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Fargo adaptations: films & series
Every version of Fargo — the films & series, compared across media.
The snow-covered landscape of Minnesota is the stage for stories of ordinary people entangled in violence, greed, and catastrophic miscalculation. At the heart of every version of Fargo is that collision — small ambitions meeting large consequences — played out through crime, dark comedy, and moral reckoning. Whether as a feature film or across multiple seasons of an anthology series, Fargo returns again and again to the same cold country and the same troubling question: how do decent places breed such terrible things?
Fargo films
Fargo series
Frequently asked
Is the Fargo TV series based on the 1996 film?
Both Fargo (1996) and the Fargo TV series (2014) share the same Minnesota setting and thematic world of crime and dark consequence, with the series functioning as an anthology expanding on that universe across independent storylines.
How many versions of Fargo are there?
There are two screen versions in this collection: the 1996 feature film Fargo and the 2014 anthology TV series Fargo, which spans multiple seasons each telling a self-contained story.
Should I watch the Fargo movie or series first?
Either works as an entry point — the 1996 film Fargo is a single self-contained story, while the 2014 TV series Fargo is an anthology where each season stands independently, so both are accessible without prior viewing.