This is the first TV show spin-off of the movie Fargo (1996). A pilot was shot and aired but the series was not picked up.
Originally a 1997 script for a proposed TV series featuring the characters of Marge Gunderson and Officer Lou, written by Bruce Paltrow and Robert Palm.
A second attempt at a spin off from the film was successfully made in 2014, as an anthology about the history of the town, rather than the characters from the film.
Fargo is an actual town in North Dakota, and is considered a "nothing town".