Fargo Season 5's Story Could Complicate The Movie's Timeline

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Fargo season 5 will return on FX, but details of the story for the fifth season of the crime drama suggest it might complicate the Coen brothers' original 1996 movie's timeline. The series, which has Joel and Ethan Coen as executive producers, showcases allusions to multiple films by the duo, who are known for intersecting genres as one of their stylistic trademarks. While it has an anthology structure, the series imitates the atmosphere of Fargo, tonally and geographically. Season 1 even situated the series within the film’s timeline – but this may yet be complicated by Fargo season 5’s storyline.

Fargo season 1's strange events see the malicious and sinister Lorne Malvo (Billy Bob Thornton) instigate and influence numerous crimes in Bemidji, Minnesota. Malvo cruelly torments supermarket owner Stavros Milos, who believes his ill fate is a divine consequence of the circumstances of his fortune. Stavros dug up a case full of money at a snowy roadside, with the burial spot strangely marked by an ice-scraper. It is a reference to the film, wherein Carl Showalter (Steve Buscemi) buries the money paid to him as a ransom in order to dig it up later and thus avoid paying his partner, Gaear Grimsrud (Peter Stormare), a larger sum. However, an altercation between the two ensues, with Carl being put through a wood chipper and the money remaining hidden in the snow. Stavros discovering Fargo's suitcase of money was not an essential element of the plot of Fargo season 1, but it did establish the series within the timeline of the film. In an unsuccessful bid to be relieved of his torment, Stavros buries money back into the snowy roadside, preventing the series from adding unintended closure to the Coen brothers’ original story.

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