'Fargo' Opens to Modest Ratings Tuesday for FX

With original Fargo screenwriter-directors Joel and Ethan Coen on board as executive producers, FX set the stage for its take on the 1996 Oscar-nominated feature with the first of its 10-episode series. From showrunner Noah Hawley (My Generation), FX's 

In Fargo, winter never leaves. The premiere of “Fargo” on FX resurrects all those parkas, earflaps and never-ending white fields of the stuff we grew so tired of this year. And while the 10-episode series written by Noah Hawley (of “Bones” and “The

Some laugh about it, others loathed it, but “Fargo” is the classic movie that put Minnesota stereotypes out there for the country to laugh about. Minnesotans have been living with the legacy of the dark comedy of the Coen 

With original Fargo screenwriter-directors Joel and Ethan Coen on board as executive producers, FX set the stage for its take on the 1996 Oscar-nominated feature with the first of its 10-episode series. From showrunner Noah Hawley (My Generation), FX's 

“When I was sent the script for Fargo, Joe, my American agent, said, 'I know it's TV, but this is 10 episodes — it's finite,'” Freeman recalls. “The reason I've never gone for pilot season even as a younger actor, and wouldn't