FX's Fargo may have had its share of skeptics going in. I mean who wouldn't hold some reservations about a TV adaptation of the 1996 Coen Brothers classic. But boy, you betcha, did the series win us over and win us over quick. Billy Bob Thornton and Martin Freeman were great casting "gets," giving the show a bit of star power, but it was the entire ensemble that resonated. Along with the lovingly well-executed recreation of the movie's explosive violence, darkly humorous tone and regional quirkage.

And at the heart of it all was Allison Tolman's Molly Solverson, a determined Bemidji deputy who was convinced that milquetoast local, Lester Nygaard (Freeman), was up to no darned good.Fargo Season One is now available on DVD and Blu-ray, filled with cast interviews, behind-the-scenes featurettes, and audio commentary tracks. I had a chance to speak with Tolman about the new Blu-ray, her experience on the series, her favorite episode, and what she looks forward to seeing in Season 2.

Martin Freeman and Allison Tolman in Fargo.

[laughs] Doesn't it? I want to stuff it in my stocking. No, but seriously, I'm thrilled. I can't wait. It's almost been exactly a year since I left to go start filming. So it's been a year since my life took this bizarre turn and pushed me down the rabbit hole a bit. So yeah, having all of that wrapped up in a box, with DVD extras and interviews with everyone, is so exciting. And I want to watch all of it.I can, yeah. Maybe to my own detriment, but I watched all of Fargo probably more than once. And I tend to be a little critical of myself. But I can also let things go. So I can think "Well that moment didn't read as well as I thought it would" but it doesn't keep me up at night.I was aware of most everything, but towards the end they weren't actually giving full scripts out to everyone. But I was able to read the full scripts through to the end so I knew where all the narratives were going. And there were certainly some things that I was excited to see on TV. To see how they turned out. Like the elevator scene with Lester and Malvo in Vegas. I was really excited to see the way that came out. So I was watching not just to see how my co-stars were performing the the scenes I wasn't there to play with them in, but also just to see how the storytelling was coming together based on what I had read. And in the end I guess I wound up just as much of a fan of the show as a lot of people. I just really enjoyed watching it.They let me do episode eight, which is my favorite. [laughs] So they were very kind. I think I said it in so many interviews that eight was my favorite so then they were like "Allison, would you like to do commentary for eight?" And I was like "Yay!" So it's Noah [Hawley, EP/creator/writer] and I doing the commentary for "The Heap." Because the time-jump is my favorite.You know, about a couple of weeks before filming we'd started speculating because they asked me to cut my hair [laughs]. So that gave me some notice. And then the crew had gotten the script before the cast and we'd heard a bit of buzz. And someone had spotted a storyboard in an office that showed Gus and Molly's house. So I was like "What's happening?" So we were kind of putting it all together around the same time that they were coming up with the script. But even just kind of knowing that it was coming and knowing that they were going to chop nine inches off of my hair, reading that script was still super-thrilling. I was so excited. It was so well done.I think it also created an opportunity for people to be thrilled that Gus and Molly had gotten together - but then also be immediately terrified about what was going to happen. Because once the stakes were that high everyone almost plummeted into the depths of despair because they figured that someone wasn't going to make it. And it really raised the stakes for the last two episodes. Just genius storytelling.

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