Fighting cabin fever? 'Snowpiercer' shrinks the entire world onto a train [Unscripted column]
If you have cabin fever now, imagine taking the world’s survivors and shoving them into a train together.
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If you have cabin fever now, imagine taking the world’s survivors and shoving them into a train together.
comments If you watched the second season premiere of "Snowpiercer" you would have been treated to the sight of a failed insurrection and the first glimpse of a charismatic despot threatening the train's freshly won and newly formed democracy. Said autocrat loves cruelty, mind games and thrives on worship. He's also played by the charismatic Sean Bean. For some of us Bean's addition to the "Snowpiercer" mix may be enough reason to clench our jaws through a second season that launches with more surety and narrative clarity than the first while somehow feeling less watchable because . . . look ...
Snowpiercer was conceived as a nonstop thrill ride, and season 1 of the TNT hit lived up to its promise. In the twisty finale, Daveed Diggs’s ex-cop character Andre Layton finally triumphed over the titular train’s ruling class. But just as Layton and hospitality chief Melanie Cavill (played by Jennifer Connolly) joined forces, they and the other passengers aboard the 1,001-car locomotive learned of additional postapocalyptic-world survivors aboard a rival second train. Its name is Big Alice. And though the train is attached behind Snowpiercer at the start of season two (which premiered J...
CinemaBlend Daveed Diggs is a versatile actor with many other roles besides his breakout performances in Hamilton. However, the actor has admittedly struggled to shake the shadow of Thomas Jefferson and Marquis de Lafayette in the years since he put the roles behind him. This isn't the case on Snowpiercer, where he plays post-apocalyptic revolutionary Andre Layton, who has not sang or danced one step since the series' beginning. Ahead of Snowpiercer Season 2, I had the opportunity to speak with Daveed Diggs and, during the conversation, i asked if he was grateful to play a character who do...
A train divided. A future derailed. Snowpiercerseason 1 ended with a twist that revealed the identity of not just serial killer but a psychopath that sets up major conflicts of season 2 and immediately turns life aboard the Great Ark Train upside down. L.J. Folger, the daughter of lawyer Lilah and Robert Folger, is the picture of perfection and the envy of most. in season one she is living the life of luxury in the uptrain with her parents in a First Class carriage. But behind her warm facade lies a true mastermind, the person behind the serial murders on Snowpiercer committed by her bodygu...