Slate Magazine
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Noah Hawley 's fifth season of Fargo premieres Tuesday on FX .
The series has always been a strange bird, part fanboy homage, part radical remix.
Hawley ’s mimetic riffs stirred an uncanny feeling of not-quite recognition.
The Coens would sooner die than admit their work has any greater significance.
Jon Hamm’s Roy Tillman is an authoritarian figure who rules through charisma and brazen self-interest.
Jennifer Jason Leigh's character feels like a jumble of spare parts.
Juno Temple plays Dot with such ah-geez ingenuousness that you know there's a shoe waiting to drop, and drop it does.
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