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It Starts On The Page: Read ‘Fargo’ S5 Premiere Script “The Tragedy Of The Commons” By Noah Hawley
'Fargo' Creator Noah Hawley talks about writing the Season 5 premiere. Part of a franchise featuring top limited series Emmy contenders.
Season 5 follows Juno Temple as Dot Lyon, a housewife with a dark past who is mired in warring America, for Episode 1 tees off with a riot that breaks out at a school board meeting which results in the show’s protagonist tasing an officer and heading to the slammer for just a moment. Also starring this season are Jon Hamm as a corrupt sheriff, Dave Foley as Lorraine’s loyal, and goofy eye-patch right hand, and Sam Spruell as a kilt-wearing relentless assassin from a medieval time and place. In introducing the script for Episode 1, “The Tragedy of the Commons,” which Hawley wrote and directed, he discusses the parallels and differences between Fargo ‘s fifth season and the Coen brothers movie, his take on Minnesota Nice and the meaning behind the premiere’s title.
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