Season 1the coen brothers' best picture oscar nominee transforms into the season's most talked about tv debut. Fargo features a new true crime story and new characters...all chilled in the trademark dry wit, murderous mayhem and minnesota nice of the original classic film. Oscar winner billy bob thornton stars as lorne malvo, a anipulative master criminal who changes the life of insurance salesman lester nygaard martin freeman. Gus grimly colin hanks and molly solverson allison tolman are the small town police officers who join forces to uncover lester's secrets and stop the relentlessly destructive malvo.season 2the all new true crime case in fargo's latest chapter takes you back to 1979 in sioux falls, south dakota and luverne, minnesota. Lou solverson patrick wilson, a young state police officer recently back from vietnam, investigates a case involving a local crime gang, a major mob syndicate and a small town beautician peggy blumquist kirsten dunst along with her husband ed jesse plemons, the local butcher's assistant. Helping lou piece things together is his father in law, sheriff hank larsson ted danson.