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Fargo
Fargo premiered on FX in April 2014, created by Noah Hawley as an anthology series inspired by the Coen Brothers' 1996 film of the same name, with each season telling an entirely new self-contained crime story set in the same broader Upper Midwest region and sharing the film's distinctive tonal blend of dark violence and deadpan regional comedy. Hawley secured the Coen Brothers' direct blessing and executive-producer involvement for the series, a genuinely significant endorsement for a television adaptation of an acclaimed film, and the show's anthology format let it recruit a rotating roster of major film actors for each season, including Billy Bob Thornton, Kirsten Dunst, Ewan McGregor, and Jon Hamm. The series became known for weaving genuine historical events and figures into its otherwise fictional crime narratives across different seasons and time periods, a structural choice that let each installment explore different specific decades of Upper Midwest regional history and culture. Fargo's combination of its direct Coen Brothers endorsement and its anthology structure recruiting major film talent for each self-contained regional crime story has made it one of the most critically respected crime anthology series of the streaming and prestige-cable era.
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Dexter
Dexter premiered on Showtime in October 2006, based on Jeff Lindsay's series of novels, starring Michael C. Hall as a Miami police blood-spatter analyst who secretly moonlights as a serial killer targeting other murderers who've evaded justice, guided by a personal code taught to him by his adoptive father. The show's genuinely unusual premise — asking audiences to root for a serial killer protagonist by making his victims exclusively other killers — drew significant critical attention for its dark comedic tone and Hall's performance, and the series became one of Showtime's most commercially significant original dramas during its original eight-season run. The show's original 2013 series finale drew widespread and lasting critical backlash as one of the most poorly received endings in television history, a reception significant enough that Showtime later revived the franchise with "Dexter: New Blood" in 2021, specifically framed in part as an attempt to give the character and its audience a more satisfying conclusion. Dexter's combination of its genre-defining "sympathetic serial killer" premise and its unusually direct franchise response to fan backlash over its original ending has made it one of the most discussed and revisited crime dramas of the 21st century.
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