Oh heck! "Fargo" returns as a TV show. So will we have to brace for another wood-chipper scene?

Co-stars Billy Bob Thornton and Martin Freeman gave us some spoiler-free info about their 10-episode TV series (Tuesdays, 10 p.m. FX). Check out the uncut interview in the VIDEO section to the right, or read on for highlights.

ALLISON WALKER: Gentlemen, we're Floridians. What the heck is this "Minnesota nice" thing?

MARTIN FREEMAN: I don't want to speak for all of Minnesota, especially as a foreigner. But I guess it's the idea that manners are very important in a certain decorum, which, in our show can lead to people not really speaking their mind, not really saying what they really mean or feel, with some hilarious consequences and some disastrous consequences.

AW: You didn't film in Minnesota, though, right? Were you up in Canada freezing your butts off?

MF: We were in Calgary.

BILLY BOB THORNTON: Yea, Calgary was very cold, but a great city. People were very nice to us there. It was a lot of fun filming there.

AW: Billy, your hair was very curious, let's say, in the show. (It looks awesome now, by the way, so thank goodness for that.) What inspired your 'do in the show? It's kinda like a 3 Stooges/Jim Carey concoction.

BBT: Actually, what happened was -- with coming up with a look  -- sometimes you can over-think it and get too involved in it and everything. I knew I was going to dye the hair dark and have the dark beard. Other than that, I didn't really have an idea of any kind of style and I got a bad haircut. It wasn't really fixable. I was just going to have to do a flattop or something. I was looking at myself in the mirror and I said, 'Hang on a second. This is perfect.' Because bangs are often associated with innocence, and this is not an innocent character in the least.

AW: Martin, your face is all beaten up in a clip I saw. Tell me you are never going to see a woodchipper.

MF: No. I'm never going to see a woodchipper. That's spoiler-free information. Yea, we don't do woodchippers.

AW: SO you're in a rotten marriage? What's your deal in "Fargo?"

MF: When we join Lester, he's kinda spent his life being put upon, really, and being bullied and being a victim of circumstance. He's in a job that he doesn't really like and he's not very good at. By a turn of events, he ends up in an ER meeting Billy's character, Lorne Malvo, and they have this interchange that kinda worms its way into Lester's psyche and disturbs him, but also kind of attracts him at the same time and stays with him. By the end of the first episode, we find that Lester is capable of things we never would've thought a half an hour previously.

AW: Billy, your character has an insanely sick sense of humor. So you don't like weak people?

BBT: Malvo is really sort of more from the Animal Kingdom than anything else, so he has, sort of, animal instincts and he smells fear and weakness. He doesn't respect it, so he wants to change it. In a lot of ways, he takes on the role of some kind of strange, sick teacher for people about life.

To hear Thornton talk about Lorne Malvo's "agenda," out full interview is in the VIDEO section up top.