Watch the first full trail­er for Far­go Sea­son 3

When the news came in that the Coen broth­ers’ clas­sic 1996 crime caper Far­go was being made into a TV series, well, there was good rea­son to be scep­ti­cal. It was a pleas­ant sur­prise, then, to find that series cre­ator Noah Haw­ley pulled it off, util­is­ing the black com­ic tone, set­ting and phi­los­o­phy of the orig­i­nal film to tell its own unique story.

Far­go has gone from strength to strength since its slow-burn first sea­son aired back in 2014. While those ini­tial episodes were set in Min­neso­ta cir­ca 2006, the sec­ond sea­son expand­ed on the mythol­o­gy by chron­i­cling the events that led up to the ​“mas­sacre at Sioux Falls” back in 1979. Sea­son three will bring us clos­er to the present, once again fol­low­ing an all new set of char­ac­ters, this time in 2010.

This chap­ter cen­tres on dual pro­tag­o­nists Emmit and Ray Stussy – both played by Ewan McGre­gor. Emmit is the Park­ing Lot King of Min­neso­ta, a hand­some self-made real estate mogul. His broth­er Ray, on the oth­er hand, is a down-on-his-luck bald­ing parole offi­cer who blames Emmit for his mis­for­tunes. This sib­ling rival­ry leads to pet­ty theft, the con­se­quences of which spi­ral out of control.

Lin­ing up along­side McGre­gor is an impres­sive sup­port­ing cast which includes Mary Eliz­a­beth Win­stead, Michael Stuhlbarg and Scoot McNairy. There’s also room for David Thewlis, who man­ages to be unbe­liev­ably creepy just in the short glimpse we see of him in this trail­er. The way he savours the line ​“pitch­fork peas­ants with mur­der in their eyes” is enough to make us want to check in for more Mid­west­ern mayhem.

Far­go returns for its third sea­son on 19 April.

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