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Fargo

A close-knit anthology series dealing with stories involving malice, violence and murder based in and around Minnesota.

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Genres:	Crime, Drama, Thriller
Number Of Seasons:	3
Network:	FX
Created By:	Noah Hawley
Status:	Returning Series
User Score (votes):	8.3 / 10 (813,867,903,919)

DirectorAdam Arkin

DirectorAdam Bernstein

Costume DesignCarol Case

DirectorColin Bucksey

DirectorDearbhla Walsh

Executive ProducerEthan Coen

Original Music ComposerJeff Russo

DirectorJeffrey Reiner

Executive ProducerJoel Coen

DirectorJohn Cameron

DirectorKeith Gordon

DirectorMatt Shakman

DirectorMichael Uppendahl

DirectorMike Barker

Executive ProducerNoah Hawley

CastingRachel Tenner

DirectorRandall Einhorn

DirectorScott Winant

Executive ProducerWarren Littlefield

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Writers often seen in this show:

Ben Nedivi, Bob DeLaurentis, Bob Odenkirk, Glenn Howerton, Matt Wolpert, Monica Beletsky, Noah Hawley, Steve Blackman

Last Updated: 2018-10-30

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This page was created by our editorial team. Each page is manually curated, researched, collected, and issued by our staff writers. Quotes contained on this page have been double checked for their citations, their accuracy and the impact it will have on our readers.

Kelly Peacock is an accomplished poet and social media expert based in Brooklyn, New York. Kelly has a Bachelor's degree in creative writing from Farieligh Dickinson University and has contributed to many literary and cultural publications. Kelly assists on a wide variety of quote inputting and social media functions for Quote Catalog. Visit her personal website here.

Kendra Syrdal is a writer, editor, partner, and senior publisher for The Thought & Expression Company. Over the last few years she has been personally responsible for writing, editing, and producing over 30+ million pageviews on Thought Catalog.

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Human beings, you see, have no inherent value other than the money they earn. Cats have value, for example, because they provide pleasure to the humans. But a deadbeat on welfare? Well, they have negative value.

— V.M. Vargas (David Thewlis), Fargo, Season 3: Somebody to Love

Value cats Welfare Pleasure

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Madam, it’s just lazy to steal from someone without knowing their name.

— V.M. Vargas (David Thewlis), Fargo, Season 3: The Lord of No Mercy

Theft steal Lazy Rude

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If evidence is collected, if confessions are made, if a verdict of guilty is entered in a court of law, then its happening becomes as the rocks and rivers, and to argue that it didn’t happen is to argue with reality itself.

— V.M. Vargas (David Thewlis), Fargo, Season 3: Somebody to Love

evidence Confessions guilty Rivers

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Trust me. The future is certain. And when it comes, you will know without question, your place in the world. Until then, we’ve said all there is to say. Any further debate would be simply wasting our breath. And if there’s one thing I can’t abide, it’s waste. Goodbye.

— V.M. Vargas (David Thewlis), Fargo, Season 3: The Lord of No Mercy

Predestination Future Waste

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The shallow end of the pool is where the turds float.

— V.M. Vargas (David Thewlis), Fargo, Season 3: The Lord of No Mercy

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In the favelas of Brazil, there are six-year-olds with Glocks. They roam in packs, stealing whatever they can find. Mexican lowlifes stream into this country like wolves, eyeing our women and children. In the Congo, a family of six live on 10 cents a day. You turn on the TV, what do you see? Boat people. Mass migration. You’re living in the age of the refugee, my friend.

— V.M. Vargas (David Thewlis), Fargo, Season 3: The Lord of No Mercy

Refugee favelas Brazil glocks Congo boat people

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Perception of reality becomes reality.

— V.M. Vargas (David Thewlis), Fargo, Season 3: The Lord of No Mercy

Perception Reality

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There’s an accounting coming, Mr. Stussy, and you know I’m right. Mongol hordes descending. Now what are you doing to insulate yourself and your family? You think you’re rich. You’ve no idea what ‘rich’ means. ‘Rich’ is a fleet of private planes filled with decoys to mask your scent. It’s a banker in Wyoming and another in Gstaad. So that’s action item one, the accumulation of wealth, and I mean wealth, not money.

— V.M. Vargas (David Thewlis), Fargo, Season 3: The Lord of No Mercy

Wealth rich mongol hordes wyoming gstaad

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One’s eyes can be deceived. We see what we believe, not the other way around.

— V.M. Vargas (David Thewlis), Fargo, Season 3: Somebody to Love

Perception Deception

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You see it, don’t you? Millions of people bought houses they couldn’t afford, and now they’re living on the streets. 85% of the world’s wealth is controlled by 1% of the population. What do you think is gonna happen when those people wake up and realize you’ve got all their money?

— V.M. Vargas (David Thewlis), Fargo, Season 3: The Lord of No Mercy

1%Wealth Distribution

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Things of consequence rarely happen by accident.

— V.M. Vargas (David Thewlis), Fargo, Season 3: The Lord of No Mercy

accident coincidence

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Very good. You just added a zero to your salary.

— V.M. Vargas (David Thewlis), Fargo, Season 3: Aporia

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At some level, food knows it’s food.

— V.M. Vargas (David Thewlis), Fargo, Season 3: Aporia

food Food Chain Self-awareness

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The problem is not that there is evil in the world, the problem is that there is good. Because otherwise, who would care?

— V.M. Vargas (David Thewlis), Fargo, Season 3: Aporia

Good Evil Apathy

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A chicken is an egg’s way of making another egg.

— V.M. Vargas (David Thewlis), Fargo, Season 3: The House of Special Purpose

chicken egg Reproduction

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A chicken is an egg's way of making another egg. You see, it's all a matter of perspective. The chicken sees it one way, the egg another. So let's start again: this is not your office, just as your wife would not be your wife if I came to her in the night with a platter of cold cuts.

— V.M. Vargas (David Thewlis), Fargo, Season 3: The House of Special Purpose

chicken egg Cycle of Life

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Buck, if I wanted an opinion from an asshole, I'd ask my own. Got it?

— Ray Stussy (Ewan McGregor), Fargo, Season 3: The Narrow Escape Problem

Opinion asshole

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Irv Blumkin: You borrowed $1,000,000 from a man without knowing his first name.

Emmit Stussy: I know how it—

Irv Blumkin: It's not a question. I'm just assessing the level of stupidity.

— Emmit Stussy / Ray Stussy (Ewan McGregor), Fargo, Season 3: The Principle of Restricted Choice

stupidity insults easy mark

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Nikki Swango: Ray, there's a man in my bathroom.

Ray Stussy: Let's not jump to any conclusions.

Nikki Swango: Are you saying he's not a man or he's not in my bathroom?

— Nikki Swango (Mary Elizabeth Winstead), Fargo, Season 3: The Law of Vacant Places

Misheard jumping to conclusions

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You have made me the happiest woman ever. Now let's make a sex tape.

— Nikki Swango (Mary Elizabeth Winstead), Fargo, Season 3: The Lord of No Mercy

sex tape romance

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Noreen Vanderslice: Camus says knowin' we're gonna die makes life absurd.

Betsy Solverson: Well, I don't know who that is. But I'm guessing he doesn't have a 6-year-old girl.

Noreen Vanderslice: He's French.

Betsy Solverson: Ugh, I don't care if he's from Mars. Nobody with any sense would say something that foolish.

— Betsy Solverson (Cristin Milioti), Fargo, Season 2: Palindrome

Albert Camus Existentialism french Mars Foolishness

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Hotel clerk: Room 203. Very nice room, very nice. It's got air conditioning. You can smell the ocean.

Gloria Burgle: There's a view?

Hotel clerk: No, there's a smell. At low tide.

— Gloria Burgle (Carrie Coon), Fargo, Season 3: The Law of Non-Contradiction

hotels Smells Ocean

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Mike Milligan: Sovereignty is absolute power and authority.

Ricky G: Like a king?

Mike Milligan: Exactly. Which is who I am —your king.

Ricky G: Uh, it's America, brother. We don't do kings.

— Mike Milligan (Bokeem Woodbine), Fargo, Season 2: Palindrome

Sovereignty kings Monarchy America

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Ed Blomquist: Today's your lucky day, Mike. I've got Dodd Gerhardt in the trunk of my car. You want him?

Mike Milligan: Sir, if I kiss you when we meet, would that be inappropriate?

— Ed Blomquist (Jesse Plemons), Fargo, Season 2: Loplop

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Jeb Cheney: You Minnesota boys don't got much in the way of backbone, now, do ya?

Hank Larsson: Well, now, I wouldn't say that. Just like to think things through.

— Sheriff Hank Larsson (Ted Danson), Fargo, Season 2: The Castle

Minnesota Backbone

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About the author

This page was created by our editorial team. Each page is manually curated, researched, collected, and issued by our staff writers. Quotes contained on this page have been double checked for their citations, their accuracy and the impact it will have on our readers.

Kelly Peacock is an accomplished poet and social media expert based in Brooklyn, New York. Kelly has a Bachelor's degree in creative writing from Farieligh Dickinson University and has contributed to many literary and cultural publications. Kelly assists on a wide variety of quote inputting and social media functions for Quote Catalog. Visit her personal website here.

Kendra Syrdal is a writer, editor, partner, and senior publisher for The Thought & Expression Company. Over the last few years she has been personally responsible for writing, editing, and producing over 30+ million pageviews on Thought Catalog.