The fourth season of Noah Hawley's Fargo series wrapped up late last year, but fans are already eager for what the next installment will bring. As there were three years between the third and fourth seasons, fans have certainly become accustomed to a bit of a wait, but while speaking during a virtual SXSW chat, Noah Hawley confirmed that there will be a fifth season of Fargo and that he'll start breaking it next year.
It will happen, but I’m not in a place where I’m writing on that yet, but I’m definitely excited to do one on some level. I have to store up ten hours of what there is to say, so I have my notepad and keep writings things down. I’ll get to it in the next year.
The fourth season of Fargo was set in the 1950s and starred Chris Rock as Loy Cannon, the head of the African American crime family who trades sons with the head of the Italian mafia as part of tenuous truce. Noah Hawley previously teased the fifth season of Fargo just after the season four finale premiered, saying that he feels that the new story will be "more contemporary" and will "be set somewhere in the recent past." As far as what the end-game of Fargo will be, Hawley added that he doesn't know "where this thing goes or where it ends. I certainly don't want to overstay my welcome. I'm sure there are some people who think that four seasons are too many… Fargo has never really been a story where 'this happens, then this happens, then this happens.' There's a lot more that goes into it, and the bar is high, and I certainly have no desire to be the last guy at the dance going, 'Oh, it's still good.'" What are your hopes for the fifth season of Fargo?