Fargo Season 2 Analysis

Fargo Season 2

Created by: Noah Hawley

The people and the world of Fargo has been created and portrayed so well, that it almost feels like a sub-genre in crime films like how you'd have noir, gangster, heist, psycho killer, slasher; you can also have a sub-genre called Fargo. The first season and the film Fargo gave me a certain idea of what this world is, we have insane violence going on by people who get stuck in a situation and try to come out of it and they end up going deeper into it, we have some honest cops trying to curb violence and it's mostly a conflict between them. With this season, they have pushed both of them; we have around ten characters who are trying to fix things or make things worse, everyone ends up doing what they want to do by resorting to crime and there is a huge web created where at the end what's happening is nothing but a rampage of killings. We have one incident which happens in the first episode, where a guy is sent to convince a judge about a case and the chain of events that follow, creates enough events for 10 episodes of about an hour each. The way the events have been created is remarkable, the one-liner of the show is super dense.

The cinematography is brilliant, we have beautiful landscapes and frames all over but the sinister world that is created gives a spooky vibe to these landscapes. The amount of characters, their motivations, their actions and the number of crimes that happen in this show gave me the feeling that the Coen Brothers' No Country for Old Men and Fargo Season 1 tried to give that they don't get why people are resorting to violence. I got that in that film and the first season as well, but here in this show I felt that and no character had to speak it out to remind me of it. In spite of this show being made for Netflix, we see the black blank screens in between which are usually left out for commercials when they are made for TV. I couldn't get their motivation for this choice, but I think the creators have a positive view on materialism and consumerism in general because they'd think people and families would be happy when they watch TV together, go out and spend time together instead of resorting to violence.