From KCRW Santa Monica and KCRW.com, it's The Treatment.

Welcome to the treatment, the home edition of course. I'm Elvis Mitchell, and my guest has been bringing

something very interesting to the group dynamic to series television going back to where my favorite shows were a few years back.

The Unusuals to, of course, his work as the adapter of Legion for FX, his newest show, or his newest thing on FX is the fourth iteration of the series Fargo.

He is Noah.

Noah, thanks so much for being here.

Thank you. I appreciate you not calling it a season as a, I always talk about year one,

year two, year three. There's something that feels reductive about saying a season of television,

maybe that's pretentious on my point of view.

But, you know, in an anthology, it is, it's a completely different story.

So, you know, it can be connected to the other years.

But, yeah, I tend not to use that word for some reason.

Well, I wouldn't say that either because it's not even the same location from year to

year, so I don't know how you would call it a season. I guess because it feels like to me each year,

of course, there's a reinvention. I guess the first thing I want to ask you about is how you end up

choosing the locale for each of these four incarnations of the show. Yeah, I mean, it always starts with a situation, for lack of a better word, whether it's two men

meet in an emergency room and one of them is a very civilized man and the other is the opposite

or a woman drives home with a man sticking out of the windshield of her car and makes dinner

for her husband.

And those tend to pop into my head and I think, oh, that's interesting. You know, who are the two men in the

emergency room and what happens next? And then, you know, this year was, I don't know, these two, I saw

these two groups, these two crime families, let's call them, and they trade their youngest sons as an insurance policy.

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