There's an immediate rush that comes from the opening minutes of a new season of FX's Fargo, intensified by the three-years-plus since Noah Hawley's adaptation/expansion of the Coen brothers' classic last aired.
It's a charge that comes from Hawley's love of archaic and convoluted language; from Jeff Russo's playful circling of Carter Burwell's haunting score for the original film; from another eclectic cast stepping into characters with instantly evocative names like "Ethelrida Pearl Smutny" or "Constant Calamita"; from the reminder that "This is a true story." If the show's distinctive brand of yarn-spinning entrances you, it can carry you past some bumpy patches, like the first couple of episodes of the third season.
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