FX released a teaser for the follow-up season of its smash hit small screen adaptation of “Fargo”. Season 1 features Martin Freeman and co-stars Billy Bob Thornton to name a few of the big names, and season 2 is also jam packed with Hollywood heavyweights. The show based on the Coen brothers’ 1996 crime film, showed audiences in Season 1 how Lester (Freeman), a small-town insurance salesman landed in troubled when he met Lorne Malvo (Thornton), a rootless and manipulative hitman.
This time round we get to see young State Police Officer “Lou Solverson” (Patrick Wilson), recently back from Vietnam, investigate a case involving a local crime gang and a major Mob syndicate. Helping him piece things together is his father-in-law, “Sheriff Hank Larsson” (Ted Danson). The investigation will lead them to a colorful cast of characters that includes “Karl Weathers” (Nick Offerman), the town lawyer of Luverne, Minnesota. A Korean War vet, Karl is a flowery drunk blessed with the gift of gab and the eloquence of a true con artist.
First Full Trailer Released For ‘Fargo’ Season 2
Excited yet……… check out the first full trailer of “Fargo” season 2 for viewing pleasure. We get to see Wilson’s Lou and Danson’s Sheriff Larsson visit a crime scene where they find two dead bodies. The investigation seems straight forward, perhaps a robbery gone wrong but as the caption for the video notes, “this thing’s ’bout to get a whole lot bigger.” This will lead them to the colorful cast of characters as the story takes shape.
The second season of “Fargo” will debut this October on FX.
Check out the official synopsis for season two of FX’s Fargo:
“The all new “true crime” case of Fargo’s new chapter travels back to 1979 in Sioux Falls, South Dakota and Luverne, Minnesota, where a young State Police Officer “Lou Solverson” (Wilson), recently back from Vietnam, investigates a case involving a local crime gang and a major Mob syndicate. Helping him piece things together is his father-in-law, “Sheriff Hank Larsson” (Danson). The investigation will lead them to a colorful cast of characters that includes “Karl Weathers” (Nick Offerman), the town lawyer of Luverne, Minnesota. A Korean War vet, Karl is a flowery drunk blessed with the gift of gab and the eloquence of a true con artist.
Three-time Emmy winner Brad Garrett will play “Joe Bulo,” the front man for the northern expansion of a Kansas City crime syndicate. The new face of corporate crime, Joe’s bringing a Walmart mentality to small town America. His number two is “Mike Milligan” (Bokeem Woodbine). Part enforcer, part detective, Mike is always smiling – but the joke is usually on you. Bulo and his crew have their sights set on the Gerhardt crime family in Fargo, currently led by matriarch “Floyd Gerhardt” (Smart).
With her husband at death’s door, Floyd takes over the family business, frustrating her eldest son, “Dodd Gerhardt” (Jeffrey Donovan). An impatient hothead with a cruel streak to match his ambitions, Dodd can’t wait for both his parents to die so he can take over and expand their business from kingdom to empire. “Bear Gerhardt” (Angus Sampson) is the middle son, an intimidatingly large man who, although inarticulate, is the most decent of his clan. “Rye Gerhardt” (Kieran Culkin), the youngest of the Gerhardt clan, views himself as a big shot, but in reality he’s just a small dog who barks big.”
