Fargo Season 3 Highlighted as a 10-Part Crime Thriller on Disney+

Scottish actor Ewan McGregor stood out in the Star Wars prequels and brought charm to Tim Burton’s film Big Fish. In the third season of the FX anthology series Fargo, McGregor took on two distinct leading roles at once.

Created by Noah Hawley (Alien: Earth) and inspired by the 1996 Coen brothers film, Fargo follows ordinary people in Minnesota who get tangled up with crime syndicates. While the first two installments stayed close to the darkly comedic thriller style of the original movie, the third season took a much stranger path, making it a distinct run to watch on Hulu.

A preview of the season is available on YouTube.

The third season follows the Stussy twins, two brothers whose lives went in opposite directions. Emmit Stussy (McGregor) is a wealthy family man known across the region as the “Parking Lot King of Minnesota.” His brother Ray (also McGregor) works as a struggling parole officer who deeply resents Emmit. Ray believes Emmit tricked him when their father died by claiming a valuable vintage stamp collection and leaving Ray with their father’s flashier, far less valuable Corvette.

After years of estrangement, Ray blackmails one of his parolees into stealing Emmit’s prized stamp. Ray wants the money to buy an engagement ring for his girlfriend, Nikki Swango (Mary Elizabeth Winstead), who is also one of his parolees. At the same time, a mysterious man named V. M. Varga (David Thewlis) arrives at Emmit’s office to collect on money Emmit borrowed from a shady enterprise.

McGregor fully embraces both roles, leaning into a thick Minnesota accent. The two brothers feel entirely separate on screen, leading up to a sequence where Ray, who has much less hair than Emmit, disguises himself as his brother using a cheap wig.

The supporting cast adds to the strange tone. Thewlis plays Varga as a chilling figure with decayed teeth who delivers unnerving monologues about the collapse of civilization while taking control of Emmit’s business. Russell Harvard returns as the deaf assassin Mr. Wrench, marking a rare character appearance across multiple seasons after his debut in season 1. Winstead stands out as Nikki Swango, encouraging Ray’s worst impulses as their scheme unfolds.

The third installment delivers sudden deaths, intricate plot turns, and bleak comedy reminiscent of both the original Fargo and the Coen brothers’ broader 2008 comedy, Burn After Reading.

Season 2 remains the sharpest installment of the series, while season 1 stays closest to the source material. Season 3 stands apart as the strangest chapter of the anthology, even considering the UFO appearance in the second season.

All seasons of Fargo are available to stream on Hulu.

Source: Polygon