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==Episodes==
==Episodes==
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{{See also|List of Fargo episodes}}
{{See also|List of Fargo episodes}}
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|ShortSummary = In 1988 [[East Berlin]], Jakob Ungerleider is questioned about the death of a woman, whose boyfriend is listed as the inhabitant of Ungerleider's apartment. Ungerleider claims it is a case of mistaken identity. In 2010 Minnesota, St. Cloud parole officer Ray Stussy wants to marry his parolee girlfriend Nikki Swango and asks to borrow some money from his brother Emmit to pay for a ring. Emmit refuses, and the brothers argue over their father's inheritance that they had traded each other: Emmit traded the Corvette left to him with Ray, in exchange for a valuable stamp collection. Ray later blackmails another parolee, Maurice LeFay, who has failed a drug test, and coerces him into stealing Emmit's remaining stamp. However, Maurice loses the address and only partially remembers it. So instead of visiting Emmit Stussy in Eden Prairie, he goes to the home of Ennis Stussy in Eden Valley. Meanwhile, Emmit seeks to repay a business loan obtained two years ago from a shady corporation, only to be informed by the company's representative [[V. M. Varga]] that the loan was actually a partnership agreement. In Eden Valley, police chief [[Gloria Burgle]] and her teenage son Nathan leave the house of her stepfather Ennis, but return for a forgotten gift to find him dead and the house ransacked. Because of the name and address mix-up, Maurice has mistakenly robbed the wrong Stussy, and killed him. Shaken by the crime, he demands money of Ray to keep quiet about it, but Nikki and Ray kill him by dropping an air conditioner on him as he leaves.
|ShortSummary = In [[Berlin]], 1988, a man is falsely accused of the murder of Helga Albrecht, committed by "Yuri Gurka", because they lived at the same address at different points in time. Now December of 2010 in [[St. Cloud, Minnesota|St. Cloud]], [[Minnesota]], parking lot [[realtor]] Emmit Stussy denies his estranged [[parole officer]] brother Ray's request for a loan so he can buy something for his parolee and girlfriend Nikki Swango. Ray blackmails parolee Maurice LeFay into stealing the last remaining stamp from their deceased father's valuable collection. LeFay loses Emmit's address and goes to the wrong address, where he kills its inhabitant, the elderly Ennis Stussy. Ennis's stepdaughter and [[Eden Valley, Minnesota|Eden Valley]] chief of police Gloria Burgle finds his body, as well as a box hidden under his floorboards. Emmit and his confidant Sy Feltz are visited by V.M. Varga, a representative of the company they took a loan from, who announces his plan to instead partner with Stussy Lots. LeFay goes to Nikki's apartment and explains his mistake to Ray, trying to blackmail them for payment when Ray attacks him. As he leaves, Nikki has Ray help her drop an air conditioner on LeFay's head, killing him.
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|ShortSummary = Gloria finds evidence in the box that Ennis wrote science fiction novels under the name "Thaddeus Mobley". After meeting and immediately chafing with incoming police chief Moe Dammick, she visits a gas station LeFay got Ennis's contact information from, deducing that he was looking for something specifically due to him tearing Ennis's page of the phone book out. At Nikki's suggestion, Ray visits Emmit to try and resolve their feud, but it is a ploy for Nikki to break into his house while he is distracted and take the stamp, though she is unable to find it and vandalizes his office. Sy warns Ray never to contact Emmit again, intentionally hitting his car while he leaves but accidentally clipping another. Emmit asks his lawyer to look into Varga as he begins setting up on Emmit's properties, but when he searches the Internet for Varga's name, his henchmen Yuri and Meemo track him down and kill him, staging it as a suicide.
|ShortSummary = Concerned for his business, Emmit asks his lawyer to investigate Varga. An Internet search causes the lawyer's computer to crash and Varga's men to throw him off a parking garage. Varga then takes ownership of an unused wing of Emmit's offices. While coping with the introduction of a new police chief and Ennis' funeral arrangements, Gloria learns that her stepfather wrote science-fiction novels under what she believes to be a pseudonym: "Thaddeus Mobley". She also investigates the gas station that Maurice stopped in on the night of the murder and discovers he took a page from a phone book with Ennis' contact information, arousing her suspicions. Nikki suggests Ray make peace with his brother while she steals the stamp. He cordially visits Emmit and the two make peace, which gives Nikki enough time to search his home office. However, Emmit had already moved the stamp, replacing it with a picture of a donkey. Enraged due to believing this was a message to Ray, she leaves a used tampon in one of his desk drawers (where she also finds details of a safety deposit box Emmit holds). Emmit later tells his business partner Sy Feltz that he sent the stamp away to have the frame replaced after a cleaner had damaged it. Sy meets with Ray to tell him he can no longer have contact with his brother and then rams Ray's Corvette twice and accidentally hits another car as he leaves.
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|ShortSummary = In Los Angeles in 1975, Thaddeus Mobley is approached by film producer Howard Zimmerman to adapt his award-winning novel ''The Planet Wyh''. Zimmerman introduces him to actress Vivian Lord, who seduces him into funding the film, though she and Zimmerman have no intention of actually making it. After learning the two have [[Confidence trick|conned]] him, Mobley severely beats and cripples Zimmerman. In 2010, Gloria is flying to L.A. and is reading ''The Planet Wyh''. The novel's plot is represented throughout the episode as animated segments featuring the Unit MNSKY: a small robot that can only say, "I can help!", yet can do nothing to help those around him as he roams the constantly changing world. Once in L.A., Gloria unwittingly checks into Mobley's former motel room and tracks down hospital-bound Zimmerman and a washed-up Vivian. Both of them initially deny knowing Mobley, but Vivian ultimately reveals the con to Gloria. Back in the motel room, the dual timelines mirror each other, as Mobley and Gloria prepare to leave town. Mobley vomits in the toilet, Gloria drops some makeup beside it, and both see the toilet manufacturer's name: Dennis Stussy with a faded "D". Back in Eden Valley, Gloria learns from her partner Donny Mashman that Maurice's fingerprints were identified, but he is dead. They are both suspicious of the circumstances of his death and resume Ennis' murder investigation.
|ShortSummary = In [[Los Angeles]], 1975, Mobley is approached by a [[film producer]] who wants to adapt his novel ''The Planet Wyh''. After Mobley discovers that the producer and an actress supposed to be in the film are tricking him, he nearly kills the producer and takes up the name "Ennis Stussy" after seeing the name on the toilet in his motel room before fleeing the state. In the present, Gloria goes to Los Angeles to collect information on Mobley, unknowingly staying in the same room as him. She approaches both the crippled producer and the actress for information, but they both deny knowing him. She encounters [[Wandering Jew|Paul Marrane]], a strange but friendly man she met on the plane ride over, who tells her a parable that invokes the theory of [[Schrödinger's cat]]. The actress contacts Gloria and admits the truth about what happened, and before she leaves, she too notices the "Stussy" toilet. Back in Minnesota, her partner informs her that LeFay's fingerprints were found in Ennis's house. Throughout the episode, animated segments depict the plot of ''The Planet Wyh'': A robot named MNSKY wanders a planet for millions of years after his masters die in a crash, eventually being found by an alien race that thanks him for his service before switching him off.
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|ShortSummary = Ray disguises himself as Emmit and gains access to his [[safe deposit box]] but does not find the stamp, though he withdraws money from Emmit's account regardless. Varga invites himself over to Emmit's house for dinner, charms his family, and frightens him into making him a partner in Stussy Lots with ideas of a [[working class]] [[Proletarian revolution|revolution]]. Gloria finds Ray's contact information in LeFay's wallet and visits him at his office, bumping into St. Cloud officer Winnie Lopez, who is investigating the car Sy accidentally hit. Ray blames LeFay's behavior on his history of drug abuse, being fired shortly after Gloria leaves due to Sy tipping his boss off to his illegal relationship with Nikki. Yuri and Meemo witness Lopez asking Sy about the accident. Having noticed the name of Sy's company, she does research on Emmit and informs Gloria that he and Ray are brothers, and that Emmit lives in a town with a name similar to the one Ennis lived in.
|ShortSummary = In an effort to steal the stamp, Ray disguises himself as his brother, and convinces Emmit's banker to withdraw $10,000 from Emmit's account and to open Emmit's safety deposit box, where only cremated remains are found. Varga arrives unannounced on Emmit's doorstep and invites himself to dinner. Varga manipulates Emmit into officially signing him on as a partner, promising to make Emmit a billionaire. Meanwhile, Gloria looks further into Maurice's case, discovers that Ray was his parole officer, and goes to question him. She makes the connection that Ennis and Ray share the surname Stussy. After Sy tips off Ray's superiors about the latter's relationship with Nikki, Ray is fired. St. Cloud policewoman Winnie Lopez, who is investigating the hit-and-run committed by Sy, goes to question him as the car was registered to Emmit's firm. Sy acts very suspiciously, unnerved as Varga's men are watching. Lopez then encounters Gloria and reveals to her - emphasizing the slight difference in addresses - that Emmit lives in Eden Prairie, the similarities in the two names, and the fact that Emmit and Ray are brothers. Gloria is convinced further investigation is needed.
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|ShortSummary = Ray, again disguised as Emmit, makes a sex tape with Nikki to blackmail his brother for $100,000. However, Emmit's wife Stella sees the video first and angrily leaves him, taking her mother and children with her. Prior to making the video, Ray proposes to Nikki and she happily accepts. Back at Stussy Lots, Varga takes Sy's office, rubs his genitals inside his coffee mug, and then forces Sy to drink water out of it as punishment for talking to law enforcement. A worried Sy then has dinner with Ruby Goldfarb, a wealthy widow interested in buying Stussy Lots, but is interrupted by a distraught Emmit who asks Sy to handle the situation with his brother by any means necessary. While purchasing Ray's tuxedo for the wedding, Nikki gets a call from Sy telling her to meet him at one of Emmit's lots. Ray is interrogated by Gloria and Winnie about the situation with Sy and the Ennis Stussy murder. However, Chief Dammik, chalking up the situation to coincidence, forces the pair to release Ray. Emmit has a meeting with Varga who voices his distrust of Sy and suggests Sy and Ray may be working together to bring down Emmit. Nikki meets with Sy, but their meeting is interrupted by Yuri and Meemo who brutally beat Nikki as a traumatized Sy watches before fleeing. Ray returns home to find a badly bruised Nikki collapsed in the bathtub.
|ShortSummary = Ray again disguises himself as Emmit and makes a [[sex tape]] with Nikki to blackmail him with, but his wife finds it first and leaves him. Sy is forced to drink liquid that Varga his stuck his penis into as punishment for talking to the police. Now terrified, he tries to set up an escape plan to sell the company to businesswoman Ruby Goldfarb, but is interrupted by Emmit asking him to take care of Ray. Varga plants the idea in Emmit's head that Sy and Ray may be working together. Nikki accepts Ray's marriage proposal and takes a call from Sy, who agrees to pay them if they leave Emmit alone. Gloria and Lopez detain Ray for questioning, but Dammick, chalking up their evidence to coincidence, releases him and warns her to drop the investigation. Nikki and Sy's meeting is interrupted by Yuri and Meemo, who brutalize Nikki when she mouths off to them.
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|ShortSummary = [[IRS]] agent Larue Dollard tries to [[audit]] Stussy Lots due to the withdrawal Ray made, but Meemo wards him off. Gloria tries to interview Emmit but Varga intervenes, and she is put off by his strange demeanor. When they visit Ray's apartment, he and Nikki flee to a hotel, though Ray forgets their stolen money, unaware that Varga has ordered them killed. Emmit is waiting for Ray, wanting to end their feud by giving him the stamp, but it devolves into an argument that ends when the stamp's glass frame is shoved into Ray's face, breaking and puncturing his throat. Horrified, Emmit calls Varga for help, unknowingly saving Nikki's life due to Varga calling him off before he can kill her. Varga stages the scene to make it seem as though Nikki killed Ray because he was abusing her. Gloria instinctively decides to visit Ray again.
|ShortSummary = Ray and a still-recovering Nikki plot revenge against Yuri and Meemo, but are forced to use caution when they see them with Varga. Emmit and Sy listen to Varga's plan to expand Stussy Lots by 16 garages within three months. Sy is wary, but Emmit seems eager. Gloria and Winnie want to question Emmit, but Varga curtails the meeting. The two officers then knock on Ray's apartment door, so he and Nikki hide, then check into a motel room not knowing Varga has ordered a hit on them. Ray forgets the $10,000 and returns to his apartment to retrieve it. There he finds Emmit, who offers to end the feud by giving Ray the framed stamp and offering to give Ray anything else he may want. Ray is leery and they argue. When the frame accidentally breaks in a shoving match, a shard of glass severs Ray's [[carotid artery]], killing him. A distraught Emmit calls Varga who manages the cleanup, suggesting that Ray abused Nikki causing her injuries and she subsequently retaliated. Gloria, driving out of St. Cloud, changes her mind and reverses course to go question Ray at his home.
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|ShortSummary = Nikki is arrested after Gloria and Lopez find Ray's body. Varga has Yuri steal Emmit's case file, while Emmit voices his newfound distrust of Sy and returns home to find Varga waiting for him. He admits that he feels "free." Dammick is convinced that Nikki killed him, but she refuses to speak until she gets a lawyer. Varga's disguised man Golem attempts to kill Nikki but is stopped by Gloria, though he escapes. Dammick allows her to talk to Nikki, who only tells her to "follow the money" before being escorted to a bus bound for prison for violating her parole, where she is seated next to Mr. Wrench. Yuri, Meemo and Golem flip the bus, killing almost everyone inside, and begin cutting through its bars to get to Nikki.
|ShortSummary = Gloria and Winnie find Ray dead at his apartment. Nikki is arrested at her motel room as Meemo watches from a distance. At St. Cloud's police headquarters, Nikki is questioned by Chief Dammik, who suspects that she killed Ray in retaliation for his abuse. Nikki [[Right to silence|requests a lawyer]]. Winnie's supervisor orders her to return to traffic duty and asks Gloria, who is out of her jurisdiction, to leave. Gloria presents her facts before asking Winnie to tell Emmit about his brother and gauge his reaction. Obviously distracted, Emmit arrives late for a dinner meeting with Ruby Goldfarb and Sy. Winnie finds Emmit and, although she does not mention how Ray died, Emmit suggests that Nikki killed him. He and Sy leave and suspicious Winnie approaches Ruby. Emmit later asks Sy if he was working with Ray. Sy refutes this, dispelling Emmit's suspicions. As he leaves, he sees Varga inside Emmit's home and when he reaches his own home he sobs in his wife's arms. Varga asks Emmit how he feels. Emmit responds, "Free", but begins to cry. An attempt is made on Nikki's life in her jail cell, but Gloria saves her. The uniformed assassin, Golem, makes a clean getaway. Nikki, thankful for Gloria's saving her life, tells her and Chief Dammik to follow the money. Having violated parole, Nikki is put on a state prison bus and is seated next to a disheveled-looking [[Mr. Wrench and Mr. Numbers|Mr. Wrench]]. Yuri plants a ramp, causing the bus to overturn, and he and two accomplices enter it.
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|ShortSummary = Wrench wakes up and helps Nikki escape the bus into the woods. Yuri and Golem hunt them, but the two decapitate the latter and Wrench cuts the former's ear off with an ax. They discover a bowling alley and are greeted by Marrane inside, who discusses the Jewish belief of ''[[gilgul]]'' with Nikki before showing her a kitten that he claims is Ray. As they leave in a car Marrane provides them with, a profusely bleeding Yuri arrives in the alley, and Marrane shows him a vision of Albrecht and the thousands of [[Jews]] his [[Cossack]] ancestors killed. The next day, Varga puts Sy in a [[coma]] with poison. Three months later, Stussy Lots his expanded greatly, while Gloria is now a deputy and she and Lopez are still investigating Emmit. As Emmit is plagued with reminders of Ray, Varga begins drugging him to keep him calm. Wracked with guilt, he goes to the police station and asks to confess.
|ShortSummary = After the prison bus crashes, Yuri, Meemo, and Golem attempt to get to Nikki. However, with the help of Mr. Wrench, Nikki escapes, and the two, shackled together, run into the woods. After a long pursuit, they are discovered, attacked, and wounded by Yuri and Golem, but manage to kill Golem by decapitating him with their chain. Mr. Wrench senses Yuri nearby and wounds him by throwing an ax into the darkness. After breaking their chain, Nikki and Mr. Wrench happen upon a bowling alley where Nikki meets Paul Marrane. Marrane encourages her to fight the evil in the world. He tells her a car is available and she and Mr. Wrench flee in it. Yuri reaches the same bowling alley, and Marrane confronts him with the sins of his past, revealing him to be the grandson of the boyfriend referenced in the first episode. On Christmas morning, Gloria is called to the scene of the bus crime and Varga poisons Sy, sending him into a coma. Two-and-a-half months later, Nikki and Mr. Wrench are still at large; Yuri has gone missing; Gloria has been officially demoted to deputy and Varga has expanded Emmit's business after becoming his partner. While visiting Sy, Emmit is approached again by Gloria and Winnie and is shocked to discover his late brother's car parked in his parking space. Further abnormalities occur when Emmit discovers all the pictures in his office have been replaced by photos of the infamous stamp and that someone has placed a fake mustache on him while he slept. Emmit starts to feel incredibly guilty about having killed his brother and starts to believe that either Ray is still alive or Nikki is plotting revenge. Varga gives Emmit tranquilizers to calm him, which Emmit feigns taking. Later, Emmit arrives at the police station where he announces that he has come to confess.
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|ShortSummary = Varga orders Meemo to kill two men, both surnamed Stussy, in manners identical to Ennis and Ray. Emmit explains to Gloria that the feud with Ray stemmed from him convincing him to take their father's car after he died, leaving him to take the stamps and sell them, using the money to create Stussy Lots. Despite explaining that Ray's death was an accident, he believes he deserves punishment for leaving Ray stuck in a miserable life. Dammick arrests a man who poses as Meemo and takes credit for all four deaths, giving him a cover story about his hatred of men with the name Stussy, which invalidates Emmit's testimony and forces Gloria to set him free. Gloria admits to Lopez her fear that she actually does not exist, and Lopez comforts her. When Gloria uses the bathroom, she finds that the automatic sink works for her, which previously did not. Nikki and Wrench steal Varga's banking information and gets her to meet with him face-to-face so she can promise that she will destroy him for Ray's death. Dollad receives a package from Nikki with Varga and Stussy Lot's financial information.
|ShortSummary = Marvin Stussy, a dentist in St. Cloud, is killed in the same manner as Ray. Emmit is interviewed by Gloria and talks freely about his having manipulated Ray to take the Corvette instead of the stamps upon their father's death as well as confesses to having accidentally killed Ray. Varga instructs Meemo to infiltrate the police station to get Emmit out. However, while Meemo is on the way, Nikki and Mr. Wrench ambush and commandeer his truck using a fake grenade and they steal financial information from the remote office inside to blackmail Varga for $2 million. Winnie alerts Gloria to the coincidental last name of the earlier assassination victim. George Stussy is also found murdered by asphyxiation in his kitchen with his nose and lips glued like Ennis' were. Ex-con Donald Woo, who bears a resemblance to Meemo, the actual murderer of Marvin and George Stussy, is picked up for the murders and deliberately takes the fall, admitting to having committed all four. Ruby, when interviewed at the station by Gloria about her dinner with Sy and Emmit, is vague about the details. The interview is interrupted by Chief Dammik's arrest of Woo, closing the case and resulting in the release of Emmit, whose confession Dammik dismisses as Emmit's guilt about his "loser" brother. Varga meets with Nikki and, in order to get out of the blackmailing, he repeatedly attempts to both poison and to hire her, but she refuses his tea and his job offer. Wrench neutralizes Varga's sniper, Meemo, and Nikki gives Varga 24 hours to pay her ransom or she'll send his and Emmit's financials to the IRS. Gloria reveals the other Stussy murders to a shocked Emmit and confronts him about Varga's control of the events. Meemo and Varga pick up Emmit when he is released. Grabbing drinks together, Winnie reassures a disheartened Gloria. IRS agent Larue Dollard finds in his office a seemingly anonymous package containing the Stussy Lots financials.
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|ShortSummary = IRS agent Dollard finds Gloria's number in the Stussy Lots file. He calls her and Gloria arranges to meet Dollard, despite insisting that she did not send the file. Dollard explains to Gloria that Varga's takeover of Stussy Lots is intended as a tax fraud scam. After returning from the police station, Emmit is forced to sign many contracts, after which he grabs Meemo's gun and attempts to force Varga to withdraw from his house and business. Varga incapacitates him and Meemo attacks him from behind. Varga tells his crew to get rid of evidence they were there and they all leave. Varga, Meemo, and the crew go to meet Nikki and Mr. Wrench to pay ransom for the hard drives, but are ambushed by Wrench. Meemo and his accomplices are killed, but Varga escapes. Nikki gives Wrench most of the ransom money and the two part ways. Emmit, regaining consciousness, goes to Stussy Lots' offices to find that Goldfarb, who was apparently in league with Varga, has finalized her acquisition of the company for $100,000 and has begun moving her employees into the building. Goldfarb assures Emmit that he holds millions in offshore accounts, but that he is liable for Stussy Lots' large debts and advises him to declare bankruptcy, leaving him distraught. In a remote area, Emmit's car stalls and Nikki confronts him. She holds him at gunpoint, but when a state trooper intervenes, she hides the shotgun on Emmit's rear bumper. When the trooper asks for documents, Nikki shoots and kills the trooper who simultaneously shoots Nikki dead. A traumatized Emmit flees the scene and drives to his wife's house, breaks down, and sobs at her feet. Five years pass. Emmit, who has rekindled his marriage, celebrates at a dinner with his family and friends, including a partially recovered Sy. Emmit goes to the kitchen for the salad and is shot in the back of the head by Mr. Wrench, avenging Nikki. Three months later, Gloria, now an agent for the [[Department of Homeland Security]], interviews Varga, who is going by the name "Daniel Rand", in a holding cell. She declares that in five minutes he will be going to jail for money laundering and six counts of conspiracy to commit murder. However, Varga asserts that in five minutes Gloria's superior will arrive and let him go free. Gloria scoffs, then starts counting down the minutes on the cell's clock while Varga hums, confident.
|ShortSummary = Before Gloria can resign, Dollard calls her after finding her number in the file and explains that Varga's infiltration of Stussy Lots is actually a [[tax fraud]] scheme. As Varga forces Emmit to sign Stussy Lots over, he gets a call from Nikki setting a meeting spot for him to pay her for his records back, unaware that she has already sent them to Dollard. Emmit grabs Meemo's gun and holds it on Varga, but he easily dispatches him and leaves him on the floor with the stamp stuck to his forehead. Wrench ambushes and massacres Varga's men at the drop point, while Nikki tries to corner Varga, but he escapes up an elevator shaft. Emmit goes to Stussy Lots when he wakes up but finds that it has been sold to Goldfarb, who was working with Varga. His car breaks down and Nikki confronts him, but they are noticed by a police officer before she can kill him. She and the officer shoot and kill each other, and Emmit flees to his wife's house, reconciling her. Gloria admits to her son that she cannot explain why Ennis died, but unanswered questions are the nature of the world and people who love each other need to stick together. Five years later, Sy has woken up from his coma paralyzed, while Emmit has pled guilty to tax fraud and is given probation, having possibly kept Varga's money. As he goes to get dessert, Wrench kills him in his kitchen. Gloria, now with the [[DHS]], is called to interview Varga as he caught flying in from [[Belgium]]. Varga insists to her that human beings have no value beyond making money and that the past can be altered, neither of which Gloria believes. She promises him that he will go to jail, while he is confident that he will be let go. They then sit in silence.
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Fargo
Season 3
Promotional poster
Starring
No. of episodes10
Release
Original networkFX
Original releaseApril 19 (2017-04-19) –
June 21, 2017 (2017-06-21)
Season chronology
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List of episodes

The third season of Fargo, an American anthology dark comedy–crime drama television series created by Noah Hawley, premiered on April 19, 2017, on the basic cable network FX.[1][2] The season had ten episodes, and its initial airing concluded on June 21, 2017. As an anthology, each Fargo season possesses its own self-contained narrative, following a set of characters in various settings in a connected shared universe.[3]

The third season is set primarily between 2010 and 2011,[4] in three Minnesota towns: St. Cloud, Eden Valley, and Eden Prairie, and is the first season not to feature the titular Fargo, North Dakota. It follows the lives of a couple, Ray Stussy (Ewan McGregor) and Nikki Swango (Mary Elizabeth Winstead), who, after unsuccessfully trying to rob Ray's wealthy older brother Emmit (also played by McGregor), become involved in a double murder case. One of the victims is an old man with a mysterious past whose stepdaughter, Gloria Burgle (Carrie Coon), is a policewoman. Meanwhile, Emmit tries to cut his ties with a shady organization he borrowed money from a year before, but the company, represented by V. M. Varga (David Thewlis) has other plans.[5][6]

Michael Stuhlbarg, Hamish Linklater, Olivia Sandoval, Shea Whigham, Mark Forward, Mary McDonnell, and Scoot McNairy make recurring appearances. Sylvester Groth, Ray Wise, Fred Melamed, Francesca Eastwood, Frances Fisher, DJ Qualls, and Rob McElhenney guest star.

Season 3 began filming in early 2017 in Calgary, Alberta.[7]

Cast

A photograph of McGregor at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival
Ewan McGregor (Emmit Stussy and Ray Stussy)
A photograph of Coon at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival
Carrie Coon (Gloria Burgle)
A photograph of Winstead at the San Diego Comic-Con in 2010
Mary Elizabeth Winstead (Nikki Swango)
A photograph of Thewlis at the 2008 San Sebastián International Film Festival
David Thewlis (V. M. Varga)

Main

  • Ewan McGregor as brothers Emmit and Raymond "Ray" Stussy. Emmit is a wealthy, happily married man and the self-proclaimed "Parking Lot King of Minnesota." Younger brother Ray is a financially struggling parole officer who feels betrayed by Emmit over the way their father's inheritance was divided between them, when Ray got his father's Corvette and Emmit got a valuable stamp collection. McGregor also voiced the Captain, the android MNSKY's scientist companion.[8]
  • Carrie Coon as Gloria Burgle, a dedicated police officer and police chief of Eden Valley until the department is absorbed by the county. She is trying to solve her stepfather's murder.
  • Mary Elizabeth Winstead as Nikki Swango, a crafty and alluring young woman with a passion for competitive bridge. She is a recent parolee and Ray's fiancée.
  • Goran Bogdan as Yuri Gurka, a Ukrainian man working for V. M. Varga.
  • David Thewlis as V. M. Varga, an unscrupulous British businessman with whom Emmit unwillingly finds himself in a partnership.

Recurring

  • Michael Stuhlbarg as Sy Feltz, Emmit's loyal and dedicated business partner.
  • Shea Whigham as Sheriff Moe Dammik, the Meeker County Sheriff, who becomes Gloria's boss when the Eden Valley police are absorbed by the county.
  • Scoot McNairy as Maurice LeFay, a drug addict and another parolee of Ray's.
  • Andy Yu as Meemo, one of Varga's henchmen.
  • Mark Forward as Donny Mashman, Gloria's partner.
  • Graham Verchere as Nathan Burgle, Gloria's son.
  • Olivia Sandoval as Winnie Lopez, a St. Cloud police officer.
  • Russell Harvard as Mr. Wrench, a deaf assassin who helps Nikki. Harvard reprises the role from Season 1.
  • Mary McDonnell as Ruby Goldfarb, a wealthy widow who attempts to buy out Stussy Lots.
  • Hamish Linklater as Larue Dollard, an IRS agent investigating Stussy Lots.
  • Scott Hylands as Ennis Stussy, Gloria's stepfather, who LeFay confuses with Emmit.
  • Linda Kash as Stella Stussy, Emmit's wife.
  • Caitlynne Medrek as Grace Stussy, Emmit's daughter.

Guest stars

Billy Bob Thornton, who appeared as Lorne Malvo in season one, narrates Peter and the Wolf in the fourth episode, "The Narrow Escape Problem".

Episodes

See also: List of Fargo episodes
No.
overall		No. in
season		TitleDirected byWritten byOriginal air dateProd.
code		U.S. viewers
(millions)
211"The Law of Vacant Places"Noah HawleyNoah HawleyApril 19, 2017 (2017-04-19)XFO030011.42[9]
222"The Principle of Restricted Choice"Michael UppendahlNoah HawleyApril 26, 2017 (2017-04-26)XFO030021.06[10]
233"The Law of Non-Contradiction"John CameronMatt Wolpert & Ben NediviMay 3, 2017 (2017-05-03)XFO030031.17[11]
244"The Narrow Escape Problem"Michael UppendahlMonica BeletskyMay 10, 2017 (2017-05-10)XFO030041.05[12]
255"The House of Special Purpose"Dearbhla WalshBob DeLaurentisMay 17, 2017 (2017-05-17)XFO030050.98[13]
266"The Lord of No Mercy"Dearbhla WalshNoah HawleyMay 24, 2017 (2017-05-24)XFO030061.04[14]
277"The Law of Inevitability"Mike BarkerNoah Hawley & Matt Wolpert & Ben NediviMay 31, 2017 (2017-05-31)XFO030071.03[15]
288"Who Rules the Land of Denial?"Mike BarkerNoah Hawley & Monica BeletskyJune 7, 2017 (2017-06-07)XFO030081.14[16]
299"Aporia"Keith GordonNoah Hawley & Bob DeLaurentisJune 14, 2017 (2017-06-14)XFO030091.19[17]
3010"Somebody to Love"Keith GordonNoah HawleyJune 21, 2017 (2017-06-21)XFO030101.22[18]

Production

Casting

Ewan McGregor was cast in the lead dual role as Emmit and Ray Stussy,[5] and Carrie Coon plays the lead female role, Gloria Burgle.[6] In September 2016, Mary Elizabeth Winstead was cast in a major role as Nikki Swango and Scoot McNairy in a recurring role.[19][20] In November 2016, it was announced that Jim Gaffigan had joined the main cast in the role of Donny Mashman, Gloria Burgle's partner.[21] However, it was later announced that Gaffigan would not appear in the season due to scheduling conflicts.[22] Mark Forward was later cast to replace him as Mashman, and Mashman's role in the story was reduced. In December 2016, several new actors joined the cast, including David Thewlis, Michael Stuhlbarg, Shea Whigham, Fred Melamed and Thomas Mann.[23][24]

Filming

Filming began in early 2017 in Calgary, Alberta, where the previous two seasons were also filmed.[7]

Regarding filming with Ewan McGregor while he is portraying dual roles, co-star Mary Elizabeth Winstead said, "For some takes, I was standing with Ewan's double and for some takes, I was standing with Ewan." She added, "Watching how the doubles interact with him and have to learn his way of walking and his posture and his way of standing was interesting. They make it feel very natural and grounded and real. They're reading the lines and the scenes are existing as they would regularly, just swapping out the people. Which is somewhat strange, but it still doesn't feel like you're doing a trick of any sort."[25]

Visual style

As with the previous two seasons, the third season had its own distinct visual style, achieved through color grading by removing the blue channel. Noah Hawley described the technique, saying "So you take the blue channel on the digital image and you just dial it out. And what you end up with is a very distinctive look in which colors like red and orange and yellow; they just really pop in a different way. Usually in cold weather you add blue, because blue denotes cold. So it was interesting to take the blue out and see what it did to the image. And once we did that it became clear that it doesn’t look at all like any of the other years, which I really liked."[26]

Reception

Reviews

The third season has received acclaim from critics. On Metacritic, it has a score of 89 out of 100 based on 32 reviews, indicating "universal acclaim."[27] On Rotten Tomatoes, it has a 93% "certified fresh" rating with an average score of 8.56 out of 10 based on 50 reviews. The site's critical consensus reads: "Thanks in part to a memorable dual performance from Ewan McGregor, Fargo mostly maintains the sly wit and off-kilter sensibility it displayed in its first two seasons."[28]

Accolades

Main article: List of awards and nominations received by Fargo

In addition to the six Emmy nominations listed below, the series earned an additional ten nominations in various technical and creative categories.[29]

Ceremony Category Nominee(s) Result Ref.
33rd TCA Awards Outstanding Achievement in Movies, Miniseries, and Specials Fargo Nominated [30]
Individual Achievement in Drama Carrie Coon (for Fargo and The Leftovers) Won
69th Primetime Emmy Awards Outstanding Limited Series Fargo Nominated [29]
Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series or Movie Ewan McGregor Nominated
Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series or Movie Carrie Coon Nominated
Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited Series or Movie David Thewlis (Episode: "The Narrow Escape Problem") Nominated
Outstanding Directing for a Limited Series, Movie, or Dramatic Special Noah Hawley for "The Law of Vacant Places" Nominated
Outstanding Writing for a Limited Series, Movie, or Dramatic Special Noah Hawley for "The Law of Vacant Places" Nominated
69th Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards Outstanding Casting for a Limited Series, Movie, or Special Rachel Tenner, Jackie Lind, and Stephanie Gorin Nominated [29]
Outstanding Cinematography for a Limited Series or Movie Dana Gonzales ("The Law of Vacant Places") Nominated
Outstanding Single-Camera Picture Editing for a Limited Series or Movie Regis Kimble ("The Law of Vacant Places") Nominated
Curtis Thurber ("The Narrow Escape Problem") Nominated
Henk van Eeghen ("Aporia") Nominated
Outstanding Makeup for a Limited Series or Movie (Non-Prosthetic) Gail Kennedy, Joanne Preece, Amanda Rye, and Danielle Hanson Nominated
Outstanding Music Composition for a Limited Series, Movie, or Special Jeff Russo ("Aporia") Won
Outstanding Hairstyling for a Limited Series or Movie Chris Glimsdale, Judy Durbacz, Penny Thompson, and Eva Blanchard Nominated
Outstanding Sound Editing for a Limited Series, Movie, or Special Kurt N. Forshager, Joe Bracciale, Martin Gwynn Jones, Brent Pickett, Claire Dobson, Robert Bertola, Alex Bullick, Tyler Whitham, Matt Decker, and John Elliot ("Who Rules the Land of Denial?") Nominated
Outstanding Sound Mixing for a Limited Series or Movie Martin Lee, Kirk Lynds, Michael Playfair and Michael Perftt ("Who Rules the Land of Denial?") Nominated
22nd Satellite Awards Best Actor in a Drama / Genre Series Ewan McGregor Nominated [31]
Best Actor in a Miniseries or TV Film Ewan McGregor Nominated
8th Critics' Choice Television Awards Best Limited Series Fargo Nominated [32]
Best Actor in a Movie/Limited Series Ewan McGregor Won
Best Actress in a Movie/Limited Series Carrie Coon Nominated
Best Supporting Actor in a Movie/Limited Series David Thewlis Nominated
Best Supporting Actress in a Movie/Limited Series Mary Elizabeth Winstead Nominated
75th Golden Globe Awards Best TV Movie or Limited Series Fargo Nominated [33]
Best Actor – Miniseries or Television Film Ewan McGregor Won
Best Supporting Actor – Miniseries or Television Film David Thewlis Nominated
Producers Guild of America Awards 2017 Outstanding Producer of Long-Form Television Fargo Nominated [34]
American Cinema Editors Awards 2018 Best Edited Drama Series for Commercial Television Andrew Seklir ("Who Rules the Land of Denial?") Won [35]
54th Cinema Audio Society Awards Outstanding Achievement in Sound Mixing for a Television Movie or Mini-Series Michael Playfair, Kirk Lynds, Martin Lee, Michael Perfitt Nominated [36]
5th Location Managers Guild Awards Outstanding Locations in a Contemporary Television Series Robert Hilton Nominated [37]
44th Saturn Awards Best Action-Thriller Television Series Fargo Nominated [38]
Best Actress on Television Mary Elizabeth Winstead Nominated

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    For the award winner, see Hammond, Pete (June 28, 2018). "'Black Panther' Tops 44th Saturn Awards With Five; 'Blade Runner 2049', 'Shape Of Water', 'Get Out' Also Score". Deadline. Retrieved June 28, 2018.

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