Last week, it was reported that "Fargo" got three Golden Globe nominations—one for Best Miniseries, and acting nominations for Kirsten Dunst (Best Actress in a Miniseries) and Patrick Wilson (Best Actor in a Miniseries).
The show, which is based on the Coen brothers' 1996 film of the same title, has been getting rave reviews since its first season on FX, and the Golden Globe nods are testaments not only to the actors' performances but to show creator Noah Hawley's masterful storytelling.
The series, which aired its season 2 finale on Monday, saw the death of Ed (Jesse Plemons) after Hanzee (Zahn McClarnon) followed him and his wife, Peggy (Dunst) in a supermarket. As her husband was dying, Peggy thought that Zahn was trying to smoke them out of their hiding place by starting a fire, but when she opened the door, she discovered Lou (Wilson) on the other side of it, and the fire turned out to be a product of her imagination.
Last month, the show was renewed for a third season and filming is underway. Speaking with The Hollywood Reporter, Hawley talked about the upcoming season. While the show creator did not give a specific return date for the series, he hinted that the writers have a sense of where to take the story next season and that filming the series in winter is important to the upcoming storyline.
Hawley confirmed that the show will be set in a more contemporary setting than the first season, which was set in 2006. The recently concluded season was set in the '70s.
"It's fun to come back and do something more contemporary and look at how it is to be in that region in a modern world," Hawley said to THR, adding that on some level, the season one characters played by Allison Tolman and Colin Hanks did not feel contemporary at all.
"It's interesting to look at that and see if there's a story to be generated from that," said Hawley.
"Fargo" is expected to return to FX in 2016.
