SHOW SPOILERS: While Season 2 of FX' Fargo has seemed a little slower getting started sans Billy Bob Thornton's murderous Lorne Malvo, Ted Danson's lawman is destined to stand up to the Kansas City mafia à la O.K. Coral, any day now. According to the iconic Cheers actor, Sheriff Larsson will soon face down the hard hitting heavies in an unwinnable battle to the death in Noah Hawley's new TV adaption of the Coen Brothers classic. Despite Kirsten Dunst's Peggy having already running down Rye Gerhard in the 2015 premiere, the Spider Man alum insists that the ditzy hairdresser never thought things would end in murder.
By Episode 4 of Fargo's debut season it seems like Billy Bob Thornton had killed everyone from the sheriff to the town bully, but in Season 2, showrunner Noah Hawley seems to have dialed the action back a bit.
Thankfully, in a recent interview with Vanity Fair, Ted Danson promised that his character, Sheriff Hank Larson, is destined to go out in a blaze of glory before season's end:
"He's not overwhelmed by the senselessness around him, the violence, but he's saddened. So he tries to do something about it.
"But for me it's just wonderful, he's this guy who ends up standing up against the bad guys in this gunfight he can't win. He's an old-time quiet cowboy hero kind of guy."
With the local and the Kansas City mafias both looking for Kirsten Dunst in Episode 4, there is no telling what Peggy will have to do to survive, but Kirsten insists that her character doesn't really seen capable of murder.
Despite Peggy's leaving a man she ran over with her car all but dead in her garage, Dunst told The Wrap that she always had the very best of intensions in mind:
"In my brain, when Peggy gets out of the car, she's trying to decide whether to take him to the hospital or the police station. Like, 'What do I do?' And then when she gets back in, she thinks she's going to go home and decide there and make the decision there.
"So that's what was going through my head, she was just so overwhelmed by what happened that she didn't know what to do, that it was just like a mental block."
In the wake of this season's lagging ratings, let's hope that Ted Danson's old west inspired shootout brings back some of last year's fans before it's too late.
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