Fargo Season 4
Overview
Kansas City, 1950. Two crime families — the Italian Faddas and Loy Cannon's syndicate — keep the peace the old way, by trading their youngest sons to be raised in each other's houses. Chris Rock plays Loy, a numbers-running businessman who insists he's building something legitimate, and Jason Schwartzman's Josto Fadda is the twitchy heir who would rather be almost anyone else. Around them swirls the strangest crowd any Fargo season has assembled: Jessie Buckley's nurse Oraetta Mayflower, all sunshine and quiet menace, taking a special interest in the Fadda patriarch's hospital room; Ben Whishaw's Rabbi Milligan, a man who was traded as a boy himself and knows exactly what the arrangement costs; and Timothy Olyphant as a Mormon U.S. Marshal with an arched eyebrow for everyone. Let's be honest, this is the season fans argue about most — it's bigger, slower, and more crowded than the others, and not every thread gets the attention it deserves. But the pieces that work really work, and underneath the gangster pageantry sits a very Fargo question about who gets to call themselves an American success story. One of those traded boys grows up to matter a great deal.
