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The new season ofFargomight be the mostFargothatFargohas ever been.

Also, there were UFOs.

His new story dials back the scale, at least to start.

But I can tell you the premiere, airing April 19, is fantastic.

Fittingly, the folly of assumption and presumption are among the key ideas that frame the story.

The prologue captures your imagination for complexity, paradox and the nature of truth.

An agent of unjust authority can still do good.

A victim of oppression can still be capable of evil.

The scene knocks you off balance, but in doing so, it provides orientation for what follows.

He smacks of phoniness; were suspicious of his wealth.

How did he really make his money?

Hes a balding, pudgy civil servant a parole officer who struggles with cash flow.

Were immediately skeptical about this relationship; were not sure what it says about either of them.

But maybe shes the one manipulating and scamming him?

Still, they have a sweet rapport, and by premieres end, you trust it.

They play competitive bridge as a team.

They take candlelit baths together while counting their meager winnings.

They do other things together, too.

Ray wants to marry Nikki but he needs money to buy a ring.

Ray feels entitled to Emmits generosity.

The seething, Biblical enmity dates back to childhood and concerns a matter of a rare, valuable stamp.

It once belonged to Ray.

It now belongs to Emmit.

Ray thinks he was swindled.

Emmit thinks he obtained it fair and square.

The cast is superb.

Winstead on a roll of late with10 Cloverfield LaneandBrainDead takes it up yet another notch.

McGregor is out-of-the-box phenomenal.

(The premiere got me thinking about another show that interrogated American morals.

The premiere references a character not seen, Ermentraub.

Im told no connection was intended.

I am slightly saddened by this.

Gloria riffs on Frances McDormands Marge.

She promises to be every bit as pragmatic and dogged and righteous, but shes darker, more damaged.

The stamp is an interesting symbol.

Marge lovingly ventilates Norms puffing and corrects him.

(McNair channels both of them in his performance.)

(Emmit also functions as an analog to Jerrys hard-nosed father-in-law in a scene involving him and Ray.

I can go on.

Like I said: noodling.