Creator and Sole Writer: Noah Hawley
Fargo is an anthology black-comedy crime drama which has different settings in different seasons like True Detective and not in every episode unlike Black Mirror. It is inspired from the 1996 Academy Award winning film Fargo by The Coen Brothers. This season had a lot of references from their films, whether it's the pregnant police officer going behind a killer on a rampage, someone finding big money, the Chief remembering how less violent it used to be back then and my favorite reference was the psychopath treating himself by injecting directly into the wound.
Lester Nygaard has the arc of Walter White in Breaking Bad, who's the victim of bullying and humiliation from people around breaks bad and kills his wife. Lorne Malvo resembles Anton Chigurh but he isn't that psychopathic and he can manipulate people better. In a threatening situation, Anton would first look to kill and I felt that Malvo would probably try to get away first and then look to kill. There are interesting elements in the season like someone finding money and how that changes his life and yet how he feels that he owes something all along his life. People dying and the way the Chief reacts to it.
Although since the unpredictable nature of the show, numerous characters and arcs it lacks being addictive and it doesn't provide narcotisation whenever you get back to watching it. The format of mini series is in a way that it takes its own time to tell a story and all that's there apart from a movie is that they provide a pay off at the end of most of the episodes in the form of a cliffhanger unlike you pausing a movie midway. Changing the time span and taking it 2 years ahead suddenly, changed a lot of things for me about the season and it got a lot more interesting.
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