Noah Hawley Breaks Down ‘Fargo’ Season 5 Finale and Which Season Almost Had Its Own Spinoff
variety.comCaroline Brew editor SPOILER ALERT:This story contains spoilers for Season 5, Episode 10 of “Fargo,” now airing on FX and streaming on Hulu.
While the events of Noah Hawley’s FX series “Fargo” don’t expand on those in the 1996 film from Joel and Ethan Coen, there is one bit of dialogue from the movie that Hawley considers a thematic throughline for each season in the anthology. “There’s always something every year that’s rooted in Marge’s line from the movie, ‘And here you are, and for what, a little bit of money?’ — the crimes that people commit for money, either desperation or greed,” he said. “This year, I wanted to look at debt, which is something so many Americans suffer from and really defines people’s lives, but isn’t usually dealt with in our fictionalized dramas.” Though monetary debt plays a big role in the plot, with Jennifer Jason Leigh playing the CEO of the nation’s largest debt collection agency, the season is more focused on what debt represents as a concept: the question of what we owe each other.
And by the season finale, most characters — with the exception of Witt Farr’s (Lamorne Morris) unfortunate death — get what they’re due.
Dot (Juno Temple) makes it home safely to her family, and escapes her abusive ex-husband Roy Tillman (Jon Hamm), who is then locked in prison.
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