Box Set
Running Time:
1571Genre:
Television, DramaCertificate:
15Language:
EnglishAll 30 episodes from the first three seasons of the Golden Globe-winning anthology crime drama inspired by the 1996 film directed by the Coen brothers. In the first season, set a number of years after the events of the film, a trail of havoc is unleashed by malevolent hitman Lorne Malvo (Billy Bob Thornton) in the small town of Bemidji, Minnesota and beyond. During a chance meeting in a hospital waiting room, Malvo encourages down on his luck insurance salesman Lester Nygaard (Martin Freeman) to stand up against those who put him down. This backfires spectacularly for Lester when he commits a crime loyal police deputy Molly Solverson (Allison Tolman) is determined to solve. The episodes are: 'The Crocodile's Dilemma', 'The Rooster Prince', 'A Muddy Road', 'Eating the Blame', 'The Six Ungraspables', 'Buridan's Ass', 'Who Shaves the Barber', 'The Heap', 'A Fox, a Rabbit and a Cabbage' and 'Morton's Fork'. The second season, set in the town of Fargo, North Dakota, follows beautician Peggy Blumquist (Kirsten Dunst) and her butcher husband Ed (Jesse Plemons) as they endeavour to cover up a fatal hit-and-run that killed Rye Gerhardt (Kieran Culkin), the son of organised crime family matriarch Floyd Gerhardt (Jean Smart). The episodes are: 'Waiting for Dutch', 'Before the Law', 'The Myth of Sisyphus', 'Fear and Trembling', 'The Gift of the Magi', 'Rhinoceros', 'Did You Do This? No, You Did It!', 'Loplop', 'The Castle' and 'Palindrome'. In the third season, probation officer Ray Stussy (Ewan McGregor) and his ex-con girlfriend Nikki Swango (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) hatch a plan to rob Ray's wealthy twin brother Emmit (also McGregor). As police chief Gloria Burgle (Carrie Coon) investigates their deadly trail of destruction, Emmit faces a hostile takeover of his business from a mysterious figure named V.M. Varga (David Thewlis). The episodes are: 'The Law of Vacant Places', 'The Principle of Restricted Choice', 'The Law of Non-Contradiction', 'The Narrow Escape Problem', 'The House of Special Purpose', 'The Lord of No Mercy', 'The Law of Inevitability', 'Who Rules the Land of Denial?', 'Aporia' and 'Somebody to Love'.
