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FARGO REVIEW: Episode 3, ‘The Myth of Sisyphus’
The third episode of “Fargo” Season 2, entitled “The Myth of Sisyphus,” aired last night on FX. What follows is a Minnesota-centric review that contains spoilers. This year, “Fargo” takes us to Southwestern Minnesota in 1979, the same year I was born on the other side of the state. A small town family crime syndicate based…
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FARGO REVIEW: Episode 2, ‘Before the Law’
The second episode of “Fargo” Season 2, entitled “Before the Law,” aired last night on FX. What follows is a Minnesota-centric review that contains spoilers. This year, “Fargo” takes us to Southwestern Minnesota in 1979, the same year I was born on the other side of the state. A small town family crime syndicate based…
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FARGO REVIEW: Episode 1, ‘Waiting for Dutch’
The success of the first season of “Fargo” on FX was one of the best surprises of television last year. The 10-episode short-run series was ambitious, daring, heartfelt and yet still true to the spirit of the original acclaimed movie (without being too derivative). After the early reviews of the second season, which debuted last night,…
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A Minnesota guide to ‘Fargo, Season 2’
UPDATE: Read my Minnesota-centric “Fargo” reviews for Seasons 1 and 2 at my “Fargo” review page. Tonight at 9 p.m. CST (Fargo universal time) the sophomore season premiere of “Fargo” airs on FX. Noah Hawley’s macabre Midwestern series, inspired by the acclaimed Coen Brothers movie of the same name, will bring an entirely new story, cast…
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‘Fargo’ coming back in September (and so are my reviews)
UPDATE: The full Fargo Season 2 trailer is here! Last year, I stumbled into writing a popular series of blog posts about the FX series “Fargo,” based on the famous Coen Brothers film of the same name. My posts started with a tongue-in-cheek review of the accuracy of the Minnesota details in the show, only to…
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Northern MN lessons from the ‘town for misfits’
For weeks, I’ve been enjoying some success at this blog writing about “Fargo” the TV show on the FX network. One of the most common questions about that show is “why do they call it ‘Fargo’ when most of it takes place in northern Minnesota?” My view is that in both the movie and the book, “Fargo” describes…
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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…