Abstract

Chapter 9 of Television With Stanley Cavell In Mind, edited by David LaRocca and Sandra Laugier, University of Exeter Press, 2023, p. 173-190. Can season 1 of the Fargo series provoke philosophical astonishment? In other words, can it raise a suspicion that there may be more going on in the world than meets the eye? And are the things that are really going on behind the scenes likely to nourish a philosophical "meta-narrative" held out to us by the series, i.e. a narrative situated beyond the story we are told? Finally, despite the many differences between the two works, how faithful is the series to the Coen brothers' film it was adapted from? Open Access PDF