KANSAS CITY, Mo. _ Season 4 of "Fargo" was all set to premiere April 19 _ the season we especially cared about because it's set in 1950 Kansas City.
But like so much in this coronavirus-ravaged world, the show is delayed indefinitely.
"Due to the postponement of production related to the coronavirus, the fourth installment of FX's award-winning limited series 'Fargo' will no longer premiere on Sunday, April 19th," FX Networks said in a statement. "A new premiere date will be determined once production resumes."
The series had only two episodes left to film, according to AdWeek. They weren't filming in Kansas City, however. Chicago had to pretend to be Kansas City.
In this season, Chris Rock stars as the head of a fictional KC black crime family who has struck an uneasy and unusual truce with the rival Italian mob. There's some kernel of truth to that last bit, since the Italian Mafia was in its heyday in Kansas City in the 1950s.
Disappointed fans were already waiting three years for more from the anthology series, which was inspired by the 1996 comedy thriller from the Coen Brothers, set in their native Minnesota.
Here's FX's description:
"In 1950 Kansas City, the fourth installment of Fargo centers on two criminal syndicates who are fighting for a piece of the American dream and have struck an uneasy peace. Together, they control an alternate economy of exploitation, graft and drugs. To cement their truce, Loy Cannon (Chris Rock), the head of the African American crime family, trades his youngest son Satchel (Rodney Jones), to his enemy Donatello Fadda (Tomasso Ragno), the head of the Italian mafia. In return, Donatello surrenders his youngest son Zero (Jameson Braccioforte) to Loy.
"Intertwined with this tale of immigration, assimilation, and power, are the stories of Josto Fadda (Jason Schwartzman), the impulsive and self-indulgent heir apparent to the Fadda Crime Family; Donatello's adopted son Rabbi Milligan (Ben Whishaw); Detective Odis Weff (Jack Huston); Oraetta Mayflower (Jessie Buckley); Ethelrida Pearl Smutny (E'myri Crutchfield), the precocious 16-year-old daughter of Thurman (Andrew Bird) and Dibrell Smutny (Anji White) and U.S. Marshal Dick "Deafy" Wickware (Timothy Olyphant)."
