Fargo season 2 was announced yesterday, and we now have details on where and when it will take place.

When Fargo season 2 was announced yesterday, it was announced that – in the style of HBO’s True Detective – the show would feature an all-new cast of characters, an all-new time period, and an all-new “real crime” story. That’s not completely true.

Fargo season 2 will be a prequel of sorts. It will be set in Sioux Falls, South Dakota in 1979 and feature Keith Carradine’s Lou Solverson character at age 33. This is, of course, the big crime that Lou often referred to throughout season 1.

In a conversation with Billy Bob Thornton’s Lorne Malvo in the penultimate episode of season 1, Lou described the crime that will be the premise of season 2.

“I saw something that year I ain’t ever seen before or ever since. I’d call it animal except animals only kill for food.”

Carradine will be too old to play a 33-year-old version of himself, so he’ll have to be recast. As will his daughter and Fargo season 1 star Molly, played by Allison Tolman. In season 2, she’ll be four years old.

“I am excited to spend some time with Molly’s mom,” Fargo creator Noah Hawley said. Hawley briefly considered casting Tolman as Molly’s mother but decided it wouldn’t be the best choice for authenticity.

Hawley speculated that season 2 would be titled Fargo: Backlash. In addition to Sioux Falls some of the season will take place in Luverne, Minnesota. Like the first season, filming will take place in Calgary.

In season 1, we never specifically learned when Lou’s big incident in Sioux Falls was, and Hawley didn’t pick a time at random.

“That time period is interesting — post-Vietnam, post-Watergate … the best of America versus worst,” Hawley said. “That sense, I think, that this war had come home with people, and the violence and brutality of it. Lou Salverson went to Vietnam and came home, but now he’s come back and it’s here — it’s domestic.”

Source: Deadline.