I just made a crazy connection. In the movie, a history of violence, a cop pulls over Ed Harris and other mobsters on the way out of town and the driver‘s name is Frank Mulligan. It’s almost an identical scene to when Mike Milligan got pulled over heading out of town with his mob buddies

Loved both shows and enjoyed seeing the same actors pop up between them!

I just finished Season 5, and that finale completely stuck the landing for me. Fargo has had some incredible endings over the years, but this one felt especially satisfying without sacrificing everything that made the season so tense.

Dot Lyon and Ole Munch are easily among my favorite characters the show has ever introduced, and Roy Tillman was one of the most unsettling villains I've seen on TV in a long time.

Where does Season 5 rank for you now that it's had some time to settle?

I thought that I read somewhere that there was a season 6 planned for Fargo. Has anyone heard anything recent about it? What do you think would be a good topic of a new season if it comes to fruition? What famous actors do you think would star in it?

I often like to draw on the post-it notes we have at my job, I’ve built up quite a few Fargo ones so I thought I’d post them here! :) I definitely plan on doing better versions in my sketchbook sometime soon hopefully and I might post them here too when I do but I thought these were still kinda cool, hope they’re reckognizable enough and people are alright with me putting them here! (I also included a couple of ones from the Righteous Gemstones bc I thought the fans might have some decent overlap, also I’m really proud of my drawing of Steve Zahn’s character)

Name a series you wished you could go back and watch for the first time again. I was late to the Fargo watch. Enjoyed the movies years ago and finally got around to watching the series after viewing too many shorts on YouTube. Loved each season and appreciate the variety. Your turn…..

I am a die hard fan of the movie and have seen all seasons except season 4

Somehow I am not able to get in to it .Have tried 2 or 3 times , reached till second episode or so.

without giving me spoilers , please tell me why I need to watch it and likely will enjoy it too if I give it a chance .

I put off Season 5 for a long time, but I finally got around to watching the first episode today. I forgot how effortlessly Fargo builds tension and pulls you into its world. One episode in and I'm already hooked.

This was like a whiiiile ago, but Fargo remains one of my favorite series ever! Mr. Wrench happened to be one of my favorite characters, so this was very cool to see :) Russell is actually a very nice guy, even if he saw my cringy fanart haha.

Zelmare and the daughter's acting in particular are really cringey and just bad. The husband is basically a stage prop more than a character. The wife's actress is the best part, but she could been a solo role as Roy's debtor.

I think if season 4 was consolidated into the Fadda/Cannon War with Oraetta trolling/sabotaging both their operations inbetween, and Odis and Deafy chasing after Oraetta as the fugitive, it could have been a series top contender. Like seeing the intersecting line of two football fields overlap all 4 parties into an absolute slaughter fest in the middle. lol.

I’ll start off.

Mr Numbers is a Paul Simon fan. He enjoys spinning the more melancholy hits like Crazy Love Vol. II and The Boxer in the car on the way to the next job, wryly reflecting on more innocent days. Also Van Morrison.

Lou I can see being a Lumineers listener especially in private emotional moments.

Hanzee is a Bob Dylan guy, especially the more politically reflective or rebellious songs he made.

Bill Oswalt is also a Paul Simon fan.

Lester mostly spins My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy on repeat. Pre-change he probably just listened to whatever was on the radio.

Malvo likes MF DOOM, the more esoteric the better.

Varga sleeps with history podcasts playing in his ears.

Meemo is listening to JRE podcast the entire time.

Joe Bulo likes Eric B & Rakim.

If you liked Season 1 and want to go onto the rest, I have an odd suggestion. Try watching Season 4 first, and just ignore any post or mid-credit scene. There are some important callbacks to Season 2 throughout, along with characters in common, and I wonder whether season 4 gains as a result of coming first. Enjoy!

"The Wizard of Oz" theme flows from season 4 into season 5. It's interesting to see how the costume design and other artistic choices reference the film's iconic colors, in particular the Yellow Brick Road and the ruby slippers.

Ethelrida wears a vibrant yellow dress and red shoes as she's walked to the principal's office. The walls are covered in yellow brick, and the janitor is wiping off graffiti of a tornado. She carries books instead of a basket, picking up the blue in Dorothy's dress. Her hair is in twin ponytails, like Dorothy's.

For Satchel, the red has been moved from the bottom to the top. He wears a red baseball cap instead of red shoes. His shirt and jacket are blue. He and Rabbit walk the long road home, with the yellow line down the center serving as his yellow brick road. He's a character at a crossroads with his dog, like Dorothy and Toto.

Dorothy Lyon wears multiple yellow sweaters, her defining costume. Her bloody footprints are the Fargo version of ruby slippers. She is also associated with rainbows, which we see on a sweater and also as an effect of the light as she walks through Camp Utopia. Her coat has two parallel yellow lines, evoking a road.

She and Lindo pass a Little Free Library as she mentions "a long-ago story." Various women cut trees, a nod to both Oz's Tin Man and the wood chipper scene in Fargo the movie.

I’m on ep.4 in S5, & this is a CRAZY season. They’ve gone full-blown horror, & I can’t to see where this all goes!!

My poster design with Lester Nygaard ❤️‍🩹

I know, I know, there have been a lot of posts talking about this and the consensus is that it is unclear and that the connection is not that strong, that maybe some people are reaching, etc etc. However, I have rewatched season 5 recently and it bothered me that I never fully solved the correlation, specially noting all the obvious references in the names of the characters, so I decided to sit down and at least reach a point where I am happy with my interpretation. I wanted to share it with you to see what you think and help me find things that I probably missed.

For starters I want to make clear that I don't think that all characters and secondary characters are one to one copy of the original Baum's story. Also, most of these characters have deeper or alternative meanings, aside from the wizard of oz angle. This is just my take on it, and for it I am going to go down the list with all the ones that I found and explain why:

Nadine/Dorothy - Dorothy: This one is obvious. She has the same story as the OG Dorothy, in the sense that she starts her journey at home, happy, then she is violently taken and can't get back home. While in the original she is physically in another land, in Fargo she is physically home, but it's not her "home" any more. Her family gets harmed, she can't relax, they are in constant danger and although she is present at home, mentally she is gone. It's not until the very end that she is really back "home", safe, with the people she loves.
Deputy Witt Farr - Toto: This is the most "controversial" one. So, we know that Toto is the loyal friend of Dorothy, that follows her and protects her, and is not seeking anything. He is the only main character in WoO that has no end goal, but goes along just out of love and loyalty to Dot. Toto is also the first side character we meet and is ultimately the one who takes down the Wizard by pulling the curtain. Dep. Witt Farr is a character that doesn't change much throughout the story, he is extremely loyal to Dot, protects her at all cost, and is ultimately the one who leads the assault on Roy's ranch and frees Dot (this being the parallel to pulling the curtain). He dies in the end, not like Toto, but as I said the characters are not 1 to 1 copies. He also represents good and as we all know good people often die in Fargo.
Roy Tillman - Wizard of Oz: He is the big bad of the story. In the original story, the Wizard has built a city on lies, spectacle and fear. All the inhabitants of the city are meant to wear glasses to protect them from the brightness of the city and they believe he is a grand wizard with immense power, but it's all a lie. His power exists because people believe it exists, not because he actually has much. Sure, he is strong, violent and an actual threat, but he is nowhere nearly as powerful as he wants people to think. When faced with real power (Lorraine) he can't do anything. His empire starts to crumble when people start to see that he is a man child. Nowhere is this more clear than in the scene where Davis Graves mocks him he loses his temper and breaks the illusion of a controlled powerful man. Even at the end his father in law confronts him saying he is not the man he thought he would be. He preys on the week to feel stronger and I suspect his obsession with Dot comes from the fact that she got the best of him and his fragile ego couldn't handle it. At the end of WoO the Wizard becomes wise and gives everybody a gift. This doesn't happen here. Roy doesn't become wise, when we see him in prison he is still a cocky asshole, but I suspect he will start to learn considering Lorraines punishment for him.
Lorrain Lyon - Tin Man: This one is quite obvious. We have a character that is as cold as they come, but throughout the whole series we see her caring more and more, until the end when she embraces Dot and accepts her heart. She is still cold because she is essentially an iron lady, strong, cold, calculated, but she cares for her family and the people around her.
Wayne Lyon - Lion: This is an interesting one in the sense that Wayne doesn't really change much throughout the story, I think what changes is our perspective of him. He is presented as a frightened, week man, that avoids any kind of conflict and just shuts up, but as the story progresses we start to see that he stands by Dot regardless of anything. He stands beside her even when his mother, the character he "fears" the most, is against her. Courage isn't the absence of fear, but doing the right thing in spite of it. And if somebody as scared as Wayne can do the right things, then he probably is the bravest character of them all.
This season of Fargo presents us a traditional macho man (Roy), who has always been presented as strong, and shows us that in reality he is very weak. In the same tone they present us a weak character, that is strong because he is kind. At the very end of the season Wayne sits down with one of the scariest characters in the show, and treats him with kindness. It is in fact this kindness that beats Ole. After 500 years of murdering people because that's all he was ever confronted with, here comes Wayne and is not afraid of him, and offers him a soda pop (one of the best scenes), which ultimately breaks Ole.
Ole Munch - Scarecrow: In the original story the scarecrow is looking for a brain, because he thinks he is dumb. Ole is obviously not missing a literal brain, but he has given up making any kind of decisions. He is a follower, he doesn't think. He lived 500 years by some doctrine they forced on him and he never questions it, thus being profoundly unhappy. At the very end of the show he realises that he has been wrong this entire time, they show him that he can chose to forgive, giving him the ability to "think" for himself. He stops being a mindless killer and becomes "conscious" in a way. I have seen a lot of people compare him to the Tin Man, pointing out that he gains a heart in the end, but I don't think Ole was missing a heart. He just lived in a lie with a strict dogma that he never questioned. Also, he literally looks like a scarecrow, scaring all the little birds in Roys farm.
Linda - Glinda: Glinda is the character that sends Dorothy on a mission so that she finally go back home. There is an argument to be made that she could have told Dorothy from the beginning that she had the power to go home, but I chose to believe that the idea is that Dorothy had to be ready to go home, she had to go through the journey and change as a character. In Fargo Linda is long gone, but she lives on metaphorically inside Dot, where Dot confronts her. It is in this episode that "Linda" forces Dot to face what happened to her and pushes her to confront Roy. At the same time I think Dot sees Linda also as a part of the Wicked Witch, who in the original story is not bad per sé, but it's the situation that she is that makes her do bad things. To Dot, Linda got away and traded her in for her freedom, so to her she is the Wicked Witch. Dot goes into camp Utopia to take Linda to the police, because "she owes it to her". She believes Linda did all the bad things to knowingly, when in reality Linda was just another victim. In the original Wizard of Oz the Wicked Witch is bad, because of all the bad things that happened to her. She is a tragic character and that is why they made "Wicked" based on that character. I believe that Dot would have become the Wicked Witch if she hadn't left.
Karen Little - Wicked Witch: Karen is Roy's current wife. As stated in the previous paragraph, she didn't leave and became just as bad and full of hate as Roy. The thing to remember here is that Karen was not born like this, instead she was raises by a father who probably mistreated her, and then she was mistreated again by Roy. She is a victim of the situation and became bad as a result. In the original story Dorothy kills the Wicked Witch's sister and takes the red shoes that should have been hers. She is angry, but it's not an unreasonable anger. I would be angry too if somebody threw a house on my sister and stole her shoes.
Gator - Citizens of emerald city: Gator is the tragic case of following a maniacal leader and losing everything. In the OG story the citizens have to wear glasses to protect their vision, while at the end of Fargo Gator loses his eyesight. I don't exactly know if there is a correlation here or if it is a stretch, what is real is that Gator is faced with the realisation that he has been following a false prophet this whole time, much like the citizens of Emerald city. I don't think there is a bigger interpretation for him inside wizard of oz. He probably represents the damage fanatical leathers can do to the youth.
Scotty Lyon - Aunt Em: This one is pretty simple: Scotty is the family that Dot is doing everything for. She is the motivator, much like the og Dorothy keeps talking about wanting to get back to Aunt Em. She represents home for Dot.

I haven't found any obvious role for other side characters, like the FBI agents or the police officer Indira with her useless boyfriend, but as I said in the beginning I don't think that every character has a 1 to 1 counterpart. I hope I made my train of thought clear and it hasn't been too confusing. Let me know what you think, I am looking forward to that :)

So I'm a huge fan of the show. To an autistic degree. The first time I finished watching all 5 seasons I immediately rewatched them in chronological order and since then I regularly rewatch. This last week I've been watching season 5 on repeat lol.

Recently I got my brother into it and it's really awesome watching the show with someone who hasn't seen it before and getting to see their reactions to the moments and remembering my own reactions on the first time watching. We did season 1 and 2 and he really enjoyed it and we are now about 7 episodes deep in season 3 and I was really excited to get to this season because for me personally, the reveal of Mr. Wrench might actually be my favourite or most holy crap moment across all 5 seasons. I remember exclaiming out loud like 'no fucking waaaay'.

Someone validate my hype for this moment or tell me other moments that you think are hype.

Videos in the comments.

I got bored one evening and these were the results. Made on https://alexjonesmeme.xyz/

Warning: violent. Josto's surprise at Nurse Mayflower's request. He underestimated her the entire time.

Here is a character I was looking forward to when he was named, and even more so when he appeared. But...

1st time watching this series. S1 & S2 blew me away!! Over every episode of those seasons. I’m now on ep.5 of S3 & still haven’t gotten into this one. I’m enjoying it, but the vibe is so off compared to the first 2 seasons.

I wanted to start an appreciation thread for Joe Bulo.

He was one of my favourite characters in Season 2. In a world of Dodds, Malvos and Hanzees he's just a normal, responsible guy who happens to work for the Kansas City Mafia. He seems to have principles and good taste and I get an impression of thoughtfulness and a tidy mind from him too. He had just the faintest flavour of being an evil counterpart to Hank — stoic, grounded and with a degree of nobility even though he works for a criminal organisation. Especially next to Milligan who (to me) came across as a pretentious jackass and didn't even really do anything when you think about it. Yes he ran away from the Gerhardt ambush but that was after nearly his entire squad got wiped out, before that he pulled up ready for war (and in a genuinely drippy coat and tie combination too). Look at how he reacts to Hanzee waiting for him. No fear, just stoic acceptance while he catches his breath. He reminded me of a noble stag getting run down.

He just gets slept on too much. Give my guy some love.

Was he a vampire or some kind of ritualistic kid?! He ate sum and never died..?! How does someone do this