"Fargo" Season 2 To Return with Patrick Wilson, Ted Danson, Jean Smart and Kirsten Dunst in October

“True Detective and “Fargo” were both born in the same year. One went to live in the sweltering marshland of Louisiana; the other in the frigid wasteland of North Dakota. Both had similar proclivities, and concerned themselves with the failings of the human condition. One was dark, brooding, and consumptive; the other had a rather pragmatic, magnanimous, ‘people-make-mistakes’ approach to things. But both lived in a world that has a tendency to slip into the dark pit of human aspiration and obsession. In the end, both acknowledged that despite it all, you have to get on with the bizarre business of living.While “True Detective” reinforced its bottom-of-the-bottle view of the situation with the recently concluded second season, “Fargo” Season 2 promises to cavort on the ‘oops’ side of the spectrum with its new trailer. With a completely new cast comprising of Patrick Wilson, Ted Danson, Kirsten Dunst, Jean Smart, and Jesse Plemons in leading roles, the plot of the upcoming season is set in Sioux Falls, South Dakota and Luverne, Minnesota, going back in time to the year 1979.It follows the story of first season character Deputy Molly Solverson’s father Lou Solverson played by Keith Carradine. In conversation with Billy Bob Thornton’s Malvo, Solverson had spoken of a Sioux Falls massacre, saying, “…if you stacked them (bodies) high, could’ve climbed to the second floor. I saw something that year I ain’t ever seen before or ever since. I’d call it animal except animals only kill for food.” This ‘prequel’ season will likely revolve around the aforesaid incident.Creator, writer and executive producer Noah Hawley who stayed true to the spirit of his source material, the original 1996 Coen Brothers’ film “Fargo”, continues to be the show runner for the second season. Making its debut in 2014, the TV series had big shoes to fill considering the film had won several nominations and awards for acting, screenplay, direction, cinematography and editing. In its sophomore run, the show again faces the pressure of audience expectation from its spectacular success and Emmy and Golden Globe award wins last year.Hawley has stated previously in an interview, “To me, ‘Fargo’ isn’t a place, it’s a state of mind. It’s a true-crime case where the truth is stranger than fiction and good people have to face something horrible.” The characters that inhabit this half-fictitious universe are as comfortable dealing with the extraordinary circumstances they’re thrown into as, say, the Famous Five would be at a Quentin Tarantino crime scene. Their ‘hold your horses’ attitude to anything surpassing the decaf level of activity in town is in stark contrast to the brutality of the events that unfold.Wilson (“Insidious”, “Watchmen”) plays a younger Lou Solverson, who is a State Police officer tasked with investigating a case involving a local crime gang and a major mob syndicate, while also providing security for presidential candidate Ronald Reagan passing through town. Dunst, whose filmography exhibits a dramatic range starting from Sam Raimi’s “Spider-Man” to Lars Von Trier’s “Melancholia”, plays the role of Peggy Blomquist, a small town beautician with an ambition to move to the big city. Plemons, last seen in “Breaking Bad” and “The Homesman”, plays Dunst’s devoted husband Ed, who works as a butcher’s assistant. Danson, made immortal by American sitcom “Cheers” that ran for 11 seasons and the classic comedy “Three Men and a Baby” in addition to a career spanning three decades, plays Sheriff Hank Larsson. Smart, who won Emmy Awards for her role in the comedy series “Frasier”, portrays the part of criminal matriarch Floyd Gerhardt. In addition to this, actors Nick Offerman (TV show “Parks and Recreation”), Jeffrey Donovan (“J Edgar”), Kieran Culkin (“Igby Goes Down”), Brad Garrett (TV show “Everybody Loves Raymond”), Adam Arkin (“Little Miss Sunshine”) play supporting roles. And Bruce Campbell (“Evil Dead” films) will be Ronald Reagan.The trailer opens with a murder at a Waffle Hut, and moves on to images of a man with his ears severed off, another man who looks like he’s going to get buried alive, a couple laying plans to graduate out of their small Midwestern life, gangsters with Afros, criminal plans with small goals, criminal plans with large goals, all to the music of R&B singer Dr. John’s “Right Place Wrong Time”, and this one line worthy of cult status: “The word ‘we’ is a castle, hon, with a mote and a drawbridge. Don’t be a prisoner of ‘we.”The ten-episode “Fargo” Season 2 premieres on October 12, 2015, on FX.“Fargo” Season 2 Trailer:“Fargo” Season 2 Teasers:Follow @ARTINFOIndia