Waiting for Dutch Waiting for Dutch "Waiting for Dutch" is second season premiere episode of the FX anthology series "Fargo", and the eleventh episode of the series overall. It was written by series creator and showrunner Noah Hawley and directed by Michael Uppendahl and Randall Einhorn, making it the only episode in the series with two directors. The title refers to the Samuel Beckett play "Waiting for Godot", and to Ronald Reagan, occasionally nicknamed "Dutch", who appears via archival footage. As each season of "Fargo" follows its own self-contained narrative, "Waiting for Dutch", set in 1979, introduces a new storyline and cast, along
Waiting for Godot on as a ringmaster—but Beckett dissuaded him: "I don't in my ignorance agree with the round and feel "Godot" needs a very closed box." He even contemplated at one point having a "faint shadow of bars on stage floor" but, in the end, decided against this level of what he called "explicitation". In his 1975 Schiller Theater production, there are times when Didi and Gogo appear to bounce off something "like birds trapped in the strands of [an invisible] net", in James Knowlson's description. "Because the play is so stripped down, so elemental, it invites all kinds of social and