It’s been over two years since FX returned to the wintry Midwestern wastes of Fargo, but it sounds like the wait for a new season might soon be over. There’s still no word on when or if the anthology crime series will return, but its creator and showrunner sounds optimistic. The first five seasons of the acclaimed series are currently streaming on Hulu.
In a new interview with Deadline, series creator Noah Hawley discussed the return of the series, which has neither been cancelled nor renewed since its last season concluded in January 2024. Says Hawley, “Those are conversations that are still ongoing – where it could fit. I hope to have an announcement about it soon. It’s great to see the enthusiasm is still there.” The series, which is an anthology series with new casts for every season, has often had an irregular schedule. While the first and second seasons came out a year apart in 2014 and 2015, season 3 came out two years later, in 2017; season 4 debuted three years later in 2020, and season 5 took another three years, premiering in late 2023.
What Is ‘Fargo’ About?
Inspired by the classic 1996 Joel and Ethan Coen film, Fargo explores the dark secrets and criminal underworld of the US Midwest. The series is loosely connected to the film, taking place in the same world; Stavros Milos (Oliver Platt), a supermarket tycoon who appears in the first season, started his business with the ransom money that was hidden, and subsequently lost, by Carl Showalter (Steve Buscemi) in the film. Season 1 saw an insurance salesman (Martin Freeman) tempted by an agent of chaos (Billy Bob Thornton); season 2 centered around an ambitious beautician (Kirsten Dunst) who gets entangled with a crime syndicate; season 3 stars Ewan McGregor as a pair of twins at odds with each other and the law; and season 4 centers around a fragile peace between two crime syndicates that may be destroyed by a psychotic nurse (Jessie Buckley). The most recent season stars Juno Temple as a suburban wife and mother whose past comes back to haunt her in the form of crooked lawman Roy Tillman (Jon Hamm).
Fargo is one of many projects the ever-busy Hawley is working on. He’s set to film the second season of the sci-fi horror hit Alien: Earth this summer, and is adapting the popular video game Far Cry for television, as well. He is also set to direct a remake of the Argentinian horror movie Terrified.
The first five seasons of Fargo are streaming on Hulu.
via Collider