The second season of Noah Hawley's black comedy-crime drama "Fargo" will premiere in a couple of months, and it will bring a new fictional "true crime" case that will be solve by a new set of characters.
"Fargo" season 2 will travel back in time, as State Trooper Lou Solverson (Patrick Wilson) is tasked to investigate a crime that involves a local gang and a crime syndicate in Sioux Falls in 1979. It could be considered as the prequel to the events that happened in season 1, where the older Deputy Solverson (Keith Carradine) talked about a massacre case also in Sioux Falls that he handled in the past with the season 1 villain Lorne Malvo (Billy Bob Thornton). The 2006 Solverson was obviously shaken by the incident that happened when he was only 30 years old, which he carried until he turned 60.
In this timeline, Solverson just recently got back from Vietnam. He would need to ask his father-in-law Hank Larson (Ted Danson) to help him deal with the complicated case by combining both their military experiences.
Wilson talked about his role in "Fargo" season 2 in an interview with the Entertainment Weekly Radio. He compared the treatment given to the character of Lou Solverson in season 2 to the one given in season 1.
"What I love about Keith Carradine is the weight he carries in his eyes...what I love is seeing the weight that he carries about how it affected him," the actor said. "And then [now] watching a must different Lou, a much more earnest Lou trying to make his way through this and constantly seeing doors shoved in his face and dealing with coming back from a war and not knowing where you stand and where the country is and you see all these atrocities at war and these atrocities are coming back to my little town in Luverne? So that's where I think it's very different. I think epic is the word."
The 10-episode second season of "Fargo" will premiere on Oct. 12 on FX.
