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 has inexplicably gone blind, and needs to be led by Lucky rather than driving him as he had done before, Lucky remains faithful and has not tried to run away; they are clearly bound together by more than a piece of rope in the same way that Didi and Gogo are "[t]ied to Godot". Beckett's advice to the American director Alan Schneider was: "[Pozzo] is a hypomaniac and the only way to play him is to play him mad." "In his [English] translation ... Beckett struggled to retain the French atmosphere as much as possible, so that he delegated all