‘Fargo’ Season 5 Review: FX Series Returns With More Hapless Criminals and Grotesque Killings

Jon Hamm and Juno Temple steal the show as the anthology series gets back on track

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Juno Temple and Sienna King in "Fargo." (Michelle Faye/FX)

After wayward creative detours with the dreary feature film “Lucy in the Sky” and the over-ambitious fourth season of “Fargo,” Noah Hawley gets back on track with the new season of his FX anthology series.

The latest “Fargo” has all the elements writer-producer-showrunner Hawley knows how to deploy. They may be well-worn tropes at this point: chaos agents, deadpan black comedy, hapless hit men, formidable women, hapless feds, a few good cops, perfectly orchestrated bloodshed beats, hapless wrong kidnap victims, Upper Midwest accents you couldn’t cut with a wood chipper and perhaps a supernatural element or two. But they’ve been craftily reimagined.

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