Ja, this landmark dark comedy ran in “Out There,” a 2007 series examining depictions of the Great Plains curated by advisory board member Kurt Andersen.
Joel and Ethan Coen grew up in a suburb of Minneapolis at the same time I was growing up in west Omaha, which is part of the reason, I suppose, that I respond so strongly to their fondly satirical depiction of a certain kind of midwesternism. By which I mean that Marge Gunderson (Frances McDormand) is honest, cheerful, hard-working, low-key, unpretentious—and a crime-solving hero. (Kurt Andersen)
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