It’s official: ‘Fargo’ headed for Sioux Falls ’79

In Season One of "Fargo," Lou Solverson (Keith Carradine) was haunted by the ghosts of an incident known to viewers only as "Sioux Falls." That gruesome past will be revisited in Season Two, as the series makes a leap in time and deploys new actors to tell more grisly, fateful tales of fictional true crime in the Upper Midwest.

In Season One of “Fargo,” Lou Solverson (Keith Carradine) was haunted by the ghosts of an incident known to viewers only as “Sioux Falls.” That gruesome past will be revisited in Season Two, as the series makes a leap in time and deploys new actors to tell more grisly, fateful tales of fictional true crime in the Upper Midwest.

In the FX series “Fargo,” the EMMY-nominated Northern Minnesota-based caper, we met Lou Solverson (Keith Carradine). He’s the gruff ex-cop who now runs a cafe in Bemidji. His daughter is Molly (EMMY-nominated Allison Tolman), and he offers her sage advice and words of caution as she hunts down the evil criminal Lorne Malvo (EMMY-nominated Billy Bob Thornton). Throughout the show, we really only know one thing about his past: he was a cop, a good one, and something terrible happened in Sioux Falls. Something so bad that Lou left law enforcement to serve pie and coffee, but remains willing to sit on a porch with a shotgun when his family is in danger.

Lou’s story, the Sioux Falls incident of 1979, will be the plot of Season Two of “Fargo,” which FX renewed this week. Show producer and writer Noah Hawley announced what we already suspected: this new season will have a whole new cast (despite calls to have Tolman play her character’s mother).

Will that bag of money that Stavros found in the snow in the Season One flashback be a part of the show? IT BETTER!

Hawley has said he envisions the show being a true crime magazine that visits locations around the Midwest (thematically, of course; filming will continue in the Calgary area). What ties them together is the same idea that tied the 1996 movie and 2014 series together: when evil encroaches on innocence, character is revealed.

Though my initial reason for following “Fargo” here on the blog had to do with my proximity to Bemidji, I will continue reviewing the series even though it’s in Sioux Falls. There’s an Upper Midwest ethos and I think there’s room for all of us at this table. Anyway, I’m going to Sioux Falls next month, so I’ll take notes.

That is … if I make it back. (ominous music).

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You can read all my Season One “Fargo” reviews at my “Fargo” tag. They’d be an ideal accompaniment for a binge watching session.

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