Molly Solverson (Allison Tolman) was the breakout star of Season 1 of “Fargo” on FX. Now we learn that Season 3 will be set a couple years after her storyline.
As many here know, I review the TV show “Fargo” in between my usual fodder about news, politics and life in Northern Minnesota. Last week we learned that Noah Hawley and FX are bringing “Fargo” back for a third season. I even waxed poetic about how I would like to see a season set on the Iron Range. Well, that kind of talk should apparently be reserved for the limited-run TV series I write myself.
Yesterday, Hawley elaborated that the third season would be set not further in the past, but in more recent times. According to a story in Entertainment Weekly he explains that the events of “Fargo” Season 3 will be set just a couple years after the events of Season 1, which was set in 2006. That would put the timeline around 2008 or 2009. The Great Recession? Could be some fodder there, an interesting bookend with this season’s focus on the economic and social upheaval of 1979.
Does this mean some characters might come back? Maybe. Does this mean we might see older versions of the Season 2 characters? Also a maybe. But it appears Hawley’s model is to invent a mostly new scenario for each season, so we probably shouldn’t get our hopes up too high for a return of Molly Solverson as the show’s lead character. (Though we would be very excited for that).
We don’t even really know where the new season will be based, though we know the “Fargo” universe requires it be in some part of the Heartland. It also needs at least some tangental connection between the Northern Minnesota and eastern North Dakota region made famous by the original Joel and Ethan Coen movie and the first two seasons of this entertaining (and kinda-almost culturally accurate) television show.
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