Daniel D'Addario Chief TV CriticIn its first three seasons, “Fargo” found a surprising amount of elasticity within its constrained format.
Each installment borrowed the tone of Joel and Ethan Coen’s 1996 Midwestern noir, which places human greed against a setting of frigid climate and rigid propriety, to tell increasingly complicated crime stories.
Until now, the show’s big swings — like the 1970s-set, UFO-bedecked second season, still the best — have proved creator Noah Hawley’s ability to find moments of lived reality amid chaos.
The show has excelled in winding up resonant tales that still feel fundamentally of “Fargo,” even as they range further afield.Which makes the show’s fourth season, led by Chris Rock and written by Hawley as the.
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