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Hey, podcast listeners, it's Anne. Remember when Fargo first came out?

Oh, you betcha, yeah. Francis McDormon played a pregnant police officer in northern Minnesota. It was winter. Minnesota looked a lot like Siberia, and she was investigating a series of murders involving a desperate car salesman's attempt to kidnap his wife. Well, the Cohen brothers cleaned up on Oscar nominations

for that film. And then, in 2014, FX decided it would be a good idea to create Fargo,

the TV series. Which you would think would be a terrible idea, right? I mean, TV adaptations tend to flop.

But two seasons in, Fargo is a huge hit.

It's had 133 award nominations.

It's 132.

And the show's third season premieres this week on April 19th.

Doug Gordon caught up with a guy behind Fargo's success, creator and showrunner, Noah Hawley.

Noah, how did you become the guy who adapted the Cohn Brothers' 1996 film Fargo into a TV series?

I said to them, I think that what you could do is every year you could tell a whole new

story that fits into the mindset of what Fargo means.

You know, it's both evocative of a place, what Joel and Ethan called Siberia with

family restaurants, you know, which, sort of open tundra.

But also now after that movie,

it's evocative of a kind of story,

you know, a true crime story where truth is stranger than fiction.

So, you know, I just found myself in that moment

presented with this challenge to be somewhat uniquely

qualified to take it on. What FX said to me was

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