The first season of “Fargo” came out of nowhere, surprising folks that were naysaying the series, based on the Coen Brothers’ film of the same name, before it even aired. But could Noah Hawley actually make another season of the series just as good as the first? Well, a year later, it happened. Then in 2017, the third batch of episodes was released and guess what? “Fargo” is one of the best shows on the planet. And even though we’ve had a longer-than-usual wait for Season 4, FX wants you to know that the Emmy-winning season is coming back.
Today, FX announced that Jack Huston, Jason Schwartzman, Ben Whishaw, and Jessie Buckley are all joining the already-announced Chris Rock in the cast of the upcoming season of “Fargo.”
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This season of “Fargo” has been in development for a while now. We first heard of Season 4 from creator Noah Hawley back in January 2018. At that time, it was expected to be filming later that year for a 2019 debut. Obviously, that never happened. Then in August 2018, it was announced that filming wouldn’t happen until 2019 and that Chris Rock will star. Since then, radio silence. However, we now not only have confirmation that plans are moving forward, but we know who’s going to appear and when production will begin.
So, make no mistake, more “Fargo” goodness is coming our way.
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Those aforementioned folks will star alongside Salvatore Esposito, Andrew Bird, Jeremie Harris, Gaetano Bruno, Anji White, Francesco Acquaroli, E’myri Crutchfield, and Amber Midthunder, who round out the cast of Hawley’s award-winning series.
“Fargo” Season 4 is expected to begin production in Chicago this fall and will air on FX sometime in 2020.
The synopsis for Season 4 reads:
In 1950, at the end of two great American migrations — that of Southern Europeans from countries like Italy, who came to the US at the turn of the last century and settled in northern cities like New York, Chicago — and African Americans who left the south in great numbers to escape Jim Crow and moved to those same cities — you saw a collision of outsiders, all fighting for a piece of the American dream. In Kansas City, Missouri, two criminal syndicates have struck an uneasy peace. One Italian, one African American. Together they control an alternate economy — that of exploitation, graft and drugs. This too is the history of America. To cement their peace, the heads of both families have traded their youngest sons.
Chris Rock plays the head of one family, a man who — in order to prosper — has surrendered his youngest boy to his enemy, and who must in turn raise his enemy’s son as his own. It’s an uneasy peace, but profitable. And then the head of the Kansas City mafia goes into the hospital for routine surgery and dies. And everything changes. It’s a story of immigration and assimilation, and the things we do for money. And as always, a story of basically decent people who are probably in over their heads. You know, Fargo.