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And as others have already noted, the miniseries was [full of Coen Easter eggs](http://popwatch.ew.com/2014/06/17/fargo-film-series-references-season-finale/). In an [interview with Alan Sepinwall](http://www.hitfix.com/whats-alan-watching/fargo-creator-noah-hawley-talks-season-1-and-the-possibility-of-season-2/1), writer-producer Noah Hawley says he’s still thinking over the possibilities for a potential new season of the show, though a few options seem already ruled out. The Lorne Malvo / Lester Nygaard story is over, and Hawley believes (probably rightly) that continuing in the same setting with the same characters would turn the show into a quirky _Picket Fences_ serial. I’m guessing, for the same reason, that it wouldn’t work to tell another Minnesota-nice-vs.-evil story in the same setting but a different year. And yet I’m guessing the series was both popular and acclaimed enough that it will be irresistible to continue, in _American Horror Story_ anthology form. Hawley could, say, tell different “true”-crime stories set in different regions–it had no problem relocating to Vegas briefly, for instance, and while it may be odd to have a season 2 of _Fargo_ set in, say, Florida, most of _Fargo_ didn’t take place in Fargo either. But if Hawley and FX want another idea, my original review gives me one: why not turn _Fargo_ into, essentially, Coen Brothers Theater, each season telling a different story loosely, dreamily inspired by one of the Coens’ movies? A few possibilities: **\* No Country for Old Men.** On the one hand, as I say above, there were already elements of this story in _Fargo_ season one–and arguably, in many ways _Breaking Bad_ already applied much of **No Country**‘s aesthetic and moral themes to TV. But it’s the kind of bleak, elemental, violent story that’s all but made for FX, so it would have to be tempting. **\* Inside Llewyn Davis**. This is probably one of the less commercial possibilities for a Coen TV adaptation–which is why it would be my dream project. Even after _Mad Men_, a miniseries about the folk music scene of the early ’60s would be a hard show to pitch at any network, but after the success of _Fargo_‘s first season, FX and Hawley have some cultural capital to get viewers to take a chance with them: why not a story about what it means to be an artist? **\* O Brother, Where Art Thou?** Failing a _Llewyn Davis_ adaption, a musical, or musical-esque period piece like this, with a more accessible sense of humor, might be a more sellable way of changing up from the dark crime themes of the first season, while still getting a chance to play with those distinctive Coen voices. **\* Raising Arizona.** Of course, if Hawley and FX want to go more comic with the next season, why not go all the way? A screwball caper comedy involving crime, class, parenting and fertility could be smart fun. And might I suggest re-casting Allison Tolman in a Holly-Hunter-esque role? **\* The Big Lebowski.** _The Internet would explode_. The Coens have a big library of work of course, so they could keep a franchise like this supplied for a decade and more. 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