The German series "Arthur’s Law" shares the most similarities with Fargo‘s first season. The dramedy centers around the deeply unlucky Arthur Ahnepol (Jan Josef Liefers). When we first meet Arthur - on his birthday, no less - everything about Arthur’s life is sad. He has a wife named Martha (Martina Gedeck) who at best doesn’t respect him and at worst actively hates him. He doesn’t have a job thanks to said wife and her insistence he saw off his hand to collect insurance money. He doesn’t even seem to have any close friends. He’s a man walking through life who is desperate to make real human connections but who is entirely incapable of doing so. 

The first release of the series took place on August 31, 2018. Starting Jan. 7, 2021, the English-language version will be available on HBO Max.

Arthur's Law is a black comedy in series format writer by Benjamin Gutsche and director Christian Zübert. It stars Jan Josef Liefers as Arthur Ahnepol and Martina Gedeck in a double role as his wife Martha and her twin sister Muriel. The series is a joint production of TNT Comedy and good friends Filmproduktion and is about a 50-year-old unemployed man who is dogged by bad luck and lives with his domineering wife Martha in a small town. It was first released on August 31, 2018 on EntertainTV, a portal of Telekom Deutschland. Originally planned only as a five-minute part of a series about urban legends, the main author was then to write the pilot of an entire series. During his research, he found the story of a man who chopped off his hand for an insurance scam. Filming took place from September 19, 2017 to February 16, 2018. Filming took place in Hof and Marktredwitz in the Fichtelgebirge mountains, among other places.