The fifth season of Fargo will premiere on FX next week, but series creator Noah Hawley isn’t ready to bring the saga to an end. While speaking with Deadline at the premiere of the new season, Hawley was asked if more seasons of Fargo are in store. “I haven’t run out of ways to tell these stories,” Hawley said. “Why wouldn’t I keep going?“
Fargo executive producer Steve Stark agreed, even giving several options for new timelines for the series to explore. “We’ve covered every decade except the ’60s and the ’90s. So maybe the ’60s and ’90s.” Hawley added that “the ’80s” are also a possibility, joking that they’ll “do our Stranger Things crossover.“
However, Hawley told THR that FX hasn’t yet approached him about another season of Fargo, but it’s all up to him to come up with something new. “No, they’ve learned that if they just leave me alone, I’ll come up with something,” Hawley said. “But I will say that I feel reenergized on the Fargo front. It’s this crime genre with this absurdist element and philosophical streak that also is about basic human decency and an exploration of what it means to be an American, and how we’re all worse off for the forces of American capitalism that destroys so many, and I’ve yet to feel like I’ve tapped out of that world. You can be attracted to shiny new things, but I don’t know that I could get it better than this.“
Set in Minnesota and North Dakota in 2019, Fargo season 5 stars Juno Temple as Dorothy ‘Dot’ Lyon, a seemingly typical Midwestern housewife who is suddenly plunged back into a life she thought she had left behind. John Hamm also stars as Sheriff Roy Tillman, a rancher, preacher, and constitutional lawman who believes that he is the law and therefore is above the law. Fargo season 5 will premiere on FX on November 21st, and you can check out a review of the season from our very own Alex Maidy right here.
What stories (and time period) are you hoping to see in the new seasons of Fargo?