Kirsten Dunst and Jesse Plemons have signed on for lead roles in the FX series' second season.Quote:
Dunst will play “Peggy Blomquist,” a small town beautician with big city dreams who is trying to figure out who she really is and what she really wants as she struggles with traditional societal expectations. She shares her home with her husband “Ed” (Plemons), a butcher's assistant, who wants to be supportive of his wife’s self-discovery, even if he doesn’t quite understand it.
Fargo’s new chapter, which will unfold over the course of 10 episodes, will travel back to 1979 in Sioux Falls, South Dakota and Luverne, Minnesota, where a young State Police Officer “Lou Solverson” (yet to be cast), recently back from Vietnam, will tackle an all new “true crime” case. Solverson’s wife, “Betsy,” (yet to be cast) their four-year-old daughter, “Molly,” (yet to be cast) and fellow officer, “Ben Schmidt,” (yet to be cast) will also be featured in the new installment.
I'm not sure about Dunst. Plemons should be good if he's in a villainous role, but it doesn't sound like it. Neither is on par with the casting of Freeman and Thornton, but are about on par with Colin Hanks, and he ended up surprising me.
It's funny to see Jesse Plemons on Fargo, considering Season 1 felt like Breaking Bad by way of the Coen Brothers.
I'm more curious as to who they cast as a young Lou.
But the whole project excites me. Season 1 was one of the best seasons of television I've seen, and that comes after the perfect final run for Breaking Bad and the stellar 8-episodes of True Detective. TV is so good now.