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How to watch Fargo season 5 online: stream the black comedy series from anywhere

Fargo season 5 actor Jon Hamm leans on a livestock fence wearing a cowboy hat.

Watch Fargo season 5 online

Watch Fargo season 5 through the FX channel or Sling TV in the US, or wait a day and stream new episodes on Hulu. Australian fans watch FREE on SBS On Demand, while UK viewers will need a Prime Video subscription. Use a VPN to watch Fargo season 5 from anywhere if you're travelling away from home.

Fargo season 5: preview

It’s been three years since we last visited Fargo’s Midwestern milieu, and advance word suggests that it’ll be well worth the wait, with season 5 – starring Juno Temple, Jon Hamm, and Jennifer Jason Leigh – hailed as "darkly funny" and “a return to peak form”. We can’t wait to see it, and below we explain how to watch Fargo season 5 online – and for free in some places.

Based on the Coen Brothers 1996 film, Noah Hawley’s anthology series replicates the movie’s key ingredients – ordinary individuals on the wrong side of the law, hapless criminals, Midwestern setting, and buckets of sometimes shocking black humor.

Yet each new season presents a compellingly original story told using a unique, expertly judged A-list ensemble. Billy Bob Thornton manipulated Martin Freeman into doing terrible things in the show’s first season, while Chris Rock and Jason Schwartzman played the figureheads of two warring crime families set against the backdrop of 1950s Missouri.

The series’ fifth instalment – which Hawley gleefully admits leans more into the show’s comedy – will take place in Minnesota circa 2019. Juno Temple (Ted Lasso) plays as the ostensibly mild-mannered "Dot" Lyon, a housewife whose dangerous past life threatens to erupt into the present after she single-handedly overpowers two armed kidnappers.

Pursued by a former rival – sheriff and preacher Roy Tillman (Jon Hamm), aided by his inept son “Gator” (Stranger Things’ Joe Keery) – and drawing the attention of two North Dakota deputies (Lamorne Morris and Indira Olmstead) perplexed by the woman’s bizarre behavior, Lyon finds herself fighting to protect her family from a life she tried to leave behind.

Described by TV line as "a lean and mean, back-to-basics thrill ride packed with laughs and frights," catch every episode of the returning black comedy series with our guide below, which details how to watch Fargo season 5 online now and from anywhere in the world.


How to watch Fargo season 5 online in the US

How to watch Fargo season 5 online from outside your country

If you’re travelling abroad when Fargo season 5 airs, you’ll be unable to watch the show like you normally would due to annoying regional restrictions. Luckily, there’s an easy solution. 

Downloading a VPN will allow you to stream online, no matter where you are. It's a simple bit of software that changes your IP address, meaning that you can access on-demand content or live TV just as if you were at home.

Use a VPN to watch Fargo season 5 from anywhere.

How to watch Fargo season 5 online in Canada

How to watch Fargo season 5 online in the UK

How to watch Fargo season 5 online in Australia

Fargo season 5, episode guide

  • Episode 1 – "The Tragedy of the Commons": Tuesday, November 21
  • Episode 2 – "Trials and Tribulations": Tuesday, November 21
  • Episode 3 – "The Paradox of Intermediate Transactions": Tuesday, November 28
  • Episode 4 – "Insolubilia": Tuesday, December 5
  • Episode 5 – "The Tiger": Tuesday, December 12
  • Episode 6 – "The Tender Trap": Tuesday, December 19
  • Episode 7 – "Linda": Tuesday, December 26
  • Episode 8 – Title TBC: Tuesday, January 2
  • Episode 9 – Title TBC: Tuesday, January 9
  • Episode 10 – Title TBC: Tuesday, January 16
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