FX’s official trailer for the long-awaited fifth season of Fargo reveals Ted Lasso‘s Juno Temple is front and center as a woman who isn’t who she claims to be. The new season will involve lies, betrayals, kidnappings and, of course, murder – everything fans have come to expect from the critically acclaimed drama.
Inspired by Joel and Ethan Coen’s film, the first season of the anthology series debuted in April 2014 and starred Billy Bob Thornton, Allison Tolman, Colin Hanks, Martin Freeman, and Keith Carradine. Season two arrived in October 2015 with Kirsten Dunst, Patrick Wilson, Jesse Plemons, and Jean Smart in starring roles. Ewan McGregor, Carrie Coon, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, David Thewlis, and Michael Stuhlbarg led the cast of season three which launched in April 2017.
Season four with Chris Rock, Jessie Buckley, Jason Schwartzman, and Ben Whishaw aired in September 2020. Season five has set a November 21, 2023 premiere date for the first two episodes, with new episodes arriving on Tuesdays at 10pm ET/PT.
The new season stars Juno Temple as Dorothy “Dot” Lyon, Jon Hamm as Sheriff Roy Tillman, Jennifer Jason Leigh as Lorraine Lyon, and Joe Keery as Gator. Sam Spruell plays Ole Munch, David Rysdahl is Wayne Lyon, Richa Moorjani is Deputy Indira Olmstead, Lamorne Morris plays Deputy Witt Farr, and Dave Foley is Danish Graves.
Series creator Noah Hawley serves as writer, director, and showrunner. Hawley’s 26 Keys production company executive produces along with Steve Stark, Kim Todd, Joel Coen, Ethan Coen, and The Littlefield Company’s Warren Littlefield. Fargo is produced by MGM Television and FX Productions.
FX offers this description of season five:
The latest installment of Fargo is set in Minnesota and North Dakota, 2019. After an unexpected series of events lands Dorothy “Dot” Lyon (Temple) in hot water with the authorities, this seemingly typical Midwestern housewife is suddenly plunged back into a life she thought she had left behind.
North Dakota Sheriff Roy Tillman (Hamm) has been searching for Dot for a long time. A rancher, preacher, and a constitutional lawman, Roy believes that he is the law and therefore is above the law. At his side is his loyal but feckless son, Gator (Keery), who is desperate to prove himself to his larger-than-life father. Too bad he’s hopeless. So when it comes to hunting Dot, Roy enlists Ole Munch (Spruell), a shadowy drifter of mysterious origin.
With her deepest secrets beginning to unravel, Dot attempts to shield her family from her past, but her doting, well-meaning husband Wayne (Rysdahl) keeps running to his mother, Lorraine Lyon (Jason Leigh), for help. CEO of the largest Debt Collection Agency in the country, the “Queen of Debt” is unimpressed with her son’s choice in a wife and spares no opportunity to voice her disapproval. However, when Dot’s unusual behavior catches the attention of Minnesota Police Deputy Indira Olmstead (Moorjani) and North Dakota Deputy Witt Farr (Morris), Lorraine appoints her in-house counsel and primary advisor, Danish Graves (Foley), to aid her daughter-in-law.
Afterall, family is family. But Dot has an uncanny knack for survival. And with her back to the wall, she’s about to show why one should never provoke a mother Lyon.
