Like True Detective, Fargo's second season will tell a new story with a new cast, rather than stringing out the largely tied-up threads of Season One. This time we're headed back to the '70s for some organised crime, with Kirsten Dunst, Jesse Plemons, Patrick Wilson and Ted Danson heading up the cast. To give you a useful primer (and a chocolate glaze), here's a new trailer.
"The second season is really is about the corporatisation of America. It's the difference between a mom and pop family business and a Walmart," producer Warren Littlefield revealed last month. "It's the Kansas City Mob basically looking to do a hostile takeover of the Gerhard crime family. In the middle, we have a couple, Ed and Peggy Blomquist, and they get caught in the middle of a war between these two crime factions.”
Dunst and Plemons are the Blomquists, with Wilson as Minnesota state patrolman Lou Solverson and Danson as Rock County sheriff Hank Larsson. Bruce Campbell plays Ronald Reagan. No, really!
Nick Offerman, Brad Garrett, Kieran Culkin, Jeffrey Donovan and Bokeem Woodbine are also all aboard, with Noah Hawley, who crafted the first season, back for another extrapolation from the Coen brothers' world,
Fargo's second ten-episode season starts on the FX channel in September. On last year's form, expect it on Channel 4 in the UK very shortly afterwards.