Description
Fargo is an American crime drama with some dark comical elements inspired by the film Fargo written by the Coen brothers. It was met with considerable acclaim as insurance salesman Lester Nygaard faces off against the psychopath Lorne Malvo.
For the full charm of the series, you must, of course, be familiar with the complete filmography of the Coen brothers, because the general idea in the films and the 2nd seasons coincides.
In the films of the brothers, people who are involved in some kind of scams and attempts to build happiness at the expense of the misfortune of others are always ridiculed and end badly. At the same time, their "little man" is always happy with his little one, and this is done so wittily that you even believe in it.
The same thing happened in the first season, the same thing we see here: a mockery of Milligan, who talks so impressively about his Kingdom, and eventually gets a ridiculous office cubicle and frustration for life. In contrast, the Solverson family, who are "just good people": joking about the sciatic nerve, planning a fishing trip (the first season ended in a similar way, the Fargo movie ends in a similar way).
The correspondence controversy with Camus is great. Despite the fact that Betsy had never heard of him, but her whole life was the ideal that Camus wrote out: Sisyphus, dragging a stone with dignity and without whining. It is doubly witty that in the next scene this idea is confirmed by Lou himself, who says that the very stone is not a curse at all, but a means to manifest his best qualities.
I really like many of the series that are on TV now, but perhaps only Fargo awakens a strong desire for serious reflection, and I would not be surprised that lectures on Cohen and similar series will one day begin at some advanced universities in the departments of cultural studies.