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30 Mar

Snowpiercer Season 2 Episode 10 Review: Into the White

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This Snowpiercer review contains spoilers. Snowpiercer Season 2 Episode 10 For the fifth time in the history of the show, the titular train of Snowpiercer finds itself under new ownership. Wilford built the thing, and then Melanie (Jennifer Connelly) stole it. She ran it successfully for 7 years, until it was taken over by Layton (Daveed Diggs). Layton’s tenure was not nearly as successful, because a returning Mr. Wilford (Sean Bean) hooked up to the tail end of Snowpiercer and took the thing back over, sending Layton and Ruth (Alison Wright) to the compost heap for their troubles. Nevertheless, where…
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30 Mar

Snowpiercer Season 2 Episode 9 Review: The Show Must Go On

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This Snowpiercer review contains spoilers. Snowpiercer Season 2 Episode 9 The people got what they wanted. Mr. Wilford has retaken control of Snowpiercer, and with every push of a mop or scrub of a rag, the lingering reminders of Andre Layton’s class war disappear. No more anti-Tail graffiti. No more breechmen versus brakemen. Ruth, in her cold opening, describes it as the picture of efficiency. Everyone is going to work, food supplies are good, and things are working better than they have in a long time, so long as you don’t look too deep into what is going on behind…
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16 Mar

Snowpiercer Season 2 Episode 8 Review: The Eternal Engineer

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This Snowpiercer review contains spoilers. Snowpiercer Season 2 Episode 8 Andre Layton has had to give up a lot for the greater good. He’s lost friends and lovers in the intrigues prior to the war, and more once the conflict turned bloody. He’s given up food to maintain Strong Boy. He’s struggled and scrapped, cashed in favors and given out new ones. He’s done everything he can do to get control of Snowpiercer and build a better world on Wilford’s train. And yet, when his revolution is about to turn full democracy, Wilford shows back up and kicks off an…
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09 Mar

Snowpiercer Season 2 Episode 7 Review: Our Answer for Everything

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This Snowpiercer review contains spoilers. Snowpiercer Season 2 Episode 7 There’s always someone to fear on Snowpiercer. Till establishes it well during her cold opening narration. Seven billion lost in the deep freeze versus eight people killed by brutal violence on board the train. Death seems like it should be a familiar friend for the passengers on board, but when humanity’s population is down into four digits at best, it’s not surprising that every loss hits harder than the impossible to comprehend figure of seven billion. Even when that seven billion contains family and friends, it’s not the same as…
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02 Mar

Snowpiercer Season 2 Episode 6 Review: Many Miles From Snowpiercer

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This Snowpiercer review contains spoilers. Snowpiercer Season 2 Episode 6 The first season of Snowpiercer, when you dug through all the sci-fi trappings, was a simple mash-up of a standard dystopian end-of-the-world society and a film noir, with Daveed Diggs playing both the speechifying revolutionary and the hard-boiled, world-weary detective all at once. He has seen it all, he is over it all, and he is ready to shake everything up and give something new a try. One way or the other, he was over the status quo. However, one film noir trope that Snowpiercer did not really indulge in…
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23 Feb

Snowpiercer Season 2 Episode 5 Review: Keep Hope Alive

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This Snowpiercer review contains spoilers. Snowpiercer Season 2 Episode 5 The introduction of Icy Bob was a bit concerning. Snowpiercer is as much as hard sci-fi show as anything, with most of the luxury of First Class balanced out by the hard work of Second and Third Class passengers who keep the lights on and put food on the table. We have seen them composting, carefully guarding their vegetables, using everything possible, and wasting little or nothing as they try to keep everyone fed and watered. The struggle has been evident on the faces, particularly among the people of the…
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16 Feb

Snowpiercer Season 2 Episode 4 Review: A Single Trade

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This Snowpiercer review contains spoilers. Snowpiercer Season 2 Episode 4 Two of the more curious aspects of Snowpiercer is the fact that there’s a cabaret/bar/talk therapy center called the Night Car and that the tea room has become the de-facto church for anyone on board the train who still has faith in some sort of higher power. The need for religious services and entertainment is a known factor, but the fact that both the Night Car and the Tea Room serve more as locations for counseling than their original locations is interesting, to say the least. Like everything else on…
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09 Feb

Snowpiercer Season 2 Episode 3 Review: A Great Odyssey

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This Snowpiercer review contains spoilers. Snowpiercer Season 2 Episode 3 A friend of mine from high school dropped out of college and bounced around multiple jobs before he got a job he loves. He now works as, of all things, an engineer in a train yard. Rather than taking the trains out on long hauls, he drives to the yard and moves trains around from the shed to the appropriate track and back as needed. The work is hard and outdoors in all weather, but satisfying enough that, last time we spoke, he was still an engineer. Even his relatively…
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02 Feb

Snowpiercer Season 2 Episode 2 Review: Smolder to Life

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This Snowpiercer review contains spoilers. Snowpiercer Season 2 Episode 2 A show like Snowpiercer seems tailor-made for the winter. After all, it’s cold outside, so you might as well stay in. Sure, you’re probably still quarantined with your household after a long year, but at least you’re not stuck on a train. At least you’re not stuck on a train rattling around a frozen death world eating canned meat while waiting to become fertilizer (or canned meat yourself). As bad as things might be out here, at least it’s not Snowpiercer-bad these days; there are signs of hope everywhere, with…
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26 Jan

Snowpiercer Season 2 Episode 1 Review: The Time of Two Engines

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This Snowpiercer review contains spoilers. Snowpiercer Season 2 Episode 1 Upon leaving the Constitutional Convention in 1787, Benjamin Franklin was asked about what the new form of government for the United States of America would be. Franklin’s response has remained a famous example of the clever inventor’s wit and wisdom. Franklin replied, “A republic, if you can keep it.” The fledgling country, so recently freed from British rule and still coming to terms with what it was going to be, faced a multitude of threats, both foreign and domestic. The fledgling revolution on Snowpiercer, still patching wounds and cleaning up…
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09 Oct

Snowpiercer Season 2 Gets Release Date, New Teaser

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Based on the graphic novel and Bong Joon-ho film of the same name, TNT’s sci-fi drama Snowpiercer came around at a peculiar time in TV history. The highly political series imagined a world in which people were forced to live in close quarters amid apocalyptic climate conditions and debate the soul-crushing nature of class differences. And bear in mind the first season premiered in May near the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. Despite that heavy subject matter, Snowpiercer became cable television’s most-watched shows. During the series’ appearance at the socially-distanced 2020 New York Comic Con, TNT announced a release date…
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13 Jul

Snowpiercer Season 2 Trailer Reveals Sean Bean’s Role

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The following contains spoilers for Snowpiercer episode 10. Sean Bean heard all your little jokes about how frequently his characters die so for his next role, he’s bringing one back from the dead.  Moments after Snowpiercer’s first season wrapped on TNT, the network unveiled a first look teaser for Snowpiercer season 2. And in said teaser, Sean Bean emerges as a very important figure in Snowpiercer lore (as teased in the finale). Give the clip a watch below and meet us on the other side for all the spoilers.  🚨SPOILER ALERT 🚨🚨SPOILER ALERT 🚨If Season One left you speechless, then…
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13 Jul

Snowpiercer Episode 10 Review: 994 Cars Long

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This Snowpiercer review contains spoilers. Snowpiercer Episode 10 A history lesson learned, over and over, is that conquering a territory is much easier than governing it. Even if the revolution is just, once the bloodshed stops and the compromises begin, not every general is a George Washington-level statesman. The bodies have barely been frozen and the blood still stains the floors and yet, there’s already another threat demanding Layton’s attention. It’s not looting or worries in First Class, it’s something much harder to put a stop to. There’s another train, and it’s coming to link up to Snowpiercer.  Snowpiercer has…
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13 Jul

Snowpiercer Episode 9 Review: The Train Demanded Blood

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This Snowpiercer review contains spoilers. Snowpiercer Episode 9 As a series, Snowpiercer has done a great job of respecting the power of a ticking clock. A lot of the actions that Layton and company have taken have been timed, measured, and planned out to the most careful of degrees to take advantage of something on the train, from a shift change to doors opening for lunch service, and that necessary clock-watching serves “The Train Demanded Blood” well during its tense, world-changing climax. The characters are acutely aware of the passage of time, of the ticking clock, of their opportunities slowly…
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06 Jul

Snowpiercer Episode 8 Review: These Are His Revolutions

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This Snowpiercer review contains spoilers. Snowpiercer Episode 8 The only thing keeping Snowpiercer in any sort of working order, aside from hard work and Third Class laborers, is belief. The belief that Mr. Wilford is up in the front of the train, guiding the eternal engine, making sure everyone has enough food, and space, and frolic to keep them all from going mad. Mr. Wilford, the benevolent genius behind the life-saving train, and the man single-handedly keeping the human race from extinction. For people like Ruth (Alison Wright), Wilford is next to God in their eyes. For people like the…
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02 Apr

Snowpiercer TV Show Release Date, Cast, Trailer, Story, and News

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Snowpiercer, TNT’s upcoming hour-long TV show will adapt newly Oscar-winning director Bong Joon-ho’s 2013 South Korean dystopian sci-fi film of the same name. The Snowpiercer TV show will be headlined by an Oscar winner in Jennifer Connelly, who is joined by Hamilton stage standout Daveed Diggs. Plus, Doctor Strange helmer Scott Derrickson directed the pilot (sans reshoots). With Snowpiercer’s uniquely stylized dystopian premise, coupled with its overt political themes of class division, there will certainly be much with which to work when it comes to a prospective ongoing television series. TNT has ordered the project to series, although it always seemed likely, as…
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