FX is serving up another helping of Fargo in the fall, and it sounds like another winner.
Fargo Season 5 will premiere its first two episodes on Tuesday, November 21, at 10 p.m. ET.
New episodes will be available weekly for the rest of the season.
The cable network has kept plot details tightly under wraps since it was announced that Jon Hamm and Juno Temple would be headlining.
Thankfully, we have some clarity about what to expect, and we're intrigued.
After an unexpected series of events lands "Dorothy 'Dot' Lyon" (Temple) in hot water with the authorities, this seemingly typical Midwestern housewife is suddenly plunged back into a life she thought she had left behind.
North Dakota Sheriff "Roy Tillman" (Hamm) has been searching for Dot for a long time.
A rancher, preacher and a constitutional lawman, Roy believes that he is the law and therefore is above the law.
At his side is his loyal but feckless son, "Gator" (Joe Keery), who is desperate to prove himself to his larger-than-life father.
Too bad he's hopeless. So, when it comes to hunting Dot, Roy enlists "Ole Munch" (Sam Spruell), a shadowy drifter of mysterious origin.
With her deepest secrets beginning to unravel, Dot attempts to shield her family from her past, but her doting, well-meaning husband "Wayne" (David Rysdahl), keeps running to his mother, "Lorraine Lyon" (Jennifer Jason Leigh), for help.
CEO of the largest Debt Collection Agency in the country, the "Queen of Debt" is unimpressed with her son's choice in a wife and spares no opportunity to voice her disapproval.
However, when Dot's unusual behavior catches the attention of Minnesota Police Deputy "Indira Olmstead" (Richa Moorjani) and North Dakota Deputy "Witt Farr" (Lamorne Morris), Lorraine appoints her in-house counsel and primary advisor, "Danish Graves" (Dave Foley), to aid her daughter-in-law.
After all, family is family. But Dot has an uncanny knack for survival.
And with her back to the wall, she's about to show why one should never provoke a mother Lyon.
It sounds different from the previous four seasons of the FX hit, right?
The trick with the anthology series is always to switch things up, and Fargo has been so successful because it takes that to heart.
FX also revealed this week that American Horror Story Season 12, starring Emma Roberts and Kim Kardashian, is set to premiere Wednesday, September 20, at 10 p.m. ET.
A House at the End of the World has been pushed to November amid the ongoing strikes.
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