‘Fargo’

With this 1996 hit Joel and Ethan Coen go back to their hometown of Minneapolis to do their version of a true-crime tale. The cheerful, chipper and very much pregnant chief of police of Brainerd, Minn., Marge Gunderson, was created by the Coens specifically for Frances McDormand (pictured) (Showtime Thursday at 8 p.m.).