Fargo - Season 3 (2017)

	Also Known As: -
	Year of first release: 2017
	Writer: Noah Hawley + others
	Actors: Ewan McGregor (The Island, Transpotting), Mary Elizabeth Winstead (Deathproof, The Thing), David Thewlis (Wonder Woman)
	Country: USA
	Genre: Black Comedy, Polar
	Conditions of visioning: May-November 2019, VOD, 10" tablet screen
Synopsis: A twisted sibling rivalry leads to murder, mobsters and cutthroat competitive bridge in a small Midwestern town.
Review: The movie Fargo is fantastic, and the concept of the series (Season 1, Season 2) is pretty good. This one follows the same spirit, and has even less connections to the rest but as I read online, they "really don't need a bunch of criss-crossing characters and storylines in order to feel like they take place in the same universe". Indeed the usual ingredients are sufficient: snow and cold weather, Minnesota, simple people, a female police officer in conflict with her male hierarchy, normal people ending up doing bad deeds in spite of their good heart, and true bad people. It's a special recipe that always brings back memories from the other stories. Of course the movie and series relies on very good actors and this season is no exception: Mary Elizabeth Winstead is great and dynamic, David Thewlis is devilish, and it took me half of the first episode to recognize Ewan McGregor playing two roles with a make-up that really hides his face and who uses an accent and acting far from his usual self. Brilliant. The rest of the less-known cast is no less wonderful. The season slows down in the middle, which caused me to take a break of several months, but I then quickly completed it. the story is convoluted as expected and you feel bad for the characters stuck in the situation they are.  Still working after three seasons, let's see what the fourth brings with a synopsis like "The head of an African American crime syndicate goes to war with the Italian mafia in Kansas City, Missouri during the 1950s".
Rating: 5 /10