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FX's Fargo Taps Chris Rock to Lead 1950's Kansas City, Missouri Set Season 4

And like that, we have a fourth season of FX's Fargo. As part of a series of announcements stemming from the cable network as part of their Television Critics Association's (TCA) summer press tour event, FX Networks and FX Productions CEO John Landgraf announced that comedian/actor/author Chris Rock (Top Five) will headline Noah Hawley's Emmy award-winning series as head of a crime family in 1950's Kansas City, Missouri.

Here's a look an overview of the upcoming season of Fargo:

In 1950, at the end of two great American migrations — that of Southern Europeans from countries like Italy, who came to the US at the turn of the last century and settled in northern cities like New York, Chicago — and African Americans who left the south in great numbers to escape Jim Crow and moved to those same cities — you saw a collision of outsiders, all fighting for a piece of the American dream. In Kansas City, Missouri, two criminal syndicates have struck an uneasy peace. One Italian, one African American. Together they control an alternate economy — that of exploitation, graft and drugs. This too is the history of America. To cement their peace, the heads of both families have traded their eldest sons.

Rock plays the head of one family, a man who — in order to prosper — has surrendered his oldest boy to his enemy, and who must in turn raise his son's enemy as his own. It's an uneasy peace, but profitable. And then the head of the Kansas City mafia goes into the hospital for routine surgery and dies. And everything changes.

It's a story of immigration and assimilation, and the things we do for money. And as always, a story of basically decent people who are probably in over their heads. You know, Fargo.

The four-time Emmy winning, three-time Grammy winning, New York Times best-selling author recently completed his Total Blackout comedy tour (and serving as the basis for two Netflix standup specials, beginning with Tamborine). Recently, Rock reunited with Adam Sandler for the Netflix film The Week Of; and executive produced BET's late-night talk show, The Rundown with Robin Thede.

Interestingly, Hawley wasn't sure what direction the series would take if there was a fourth season of the series when he spoke to The New York Times in June 2017:

"I don't. It's a big challenge, every one of these — to come up with both a crime to hang it on and a large cast of characters on a collision course — each has to be new and interesting and have a different point of view. But we are exploring certain archetypes that are inescapable on a moral spectrum: There always has to be a Marge and a Jerry and a [Steve] Buscemi and a Peter Stormare, those kinds of pure good and pure evil and moral challenges in the middle. At a certain point, you don't want to repeat yourself, so the question becomes: 'What's left to say? What's interesting to say?'"

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