More than seven years after the world turned into a frozen, barren land, everything will turn out to be a bad path while some have a different experience. After the Earth turns into a bad path, Snowpiercer is centered on the remains of humanity, who live in a giant and moving train that spins around the world for a powerful adventure.
Daveed Diggs gives a powerful performance as Layton, who organizes the inevitable rebellion against the ruling class even as he's charged with investigating the murder, which turns out to be murders plural.
Even in a show about class divisions and desperate times, the concepts of criminal underworlds both feel like a bridge too far, especially given that the overarching tail end-front end conflict relaxes under the influence of the detective angle.
It just keeps pushing forward, completely unwilling to give you people to care about in this vision of the future, hoping that you'll just go along for the ride.
Snowpiercer a hilariously dumb interpretation of a modern masterpiece, but that's ironically what makes it so fun. The Snowpiercer show is campy, reductive, and super easy to watch.
Bong's movie was a stylized wonder of set design and cinematography, but the series has a generic sci-fi look, and the action could just as easily take place on a spaceship or an underwater outpost.
Snowpiercer is ultimately a disappointment, especially in comparison to the violent revolutionary movie. It feels like three different acts from three different genres of television, all featuring underwritten characters and a wasted backstory.
A perfectly serviceable but somewhat messy adaptation, as the initial central mystery is unable to sustain the ten part narrative, resulting in a rather bumpy ride
The quality of the ensemble, along with a major twist goes a long way in giving proof of [It]'s ability to function as a television series, if not necessarily providing it with the depth that would otherwise make it the next must-see high-concept TV show.
The first season of Snowpiercer weaves a narrative that honors its source material, while also subverting expectations in a way that could sustain itself for multiple seasons. The series tells a story that feels fitting for our current moment.
This isn't Bong's "Snowpiercer," it's TNT's... Still, the series' dead ear for goofy language nearly sends it off the rails with two simple words: "train detective."
