Adding this to the OP:
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[Billy Bob] Thornton plays a mysterious, menacing drifter named Lorne Malvo, who arrives in a small town and infects certain people with the malice and violence he carries like a virus. In this, Fargo lands squarely in a literary and movie storytelling tradition – the stranger comes to town, and nothing is ever the same.
And in this instance the person changed forever by the stranger is mild, put-upon insurance salesman Lester Nygaard, played with relish by Martin Freeman, who’s familiar from his role as Watson on Sherlock and the movie The Hobbit. Lester’s the little guy who was bullied in school and stayed bullied in life. Malvo suggests he stop taking punishment from others. He takes the advice and is profoundly changed.
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I wish FX would be more forthcoming with news, but reviews from the TCA's are almost universally the same as the end of the above article: "...Fargo is very, very good. There’s no misunderstanding about that."
