Apr 25, 2026 4:32am PT

‘Fargo’ and ‘Alien: Earth’ Creator Noah Hawley Says YouTube Is His ‘Biggest Competition’: ‘You Are Losing Eyeballs to Things That Are Free’

Hawley said ‘Fargo’ is about the battle between ‘decency and cynicism’ and in the U.S., ‘decency Isn’t winning’: 'We are not going in the right direction’

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Noah Hawley Courtesy of Canneseries

Noah Hawley, creator of TV series “Fargo,” “Legion” or “Alien: Earth,” remains optimistic about the industry.

“It has been a process to become optimistic,” he clarified at Canneseries.

“We are between the old and the new model, but there are masterpieces in every generation and we just have to figure out how to make them now. It’s a larger question about what tech companies have done to Hollywood – we have all been impacted by it. They tend to come into the industry, flood it with money and everyone feels: ‘Oh, it’s a renaissance.’ Then it all dries up.”