After Five Seasons of ‘Fargo,’ Noah Hawley Is Still Rooting for America

The fact that in the middle of a multimillion-dollar production we’re doing a 10-minute puppet show, there’s some humor to that. My hope was that we were approaching this problem in a creative way that ultimately did not feel abusive to the audience.

The idea from a dialogue point of view was, he was a man who sold his soul, so he basically surrendered the sense of I or me. He never refers to himself as I or me; it’s always “a man.” He is a sort of elemental figure and an ancient character who can’t seem to die. As he says in the last episode, “I didn’t speak to anyone for a century.” So what w... See more

As a storyteller, do you ever think that means we’ve run out of things to say?

No. Families get together and they tell stories. How many times have you talked about that summer where dad drove the car into the lake, or whatever? There’s something reassuring to revisiting stories, the kind of ancient storytelling tradition of the campfire: “Tell me ... See more