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Fargo creator drops a big season 4 reveal

Photo credit: Channel 4
Photo credit: Channel 4

From Digital Spy

It seems those fears that creator Noah Hawley has run out of ideas for Fargo amounted to nothing, as he has some interesting plans cooking up for a fourth season.

Each run of the show so far has been focused on a different setting and bunch of characters – albeit with some overlap, for example the older and younger Lou Solverson in seasons one and two.

Hawley has now revealed where the next batch of episodes could take us, telling The Hollywood Reporter: "I now have an idea that's less in the corner of my eye and more in front of me.

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Photo credit: Getty Images

"I don't have a lot of time right now to focus on it. What I can say is that it will be another period piece."

Elaborating, Hawley explained: "More and more as I think about telling stories in this vein and what the original film is about, these are really American stories and stories about the American landscape, and the things that people do for money.

"I feel like I have a very interesting and exciting direction to go in. I'm trying to find the time to get it down on paper."

Photo credit: Chris Large / FX
Photo credit: Chris Large / FX

The second series of the show experimented with taking the setting into the past in the 1970s, though could the show go even further back – say, hundreds of years?

"I think it could, as long as there's something unique to say about it," Hawley continued. "On some level, there's a good joke in the idea that the more things change, the more they stay the same. I don't know if there's 10 episodes in that or not!

"But if you look at the history of the region and the waves of migration and people coming in, and the things people do for money... there's something interesting to making a period version of it.

Photo credit: FX
Photo credit: FX

"You have that distance and you really understand the time period and what the story was," he added of Fargo's second season's period piece, "whether it was the end of the '70s and [the Ronald Reagan presidency] was right around the corner, but nobody could see it yet, and what that meant and both the comedy and drama of hindsight.

"I'm always interested in trying to expand the definition [of the series]. Fargo can be this, but can it also be this? The only reason to make another one is if you're going to do something different.

"We've made 30 hours of the show so far, and the last thing I ever want is for someone to say, 'You know, it's Fargo. They do their Fargo thing, and it's funny'.

"If you have this tone of voice and this ability to channel this Coen brothers' sensibility, you just don't want to repeat yourself, because they never do."

It's worth noting that Fargo is yet to be officially renewed for a fourth season, so here's hoping broadcaster FX gets its act together and orders more episodes soon...

Fargo's fourth season is expected to premiere in 2019.


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