It’s refreshing to know that in this wild and crazy world of ours, one thing can always be relied upon: anything related to Fargo will be delightfully, randomly weird. The second season of the FX series begins shooting today and the network’s president John Landgraf provided some new details about the direction of this season at a TCA presentation, including how President Ronald Reagan is going to be involved with our favorite Midwestern oddballs.
Here is what we already know: the second season is taking place in the late 1970s — 1979, to be exact — and the main focus will be on a younger version of season one character Lou Solverson, now played by Patrick Wilson, as he returns home to South Dakota from Vietnam. (His daughter Molly, played by the great Allison Tolman in the first season, will appear as a four-year-old.) And who should Lou run into in his travels but presidential nominee Ronald Wilson Reagan. Landgraf explains:
“It’s a big sprawling, in some ways, more comedic [season], though at times, a very serious show. It’s set in the late ’70s against the backdrop of Ronald Reagan’s first campaign for President of the United States. Reagan is a character in it.”
IGN was able to confirm that Reagan will be “interacting” with the characters as a supporting player and that Lou is actually part of Reagan’s security detail. An actor has not yet been cast for the role of the late former president.
Whoever he is, he will potentially have some firy women with whom to contend. Noting the significant cultural shift of the late 1970s, Landgraf also mentioned that not only will a presidential campaign play a role in Fargo, but so will feminism:
“It’s about the sense that the war has come home. It’s also about feminism, so there are some really significant female characters. It’s a big, sprawling, incredibly ambitious [series]. Noah [Hawley] just channeled the Coen brothers and tells stories in a way that’s so fresh and so surprising.”
We already know who will be playing a couple of those ladies: Kirsten Dunst, whose character is said to be undergoing a period of “self-discovery,” and Jean Smart, who is playing a fierce mob boss named Floyd Gerhardt. They’ll be joined by Jesse Plemons (as Dunst’s husband), Jeffrey Donovan, Angus Sampson, and Kieran Culkin (as Smart’s three sons), Ted Danson, Bokeem Woodbine, and Nick Offerman as “Karl Weathers.”
Yeah, this is gonna be good. You betcha.
Source: /Film
