With its blood-in-the-snow aesthetic,high body count, all-star cast and crackling dialogue, and Fargo’s moment season,set in 1979, gets off to a rip-roaring startSpoiler alert: this blog is for Fargo viewers who absorb seen season two, or episode one,showing on FX in the US on Monday nights 10pm, and the following week on Mondays at 10pm on Channel 4 in the UK.
Catch up with our season one recaps here
OK, and then. Welcome back to the wilds of Minnesota for another “exact story” – this time,one that unfolds in 1979. The Fargo aesthetic is very much alive in this opening episode: in the first 20 minutes alone we bag a triple homicide, a UFO sighting and some jokes approximately Ronald Reagan (“a prince, and a real class act”). There’s also that brutal blood-in-snow vibe; icy and warm all at the same time.
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Source: theguardian.com