Season 4


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Broadcast
Original run	September 27, 2020 – November 29, 2020
No. of Episodes	11^[1]
Home video release
DVD release
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Season 4 of Fargo was announced by FX on January 5, 2018 and was set to premiere on April 19, 2020. However, on March 16, 2020, the season was delayed and eventually premiered on September 27, 2020.^[2]^[3] The fourth season takes place in Kansas City, Missouri in 1950.^[4]

Synopsis[]

Essentially the locale will serve as the crossroads and collisions of two migrations, Italians coming from Italy and African Americans fleeing the south to escape Jim Crow, both fighting for a piece of the American dream as two controlling crime syndicates. They are at an uneasy peace controlling an alternate economy of exploitation, graft and drugs. To cement their peace, the heads of both families have traded their eldest sons.

Rock's character in order to prosper has surrendered his oldest boy to his enemy, and who must in turn raise his son's enemy as his own. Then the head of the Kansas City mafia goes into the hospital for routine surgery and dies. And everything changes.

Production[]

The fourth season was announced by FX CEO John Landgraf that in a discussion with creator Noah Hawley about the possibility, to which Landgraf states "It's not gone. Noah Hawley has told us that he has an idea that excited me enormously for a fourth cycle of Fargo. The plan is to have that ready for 2019."^[5]

Noah Hawley later added "the next thing you’ll see of Fargo is going to be a book that looks at the [previous] three seasons with scripts, interviews and everything that I’m doing with [my publisher] Grand Central. We’re working on that now, so hopefully that’ll come out before the fourth [season]. It’s still early for me. I really love that world. But it’s still very much a question for me of making sure there’s something left to say about it, and balancing tone. I never want it to be something that people go, ‘Oh that thing, it’s the accents and the funny crime show.’ Yeah, it’s still very much a work in progress.”^[6]

In August 2018, Warren Littlefield confirmed that production would begin in Fall 2019.

Cast[]

Main Cast[]

Chris Rock as Loy Cannon
Jessie Buckley as Oraetta Mayflower
Jason Schwartzman as Josto Fadda
Ben Whishaw as Patrick "Rabbi" Milligan
Jack Huston as Odis Weff
Salvatore Esposito as Gaetano Fadda
E'myri Crutchfield as Ethelrida Pearl Smutny
Andrew Bird as Thurman Smutny
Anji White as Dibrell Smutny
Jeremie Harris as Leon Bittle
Matthew Elam as Lemuel Cannon
Corey Hendrix as Omie Sparkman
James Vincent Meredith as Opal Rackley
Francesco Acquaroli as Ebal Violante
Gaetano Bruno as Constant Calamita
Stephen Spencer as David Harvard
Karen Aldridge as Zelmare Roulette

Recurring Guest Stars[]

Episodes[]

	Title	Directed By	Air Dates	U.S. Viewers (millions)
1.	"Welcome to the Alternate Economy"	Noah Hawley	September 27, 2020	1.22
2.	"The Land of Taking and Killing"	Noah Hawley	September 27, 2020	0.79
3.	"Raddoppiarlo"	Dearbhla Walsh	October 4, 2020	0.72
4.	"The Pretend War"	Dearbhla Walsh	October 11, 2020	0.76
5.	"The Birthplace of Civilization"	Dana Gonzales	October 18, 2020	0.74
6.	"Camp Elegance"	Dana Gonzales	October 25, 2020	0.70
7.	"Lay Away"	Dana Gonzales	November 1, 2020	0.65
8.	"The Nadir"	Sylvain White	November 8, 2020	N/A
9.	"East/West"	Mike Uppendahl	November 15, 2020	N/A
10.	"Happy"	Sylvain White	November 22, 2020	N/A
11.	"Storia Americana"	Dana Gonzales	November 29, 2020	N/A