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Snowfall review12/27/2022 Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast.Oscar-nominated director John Singleton ("Boyz N the Hood") co-created the drama series and says he drew inspiration from his own life for Franklin's story. Also getting involved in the cocaine trade is CIA operative Teddy, who is running from a dark past and begins an off-book operation to fund Nicaraguan Contras. Getting involved with the new drug is setting her on a violent collision course with the likes of Franklin, a young street entrepreneur on a quest for power, and former Mexican wrestler Gustavo, who is caught up in a power struggle within a crime family. Ambitious Lucia - the daughter of a Mexican crime lord who sells marijuana throughout the city - sees the burgeoning cocaine business as a potential moneymaker, so she manipulates her family into entering the more dangerous and profitable territory than pot. It's 1983 and the crack cocaine epidemic is in its infancy in Los Angeles. Join us on the SNOWFALL AFTER SHOW every week as we break down and discuss the themes and actions of every episode weekly! Subscribe and comment for guest interviews, exclusive news and gossip, and more!! We're about to kick it old school and maybe get arrested because we're talking all about Lucia's rise to power alongside Franklin, the power struggles that ensue, and maybe a little drug trade. A wide range of events such as Teedy’s reconciliations, Franklin’s corner boy drama, and Andre’s repass leave the team speechless. So far though, it’s not clear whether all these different dramatic threads can be made to knit convincingly together.Hosts Porchia Carter, Tyra Prude and L Marie discuss the craziness of what they believe was a hallucination on tonight's episode. Singleton’s effort to depict the way drugs and their related criminal networks are like a game of three-dimensional chess running through different layers of society is undeniably ambitious. With a bit of help from his Aunt Louie and her gun-toting connection Claudia, Franklin is soon eyeing up panoramic new horizons of opportunity (pictured above). When he happens to meet scary Israeli drug potentate Avi Drexler, Franklin sees a chance to leap up the career ladder – he hustles Drexler into fronting him a kilo of cocaine, promising that he can deliver a whole new market. Franklin’s hard-working mom has been trying to give her boy a good education at an expensive school in the Valley, but Franklin mostly saw this as a golden opportunity to started dealing his uncle’s weed to the rich white kids. Teddy sees an opportunity, and begs to be allowed to take over Logan’s work.ĭown on the street we meet the equally ambitious 19-year-old Franklin Saint (Damson Idris, from The Missing and City of Tiny Lights). He sampled a little too much of the product while attending an upscale orgy in the Hollywood Hills. He gets his chance when he’s asked to cover up the drug-related death of another CIA man, Logan Miller, who’s been running a drugs-for-weapons scheme. Representing the CIA connection is Teddy McDonald (Carter Hudson, pictured above), an officer whose career is going sideways and who desperately wants to get himself back into the game. He makes further links to the murky covert operations of the CIA, who are involved in a drug-dealing racket as a means of funding insurgencies and rebellions south of the border. He’s not only aiming to portray the lives of the mostly black people caught up in the backwash of the drug wars, but also to highlight the wealthy kingpins living in their designer hillside mansions who are importing tons of coke from Mexico and South America. The most memorable shot in this opening episode was from a camera pulling back down a long avenue lined by tall palms, then soaring upwards into the sky. For the time being though, South Central LA is presented as a prelapsarian demi-paradise, a friendly, sunlit neighbourhood where the only thing folks shoot is the breeze, under brilliant blue skies. Anyhow Snowfall has been created by John Singleton, of Boyz n the Hoodfame, and whisks us back to Los Angeles in 1983, where a crack cocaine epidemic is about to erupt and unleash all kinds of lawless, gang-warfare hell.
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