‘Fargo’ Season 5 Trailer: Mayhem & Madness Ensues With Jon Hamm, Juno Temple & Jennifer Jason Leigh — Update

UPDATED, 7:40 AM: “Well, sir, there’s no easy way to say this, your wife isn’t who she says she is.” So begins the first full trailer for the fifth installment of FX’s Fargo. In the trailer, we also get a glimpse of Jon Hamm in a hot tub, and Juno Temple as Dot whose attempts to shield her past from her family are quickly unraveling. Jennifer Jason Leigh also stars. Watch the new trailer above.

PREVIOUS, Aug. 17: FX’s fifth season of multi-award-winning series Fargo is returning at 10 p.m. Tuesday, November 21. The network today also unveiled first-look images from the new season (see them below) and revealed more details on the plot of the Noah Hawley-created series spawned from the Best Picture Oscar-nominated 1996 Coen Brothers movie.

It had been teased that the latest edition would be set in 2019 in Minnesota and North Dakota. While Season 4 clocked 11 episodes, Fargo season 5 counts 10.

After an unexpected series of events lands Dorothy “Dot” Lyon (Juno Temple) in hot water with the authorities, this seemingly typical Midwestern housewife suddenly is plunged back into a life she thought she had left behind.  

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North Dakota Sheriff Roy Tillman (Jon Hamm) has been searching for Dot for a long time. A rancher, preacher and a constitutional lawman, Roy believes that he is the law and therefore is above the law. 

At his side is his loyal but feckless son, Gator (Joe Keery), who is desperate to prove himself to his larger-than-life father. Too bad he’s hopeless.  So when it comes to hunting Dot, Roy enlists Ole Munch (Sam Spruell), a shadowy drifter of mysterious origin. 

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With her deepest secrets beginning to unravel, Dot attempts to shield her family from her past, but her doting, well-meaning husband Wayne (David Rysdahl) keeps running to his mother, Lorraine Lyon (Jennifer Jason Leigh), for help. CEO of the largest debt collection agency in the country, the “Queen of Debt” is unimpressed with her son’s choice in a wife and spares no opportunity to voice her disapproval. 

However, when Dot’s unusual behavior catches the attention of Minnesota Police Deputy Indira Olmstead (Richa Moorjani) and North Dakota Deputy Witt Farr (Lamorne Morris), Lorraine appoints her in-house counsel and primary adviser, Danish Graves (Dave Foley), to aid her daughter-in-law. After all, family is family. But Dot has an uncanny knack for survival. And with her back to the wall, she’s about to show why one should never provoke a mother Lyon.

Fargo is produced by Peabody- and Emmy-winning showrunner/writer/director Hawley and his production company 26 Keys, EP Warren Littlefield (The Handmaid’s Tale) and his production company The Littlefield Company, as well as EPs Steve Stark, Kim Todd and Joel and Ethan Coen. The series is produced by MGM Television and FX Productions, with MGM Television serving as the lead studio. The series is internationally distributed by Amazon & MGM Studios Distribution.

Fargo has won six Primetime Emmys including Outstanding Miniseries in 2014.