Fargo is the optimistic counter-point to No Country..., each starring hard-working, small-town cops dealing with a crime so beyond their usual work that it stirs an existential crisis. However, where Jones' character seems forfeited to the insurmountable evil, Marge (best character ever?) is unflappable in her determination to beat the bad guys; this covers both ends of Coen-nihilism. Simpler, Fargo is as pure as the fresh-fallen snow, delicately balancing dry rural humor with pointed & surprising bursts of violence.