Chaos is the order of the day in Season 5 of the FX series “Fargo,” starting with the opening scene: a meeting of a “Fall Festival Planning Committee” in a middle school auditorium in a suburb of Saint Paul in 2019, where all hell has broken loose. With parents and administrators flailing away at each other in slow motion and prog-rock greats Yes on the soundtrack (“Take a straight and stronger course, to the corner of your life …”), a petite mother who is trying to guide her daughter to safety unleashes her Taser twice — first on a teacher who has screamed at her, “No one is listening to me!” and then on a local police officer who happens to be in the wrong place at the wrong time.
“I’ve seen all good people turn their heads each way, so satisfied I’m on my way,” is the chorus from Yes, as the mother is cuffed and placed in the back of a squad car.
