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FARGO REVIEW: Raising the stakes
The FX series “Fargo,” inspired by the 1996 Coen Brothers film, is based in northern Minnesota. As northern Minnesota’s leading pop culture, news, entertainment, iron mining and invasive species blog, MinnesotaBrown is here to review the show through Minnesota eyes. Now, to this week’s episode: Evil schemes thicken right before they fall apart, and as…
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FARGO REVIEW: From Bemidji to Duluth
The FX series “Fargo,” inspired by the 1996 Coen Brothers film, is based in northern Minnesota. As northern Minnesota’s leading pop culture, news, entertainment, iron mining and invasive species blog, MinnesotaBrown is here to review the show through Minnesota eyes. The second episode of “Fargo” continues the grisly story that unfolded in the highly promising…
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REVIEW: ‘Fargo’ on FX as seen in northern MinneSOta
Earlier this week I wrote about the new FX series “Fargo” before it had aired, focusing on the lamentations of my fellow residents of northern Minnesota any time they hear so much as the title of this series or its 1996 Coen Brothers movie predecessor. “They don’t get the ayyyyyyyxcents ryyyyght,” they say. I urged…
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Fargo TV show arrives; now in fictional Bemidji
I was in high school when Joel and Ethan Coen’s “Fargo” came out in theaters. Initially, I was excited to see a movie set in my home state, but quickly I was more mesmerized with the filmmaking. “Fargo” is grim and cold, probably the best way to describe winter in Minnesota. In fact, the movie…
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New ‘Fargo’ set in ‘Bemidji’
The new FX series based on the 1996 Joel and Ethan Coen classic film “Fargo” will be set in Bemidji, not Brainerd. This according to Crystal Dey in the Bemidji Pioneer. “Breaking Bad’s” Bob Odenkirk has been cast as Bill Olson, a Bemidji sheriff’s deputy. Allison Tolman will be playing Molly Solverson, a deputy serving…