My Love-Hate Relationship With 'Fargo,' A Show That Never Lets You Forget That It's Doing An Art

Yeah, her accent was bad, but then again, EVERY attempted accent in the entire collected works of Fargo has always been bad. People from Minnesota don't talk like Dorothy or Indira or Wayne. Not even the ones from way up north, like near Duluth. Nobody from North Dakota talks like whatever Roy was doing. I

Yeah, her accent was bad, but then again, EVERY attempted accent in the entire collected works of Fargo has always been bad. People from Minnesota don't talk like Dorothy or Indira or Wayne. Not even the ones from way up north, like near Duluth. Nobody from North Dakota talks like whatever Roy was doing. I know it's funny, but it's never been accurate.

I've taken up the view that it's like that explanation for how Will Ferrell played Janet Reno on SNL -- sure, it sounded nothing like her, but it did sound like what she looks like. For Fargo, it's just part of the charm at this point. Kind of like their very, very loose relationship with geography and time.

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