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Flipping the script

FARGO

Streaming: Neon, from Wednesday, November 22

Screening: SoHo, from Monday, November 27

The previous four seasons of Fargo – the anthology series which used the 1996 Coen brothers’ movie as a foundation to Midwest crime stories delivered as dark and bloody comedies – have proved that film spin-offs don’t have to be knock-offs. And that they don’t necessarily have to stick to one film.

The fourthand had characters who tied into season two, set in 1979.

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