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Fargo season 2 to go 1970s with "epic feel"

Martin Freeman in Fargo
Martin Freeman in Fargo

FX drama Fargo's second season is heading back to the 1970s.

EW reports that the story will be set in 1979, in Luverne, Minnesota, and focus on a married couple.

Peggy and Ed Blomquist - played by Kirsten Dunst and Jesse Plemons - get caught in a battle between a local gang and a branch of the Mob in the new run.

On a page from the season premiere script, a character refers to the 1979 case as "savagery, pure and simple", with a huge body count.

Showrunner Noah Hawley said: "The scope of the story-telling this season is a lot bigger, it has more of an epic feel to it."

He added that he expects the story to be almost Western-like because of the extreme rural setting and earlier time period.

"But it's not the '70s in a Boogie Nights kind of way," he added.

The first season of Fargo starred Martin Freeman, Billy Bob Thornton, Allison Tolman and Colin Hanks.

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