Series: The wild, wild Midwest: 'Fargo' the smartest show on TV

29 April 2016 - 02:15
By Staff Reporter

It's back to the bleak wintry Midwest for the second season of Fargo (MNet Edge, Channel 102 DStv), the spin-off series from the Coen Brothers' hit 1996 movie of the same name, and what is easily the smartest show on TV at the moment.Set in 1979, and a prequel of sorts to the first season, it's ostensibly a gang war saga as Kansas City mobsters, led by creepy Mike Milligan (Bokeem Woodbine), move to the country to muscle in on the operations of a Fargo crime family led by the Lady Macbeth-like m...

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