worth watching.

Full Review | Original Score: B+ | Feb 19, 2020

The cast is simply excellent. Who knew that Peter Stormare's assassin could be outdone by Billy Bob Thornton? He steals every scene he's in during the first season.

Full Review | Nov 16, 2018

The cast is uniformly terrific, so strong and smartly assembled that praising every actor worthy of praise could turn this review into a long laundry list of greatness.

Full Review | Oct 17, 2018

This was a brilliant opening episode that hit the ground at a sprint, and the next nine episodes have instantly become mandatory viewing.

Full Review | Jul 23, 2018

Utterly unpredictable and left me pondering it for hours afterwards.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Jul 19, 2018

Thorton's Malvo is especially unique, a powerful anarchic force that blows through the sleepy Minnesota landscape, disrupting everything he touches.

Full Review | Jul 2, 2018

Let it all boil and stay in on Sundays for the next two months. It'll be worth it. Treat yourself to a little bit of Minnesota nice.

Full Review | Dec 19, 2017

It may start like Coens fan-fiction, but Fargo showrunner Noah Hawley quickly proves he has moves of his own.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 3, 2017

It's a perfect joy, and it's a good while since I set my digibox thing to "record whole series", but this promises phenomenally much.

Full Review | Apr 28, 2014

The show may (inevitably) lack the somber beauty of the Coens' meticulous compositions, but it nonetheless makes for good-looking, borderline-cinematic television.

The new Fargo... seemed to be brimming with characters and stories all its own.

Full Review | Apr 21, 2014

What could have been a disaster, enraging Fargo aficionados, is a respectful homage, and should quench a thirst they had half forgotten they have.

Neither prequel, sequel or remake, this Fargo is instead a tonal accompaniment, a little more than kin, a little less than kind and a whole new breed of television.

Full Review | Apr 17, 2014

This new Fargo is a worthy companion piece to the film.

A whole new constellation of characters is set against this familiar backdrop, playing out new tales of sordid activity in Bemidji, Minn., where the Minnesota nice is often punctured by bursts of violence and pain.

It's easy to lose yourself as I did in this world of endless snow, hopelessly flat lands, coffee shops, down jackets, small town facades, brutality, blood, drugs and slaughter.

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    Critics Consensus: Violent, quirky, and darkly funny, Fargo delivers an original crime story and a wonderful performance by McDormand. Synopsis: "Fargo" is a reality-based crime drama set in Minnesota in 1987. Jerry Lundegaard (William H. Macy) is a car salesman... [More] Starring: Frances McDormand, Steve Buscemi, William H. Macy, Peter Stormare.

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    Nov 6, 2023 Full Review Andrew Billen Times (UK) Fargo's creator, Noah Hawley, took us on many diversions this season: into the past, into the woods, into action movie territory. Yet it was the ...

  7. Fargo (1996 film) - Wikipedia

    Fargo is a 1996 black comedy crime film written, directed, produced and edited by Joel and Ethan Coen. Frances McDormand stars as Marge Gunderson, a pregnant Minnesota police chief investigating a triple homicide that takes place after a desperate car salesman (William H. Macy) hires two criminals (Steve Buscemi and Peter Stormare) to kidnap his wife in order to extort a hefty ransom from her ...

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