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Fargo Season 2

Fargo Season 2 is a MUST-WATCH, BollyMeter 9.6/10. 10 episodes on JioHotstar from 12 October 2015.

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BollyMeter9.6/10100% RT - still the only perfect-score season in the franchise. Set in 1979 with a larger canvas, a more ambitious cast, and Hawley's most confident formal control. The most common answer when critics are asked which Fargo season is the best.

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What BollyAI Thinks

Season 2 is the anthology's peak and one of the finest television seasons of the 2010s. Set a decade before S1 with entirely new characters, Hawley uses the 1979 backdrop - Nixon's fall, corporate consolidation, the death of American optimism - as the thematic frame for a sprawling Kansas City mob war. Kirsten Dunst and Jesse Plemons as Peggy and Ed Blumquist are the series' most complex protagonists: ordinary people who commit an unthinkable act and spend ten hours digging themselves deeper. Patrick Wilson's Lou Solverson (young Molly's father) anchors the lawman thread. The cast also includes Ted Danson, Nick Offerman, Jean Smart, and Bokeem Woodbine - everyone at peak form. The UFO subplot divides audiences but Hawley has always defended it as essential to the season's argument about violence and meaning. Critics gave it a perfect score. The kitchen-table conversation in the final episode is television writing at its best.

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100%critics positive9.1/10IMDb audience
  • Season 2 is a masterwork - the most ambitious and accomplished season Fargo has produced, a crime saga that earns every one of its 10 episodes.
    Rotten Tomatoes (critics consensus)

Season Over Season

A definitive leap: larger canvas, richer characters, more confident formal ambition. The season that proved Fargo would outlast its source material.