FX's 10-episode series Fargo opened with a similar disclaimer to the 1996 movie of that title: “This is a true story. The events depicted took place in Minnesota in 2006. At the request of the survivors, the names have been changed. Out of respect for the dead, the rest has been told exactly as it occurred.”
Those words were intended not as a lie, but as notice that viewers would be entering into the same world as the original story, at a later point, with a different cast of characters. Fargo the movie is a dark comedy set in Fargo, Minnesota in 1987.
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