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

· Rashomon (Rashomon) · Redemption (Groundhog Day, Jaws, Tootsie) · Hero Falls (Chinatown, The Godfather, The Shining) · Alternate Reality (It’s a Wonderful Life, Groundhog Day, Back to the Future, The Post-Birthday World). A variation of this is “The Road Not Taken” story (Sliding Doors, Family Man) · Chase/On the Run (The Fugitive, Thelma And Lou

After all, our favorite episodes of Breaking Bad or Game of Thrones are when something happens. Good or bad. Because we know this will push the character. This will lead to growth, or change, or loss. And we love it. We know that for these characters, pain is the vehicle that takes them from where they are to where they’re afraid to but need to go.

The concept of The Big Lebowski is “Let’s take the genre of the Private Eye Story but make our hero not a hardbitten detective but a sweet, loveable stoner.”