Fargo Season 3
DVD Wholesale Quick Overview:
Set in 2010, the third installment of Fargo centers on “Emmit” and his slightly younger brother “Ray Stussy” (Ewan McGregor). Emmit, the Parking Lot King of Minnesota, sees himself as an American success story, whereas Ray is more of a cautionary tale. Forever living in his more successful brother’s shadow, Ray is a balding ad pot-bellied parole officer with a huge chip on his shoulder about the hand he’s been dealt — and he blames his brother. Their sibling rivalry follows a twisted path that begins with petty theft but soon leads to murder, mobsters and cut-throat competitive bridge. Carrie Coon stars as “Gloria Burgle,” the steady chief of the local police department. A newly divorced mother, Gloria is trying to understand the new world around her, where people connect more intimately with their phones than with the people around them. Mary Elizabeth Winstead stars as Ray’s girlfriend, “Nikki Swango,” a crafty and alluring recent parolee with a passion for competitive bridge. David Thewlis stars as “V.M. Vargas,” a mysterious loner and true capitalist whose bosses plan to partner with Emmit, whether “The Parking Lot King” likes it or not.
The Sharknado-like fish storm from Season 1 of Fargo and Season 2’s eventually pivotal flying saucers might be slightly less swervy than the outlandish/cartoonish first on-camera killing in Season 3’s extended opening episode.
But that’s FX’s Fargo for ya. It remains a land of the lost and found, where everyday denizens become entangled in murders and oddities while outside forces stir in more mayhem. The 1996 movie was one thing and the series is still quite another. Minnesota as always is the principal frozen tundra but the characters are in a constant whirl within their own times and spaces.
Season 3 begins with a chilling 1988 interrogation in East Berlin before time gallops to the 2010 silver wedding anniversary party of Emmit and Stella Stussy (Ewan McGregor, Linda Kash). He’s become the prosperous “Parking Lot King of Minnesota” while younger brother, Ray (also played by McGregor), festers as a put-upon and sometimes peed on parole officer who spends a good amount of time personally overseeing parolee urine samples.
– ED BARK
There’s a moment in the second episode of the brilliant new season of FX’s “Fargo” in which the villainous V.M. Varga (David Thewlis) looks at two flies caught in his spider’s web and essentially laughs at the very idea that there is a way for them to extricate themselves. To varying extents, this has been the theme of every season of “Fargo” and the film: you can only dig the hole you’re in deeper. You can’t possibly dig your way out. If you hire bad men to kill your wife, if you hit your partner in the head with a hammer, if you cover up a hit and run—karma will come for you. There is no escape. The wildly entertaining world of “Fargo” is often about people circling the drain, trying to come to the surface but only getting closer to their demise.
-Brian Tallerico
DVD Wholesale Main Features :
Actors: Ewan McGregor, Carrie Coon, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Goran Bogdan, David Thewlis
Writers: Noah Hawley
Format: PAL
Language: English
Subtitles: English
Region: Region 2
Aspect Ratio: Unknown
Number of discs: 4
Classification: To be announced
Studio: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
DVD Release Date: 16 Oct. 2017
ASIN: B074G34X8V
