The devil in snowdrifts

The Cohen brothers approve - the first thing you need to know about the Fargo series from the FX channel based on the same 1996 film. Coens read the script and gave their blessing. And when the brothers say “yes, good”, this means that they are completely delighted, assures Billy Bob Thornton, the main star of the Fargo series. Thornton was played by Lorna Malvo, a mysterious bearded-killer who was stuck in the provincial snow by Minnesota. A bearded man in the trunk of a man undressed to his panties, but did not take it - the deer flashed in the light of the headlights, the car ducked into a ditch, and Malvo had to go to the nearest town. As it turns out later, not so much in order to pluck a broken head as to have fun.

Meanwhile, Lester (Martin Freeman), mummy and a loser selling insurance, meets his long -standing school offender. They recall the glorious past, and Lester with a broken nose wanders to the hospital, where he meets Malvo. He makes Lester look at himself and others in a new way. “You spent your whole life, thinking that there are rules. There are no rules, ”the bearded man quietly philosophizes. And then he leans back in his chair and waits until a small, suggestible man, does not go into all the heavy ones.

Showranner of the series Noah Hawley , The Unusuals ) following the example of Nick Pizzolatto, the author of the “Real Detective” , wrote all ten series of “Fargo” alone. It starts from the original film, using only the prototypes of the characters, a kind of Cohen's humor and the snowy scenery of the American hinterland. So the new story of the Fargo goes beyond the investigation that the charming female police officer started (in the 1996 film, the Oscar received Francis McDormand for this role), and is in the territory of another Cohen tape-“there are no places here.” Hawley himself confirms this: “I like to say that we are doing “ No Country for the Old Fargo ” .”

Lorne Malvo looks like a distant relative of Anton Chigura, an infernal villain of the “old people here”, if only because both killers clearly go to one hairdresser. But if Chigur was a mythological creature, the embodiment of an immortal evil with a coin of fate in a pocket, then the Malvo is not alien to nothing human. He is a big prankster and does not miss the opportunity to confuse someone's head, and then watch from around the corner what will come of it. Malvo subtly feels his audience - if for Lester he has a sermon about anarchy and gorillas, then the young worker of the motel, who is offended by the hostess, is enough to hint about the magical properties of urine in the gas tank of her car.

In a sense, Malvo is a tricster, but deadly. A developed sense of humor does not prevent him from killing people and then literally dissolve in the air. “He is not an evil person,” Tornton says about his hero. - He is very methodical - as if the devil was an accountant. Violence for him is just a business. ” A snow -covered town is ideal scenery for the exploits of Malvo, because on a bright white background, both baked blood and darkness are best visible, which is approaching from all the cracks.

The first two episodes were shot by Adam Bernstein, who set eight episodes of Breaking Bad . Together with Hawley, he invents the Cohen film again, from improvised means, and at the same time retains the necessary distance with the original. For Sassens, there is enough washing machine , for comedy - a chainsaw on winter fishing, for drama - an old poster and a pair of paint cans, and for gourmets in a local eatery , a white Russian cocktail , a favorite drink of a dude from a large Lebovski.

“The morgue is full of people who believed that they did not need insurance,” Lester notes with enthusiasm after the next potential client. So, the series based on the “Fargo” also seems to no one needs an unnecessary venture - exactly until you see it with your own eyes.