Fargo TV series, is also a novelist. Before he ever started working in TV, he wrote novels like A Conspiracy of Tall Men, and has continued to write even while producing Fargo and Legion.
Hawley's literary background and what he does with Fargo makes me think of him as akin to a crime novelist of the post-Elmore Leonard school, where the author picks a type of crime story and does variations on it over and over again.
This is not a bad way to operate, and there are dozens of great authors who do it, but it works better for novels than it does for TV.
Anthology series work better when they're united by sensibility rather than format. At this point, even after three years between seasons, the Fargo model has gotten a little stale.
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