‘Fargo’ Season 5 Review: Midwestern Rhapsody
metroweekly.comFargo franchise is what gardeners would call a volunteer tree: sprung from a robust film, it has most certainly taken on a life of its own.Five seasons in, it has become the inimitable vision of writer Noah Hawley and his murderously affectionate take on the American Midwest.
A witty, mischievous raconteur, Hawley delivers his (usually) cop-based yarns through ordinary lives that end up being anything but.
The tone is often seductively folksy, right up until the blood starts spurting.And although Hawley is certainly here to entertain, his stories are a conversation.
If he calls them “true,” it’s more about home truths than true crime. Somewhere behind the fun, there lurks the question of who we — as Americans — think we are.If season four of Fargo had a slight wobble, season five comes back largely on track, going modern-noir on a housewife who isn’t quite who or what she seems.
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