The first season satisfyingly followed the classic Coen Brothers movie, and the second flashed back to the 1970s for a connected, but completely different, storyline with a completely different cast. Now showrunner Noah Hawley has started revealing some details about Fargo's third year. This time we're heading back to the 21st Century.
"It’s more contemporary,” Hawley tells EW. "It’s set a couple years after season one. The idea of the 'true story' is it always has to be at least a few years ago."
Asked whether that will potentially mean returning characters from the first season, Hawley hedges, "There are going to be connections, the way the first year was connected to the movie and the second year was connected to the first, but I think part of the fun is figuring that stuff out and I wouldn’t want to take that away from anybody. There will be definitely things that connect to something in our story."
Season two, starring Kirsten Dunst and Patrick Wilson, currently has a couple of episodes left to run on its US home network FX. Season three, if it sticks to the current pattern, should arrive next October. Season one is currently on Netflix in the UK, should you need to catch up.